Be careful - you can get shot/killed anywhere/anytime

[daisylu]

Apr 20, 2023 10:56:53 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

They absolutely are. I wonder how their lineup will change after they pay all that money to dominion. I'm intrigued.

Looks like at least part of it will be tax deductible. link

[scgal]

Apr 20, 2023 9:56:59 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Apr 20, 2023 8:17:34 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

I grew up within spitting distance of NYC. I went to Medical School there in the 80s. Still have family in the area. Go into Manhattan frequently. I doubt you are more acquainted with it than I am.

What is the issue we need to address? You said it wa sthe people. Are you willing to put resources into solving the people problem? You continue to blather about how guns are not the issue, but offer nothing as a solution. When you have no ideas, you accomplish nothing. If you cannot/refuse to do anything, get out of the way and let other people try their solutions. But you would rather masturbate about your guns then give them up. Other countries have seen their gun violence rates drop precipitously when guns were removed. I guess you just want to ignore that data. Republicans offer nothing but fear and "thoughts and prayers" on this issue. If more guns make us safer, we should be the safest country on the face of the earth.

Because "I know New York city well probably better than most here" is the exact same thing as "I lived in upstate NY for a while (in the city growing up).

lived in upstate for about 10 yrs. Brooklyn 4 yrs Long Island 2 yrs 2 yrs in Manhattan. Other areas but too small to remember or should count

[weltschmerz]

Now he is what is wrong with America. They already started to shoot bullets are already flying unattended people are already at risk. He is doing his neighbors a great service by firing back, I'd rather die protecting anything I have then let someone take it.

Understood.  You would kill somebody if they took a bicycle pump or basketball out of your garage. That would be murder, because you weren't threatened bodily. It's not self defence.
People like you aare the problem.

Despicable.

[moon/Laura]

Apr 20, 2023 7:14:22 GMT -5 scgal said:

Apr 19, 2023 17:41:09 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Piece of shit human beings believe the way you do. If it were YOUR children/grandchildren being shot up with those AK47 and AR15s ya'll love so much, then maybe you would understand. But it's more likely I'm giving you way too much credit.

Nice little piece of name calling. Just in honor of you I will nickname one of my AR's "piece" and another "shit"

Ummmm, no. That's not name calling. That describing a personality trait. More like a personality disorder, even.

It's like if I say a certain group of people who regularly do positive thing might be called 'generous/giving people'. That's not name calling either. It's describing the TYPE of person they are.

[hurley1980]

Apr 18, 2023 15:32:06 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

All I can say is thoughts and prayers. Not like we have anything else we can do. Welcome to the Wild West.

I read somewhere that the wild west actually had some form of gun control, depending on where you were at.  It wasn't just everyone running around shooting at each other.  That's a Hollywood myth. Many wild west cities had visitors check their guns in at certain locations, like a hotel, or the sheriffs office.  

Off topic, but I found it interesting!

[pulmonarymd]

Apr 20, 2023 13:03:01 GMT -5 hurley1980 said:

Apr 18, 2023 15:32:06 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

All I can say is thoughts and prayers. Not like we have anything else we can do. Welcome to the Wild West.

I read somewhere that the wild west actually had some form of gun control, depending on where you were at.  It wasn't just everyone running around shooting at each other.  That's a Hollywood myth. Many wild west cities had visitors check their guns in at certain locations, like a hotel, or the sheriffs office.  

Off topic, but I found it interesting!

Yes, I read that too. Funny how we were smarter about guns back then. Just more proof that we are getting dumber.

[weltschmerz]

A North Carolina man allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl, her parents and an additional neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard.

abcnews.go.com/US/6-year-parents-neighbor-shot-after-basketball-rolls/story?id=98717589

What the FUCK is going on down there, in the US?  People are shooting each other on a whim.  Many stsaes don't even reguire training, background checks, or licences to get a gun.

"You get a gun, and you get a gun, EVERYBODY gets a gun!" (in my best Oprah voice.)

[pulmonarymd]

Apr 20, 2023 13:16:28 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

A North Carolina man allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl, her parents and an additional neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard.

abcnews.go.com/US/6-year-parents-neighbor-shot-after-basketball-rolls/story?id=98717589

What the FUCK is going on down there, in the US?  People are shooting each other on a whim.  Many stsaes don't even reguire training, background checks, or licences to get a gun.

