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ded posted:Ok I want to learn something today. How is it that those guys who walk around carrying or have a rifle strapped to their chest not get at least cited for brandishing or carrying a weapon in a threatening manner? Going to a government building or the residence of a state governor and having a bunch of rifles is certainly not a lawful use of a firearm. At least in my uninformed opinion. Most everywhere this is happening it’s entirely legal. Cops just have a tendency to decide incidental muzzle sweeps from weapons are felonies when the wrong person carries them. It’s entirely legal to carry guns outside a home or into a government building in a lot of states/locales. Brandishing laws vary a lot by state. But often slung or low ready or holstered does not meet definition of “brandished.” Especially when it’s 40 protesters with cameras and not two unobserved cops deciding a person totally brandished their wallet wrong.
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# ? May 6, 2020 01:45 |
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facialimpediment posted:I somewhat disagree with the above posts - it's due to the dumbass open carry laws that make this poo poo not a crime. White people love cosplay penis extenders. Even where open carry exists do you think that a group of black people with AR-15s are going to be allowed to walk right up to cops in the lobby of a state capitol (without being arrested / shot)? I guess I'd have to believe that when I see it.
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# ? May 6, 2020 01:46 |
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facialimpediment posted:I somewhat disagree with the above posts - it's due to the dumbass open carry laws that make this poo poo not a crime. White people love cosplay penis extenders. No, if black people did it they'd be shot because they "appeared threatening" and white people would continue to be able to do as they pleased. The Second Amendment is and always has been for white men only.
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That Works posted:Even where open carry exists do you think that a group of black people with AR-15s are going to be allowed to walk right up to cops in the lobby of a state capitol (without being arrested / shot)? If literally surrounded by cameras, maybe.
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hobbesmaster posted:If literally surrounded by cameras, maybe. They’d still get arrested. The shooting would happen on the way from the capital to the police station.
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Stultus Maximus posted:No, if black people did it they'd be shot because they "appeared threatening" and white people would continue to be able to do as they pleased. Yes. One of the most blatant examples of this: Ohio is an "open carry" state, yet Tamir Rice, a child, was murdered within seconds of police arriving on the scene, for holding a toy, not even a real firearm.
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# ? May 6, 2020 02:10 |
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Real weird coincidence how many gun laws passed in California right after the Black Panthers started protesting while armed
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# ? May 6, 2020 02:12 |
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That Works posted:Even where open carry exists do you think that a group of black people with AR-15s are going to be allowed to walk right up to cops in the lobby of a state capitol (without being arrested / shot)? Just that one time in 1967: https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Yes. One of the most blatant examples of this: Ohio is an "open carry" state, yet Tamir Rice, a child, was murdered within seconds of police arriving on the scene, for holding a toy, not even a real firearm. I was thinking John Crawford III, who was murdered the instant the police opened the door for the crime of carrying a toy gun in a store that sells toy guns. Also Ohio.
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# ? May 6, 2020 02:22 |
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one of the central tasks of police in the us is the production of white supremacy, most gun control laws are passed with the explicit intent of bolstering their ability to do this, but of course selective enforcement lets many laws serve that purpose
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# ? May 6, 2020 02:25 |
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Ohio has more confederate flags than Alabama. An incredibly lovely state full of the racist assholes with their almost canadian accents and bad euchre players. Only person I'd ever known to cheat at euchre was from Ohio originally.
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# ? May 6, 2020 02:25 |
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So the Venezuela thing just keeps getting more absurd the deeper you go. https://twitter.com/3PSboyd/status/1257723363264360449 https://twitter.com/3PSboyd/status/1257733975788814337 quote:When he was pressed by Poleo to explain why launching an amphibious operation across open waters instead of attempting to infiltrate via the border with Colombia, Goudreau replied: https://twitter.com/3PSboyd/status/1257734935575531521 https://twitter.com/AliceAvizandum/status/1257786917552377856
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# ? May 6, 2020 02:50 |
Both the going through with it after being exposed and the "having an absurd $200M contract from Juan Guaido" have me definitely suspecting that this was actually just Maduro hiring inept morons to give him the reason to execute a bunch of dissidents.
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# ? May 6, 2020 02:55 |
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This Venezuela coup thing is almost certainly the (somehow even dumber) American version of the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea by Sanadline International.
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# ? May 6, 2020 03:09 |
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I thought republicans were against filibusters.
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# ? May 6, 2020 03:16 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Ohio has more confederate flags than Alabama. An incredibly lovely state full of the racist assholes with their almost canadian accents and bad euchre players. William Tecumseh Sherman is from Ohio.
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# ? May 6, 2020 03:27 |
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Flikken posted:William Tecumseh Sherman is from Ohio. I mean I was born in Ohio but you don't see me bragging about it (because I don't talk about it (because Ohio is terrible))
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# ? May 6, 2020 03:29 |
Flikken posted:William Tecumseh Sherman is from Ohio. And look what he did trying to forget that fact
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M_Gargantua posted:Both the going through with it after being exposed and the "having an absurd $200M contract from Juan Guaido" have me definitely suspecting that this was actually just Maduro hiring inept morons to give him the reason to execute a bunch of dissidents. Except for that Bellingcat article, yeah
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Relevant to recent events, if y'all haven't seen the movie Walker with Ed Harris it's pretty wild - a biopic of the most 'successful' filibuster William Walker, filmed on location in Nicuragua during the Contras War as a satire/indictment of US Latin American policy.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:My friend's got a Garand and we went shooting right before all this started shutting everything down. Such a fun gun to shoot. Garand and the M1 Carbine are hands down the two most fun rifles to shoot IMHO. Though I shot a Thompson at my bachelor party and all I'll say about that is that it was clearly designed to be efficient and fun. Suicide Watch posted:
Ooooooof. I mean I made my email in high school based off a SAS thing I heard in Metal Gear Solid (Whodares) but that is some pure strain cringe right there. Milo and POTUS posted:Wait isn't SAS british
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:And look what he did trying to forget that fact Brought justice to atlanta?
