Guns are still America’s religion

citypix said:
Spot on. Something that I've noticed from some gun owners is a certain pride about their ability to own assault weapons. And feeling smug that nobody can do anything about it, while knowing assault weapons are the instruments that kill innocent people in these shootings. I find that smugness particularly disturbing. Feels sociopathic.
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Oh yeah, they brag about teaching their kids how to use the guns too. They don’t see how seriously messed up it is.

Do you know the best way to increase your chances of dying from a gunshot wound? Have a gun in your home. The statistics don’t lie. Having a gun, supposedly meant to keep you safe, literally makes you LESS safe.

Data from a US mortality follow-back survey were analyzed to determine whether having a firearm in the home increases the risk of a violent death in the home and whether risk varies by storage practice, type of gun, or number of guns in the home. Those persons with guns in the home were at greater risk than those without guns in the home of dying from a homicide in the home (adjusted odds ratio = 1.9, 95% confidence interval: 1.1, 3.4). They were also at greater risk of dying from a firearm homicide, but risk varied by age and whether the person was living with others at the time of death. The risk of dying from a suicide in the home was greater for males in homes with guns than for males without guns in the home (adjusted odds ratio = 10.4, 95% confidence interval: 5.8, 18.9). Persons with guns in the home were also more likely to have died from suicide committed with a firearm than from one committed by using a different method (adjusted odds ratio = 31.1, 95% confidence interval: 19.5, 49.6). Results show that regardless of storage practice, type of gun, or number of firearms in the home, having a gun in the home was associated with an increased risk of firearm homicide and firearm suicide in the home.
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Guns in the home and risk of a violent death in the home: findings from a national study - PubMed

Data from a US mortality follow-back survey were analyzed to determine whether having a firearm in the home increases the risk of a violent death in the home and whether risk varies by storage practice, type of gun, or number of guns in the home. Those persons with guns in the home were at...
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www.minnpost.com

The health risk of having a gun in the home | MinnPost

Having a gun in your home significantly increases your risk of death — and that of your spouse and children.
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If your reason to have a gun is to keep yourself safe, you should know it actually does the opposite.
 
citypix said:
Spot on. Something that I've noticed from some gun owners is a certain pride about their ability to own assault weapons. And feeling smug that nobody can do anything about it, while knowing assault weapons are the instruments that kill innocent people in these shootings. I find that smugness particularly disturbing. Feels sociopathic.
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There's a thread on MR, show / pics of your guns, and sure, it's all about "collecting" and just for "target practice", but the way some of the pics are shot, you can feel the weird reverence, "Behold! My devices for killing!", I mean you can feel the boners right through the screen.
 
DT said:
There's a thread on MR, show / pics of your guns, and sure, it's all about "collecting" and just for "target practice", but the way some of the pics are shot, you can feel the weird reverence, "Behold! My devices for killing!", I mean you can feel the boners right through the screen.
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Just don't talk about LGBTQ topics

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MacRumors LGBT+ article policy - disabling/deleting comments

So I first noticed this yesterday with the articles about Apple's Pride month-related Apple Watch offerings. An article with rumors about upcoming releases for this was fully unlocked for comments. A second article about the actual releases had comments disabled immediately - with no reasoning...
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Eric said:
Just don't talk about LGBTQ topics

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MacRumors LGBT+ article policy - disabling/deleting comments

So I first noticed this yesterday with the articles about Apple's Pride month-related Apple Watch offerings. An article with rumors about upcoming releases for this was fully unlocked for comments. A second article about the actual releases had comments disabled immediately - with no reasoning...
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Lazy moderation
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MacRumors LGBT+ article policy - disabling/deleting comments

In my opinion it is mod's wanting an easy life not having to spend time dealing with a topic that could create troublesome posts. Disable comments = Easy mod life
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Runs For Fun said:
Aaaand of course, guess what? Sad this needs to be said

www.politifact.com

Uvalde school shooting wasn’t a false flag

Eighteen children and one teacher were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde County, Texas, on May 24
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the thing is this has never caused guns to be taken but it has caused massive gun sales so the stupid argument is very baseless.
 
Yep, I started reading through the comments of that watch band thread, and reported at least one:

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I don't know that my report on its own did anything, but I'm sure it wasn't the only one. I assumed, they would remove the offender from the thread and/or initiate a couple of day ban - but nope, they wound up punishing the people who wanted to participate in a positive way.
 
