Re: Sensible Gun Safety
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:55 am
https://www.newscentermaine.com/article ... dddbf97575
If it hasn't already, coming to a town near you?
If it hasn't already, coming to a town near you?
Show left Sandy Hook a few years ago…..glad I missed it. Friends weren’t so lucky.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:55 am https://www.newscentermaine.com/article ... dddbf97575
If it hasn't already, coming to a town near you?
I do think a good many of us look out at the world (El Paso, San Bernardino, Buffalo, Charleston, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Columbine, Las Vegas, Oxford, etc., etc., etc., etc...) and think, "well, not here anyway." This seems increasingly unrealistic.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 7:52 amShow left Sandy Hook a few years ago…..glad I missed it. Friends weren’t so lucky.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:55 am https://www.newscentermaine.com/article ... dddbf97575
If it hasn't already, coming to a town near you?
Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:32 amI do think a good many of us look out at the world (El Paso, San Bernardino, Buffalo, Charleston, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Columbine, Las Vegas, Oxford, etc., etc., etc., etc...) and think, "well, not here anyway." This seems increasingly unrealistic.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 7:52 amShow left Sandy Hook a few years ago…..glad I missed it. Friends weren’t so lucky.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:55 am https://www.newscentermaine.com/article ... dddbf97575
If it hasn't already, coming to a town near you?
Local and federal law are still searching for the suspect, who was also charged with assaulting his girlfriend with a sledgehammer in December.jhu72 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 11:43 am Apparently a 6 year old girl and her father were shot and wounded by a neighbor for entering his property to retrieve a ball on Tuesday.
MAGA
https://abcnews.go.com/US/6-year-parent ... d=98717589
anyone know the background, as to why the shooter chose this school ? Did he attend it or know anyone there?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 11:45 amSeacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:32 amI do think a good many of us look out at the world (El Paso, San Bernardino, Buffalo, Charleston, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Columbine, Las Vegas, Oxford, etc., etc., etc., etc...) and think, "well, not here anyway." This seems increasingly unrealistic.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 7:52 amShow left Sandy Hook a few years ago…..glad I missed it. Friends weren’t so lucky.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:55 am https://www.newscentermaine.com/article ... dddbf97575
If it hasn't already, coming to a town near you?
She should have fought harder or used a bulletproof backpack.
Crazy people.......just out of prison......Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:55 am https://www.newscentermaine.com/article ... dddbf97575
If it hasn't already, coming to a town near you?
why aren't the mutlple, almost daily, killings actual DEATHS, of 12 year olds, in Baltimore, of "national" interest.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:27 pm Yeah, shocker, right?
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 17706.html
"A grandson of the man charged with shooting a Black teen in Kansas City’s Northland last week said he was “appalled” and “disgusted” at his grandfather’s actions and is thankful Ralph Yarl is recovering.
“I was horrified. I thought it was terrible,” Klint Ludwig said of his immediate reaction to hearing about the shooting of the 16-year-old. “It was inexcusable. It was wrong.
“I stand with Ralph, and really want his family to achieve justice for what happened to them. Their child or grandchild or nephew’s life was fundamentally changed forever, over a mistake and someone being scared and fearful.”
Ludwig said he and his grandfather, who goes by the first name Dan, used to be very close.
“But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.”
Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.”
“And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home,” he said. “When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true. The second I heard it, I was like, ‘Yeah, I could see him doing that.’”
No surprise.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:27 pm Yeah, shocker, right?
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 17706.html
"A grandson of the man charged with shooting a Black teen in Kansas City’s Northland last week said he was “appalled” and “disgusted” at his grandfather’s actions and is thankful Ralph Yarl is recovering.
“I was horrified. I thought it was terrible,” Klint Ludwig said of his immediate reaction to hearing about the shooting of the 16-year-old. “It was inexcusable. It was wrong.
“I stand with Ralph, and really want his family to achieve justice for what happened to them. Their child or grandchild or nephew’s life was fundamentally changed forever, over a mistake and someone being scared and fearful.”
Ludwig said he and his grandfather, who goes by the first name Dan, used to be very close.
“But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.”
Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.”
“And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home,” he said. “When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true. The second I heard it, I was like, ‘Yeah, I could see him doing that.’”
We’re edging closer and closer to failed state status.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 1:07 pmNo surprise.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:27 pm Yeah, shocker, right?
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... 17706.html
"A grandson of the man charged with shooting a Black teen in Kansas City’s Northland last week said he was “appalled” and “disgusted” at his grandfather’s actions and is thankful Ralph Yarl is recovering.
“I was horrified. I thought it was terrible,” Klint Ludwig said of his immediate reaction to hearing about the shooting of the 16-year-old. “It was inexcusable. It was wrong.
“I stand with Ralph, and really want his family to achieve justice for what happened to them. Their child or grandchild or nephew’s life was fundamentally changed forever, over a mistake and someone being scared and fearful.”
Ludwig said he and his grandfather, who goes by the first name Dan, used to be very close.
“But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.”
Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.”
“And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home,” he said. “When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true. The second I heard it, I was like, ‘Yeah, I could see him doing that.’”
... wow, seems like just yesterday. I was in the Denver airport, waiting on my flight when I heard the news.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:31 pm Today is the 24th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings, 12 kids and their families and friends shattered, and a teacher killed. And we are still talking about -- and doing nothing about -- gun safety. In this at least, government has failed us.
And this is not the purview of government?ggait wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:53 pm We’re edging closer and closer to failed state status.
Silly.
Crime rates today are less than they were 25 years ago.
Murder rates went up during Covid, but have been trending down last souple years.
Property crimes, like car thefts, are up. Mostly because stuff (due to inflation and supply chains) are more expensive and valuable.
Seems to me the main problem is all these bubbas armed to the teeth. And convinced, completely wrongly, via their facebook page that the world is ending.
I recently moved from the suburbs to the downtown urban core. It is pretty nice around here. Haven't noticed an apocalypses in the neighborhood.