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Stravag posted:Brought justice to atlanta? Spent his post-war days aggressively killing and coercing American Indians.
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Can people nominate individual photos for pulitzers
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I mean I was born in Ohio but you don't see me bragging about it (because I don't talk about it (because Ohio is terrible)) Ohio has played a valuable role in inspiring people to get as far away from Ohio as possible by becoming astronauts. To date this has produced 25 astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Judy Resnik, and Jim Lovell, who holds the world record for the furthest an Ohioan has ever gotten from Ohio, during the Apollo 13 mission.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Ohio has played a valuable role in inspiring people to get as far away from Ohio as possible by becoming astronauts. To date this has produced 25 astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Judy Resnik, and Jim Lovell, who holds the world record for the furthest an Ohioan has ever gotten from Ohio, during the Apollo 13 mission. Don't forget heavier than air flight!
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# ? May 6, 2020 03:47 |
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Flikken posted:Don't forget heavier than air flight! Oh man, the slap fight between Ohio and North Carolina for the "birthplace of flight" title is loving hilarious. That's how lovely Ohio is - they were able to invent airplanes, but had to go outside of Ohio in order to actually fly them.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Oh man, the slap fight between Ohio and North Carolina for the "birthplace of flight" title is loving hilarious. Real talk if you draw a line more or less northeast from Cincinnati to Cleveland you get the best parts of Ohio, everything northwest of that line is just corn, southeast is West Virginia lite.
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mlmp08 posted:Spent his post-war days aggressively killing and coercing American Indians. His pre-war days were full of running around California in the 1840s, I think. Sherman didn't let Ohio define him, but he had a big chip on his shoulder just being born there. It inspired him to leave. It's not like Sherman sat on an Ohio porch with a british flag and a cup of tea (because Ohioans celebrates losers like the confederates) his whole life, pushing some narration of bullshit. He went out, killed a lot of people, became a national treasure for what he did to Georgia and making South Carolina piss itself. He then led the war college for a string of years later after the war. His medal of honor is suspect, but so were a lot back then. Gotta admire the mans' tenacity, just for leaving Ohio. Imagine if he had stayed and the world never got to see his true gift at work. He did some bad poo poo, but kicking confederates around really, really weighs heavily in his favor. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 04:05 on May 6, 2020 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:His pre-war days were full of running around California in the 1840s, I think. Ok. General Uylesses S. Grant.
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I got no beef with Grant. And I haven't read nearly as much about him. Sherman really interested me because mentioning his name in parts of the South is still akin to calling someones' mother the loosest woman in town. There's still some super loving butthurt people out there.
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Flikken posted:Ok. General Ulysses S. Grant. Another man who left Ohio as soon as he could and never returned
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Flikken posted:Real talk if you draw a line more or less northeast from Cincinnati to Cleveland you get the best parts of Ohio, everything northwest of that line is just corn, southeast is West Virginia lite. Signs you're in the middle of nowhere: when you're on I-70W and see more than one exit that says in yellow-outlined letters "NO REENTRY TO INTERSTATE FROM THIS EXIT."
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Another man who left Ohio as soon as he could and never returned I've been trying to go back for 4 years Granted I spent 3 years in Appalachia Pennsylvania and the last year in Missouri
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I get it. I'm from Illinois originally. Ever once in a great while I feel tempted to uproot and roll back east to somewhere familiar, comfortable, but no, it was rural Illinois and the distinct lack of mountains is not made up for by the rich, loamy, glacial tilled soil that can pump out corn and soybeans by the barge load. There's really nothing there to return to, besides towns riddled with meth and pills, farms that can't turn a profit, but I still get reminiscent for the place. Best to let those demons' calls go through to voicemail. BIG HEADLINE posted:Signs you're in the middle of nowhere: when you're on I-70W and see more than one exit that says in yellow-outlined letters "NO REENTRY TO INTERSTATE FROM THIS EXIT." This is what I love about the west. loving miles of nobody around to interrupt the tinnitus.
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Flikken posted:I've been trying to go back for 4 years you have my sympathies (honestly obviously Ohio has both nice parts and terrible parts like any other state, and I hope you're able to move back home soon. I of course moved away when I was 2 and have spent most of my life growing up in Michigan, so I am contractually obligated to rag on you guys whenever the opportunity presents itself )
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hobbesmaster posted:I thought republicans were against filibusters. Just letting you know that this was appreciated.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1257814281330069504
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Acebuckeye13 posted:you have my sympathies Ohhhhhhh you grew up in that state up north. Covid 19 put a huge wrench in my plans, my lease is up in July, my contractual agreement with my work ends this month.
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was expecting a trump admin bay of piss moment, never expected it literally
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