"You get a gun, and you get a gun, EVERYBODY gets a gun!" (in my best Oprah voice.)

You can't possibly believe that requiring training, a background check, and other requirements to own a gun would actually prevent things like that. Right here, on this thread, we were told there is nothing we can do and that they had no ideas on how to fix this. You must be a communist and live in some socialist hell hole if you believe that/s

[bean29]

Apr 20, 2023 13:25:29 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Apr 20, 2023 13:16:28 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

A North Carolina man allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl, her parents and an additional neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard.

abcnews.go.com/US/6-year-parents-neighbor-shot-after-basketball-rolls/story?id=98717589

What the FUCK is going on down there, in the US?  People are shooting each other on a whim.  Many stsaes don't even reguire training, background checks, or licences to get a gun.

"You get a gun, and you get a gun, EVERYBODY gets a gun!" (in my best Oprah voice.)

You can't possibly believe that requiring training, a background check, and other requirements to own a gun would actually prevent things like that. Right here, on this thread, we were told there is nothing we can do and that they had no ideas on how to fix this. You must be a communist and live in some socialist hell hole if you believe that/s

We are told that the reason the drinking age is better to be set at 21, is becasue the Brain/impulse control is better developed at that age.  Explain to me why guns are different than alcohol?  They are not saying let a 16 year old have a gun, they are saying let a 2 year old or a 6 year old carry a gun for protection?  These people are f'in nuts.  

Eta:  Republican "Solutions" don't make things better, they make things worse.  I hope some former "R" voter will come to their senses in the upcoming elections.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Apr 20, 2023 13:34:41 GMT -5 bean29 said:

Apr 20, 2023 13:25:29 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

You can't possibly believe that requiring training, a background check, and other requirements to own a gun would actually prevent things like that. Right here, on this thread, we were told there is nothing we can do and that they had no ideas on how to fix this. You must be a communist and live in some socialist hell hole if you believe that/s

We are told that the reason the drinking age is better to be set at 21, is becasue the Brain/impulse control is better developed at that age.  Explain to me why guns are different than alcohol?  They are not saying let a 16 year old have a gun, they are saying let a 2 year old or a 6 year old carry a gun for protection?  These people are f'in nuts.  

Because the logic is you don't have a right to drink.  You have a right to arm yourself to the teeth once you turn 18 because the amendment says you have the right.

There are people arguing that elementary school kids should be packing to protect themselves in school for crying out loud. 

[Pink Cashmere]

Apr 20, 2023 7:23:27 GMT -5 scgal said:

Apr 19, 2023 21:24:03 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

But people try to argue that if more law abiding citizens have guns, that would deter criminals who may or may not have guns. I do not agree that that is true. 

My neighbor who was the target of rapid gunfire when he went outside when 3 people were on his property trying to steal his wife’s car, is an Army veteran who is familiar with handling and firing different kinds of firearms. Even if he wanted to return fire, he was aware and knowledgeable enough to know and understand that if he returned fire, stray bullets could enter his neighbors homes, and harm or kill innocent people. So when they started shooting at him, he went to the ground to minimize his exposure as a target, while his wife, who is also a veteran that is trained to handle firearms, watched through a window in their home, to see if he got hit and needed her help.

How the fuck is that okay?

So criminals that don’t give a fuck about who they might injure or kill, still have an advantage over citizens that exercise their right to bear arms, but know the laws where they live, and are responsible gun owners that take it seriously that they are responsible for wherever a bullet out of their weapons lands. 

Now he is what is wrong with America. They already started to shoot bullets are already flying unattended people are already at risk. He is doing his neighbors a great service by firing back, I'd rather die protecting anything I have then let someone take it. 

HE is what’s is wrong with America? Are you crazy?

Because he realized that starting a shootout with somebody obviously that had more firepower than him, would put even more people in danger? When they were in a vehicle and he was on foot?

HE is the problem, and not the people that shot at him for coming outside when they were trying to steal his car? Just, WOW!

[Tennesseer]

Apr 20, 2023 12:03:58 GMT -5 scgal said:

Apr 20, 2023 9:56:59 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Because "I know New York city well probably better than most here" is the exact same thing as "I lived in upstate NY for a while (in the city growing up).

lived in upstate for about 10 yrs. Brooklyn 4 yrs Long Island 2 yrs 2 yrs in Manhattan. Other areas but too small to remember or should count

How old were you when you lived in each of this areas.

