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[–] [email protected] 228 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great news. Fuck this guy.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Certified redneck gun nut here: I also say fuck that guy.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I was literally thinking about this case when turning around in someone's driveway this week. Great precedent for conservatives who believe minorities are around every corner trying to take their homes.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Yank the handbrake and do a 180 in the street. It's for your own safety, after all!

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Having a gun for self defense fucks with your head. When my wife and I lived in a relatively rural area, I used to keep a shotgun under our bed for protection, but I eventually got rid of it. Never shot it a single time, but you'd better believe every time I cleaned it or moved it or just remembered I had it, I was imagining the horrible situation I might be forced to use it in. That shit low key fucked me up. Strange sound in the middle of the night? Better grab the gun.

I can't even begin to imagine carrying one on me, especially in public. I like to think I have a pretty level head, but some people are just waiting for you to look at them the wrong way so they finally have that moment. So frightened or psychotic or some combination of the two that their first instinct is to just start shooting. Hell, my wife's cousin-in-law got in a fucking shootout when he cut someone off in traffic.

Used to be very pro responsible gun ownership, but lately I'm thinking that level of responsibility is far too rare in people.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

I am the same person as you except I actually carried around my gun. Being an stupid 21 year old with a gun sounds so stupid back then. I'm glad nobody died because of me.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's the Jacky Chan effect.

When I was a kid this guy released a movie like every week. And every time we'd go to a Jacky Chan movie, I'd walk out of that theater thinking I was the king of fuck mountain, that somebody aught to just TRY and fuck with me.

I was not the only one. I don't know who it was, but I saw a comedian on comedy Central echo that exact same feeling, which seemed to resonate with the audience, so I know it's not unique. You feel powerful just being in the presence of such a thing.

There's a whole book series about the presence of powerful things being a corrupting presence. They're pretty good. Turned in to movies and everything.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I want some sort of driving test for guns. If you fail it, no guns for you. Have to retake it every 5-10 years and it's pretty easy to pass if you aren't a moron.

I've seen literally the dumbest shit on ranges. People flagging one another. Accidental discharges a few feet from one's foot, flagrantly breaking the range rules while the range instructor literally just finished explaining the rules to everyone there.

Christ, one time (in a rural state) someone didn't want to give up their CC to run a combat-style range. It was for safety, in case they ate shit on the course. They said they needed their CC in case there was a "terrorist attack". I looked around the bumfuck, empty desert we were in and wondered where the terrorists would even come from, lmao.

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[–] starman2112 119 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Judge Adam Michelini slammed Monahan in court, saying

NO HE DIDN'T. He SLAMMED Monahan by giving a calm milquetoast "what you did is awful and you should feel ashamed" statement? I wanna see a judge suplex a motherfucker before I see the word SLAM used in this context again

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Reporter SLAMMED for overuse of the word SLAM in clickbait titles.

Probably not even written by a human though, really.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 10 months ago (19 children)

In my experience, overly fearful people that get terrified over nothing are the primary audience for gun ownership. The mindset it takes to responsibly own and carry a gun is RARE.

I have 60+ year old relatives that suddenly all decided they wanted a gun, just because one of them bought one and won’t shut up about the confidence it gives her. She literally bought it just to walk to and from her car, which is parked directly in front of the business SHE owns, despite there being absolutely zero crime happening in her parking lot, and not bothering to set up security cameras. She literally bought a gun because she was afraid of a non-existent problem, and made no non-violent effort to correct the issue. I’m waiting for her to shoot some poor homeless person asking for change…

If owning a gun makes you confident, then you’re a scared little baby. Especially the guys with big trucks that drive like they’re trying to provoke people. I KNOW you have a gun. You bought the little dick pride set, so there’s no way you don’t have a gun. Quit trying to make excuses to pull it out. Pussies. FYI, I’m driving slow in front of you BECAUSE you’re driving like an ass hole and riding my bumper. Wave your gun at me again. I do not care.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

In my experience most people that get a gun because they are "terrified" are just waiting for an excuse to finally kill another person

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm sure this guy did fear for his life. I am sure he did feel like the safest thing he could do in that moment for himself was to fire directly into the unknown car.

