Running shooting thread 2023

Confirmation of what, tho? They learned this shit somewhere. Who got them hooked?

 

I’m practically a rounding error away from AARP eligibility and shooting anyone who crosses your property line has been a trope my entire life. Let’s not pretend this got invented by Fox News (although it has certainly been an accelerant.)

 

So your, or my, racist uncle has been a racist shitbag his whole life? Probably true.

 

I saw Red Dawn the other day
It struck me when I saw it in the theater how shocking it was to see Frank McRae gunned down by the Russians
In 1984 school shootings were not an everyday thing
Now you can get shot for making a wrong turn, going up to the wrong car, going to a sweet 16 party or having your basketball bounce in the wrong yard

 

Yep

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...sketball-rolls-into-yard-reports/11703859002/

A search was underway Thursday for a 24-year-old man who allegedly shot two adults and a child in North Carolina earlier in the week, police said.
Robert Louis Singletary allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl and her parents after their basketball rolled into his yard and the family went to retrieve it, according to local WBTV and WSOC-TV.

 

It would figure these idiots would be behind something like this

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...nsor-bill-to-make-ar-15-the-national-gun/amp/

 

Like I said before ... these clowns either come from über-safe GOP districts or think there won't be a national comeuppance to negate their gains, one way or another.

 

The next time some GOPer talks about the murder rate in big cities, cite this.

The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence

 

Time for more thoughts and prayers.

 

I tried to read that. I really did. But about a thousand words into his 10,000-word screed I had no idea what the author was talking about or where he was going with it.
Something about splitting up the country into 11 regions and the Northern ones are inherently peaceful and non-violent, while the Southern ones the minute you cross the state line you basically get a bullet in your leg and a gun in your hand, and are required to do a Yosemite Sam dance

From what I did gather, he completely misses the point of that Republican talking point — namely, that cities like New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Jackson, St. Louis and Birmingham, and the policies of those city governments that have been overwhelmingly led by Democrats for at least a generation, are where a lot of the violent gun crime happens in those otherwise Republican-dominated states.
About half of Louisiana's murders in 2020, for example, occurred in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. New Orleans hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1870. Baton Rouge has had two, including one guy who switched to the Democrats halfway through the second of his three terms in office.
About a third of the 2020 murders in Mississippi and Alabama happened in Jackson and Birmingham. St. Louis, which hasn't had a Democrat mayor since World War II even though the state has generally leans Republican, had a similar ratio to Missouri.

Some of that is a function of just being the largest cities in those states, but combined with bad policies and other downward trends (like declining numbers of police, reform-minded prosecutors who are softer on crime, and a variety of socioeconomic factors) it points more toward local problems than state-level ones.