As an adult, I worked in Manhattan for a while. You?

[weltschmerz]

Apr 20, 2023 13:25:29 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Apr 20, 2023 13:16:28 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

A North Carolina man allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl, her parents and an additional neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard.

abcnews.go.com/US/6-year-parents-neighbor-shot-after-basketball-rolls/story?id=98717589

What the FUCK is going on down there, in the US?  People are shooting each other on a whim.  Many stsaes don't even reguire training, background checks, or licences to get a gun.

"You get a gun, and you get a gun, EVERYBODY gets a gun!" (in my best Oprah voice.)

You can't possibly believe that requiring training, a background check, and other requirements to own a gun would actually prevent things like that. Right here, on this thread, we were told there is nothing we can do and that they had no ideas on how to fix this. You must be a communist and live in some socialist hell hole if you believe that/s

Ha! I DO live in a communist, socialist, godless hellhole!  Canada.
Even hunting rifles will have you jumping through hoops to get a licence. Handguns? Forget about it!
People got together and ASKED for stricter regulations on guns and the government complied. Our goverment works for us.

[Pink Cashmere]

Apr 20, 2023 13:41:31 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Apr 20, 2023 7:23:27 GMT -5 scgal said:

Now he is what is wrong with America. They already started to shoot bullets are already flying unattended people are already at risk. He is doing his neighbors a great service by firing back, I'd rather die protecting anything I have then let someone take it. 

HE is what’s is wrong with America? Are you crazy?

Because he realized that starting a shootout with somebody obviously that had more firepower than him, would put even more people in danger? When they were in a vehicle and he was on foot?

HE is the problem, and not the people that shot at him for coming outside when they were trying to steal his car? Just, WOW!

I have been stewing on this ever since I replied to it.

And I still can’t figure out how it’s reasonable to say that people like my next door neighbor are what’s wrong in America, instead of the people that use guns to kill random people and/or “protect” themselves when they commit crimes.

I really, really, want to read your response to defend what you said, and how that is okay and makes sense to you scgal.

[Pink Cashmere]

I joke about how I would try to protect myself if the zombies come or all hell breaks loose in our country. My plan involves Mister and his veteran friends banding together to protect us. My job would be tending to the children and supporting the soldiers as far as loading magazines for them as fast as I can or whatever.

On one hand, I feel like it’s just fun and games thinking about things like that, and I’m being ridiculous and silly for even thinking like that. But on the other hand, I feel like with everything going on in this country over the last few years and even now, it’s not so crazy to try to prepare for civil war. 

[happyhoix]

Some of us guessed that this 85 year old was a FOX fan. Guess what - he was, according to his grandson.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/andrew-lester-ralph-grandson-fauci-conspiracy-b2323191.html

Scroll down towards the end, grandson said his grandpa sat in the house with Fox News blaring all day.

Got into all the Qanon stuff. It was some kind of conspiracy concerning Fauci that did it for the grandson, he stopped coming around after that.

You know how they torture prisoners by putting them in cages and blare Barney songs at them 24/7? It’s like that.

[busymom]

Apr 20, 2023 19:26:32 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

I joke about how I would try to protect myself if the zombies come or all hell breaks loose in our country. My plan involves Mister and his veteran friends banding together to protect us. My job would be tending to the children and supporting the soldiers as far as loading magazines for them as fast as I can or whatever.

On one hand, I feel like it’s just fun and games thinking about things like that, and I’m being ridiculous and silly for even thinking like that. But on the other hand, I feel like with everything going on in this country over the last few years and even now, it’s not so crazy to try to prepare for civil war. 

     I don't even want to think about a civil war, but politicians & people in general are getting so ugly, that in my own mind I cannot rule it out.  Then you look at people like DeSantis, that act like a dictator wannabe, and I'm thinking I'll be rooting for the North.  In the meantime, pass the popcorn while we watch the crazies...  

[Tennesseer]

Distrust in America: Small mistakes, deep fear — and gunfire

In suburban Detroit, it was a lost 14-year-old looking for directions. In Kansas City, it was a 16-year-old who went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers. There was the 12-year-old rummaging around in a yard in small-town Alabama, the 20-year-old woman who found herself in the wrong driveway in upstate New York and the cheerleader who got into the wrong car in Texas.

All of them, and dozens more across America, were met by gunfire. Some were injured, some killed.

