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07-26-2022, 07:30 PM | #1 |
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So, this is pretty scary
It's county fair season, and people where I live frequently attend several surrounding counties just to have more to do. One of the neighboring counties to me had a guy with an automatic rifle prowling around through there, pointing it at people. Some of the locals saw this and went and got their (licensed) guns, and flashed them at this dude and he wound up ducking out of a hole in a fence. He continued wandering down the street and into a gas station, where he pointed the gun (AR 15) at employees until police caught up with him and shot him. Gunman didn't shoot anyone, surprisingly, but was clearly disturbed. I normally attend this thing, but didn't due to a heatwave that I didn't want to bring my family outside in. Too close to home. Makes me concerned to go anywhere with a crowd, yet again.
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07-26-2022, 07:53 PM | #2 |
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i attended a 5k downtown with a coworker--my boss, actually--for work function purposes and to collect a grant we were awarded. we got there before it started and after setting up, i looked around the place and pointed out the best points of exit and asked where we should meet in case things went sideways since she was my ride.
tommy and i went to see guided by voices at an outdoor concert thing a few weeks back and i did the same thing...decided ahead of time my quickest route out of the area + alternative routes and decided on a rendezvous point with him. |
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07-26-2022, 08:51 PM | #3 |
Shut the fuck up!
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I'm pretty sure that guy was Antifa
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07-26-2022, 09:04 PM | #4 |
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how sure are you?
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07-26-2022, 09:09 PM | #5 |
Shut the fuck up!
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I'm just repeating what Fox News tells me
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07-26-2022, 09:39 PM | #6 |
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07-26-2022, 09:50 PM | #7 | |
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what a stupid stupid country that's falling apart even quicker than ever. 80 fucking shootings this year or something, the abortion thing, etc etc |
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07-26-2022, 10:08 PM | #8 |
Shut the fuck up!
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i'm not surprised about this. But i grew up in a family of people who open carried guns 24/7
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07-27-2022, 12:56 AM | #9 |
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That is really messed up
My U.S. friend in Singapore raised her kids mostly overseas in relatively safe Asian cities, but their hometown is close to Ohio where apparently they had big meth and painkiller addiction problems. She was running me through the way she prepped her kids whenever they went back to the U.S. and I can’t imagine hearing that information, like “If you hear a noise and you even THINK that it’s a gunshot, run and HIDE straight away. Don’t worry about me. I will come and get you. The important thing is you just run away and hide.” Growing up in NZ, the only time I heard a life or death message it was about nature - earthquakes, hypothermia from getting lost in the bush, etc. I had no fear of another human being picking up a lethal weapon and using it on people around them. That almost feels like the country is no longer in peace time, to be preparing for that |
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07-27-2022, 01:53 AM | #10 |
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I was reading some interviews about it, and people in a KFC that he went into were hiding in the freezer. And at the fair, the rides got shut down, and some people were stuck at the top of a ferris wheel. I'm so glad he decided not to shoot, but those details make it more frightening. I'm not sure how to feel that this guy probably only fled because of other people's guns.
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07-27-2022, 02:35 AM | #11 | |
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07-27-2022, 09:33 AM | #12 |
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CHEERS: This guy showing up with an AR-15 and pointing it at people
JEERS: Not simply obeying the cops' orders, even though, again, he was totally within his rights to wave an automatic rifle around in public, but, if a cop tells you to stop doing something you have a right to do, you have a duty to stop doing it and you deserve to be shot and killed if you'd don't |
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07-27-2022, 09:34 AM | #13 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Kind of lucky, in retrospect, that my parents had "duck and cover" drills, and my nieces and nephews have all had active shooter drills, but I didn't have to do anything, at least on an institutional level, that encouraged me to acknowledge sudden death as a likely consequence of showing up to school every day
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07-27-2022, 04:08 PM | #14 |
Shut the fuck up!
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All my family members who died from firearms were suicides
half of all gun deaths nationally are suicides. Nearly all of those suicides are men |
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08-11-2022, 10:39 PM | #15 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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sometimes their self-hatred is just good common sense
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08-12-2022, 03:01 AM | #16 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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what, shallowed? there are plenty of self-hating men in this nation who could do us a favor and kill themselves before hurting somebody
Last edited by yo soy el mejor : 08-12-2022 at 03:16 AM. |
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08-28-2022, 11:54 PM | #17 |
Braindead
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There was a shooting this evening in a Safeway I go to sometimes. I live in a relatively quiet area, so all this is crazy.
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08-29-2022, 05:43 PM | #18 |
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08-29-2022, 05:48 PM | #19 |
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in the early 00s i wound up backstage after a GBV show and I said to Bob what a great show it was and he thrust a Rolling Rock at me and told me that "rock and roll is just about having fun"
I never forgot that. |
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08-29-2022, 06:56 PM | #20 |
Janis Jopleybird
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08-29-2022, 08:33 PM | #21 |
Braindead
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The shooting here made the national news
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08-29-2022, 10:54 PM | #22 |
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08-30-2022, 04:30 PM | #23 |
Braindead
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08-30-2022, 06:43 PM | #24 |
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08-30-2022, 06:47 PM | #25 |
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i read about them in a 90s music magazine (i think it was an issue of Magnet with Fred Durst on the cover) and found that album in a head shop in a nearby city. Absolutely changed my life.
I think I learned about Modest Mouse from that same issue too. |
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08-31-2022, 09:52 AM | #26 |
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under the bushes is also my favorite but i'll take just about anything of bob's work from '86 to '04. my interest in gbv waned sharply after they "broke up" in 2004 but his solo stuff and side projects were still great even then
if you haven't listened to circus devils then you need to. harold pig memorial |
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10-01-2022, 02:50 PM | #27 |
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been thinking about this for a few months - but does it seem wise to have a cop on the side of the highway posted up and pointing a gun (radar) at oncoming traffic?
In today's climate? |
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10-01-2022, 02:52 PM | #28 | |
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Propeller has aged insanely well. |
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10-01-2022, 02:53 PM | #29 |
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Cops are never a good idea tbh.
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10-01-2022, 03:23 PM | #30 |
Virgo
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damn that's badass
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