You better stick around ya dick…
You dragged me back into this cesspool last year with you fancy tax talk and then bounced!!!
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I 2nd that.
Thanks guys.
Between tax season, buying a new house and then I get busy in the summer until 9/15 I just didn’t have time for social media.
Then I became addicted to Fallout 3 and NV…
I’ll see what I can do about stopping by now and again.
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Adam Lanza exhibited similar behavior while taking antidepressants. He planned his attack. A person experiencing a psychotic break isn’t precluded from planning. They don’t necessarily just go berserk (which makes them much more dangerous and frightening).
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And he had a mother who wasn’t exactly right in the head as she thought teaching him how to shoot guns was a good idea. Unfortunately, as bad as that decision was it wasn’t the worst decision she made. That honor belongs to her not leaving her guns locked up.
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Apologies if one of you already posted about this up thread.
A bright spot. What a great story. @idaho, you’ll appreciate it.
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Your life will never be the same again lol. It was good knowing you!
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holly shit I read this!!! I was at the LIB fest the week before with some peeps and my GF
I was wondering why he picked this one… Damn thats crazy article… 33 high power guns in a yr period dang
Crazy read his GF has to have known something
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Just so you know, ARs and the like are not high power rifles. On the contrary, they are relatively low power.
BG said
Las Vegas Sherrif used the word “radicalized” in an interview yesterday to describe Steven Paddock. That word usually has something to do with Islam, not so much other political movements.
Every word of that is accurate. He USED the word radicalized. The word USUALLY has something to do with Islam. Both of those statements are dead on.
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He used the word radicalized but not to describe the shooter. In other words, his description of the shooter was not that he was radicalized, he used that term when discussing possible motives. It was total clickbait.
Article written by a statistician and former writer at Nate Silver’s blog, FiveThirtyEight. She makes some great points about the effectiveness of trying to limit the lethality of guns, what an assault weapon is, what a “silencer” does.
“We looked at what interventions might have saved those people, and the case for the policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence. The best ideas left standing were narrowly tailored interventions to protect subtypes of potential victims, not broad attempts to limit the lethality of guns.”
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Not trying to make light of an awful, very recent event, but…Whenever I come back to this thread, the first time I see the title I inevitably read it as Vegan Shooter Kills 50+. Anyone else?
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Yep. Gets me every time.
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That would certainly make choosing a country music festival as a target more rational. If you were a militant PITA member who would you kill? People dressed like cattle ranchers of course. Too soon?
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Late response but short of refusing to congregate in large (and open) gatherings, this seems so random as to be ‘It is just your day to die’. Similar to planes crashing into a skyscraper random.
I had no idea there were people who were militant about pita. Don’t get me wrong, I love the stuff, especially with baba ganoush. But kill for it?
Yeah, probably (applies to both of us).
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I’m not sure whether to blame the auto-correct or my own ineptitude for PITA vs PETA. Proofreading, it’s important.
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So I read PITA the first time and thought it was a “Pain in the ass” joke play on words with PETA. I can’t tell if that makes me a bad person for automatically associating pain in the ass with PETA. I’ll sit here with my dinner, that used to moo, and ponder it.
This is the most important question you’ll ever be asked. So answer carefully, the fate of civilization depends on it. NCR, Caesar’s Legion, Mr. House or Yes Man?
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