DT said:
Yep, I started reading through the comments of that watch band thread, and reported at least one:

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I don't know that my report on its own did anything, but I'm sure it wasn't the only one. I assumed, they would remove the offender from the thread and/or initiate a couple of day ban - but nope, they wound up punishing the people who wanted to participate in a positive way.
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Can you link the thread?
 
It looks like it's reopened!

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I think that's the one where I reported that asshat.

Yep, that was it:

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And the same fuckers using the laughing reaction still have it posted and none are banned. Nice. :rolleyes:
 
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Greg Abott is giving a sterile press conference and is really hammering home mental health, but it’s a flimsy facade to not talk about guns. If it was sincere, it would come across a lot better.

*Was that Beto O’Rourke making a scene? This press conference is going to make the news cycle…
 
GermanSuplex said:
Greg Abott is giving a sterile press conference and is really hammering home mental health, but it’s a flimsy facade to not talk about guns. If it was sincere, it would come across a lot better.

*Was that Beto O’Rourke making a scene? This press conference is going to make the news cycle…
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I just saw that while walking by the TV. I have no idea what he said, but I heard someone say something like "you're sick for making this a political issue, you sumbitch" in response, so it's pretty safe to assume that he mentioned gun control.
 
GermanSuplex said:
Greg Abott is giving a sterile press conference and is really hammering home mental health, but it’s a flimsy facade to not talk about guns. If it was sincere, it would come across a lot better.

*Was that Beto O’Rourke making a scene? This press conference is going to make the news cycle…
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If the Republicans ran a mental health institution they’d put 2 unstable people in a room, hand one guy a gun and tell them the other guy is out to get him, walk out of the room and then claim the shooting was absolutely not their fault.
 
GermanSuplex said:
Greg Abott is giving a sterile press conference and is really hammering home mental health, but it’s a flimsy facade to not talk about guns. If it was sincere, it would come across a lot better.

*Was that Beto O’Rourke making a scene? This press conference is going to make the news cycle…
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Here’s something the Governor was very sincere about yesterday:

www.texastribune.org

Hours after Uvalde school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott attended a fundraiser 300 miles away

A spokesperson for Abbott said he had previously committed to the event but all campaign-related activities are postponed until further notice.
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Gov. Greg Abbott attended a fundraiser for his reelection campaign Tuesday night in East Texas, hours after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary school over 300 miles away in Uvalde.
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Sure, he’s really making the safety of children a priority...
 
Eric said:
Wait, what?

www.npr.org

Guns are banned during Trump's upcoming speech at the NRA conference

The Secret Service is taking control of the hall during Trump's speech in Houston on Friday and is prohibiting attendees from having firearms and other weapons, according to the gun group.
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Hmm, they were opposed to gun-free zones at schools, because they supposedly make things more dangerous. But they impose them when it comes to THEIR OWN safety... Because they KNOW it works.

They are child murderers, one and all. They know there are things that can be done that will A) Help and B) Are widely popular with Americans. Yet they do nothing.

Fuck them and their “Democrats are pedophiles” bullshit. THEY are the ones who are responsible for killing little kids. Tell Satan to keep digging hell deeper because we need the worst place possible for these gun-humping politicians to spend eternity.
 
Greg Abbott submits his entry for biggest asshole in America:

“I hate to say it, but there are more people who are shot every weekend in Chicago than there are in schools in Texas,” Gov. Abbott said when asked about gun laws in other states.
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Gov. Abbott said that the gunman was reportedly a high school dropout with no known history of mental health problems. He then said: “We have a problem with mental health illness in this community."
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Too bad the tree missed by a few inches and he only ended up in a wheelchair.
 
Good to know far-right judges are working hard to make sure gun sales cannot be limited in any way.


A divided three-judge panel of the court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that the Second Amendment did not permit the age limit and that 18-year-olds have a constitutional right to buy such weapons.
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Saul Cornell, a historian at Fordham University, said both majority opinions had overlooked important historical evidence.

“Anyone who knows anything about founding-era law and looked at the standard treatises would understand that there was no category of young adult under Anglo-American law,” he said, summarizing an essay he published last year in The Yale Law & Policy Review. “Anyone under 21 was an ‘infant.’ Minors were legally disabled in the eyes of the law.”
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