In a nation where strangers are all too often seen as threats and fear has been politicized, honest mistakes and simple acts like going to the wrong address or car in a parking lot, or even just ringing the wrong doorbell, can seem like a fateful question of trust.

It is a tension not lost on Jae Moyer, who was at a rally at the federal courthouse in Kansas City on Tuesday, demanding a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the shooting of Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager shot last week when he went to the door of an elderly white man while looking for his brothers. Yarl, who was shot in the head and arm, is recovering at home.

“I want to be welcoming and inviting to anyone that comes to my home. Even if they are asking for help and I can’t help them I’m going to be kind to them. I think that’s the way everyone should be,” Moyer said.

“But I don’t think that’s the culture we have right now,” Moyer said. “There’s a lot of fear in our country.”

There is also plenty of mistrust.

Complete article here: Distrust in America: Small mistakes, deep fear — and gunfire

[Tennesseer]

'He didn't deserve to get shot': Good Samaritan who helped Ralph Yarl found him bloody and motionless

James Lynch said his Eagle Scout training kicked in and he checked the teen's pulse and tried to stanch the blood in a neighbor's driveway before paramedics arrived.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ralph Paul Yarl, the Black teenager who was shot by a homeowner after having rung the wrong doorbell, was motionless and covered in blood when James Lynch found him unconscious.

"I thought he was dead," Lynch said Monday.

“No one deserves to lay there like that,” Lynch said. “He hasn’t even begun to live his life yet. He didn’t deserve to get shot.”

Lynch, 42, had just gotten out of the shower Thursday night and was getting ready for bed when he heard shouting outside. He went over to his kitchen window and saw a boy banging on the door of a nearby home.

"I heard somebody screaming, 'Help, help, I've been shot!'" Lynch said, adding the shouting was out of place for the normally quiet neighborhood.

Lynch, a father of three, said he ran outside, jumped his fence and sprinted through a neighbor’s yard and across the street to another neighbor's driveway to get to Yarl.

His face and arms were covered in blood, and it looked as if Yarl had been shot in his head near an eye socket.

Lynch's old Eagle Scout training kicked in when Yarl suddenly came to. Lynch told him, "I'm going to grab your hand really tight." He checked Yarl's wrist for a pulse before he asked him his name and age and where he went to school.

Yarl struggled to respond before he spelled his name. Another neighbor came over with towels to help stem the bleeding, and she and Lynch waited with Yarl until paramedics arrived.

Yarl, 16, had been trying to pick up his 11-year-old twin brothers from a friend’s home but had gone to the wrong street and house. His family’s attorneys, Lee Merritt and Ben Crump, said he was shot twice after he rang the doorbell.

Rest of article here: 'He didn't deserve to get shot': Good Samaritan who helped Ralph Yarl found him bloody and motionless

[mollyanna58]

Apr 21, 2023 10:40:45 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

'He didn't deserve to get shot': Good Samaritan who helped Ralph Yarl found him bloody and motionless

James Lynch said his Eagle Scout training kicked in and he checked the teen's pulse and tried to stanch the blood in a neighbor's driveway before paramedics arrived.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ralph Paul Yarl, the Black teenager who was shot by a homeowner after having rung the wrong doorbell, was motionless and covered in blood when James Lynch found him unconscious.

"I thought he was dead," Lynch said Monday.

“No one deserves to lay there like that,” Lynch said. “He hasn’t even begun to live his life yet. He didn’t deserve to get shot.”

Lynch, 42, had just gotten out of the shower Thursday night and was getting ready for bed when he heard shouting outside. He went over to his kitchen window and saw a boy banging on the door of a nearby home.

"I heard somebody screaming, 'Help, help, I've been shot!'" Lynch said, adding the shouting was out of place for the normally quiet neighborhood.

Lynch, a father of three, said he ran outside, jumped his fence and sprinted through a neighbor’s yard and across the street to another neighbor's driveway to get to Yarl.

His face and arms were covered in blood, and it looked as if Yarl had been shot in his head near an eye socket.

The good people in this world far outnumber the bad.  

[mollyanna58]

Apr 20, 2023 19:09:13 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

Apr 20, 2023 13:41:31 GMT -5 Pink Cashmere said:

HE is what’s is wrong with America? Are you crazy?

Because he realized that starting a shootout with somebody obviously that had more firepower than him, would put even more people in danger? When they were in a vehicle and he was on foot?

