"In most cases, there’s no reason to think someone open-carrying a rifle is a threat." I strongly disagree with this sentence. Especially in an urban environment.
I will always consider a person in civilian clothing open carrying a weapon in a public space to be a threat to my safety.
So a woman, with a legal gun, can walk on any street or into bar and if a guy makes an obscene pass or plays grab ass, she can lawfully shoot him in the crotch and claim she was fearful of being raped. Well, girls, this would fix sexual harassment problem pretty quick.
One of Biden's other debate limitation requests was that the mic would be cut if a candidate exceeded his allotted time to answer a question. Anyone know if that one got approved? I'm not finding much about anything except the lack of a live audience.
A layman’s view? I think the great contributing factor today is the isolation young men feel between themselves, their screen-dominated life, and the great big, fast moving, exclusionary world. I have watched my grandchildren, great nieces and nephews lack of interaction with anyone outside of Their ‘screen world’ with great alarm for the past twenty years. It amazes me how little interaction, face-to-face, occurs for these kids. Many make their first forays-outside of school- to a larger world when they become part of the workforce through a part-time job. Many blend in to such an environment seamlessly. But amongst those who don’t, their isolation is incredible. But they have an alternative; their ‘screens’. The longer this alternative remains, the harder the cycle of isolation is to break. They become more and more incompatible with the ‘real’ world and it becomes harder and harder to fit in. The opportunity to bond with friends, to develop a love interest, to become a part of any community is non-existent. Mix in a witches brew of alcohol and/or drug abuse and you have a combustible mixture just waiting for ignition. To your larger point, i.e., unskilled young men and women (to a lesser extent) having little avenue to a self-sustaining career due to a lack of compatible marketable skill-set. It’s true many are left behind if they have no impetus or assistance in developing such marketable skills. It would be an easy out to say our educational system is to blame. But in todays environment how many parents would accept an educated assessment that their child needs some form of vocational training or assistance in obtaining those marketable skills? And how many would agree that their pride and joy was not actually going to be the next Bill Gates or, (UGH!) Elon Musk?
I think there's a lot to this. I was born in 1990. When I was in college Facebook was just beginning to pick up and smart phones were not standard. Social media and phones were used to arrange social interaction, they weren't a substitute for it. I think that rapidly began to change around 2012. The proliferation of screens for children (8 year olds with smart phones, toddlers with I-pads) completely horrifies me. I've tried to be really intentional with my limiting my son's screen time, but also monitoring my own screen time in his presence.
One thing that really throws me is when I take my son to child-filled spaces, and every other parent is on their phone. They aren't socializing with other parents, or watching their kids or are available to interact with their kids, they are staring at their phones. I refuse to do this, even if I get kind of bored. What's sad is it isn't unusual for random children to approach me if they need their shoes tied, or scrape their knees, or just want to chat. But I think it is because I'm the only adult readily available to interface with. People are always telling me how well behaved and talkitive my 5-year old is, but I really think there's an element of Idiocracy here where alot of his age cohort is just poorly socialized.
should have said that during my lifetime (post LBJ) the Republican Party has never been good on racial issues, even if some members of the party have. They’re good at other things, like getting in line with their party’s candidate, which is easier to do when your party is not diverse.
Governor Abbott is just as sick and depraved as the killer in this story.
The guy was rightly convicted of murder.
Now, he has been wrongly pardoned.
And Abbott now sets the stage for other, non-right-wing-lunatic protestors to be gunned down in cold blood, not only in Texas but anywhere.
This is performative right-wing vote scrounging that denies justice, enablers future killers, and endangers American citizens who dare to protest injustice.
Too many Americans believe in situational ethics and application of the law. It does equate to, “throw the book at ‘em” when a member of “their” team does it, but the logic becomes, “everybody does it, so it’s no bid deal” when a member of “our” team does it.
I personally think pardons have become a particularly difficult practice to defend. Why should convicted people be given a pass, just because they have caught the attention of a partisan politician?
Some people on MSNBC and others seem to think the poor protester shot by Daniel Perry was black. He was not. He was a 'Black Lives Matter' protester, white, with a black wife.
So were the 3 men Kyle Rittenhouse shot at a BLM rally in Kenosha WI. They were white and I believe they were unarmed. Kile traveled from IL with his rifle to protest the rally. I think one of the men he shot was trying to disarm him. He was 19 and of course they acquited him.
Is there any evidence video or otherwise as to whether the person carrying the assault rifle made(or did not) any aggressive move before Perry shot him?
Did you read the piece? " . . . witnesses at trial testified that Foster had merely been carrying the rifle—perfectly legal in Texas—and that the barrel had remained pointed down. This testimony was supported by Perry’s own statements in his police interview: 'I believe he was going to aim at me. I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me'."
"In most cases, there’s no reason to think someone open-carrying a rifle is a threat." I strongly disagree with this sentence. Especially in an urban environment.
I will always consider a person in civilian clothing open carrying a weapon in a public space to be a threat to my safety.
So a woman, with a legal gun, can walk on any street or into bar and if a guy makes an obscene pass or plays grab ass, she can lawfully shoot him in the crotch and claim she was fearful of being raped. Well, girls, this would fix sexual harassment problem pretty quick.
It would fix a lot of problems.
Ha, ha. I bet it would.
