18 people were killed and 13 injured in Maine shootings, governor says

[Speedy]

5 found shot to death in North Carolina home: "This is not normal"

Of course it’s normal in the only country where this happens regularly.

https://www.aol.com/5-found-shot-death-n...00336.html

The bodies were reported to police just after midnight on Thursday in Clinton, North Carolina, according to a news release from the Sampson County Sheriff's Office. The 911 caller said they had spoken to one of the people who was killed at around 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The caller, who has not been identified, said they found the bodies because they stopped by the house on their way home, according to the news release.

The sheriff's office said that the deceased included one woman and four men. All had gunshot wounds. The five people were "of different races and ethnicities" and "ranged in age" from their 30s to their 80s, the sheriff's office said. It's not yet confirmed how the people are connected. The identities of the victims are being withheld until family members are notified, the sheriff's office said.

[gadje]

‘Come out with your hands up’

They surrounded his house.

[pdq]

Heavy:

Robert Card, the person of interest in the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, on October 25, 2023 liked a number of political posts on X, formerly known as Twitter…

… Card followed and/or liked posts by X’s CEO, Elon Musk, and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban as well as a professor who studies terrorism and a number of prominent conservative politicians and pundits, including Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson.

… In March, he liked a tweet by Trump that read, “Given the incredible rise of trans/non-binary mass shooters in the last few years… by far the largest group committing as a percentage of population… maybe, rather than talking about guns we should be talking about lunatics pushing their gender affirming bulls*** on our kids?”

Birds of a feather.

[pdq]

Also:

Uvalde: AR-15
Buffalo: AR-15
Boulder: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Nashville: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15
Midland/Odessa: AR-15
Colorado Springs: AR-15
Poway Synagogue: AR-15
Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15

Lewiston: AR-15

But Judge Benitez says it’s the ideal home defense weapon, and it’s basically like the Bowie knife, anyway, so we should be reassured.

[Racer X]

pdq wrote:
Also:

Uvalde: AR-15
Buffalo: AR-15
Boulder: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Nashville: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15
Midland/Odessa: AR-15
Colorado Springs: AR-15
Poway Synagogue: AR-15
Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15

Lewiston: AR-15

But Judge Benitez says it’s the ideal home defense weapon, and it’s basically like the Bowie knife, anyway, so we should be reassured.

"One government solution to a few mad men with guns is a law that makes into
criminals responsible, law-abiding people wanting larger magazines simply to protect
themselves. The history and tradition of the Second Amendment clearly supports state
laws against the use or misuse of firearms with unlawful intent, but not the disarmament
of the law-abiding citizen. That kind of a solution is an infringement on the
Constitutional right of citizens to keep and bear arms. The adoption of the Second
Amendment was a freedom calculus decided long ago by our first citizens who cherished
individual freedom with its risks more than the subservient security of a British ruler or
the smothering safety of domestic lawmakers. The freedom they fought for was worth
fighting for then, and that freedom is entitled to be preserved still."

"There is only one policy enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Guns and ammunition in
the hands of criminals, tyrants and terrorists are dangerous; guns in the hands of law-
abiding responsible citizens are necessary. To give full life to the core right of self-
defense, every law-abiding responsible individual citizen has a constitutionally protected
right to keep and bear firearms commonly owned and kept for lawful purposes. In early
America and today, the Second Amendment right of self-preservation permits a citizen to
“‘repel force by force’ when ‘the intervention of society in his behalf, may be too late to
prevent that injury.’”246 Unfortunately, governments tend to restrict the right of armed
self-defense. Punishing every good citizen because bad ones misuse a gun offends the
Constitution. A state supreme court in 1878 said it succinctly: “If cowardly and
dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must
be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.”247 “Today . . . many Americans have good reason to fear that
they will be victimized if they are unable to protect themselves. And today, no less than
in 1791, the Second Amendment guarantees their right to do so.”248"

[Acer]

18 more people just died because in the good old days, a bunch of farmers with muskets--with a heavy assist from the French navy--fought off a tired, overextended empire in war unpopular at home, and they think that's how they'll win the next one.

[Racer X]

hear the yapping of a little dog.

[Acer]

I can't hear the dog for all the shooting.

[Racer X]

Acer wrote:
I can't hear the dog for all the shooting.

time to hide under the porch again. I guess you won't step up and prove your assertion like a man with self respect.

[Acer]

Is there something I said that is not true?

There are many reasons Britain lost. The minuteman is part of the story, but a heavily romanticized small part of a what was in many ways an on-and-off world war lasting a century.
https://historycollection.com/revolution...ependence/