HE is the problem, and not the people that shot at him for coming outside when they were trying to steal his car? Just, WOW!

I have been stewing on this ever since I replied to it.

And I still can’t figure out how it’s reasonable to say that people like my next door neighbor are what’s wrong in America, instead of the people that use guns to kill random people and/or “protect” themselves when they commit crimes.

I really, really, want to read your response to defend what you said, and how that is okay and makes sense to you scgal .

I wrote and deleted three replies to that ludicrous post yesterday.  It's not worth the effort to try to understand the nonsensical thoughts being expressed.

 

[busymom]

Apr 21, 2023 10:47:53 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

Apr 21, 2023 10:40:45 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

'He didn't deserve to get shot': Good Samaritan who helped Ralph Yarl found him bloody and motionless

James Lynch said his Eagle Scout training kicked in and he checked the teen's pulse and tried to stanch the blood in a neighbor's driveway before paramedics arrived.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ralph Paul Yarl, the Black teenager who was shot by a homeowner after having rung the wrong doorbell, was motionless and covered in blood when James Lynch found him unconscious.

"I thought he was dead," Lynch said Monday.

“No one deserves to lay there like that,” Lynch said. “He hasn’t even begun to live his life yet. He didn’t deserve to get shot.”

Lynch, 42, had just gotten out of the shower Thursday night and was getting ready for bed when he heard shouting outside. He went over to his kitchen window and saw a boy banging on the door of a nearby home.

"I heard somebody screaming, 'Help, help, I've been shot!'" Lynch said, adding the shouting was out of place for the normally quiet neighborhood.

Lynch, a father of three, said he ran outside, jumped his fence and sprinted through a neighbor’s yard and across the street to another neighbor's driveway to get to Yarl.

His face and arms were covered in blood, and it looked as if Yarl had been shot in his head near an eye socket.

The good people in this world far outnumber the bad.  

     While I do believe the good outnumber the bad, the bad are surely making a mess of our country right now.

[andi9899]

Apr 21, 2023 10:47:53 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

Apr 21, 2023 10:40:45 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

'He didn't deserve to get shot': Good Samaritan who helped Ralph Yarl found him bloody and motionless

James Lynch said his Eagle Scout training kicked in and he checked the teen's pulse and tried to stanch the blood in a neighbor's driveway before paramedics arrived.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ralph Paul Yarl, the Black teenager who was shot by a homeowner after having rung the wrong doorbell, was motionless and covered in blood when James Lynch found him unconscious.

"I thought he was dead," Lynch said Monday.

“No one deserves to lay there like that,” Lynch said. “He hasn’t even begun to live his life yet. He didn’t deserve to get shot.”

Lynch, 42, had just gotten out of the shower Thursday night and was getting ready for bed when he heard shouting outside. He went over to his kitchen window and saw a boy banging on the door of a nearby home.

"I heard somebody screaming, 'Help, help, I've been shot!'" Lynch said, adding the shouting was out of place for the normally quiet neighborhood.

Lynch, a father of three, said he ran outside, jumped his fence and sprinted through a neighbor’s yard and across the street to another neighbor's driveway to get to Yarl.

His face and arms were covered in blood, and it looked as if Yarl had been shot in his head near an eye socket.

The good people in this world far outnumber the bad.  

True. I just wish the bad ones would stop being so good at being bad.

[swamp]

Apr 19, 2023 17:15:21 GMT -5 scgal said:

Apr 18, 2023 15:28:35 GMT -5 Tiny said:

If you've been thinking you aren't going to get shot/killed because you don't go to work, school, or crowded public places... think again. 

There's a lot of fear in America.     Make an honest mistake and you too could be shot/killed.  

www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/kansas-city-ralph-yarl-shooting-tuesday/index.html
Ralph, 16, was shot in the head and arm after he went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings. He has been released from a hospital but faces an arduous road to recovery, his family said. 


www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/woman-shot-wrong-driveway-upstate-new-york/index.html
A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed after her friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York, officials say


I suspect we will see more and more of these kinds of shootings...   Americans are afraid.    Looks like we've given up the freedom to NOT be afraid in our own homes...  Thanks Republicans, trump, and NRA and the Religious Right!    

Isn't Kansas City and New York Democrat liberal areas. Humm more lefty bullshit pointing at someone else

Washington County is very rural and very conservative.  Try again.   

