Re: Another mass shooting
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 1:09 pm
I don't think it bothers him/her/they.
I don't think it bothers him/her/they.
When randy says that "mental health" is a root cause of violence, he's not wrong.[Ludwig, the grandson of the KC doorbell shooter] said he and [the shooter], who goes by the first name Dan, used to be very close.
“But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.”
Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.”
“And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home,” he said. “When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true. The second I heard it, I was like, ‘Yeah, I could see him doing that.’”
Does he consider his grandfather a racist?
“I believe that there have been some positions that he’s held that have been bigoted or sort of disparaging,” Ludwig said. “But it’s stock Fox News, conservative American stuff. It’s ‘anybody who gets an abortion is a murderer.’ And ‘fatherless Black families are the reason why crime exists in this country.’ It’s stuff everybody’s heard at the Thanksgiving table every year.”
Ludwig said his grandfather’s paranoia had accelerated in the past couple of years.
“I hesitate to say he got more extreme, because all this stuff has been extreme,” he said, “and it’s been the same story for decades and decades, and generation to generation of people believing the same things. It’s just nowadays people are acting on it a little bit more.”
[The shooter], a military veteran and former airline mechanic, was an avid hunter and longtime gun owner, Ludwig said. “Back in his younger days, he would be involved in shooting sports,” he said. “And I don’t necessarily have a problem with using guns and having guns. It’s the paranoia that I think is a real issue.”
6 year old shoulda been packing.KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:44 am over a basketball
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna80618
Good toddler with a gun prevents this tragedy.jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:14 pm6 year old shoulda been packing.KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:44 am over a basketball
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna80618
If only little miss Addie had been there!Sparko wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:18 pmGood toddler with a gun prevents this tragedy.jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:14 pm6 year old shoulda been packing.KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:44 am over a basketball
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna80618
So. We have another shooting.Investigators have determined that two teenagers killed over the weekend in Olathe shot each other inside a car, a spokesman for the Olathe Police Department said Thursday.
The circumstances surrounding the deaths of 19-year-old Jessica Hicks of Olathe, Kansas, and 18-year-old Monterrio Spencer Jr. of Kansas City, Missouri, remain under investigation, Sgt. Joel Yeldell said in a news release.
The investigation revealed that the two teens did not know each other, Yeldell later said.
are you certain they weren’t suffering from gender dysphoria?jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 5:26 pm GOOD GUY AND GIRL (?) WITH GUNS ALERT
Teenagers killed in Olathe double homicide shot each other inside car, police say
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... rylink=cpy
So. We have another shooting.Investigators have determined that two teenagers killed over the weekend in Olathe shot each other inside a car, a spokesman for the Olathe Police Department said Thursday.
The circumstances surrounding the deaths of 19-year-old Jessica Hicks of Olathe, Kansas, and 18-year-old Monterrio Spencer Jr. of Kansas City, Missouri, remain under investigation, Sgt. Joel Yeldell said in a news release.
The investigation revealed that the two teens did not know each other, Yeldell later said.
That means, you guessed it!, a double round of WHAT MENTAL ILLNESS PULLED THE TRIGGER???
We have:
* being a teenager
* being a woman
* being a man
* being black (?)
* being in a car
* not knowing the other person in a car
* breathing oxygen
The best part of this game is how silly it is; these youngsters were gonna die someday no matter what!
LOL!
I still have the single-shot .410 shotgun my dad gave me when I was in 6th grade, and had the same, "Oh, there's my gun" experience you described, less than a week ago. (My loaded pistol that's where I can reach it quickly, is much more front of mind. For better, or worse...)defixione wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 5:43 pm It slays me that owning a gun is the highest priority in some people's lives. I'm 72 and have owned guns for hunting since I was in high school. I haven't gotten them out in at least 30 years. Some days when I'm looking for something I happen across one and think, Oh there's my gun. I have no ammo and I can sleep at night knowing that. My liberties have not been taken from me during my lifetime, either. I can't help but pity those people. What a sad life of anxiety and paranoia.
did they have any health issues?KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 5:36 pmare you certain they weren’t suffering from gender dysphoria?jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 5:26 pm GOOD GUY AND GIRL (?) WITH GUNS ALERT
Teenagers killed in Olathe double homicide shot each other inside car, police say
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/c ... rylink=cpy
So. We have another shooting.Investigators have determined that two teenagers killed over the weekend in Olathe shot each other inside a car, a spokesman for the Olathe Police Department said Thursday.
The circumstances surrounding the deaths of 19-year-old Jessica Hicks of Olathe, Kansas, and 18-year-old Monterrio Spencer Jr. of Kansas City, Missouri, remain under investigation, Sgt. Joel Yeldell said in a news release.
The investigation revealed that the two teens did not know each other, Yeldell later said.
That means, you guessed it!, a double round of WHAT MENTAL ILLNESS PULLED THE TRIGGER???
We have:
* being a teenager
* being a woman
* being a man
* being black (?)
* being in a car
* not knowing the other person in a car
* breathing oxygen
The best part of this game is how silly it is; these youngsters were gonna die someday no matter what!
LOL!
NEW SHOP LINK IN BIO