One of Biden's other debate limitation requests was that the mic would be cut if a candidate exceeded his allotted time to answer a question. Anyone know if that one got approved? I'm not finding much about anything except the lack of a live audience.
A layman’s view? I think the great contributing factor today is the isolation young men feel between themselves, their screen-dominated life, and the great big, fast moving, exclusionary world. I have watched my grandchildren, great nieces and nephews lack of interaction with anyone outside of Their ‘screen world’ with great alarm for the past twenty years. It amazes me how little interaction, face-to-face, occurs for these kids. Many make their first forays-outside of school- to a larger world when they become part of the workforce through a part-time job. Many blend in to such an environment seamlessly. But amongst those who don’t, their isolation is incredible. But they have an alternative; their ‘screens’. The longer this alternative remains, the harder the cycle of isolation is to break. They become more and more incompatible with the ‘real’ world and it becomes harder and harder to fit in. The opportunity to bond with friends, to develop a love interest, to become a part of any community is non-existent. Mix in a witches brew of alcohol and/or drug abuse and you have a combustible mixture just waiting for ignition. To your larger point, i.e., unskilled young men and women (to a lesser extent) having little avenue to a self-sustaining career due to a lack of compatible marketable skill-set. It’s true many are left behind if they have no impetus or assistance in developing such marketable skills. It would be an easy out to say our educational system is to blame. But in todays environment how many parents would accept an educated assessment that their child needs some form of vocational training or assistance in obtaining those marketable skills? And how many would agree that their pride and joy was not actually going to be the next Bill Gates or, (UGH!) Elon Musk?
I think there's a lot to this. I was born in 1990. When I was in college Facebook was just beginning to pick up and smart phones were not standard. Social media and phones were used to arrange social interaction, they weren't a substitute for it. I think that rapidly began to change around 2012. The proliferation of screens for children (8 year olds with smart phones, toddlers with I-pads) completely horrifies me. I've tried to be really intentional with my limiting my son's screen time, but also monitoring my own screen time in his presence.
One thing that really throws me is when I take my son to child-filled spaces, and every other parent is on their phone. They aren't socializing with other parents, or watching their kids or are available to interact with their kids, they are staring at their phones. I refuse to do this, even if I get kind of bored. What's sad is it isn't unusual for random children to approach me if they need their shoes tied, or scrape their knees, or just want to chat. But I think it is because I'm the only adult readily available to interface with. People are always telling me how well behaved and talkitive my 5-year old is, but I really think there's an element of Idiocracy here where alot of his age cohort is just poorly socialized.
There will come a time when your children's childhood is gone. You will not then wish you had spent *less* time with them.
should have said that during my lifetime (post LBJ) the Republican Party has never been good on racial issues, even if some members of the party have. They’re good at other things, like getting in line with their party’s candidate, which is easier to do when your party is not diverse.
Governor Abbott is just as sick and depraved as the killer in this story.
The guy was rightly convicted of murder.
Now, he has been wrongly pardoned.
And Abbott now sets the stage for other, non-right-wing-lunatic protestors to be gunned down in cold blood, not only in Texas but anywhere.
This is performative right-wing vote scrounging that denies justice, enablers future killers, and endangers American citizens who dare to protest injustice.
It is sick.
And it is today's Republican Party.
Too many Americans believe in situational ethics and application of the law. It does equate to, “throw the book at ‘em” when a member of “their” team does it, but the logic becomes, “everybody does it, so it’s no bid deal” when a member of “our” team does it.
I personally think pardons have become a particularly difficult practice to defend. Why should convicted people be given a pass, just because they have caught the attention of a partisan politician?
The two standard American responses to most problems," There should be a law for this..." and then "This is why this law shouldn't apply to me."
Abbot will never be president and he knows it and is pissed about it. He will never be Trumps VP either. Texas is a shithole country
Some people on MSNBC and others seem to think the poor protester shot by Daniel Perry was black. He was not. He was a 'Black Lives Matter' protester, white, with a black wife.
So were the 3 men Kyle Rittenhouse shot at a BLM rally in Kenosha WI. They were white and I believe they were unarmed. Kile traveled from IL with his rifle to protest the rally. I think one of the men he shot was trying to disarm him. He was 19 and of course they acquited him.
Yes, killing protesters is sport now it seems...
And now Abbott is an accomplice, after the fact, in this man's murder.
Absolutely, I was not arguing that fact ever!!!
Is there any evidence video or otherwise as to whether the person carrying the assault rifle made(or did not) any aggressive move before Perry shot him?
Did you read the piece? " . . . witnesses at trial testified that Foster had merely been carrying the rifle—perfectly legal in Texas—and that the barrel had remained pointed down. This testimony was supported by Perry’s own statements in his police interview: 'I believe he was going to aim at me. I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me'."
Greg Abbot could never lower the taxes enough to get me to move there.
Does anyone know if Daniel Patrick Perry is related to the former governor of Texas, Rick Perry?
I had no idea Greg Abbot was in a wheelchair.
Guess that's what happens when you read the news rather than watch it.
(Also it makes me dislike him even more. My disability made me more empathetic, so I especially resent Abbot and McConnell)
Greg Abbott's Favorite Murderer... So Far
Every time I see Abbott sitting in his wheelchair, I think maybe there is some justice in this world.
Wait. She can read?