[busymom]

Can't a conservative live in a liberal city?  It's not like we've got totally Blue or Red states.  Every state is a mixture.  While living in Florida, I found a few of "my people", but we sure weren't putting bumper stickers on our cars, unlike those who wore MAGA hats.  

[andi9899]

I don't put bumper stickers on my car anyway, but I sure won't put signs in front of my house. MAGA people are too crazy and I don't need anyone vandalizing anything of mine because I don't believe the crap that they do.

[Opti]

Apr 21, 2023 10:53:43 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

Apr 21, 2023 10:47:53 GMT -5 mollyanna58 said:

The good people in this world far outnumber the bad.  

True. I just wish the bad ones would stop being so good at being bad.

Does keep us good people on our toes and always upping our game. (I agree I wish that...  )

[Opti]

Apr 20, 2023 12:03:58 GMT -5 scgal said:

Apr 20, 2023 9:56:59 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Because "I know New York city well probably better than most here" is the exact same thing as "I lived in upstate NY for a while (in the city growing up).

lived in upstate for about 10 yrs. Brooklyn 4 yrs Long Island 2 yrs 2 yrs in Manhattan. Other areas but too small to remember or should count

When? As you know things change all the time in the 5 boroughs ... plus we've had a few serious storms doing redesign of the city environment using hydro inspired power. I'm pretty sure the pieces of the 5 boroughs I knew or frequented are different after a decade or two.

FWIW. 

[teen persuasion]

Apr 19, 2023 17:15:21 GMT -5 scgal said:

Apr 18, 2023 15:28:35 GMT -5 Tiny said:

If you've been thinking you aren't going to get shot/killed because you don't go to work, school, or crowded public places... think again. 

There's a lot of fear in America.     Make an honest mistake and you too could be shot/killed.  

www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/kansas-city-ralph-yarl-shooting-tuesday/index.html
Ralph, 16, was shot in the head and arm after he went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings. He has been released from a hospital but faces an arduous road to recovery, his family said. 


www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/woman-shot-wrong-driveway-upstate-new-york/index.html
A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed after her friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York, officials say


I suspect we will see more and more of these kinds of shootings...   Americans are afraid.    Looks like we've given up the freedom to NOT be afraid in our own homes...  Thanks Republicans, trump, and NRA and the Religious Right!    

Isn't Kansas City and New York Democrat liberal areas. Humm more lefty bullshit pointing at someone else

Come on - if you've lived in NY, you know north of Albany is nowhere near NYC, and red territory!



On the local noon news today there was a piece about yet ANOTHER local session discussing race issues (spurred by the shootings last May in Buffalo). The people in that community are STILL trying to make sense of it, and have conversations to bring the larger community together. I admire their positivity.

But that shooting, in what I consider my extended community (not far from the college DH and I attended), still pisses me off! As I listened to the news report, it dawned on me why - a stranger, who lived HOURS away, was so threatened by black people that he had to go shoot as many as he could. Not individuals he knew and personally had issues with, in HIS community. No, he used the internet to tell him the zipcode with the highest % of black people, and went there to kill a group of people he'd never have contact with.

We can try to create our communities to reflect our local values (isn't that the idea behind state's rights?), and some gun-nut barges in from outside the area...

[Pink Cashmere]

Apr 21, 2023 14:59:24 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

I don't put bumper stickers on my car anyway, but I sure won't put signs in front of my house. MAGA people are too crazy and I don't need anyone vandalizing anything of mine because I don't believe the crap that they do.

I’m old and ornery. I don’t put stickers on my vehicles just because I am aware of keeping them good for whatever resale value they have, even if it’s not much, because both of my vehicles are old. My Jeep Wrangler is “old” but the market for those  is weird, and I could sell my Jeep tomorrow, for more than Mister paid for it a few years ago. 

But if I felt strongly enough about a political candidate, I would put a sign supporting them in my yard. I am SO over trying to play nice with the assholes that are trying to ruin everything I’ve always thought this country stands for. Imma just say that it won’t go well for anybody that tries to confront me on MY property, about anything. Because my story is aways going to be that they were an intruder in my home and not just on my property, and I was just defending myself.

Like I’ve always said even about people that had a problem with me when I was running the streets, catch me in the streets, but don’t bring shit to my home, because that means I will declare war. My home is my haven and I don’t play about that.