The reporting placed the gunmans position across the street from the golf course, so yes you’re correct, but only in a semantic sense.
The reporting placed the gunmans position across the street from the golf course, so yes you’re correct, but only in a semantic sense.
If I am not mistaken FL has one of those statutes that permits Open Carry only while lawfully engaged in fishing/hunting/camping.
In some states it is legal to open carry a rifle on a sling in public. Pointing it at/across a public street from a semi-concealed position, as the suspect was, isn’t legal in almost any situation, in any state.
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It also makes one hell of a Fuck/Marry/Kill
Yes I’m not saying there was zero violence in society. There were things like Al Capone’s St. Valentines Day Massacre, Bonnie and Clyde, the Kansas City Union Station shootout, etc. but these were extreme outliers in society at large and were international news because of it.
What is relatively new is the concept of an average student or worker becoming disgruntled and deciding to mass murder peers in a singular incident, usually with some grandiose manifesto attached to it.
Last report I saw was the suspect left an “AK47 type rifle” with a scope, at a vantage point 300-500 yards from Trump’s location at the time.
Now granted journalists don’t tend to know a damn thing about firearms, or ask good follow up questions so who knows, it could be a DMR type of rifle like an SVD that the uninformed would mistake for an AK.
But if it’s just a standard 7.62 x 39 AK pattern rifle, scoped or not, that’s … very optimistic at that range.
Something definitely broke in society around that time though, and “access to guns” only describes an outlet or mechanism, and not the underlying problem.
Pre-1968, civilians could buy full auto machineguns. At one point in the 1930s the Sears catalog would send a full auto Tommy Gun straight to your house via mail order with no background check. And yet in those eras the idea of a grand spectacle suicide/homicide event would have been absolutely unthinkable, even among the most disposessed in society.
The root problem is something more like cultural narcissm, for lack of a better word.
The concept of a deep cynical anti-hero move like publicly murdering pseudo-random aquaintances is a relatively modern problem. Maybe we need to do a better job suppressing “main character vibes” and narcissism, the acting out and sociopathy that is prevalent now.
Purely strategically, the best bet is for NATO to fund and lend/lease materiel to Ukraine sufficient to make the Russian effort protracted and expensive. Maybe Ukraine can solidify some territorial gains in Russian oblasts enough to have bargaining chips. From there it is just a game of finding acceptable off-ramps. Maybe a treaty gets signed that trades territory back to something like the “original” borders circa the beginning to the current conflict.
Russia clearly doesn’t care about personnel losses (and historically never has). But maybe if it drags on, the conflict will become economically and politically costly enough that Putin is looking for offramps.
This lady looks like a GoT style witch. I guess Trump is Stannis in that scenario, only with less charisma.
An earlier story said the door was propped open, as if for airflow or something.
If you are paranoid you can literally just take one of those Ring indoor cameras and put it on top of your safe. The app includes custom notifications on detected motion.
Now, the kid could still go out of their way to disable the home WiFi or something but that level of premeditation is a different problem entirely.
First preference would be educating your kids on the safe handling of guns from an early age and inculcating in them a set of values that shows guns are for defensive purposes and not for interpersonal conflict resolution.
The secondary strategy is storing your firearms in a locked safe the kids do not know the combination to, in a locked room to which they don’t have a key.
If that’s your preference that’s fine. The ridiculous part was them stopping it as a default. It resulted in scenarios like people paying $800 per night to stay in a Disney hotel and having an undersized room that doesn’t even get cleaned during the week they are there.
The “no daily room cleaning” thing is and always has been bullshit. They used COVID as an excuse for it. It was a way to cut cost and provide less value to the customer.
Journalism was already in a death spiral but this type of article just highlights it.
They’re just taking a secondary source with a shitty headline, cherry picking spicy reactions on Twitter and then writing another shitty headline.
I could theoretically do the same thing, cherrypick Twitter and then post the following “article” to my own shit-tier political news blog:
“Mediaite panned for misleading headline about headlines.”
The only “sources” I have to cite are random Tweets that I preselected because they already agreed with my point of view.
We are approaching something that is close to the opposite of journalism.
I keep seeing his chocolate in stores. Seems overpriced.
I think the various debloat scripts (Chris Titus etc.) should take care of this.
Obviously this remedy is just harm reduction.
Going forward I will be maining various Linux distros and using Wine/Proton compatibility, or TinyWin10 on a VM, for any tasks that absolutely require Windows.
Adulthood blows. It is possible, even common, to go to high school in one area of the country, attend college in another area, then get a job in yet another area. I have friends from every “era” of my life but most don’t stay in touch. Worse yet, many of the coworkers I had at old jobs are people I would have considered personal friends but they call less and less after I changed jobs and we have less in common over time.
It is very easy to invest 110% in your immediate family and before you know it your other relationships suffer or disappear entirely.
What are the prevailing sentiments about Bloombergs NY tenure, these days?
This whole “selectively frisking people” schtick was his invention.
You can thank the Biden camp for that. If they had proposed using the nonpartisan debate committee then by the rules and projected polling, they’d also have to put RFK Jr. on the stage. Frankly that is the last thing the Biden campaign wanted.
The pics I saw indicate it was actually an SKS that was bubba’d (crappy polymer stock) so the dude probably bought it out of the back of someone’s trunk or at a gunshow.