Someone who says they ran away from the mass shooting at the Chiefs parade on Wednesday says they saw someone else running: a GOP governor who frequently touts his support for firearms.Earlier on Wednesday, between eight and 10 people were shot near the Chiefs Super Bowl parade, and two armed suspec...

Run, you fucking piece of shit. Go go go gogogogogogog!

My niece told her grandmother about her fear of getting murdered at school. Feel that fear, asshole.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    You are a liberal thinker and probably pride yourself on being smarter and more intellectually honest. Be what you believe you are. Otherwise, you are no better than this clown.

    I was raised around guns. Had some (superficial) training in the military with guns. I’m not a gun owner now, but while I think R and the right in general are absolutely culpable regarding our gun violence problems due to their refusal to acknowledge them or do a damn thing about them, I’m not anti-2A, and not being disingenuous with my comment here.

    I was told by everyone who was ever responsible for training me in gun safety that you don’t pull it out unless you are prepared to use it, and you should not be prepared to use it unless you are prepared to kill with it. I was also taught that brandishing was illegal, and more likely to escalate than defuse a situation.

    • bluewing@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      The brandishing part is why it’s not reported or on the news. But that does not mean it doesn’t happen successfully.

      • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        8 months ago

        So one of the best uses of a weapon defensively is to break fundamental gun safety rules that are in literally every gun safety course (and the law)? Aren’t R the party of law and order?

          • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            8 months ago

            (4) For purposes of this subsection, the term “brandish” means, with respect to a firearm, to display all or part of the firearm, or otherwise make the presence of the firearm known to another person, in order to intimidate that person, regardless of whether the firearm is directly visible to that person.

            https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?height=800&def_id=18-USC-25375849-946262285&term_occur=999&term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:44:section:924

            So, it’s illegal to brandish a firearm. Pointing it at them is included in that definition, it seems to me, but not required to have broken the law. If I’m missing your point please clarify.

            • FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world
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              8 months ago

              fundamental gun safety rules

              brandishing isn’t a breaking a “fundamental gun safety rule”. yes it can include pointing at someone, but simply SHOWING someone your holstered gun is considered brandishing. simply drawing your weapon can be considered brandishing. but it can also thwart people meaning to do harm. you insinuated that brandishing was only pointing a gun at someone, thus breaking one of the 4 fundamental safety rules.