And that's why he doesn't belong in our society. He is not welcome to participate given that the above is true, and we need to remove him until the end of time to ensure that no such thing can ever happen again.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We just let anybody have a gun these days

I say that as a firearm owner and manufacturer. Anytime somebody asks me about my guns I explain to them how any 13-year-old could have done the same thing and how are gun laws are completely broken

You can be pro gun in pro regulation at the same time, fuck all these false dichotomies

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

He doesn't belong in general society. That kind of fear and response is reserved for the police.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

"I feared for my life!"

Yeah I'll bet you did.

Fucking coward.

[–] Voroxpete 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Funnily enough, I believe him.

This is what a steady diet of Fox News does to a motherfucker. This is exactly why Americans are so obsessed with guns, it's why they pour so much money into their military, and it's why 9/11 fundamentally reshaped their culture. They're terrified of everything and anything around them, all the God damn time. They have to be armed, they have to be the biggest military power on the planet, and God forbid anyone remind them that none of that does them any good. America is a culture entirely driven by fear.

Fear doesn't excuse what he did. You don't get to murder defenceless people just because you're afraid. He chose to own a lethal weapon and he chose to make using that weapon his first reaction to something that frightened him, instead taking even a few seconds to assess the situation. That's 100% on him, and deserves every single year of that sentence and more.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wish I hadn't read this headline, it validates the anxiety I've had before about being confronted for turning around in a stranger's driveway.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago (31 children)

Dude, people get unreasonably pissy about that. I don't know why. For instance, there are several houses around here with big "No U Turns In Driveway!" or similar signage to the same effect, which all have like 4 foot long driveways in locations where I can't imagine anyone would be looking for a spot to turn around anyway.

Motherfuckers must be paranoid. It's got to be exhausting, being so spooked all the time.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Devil's avocado: People used to turn around in my driveway all the time at my old house. If they stayed on the pavement, that'd be one thing. But half of them cut into the grass, and it turned it into and stayed a rutted, muddy mess.

Granted, I would never start taking pot shots at people turning, but I did put up a sign.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Thus the giant rocks I see on either side of the end of some driveways. Possible car damage seems to be a helpful deterrent to driving through the grass.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (21 children)

I hope this pussy lives in fear and doesn't have a comfortable hour for the rest of his useless existence

God damn conservatives and gun people are the biggest bunch of frail cunts on this planet

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fearing getting shot for pulling in a driveway seems an almost alien concept.
I've lived in the city, and way out on a dead-end country road and it's never once passed my mind anyone could get shot for that.

Being the last house... people would turn around here regularly.
No one ever thought about shooting them, like wtf.
Although, for the ones who zoomed by at speed oblivious that the road was being into fieldsand whatnot, we did take bets on how long they would take to come back on foot after sticking their car in a ditch or something.
Anyone who thinks about shooting someone coming into their driveway is a fucking sociopath.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for the victim being white.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The most ridiculous part about this is he stated the first shot was a warning shot in attempts to "start a dialog."

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Didn't even make sure she was black before shooting. Amateur.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup early 20s white college girl. He's going away for life.

God I fucking hate this country.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I like how this ape wore a suit to court like he's people.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

A-1 Quality judge up there in NY.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The only harmful thing someone could do in your drive way is illegally park in it. This is when you call a tow truck.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What if people were being gay or black?!?! Next to his house?!?!!

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

Fatally shooting someone who accidentally drove into your driveway is just SO United States.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had the fun of explaining the Castle Doctrine, Stand-Your-Ground laws and Trayvon Martin's murder to my 13-year-old today.

So at least I got to read some good news regarding someone who murdered in "self-defense."

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Finally some good news today.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Fucking good. Rot slowly, psycho.

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