Only in America

[Cunt]

In America, who should have the right to defend themselves with deadly force?

My understanding of 2a suggests it is every citizen. In practice, it seems to be every citizen except those who find themselves sentenced to 'gun free zones'.

[Tero]

And the government is allowed to regulate guns and gun ownners. Which we do.

[Cunt]

I've been hearing that 'constitutional carry' has been growing to more than half of all states. Sounds like a travel guide

[JimC]

Lots of guns means lots of people being shot. Simples...

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-07/ ... /103199156

Las Vegas police says the suspect in a shooting at University of Nevada with "multiple victims" is dead.

[Tero]

Routine. I only tead about half the cases anymore. It captures more news if there is a manhunt.

[Brian Peacock]

The US has exceeded its record mass shooting count from last year.

[Tero]

The US has exceeded its record mass shooting count from last year.

When Trump gets sworn in, on Day 1 he will sign the executive order for good guys to have to carry guns at all times.

[Tero]

Two mayors ban concelaed weapons in city property and sidewalks etc. So people would feel safe. Attorney General mentions same reason for gun owners to feel safe in public.
https://www.1011now.com/2023/12/16/nebr ... s-illegal/

[aufbahrung]

https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/16/senate-s ... _must-read

It's America, all there is to say really

[rainbow]

The US has exceeded its record mass shooting count from last year.

When Trump gets sworn in, on Day 1 he will sign the executive order for good guys to have to carry guns at all times.

Like last time he will not achieve anything, least of all make America great.

However on Israel, he can't do any worse than Biden.

[Tero]

The US has exceeded its record mass shooting count from last year.

When Trump gets sworn in, on Day 1 he will sign the executive order for good guys to have to carry guns at all times.

Like last time he will not achieve anything, least of all make America great.

However on Israel, he can't do any worse than Biden.

Trump will get peace in 1 day, just like he will with Ukraine. He can't drop out of NATO but he will defund it.

[Brian Peacock]

Alabama woman with two uteruses gives birth twice in two days.

[L'Emmerdeur]

The story didn't mention, but I would surmise that they're dizygotic. Seems extremely unlikely that they would be identical.

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-04/ ... /103283946

United Nations experts are urging authorities in the United States to halt the planned execution of a prisoner by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen, saying the untested method may subject him to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture".

Kenneth Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on January 25 using the method, which is intended to deprive him of oxygen by using a face mask connected to a cylinder of nitrogen.

It would be the first time a judicial execution has been carried out anywhere in the world using asphyxiation with an inert gas, according to capital punishment experts.

Smith, 58, is one of only two people alive in the US to have survived an execution attempt after Alabama botched his previously scheduled execution by lethal injection in November 2022, when multiple attempts to insert an intravenous line failed.

Four UN human rights special rapporteurs said the new execution method could cause "grave suffering" and "a painful and humiliating death" that would likely violate an international treaty, to which the US is a party, which bans torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.

Leaving to one side any opposition to capital punishment in general, this particular method does sound pretty dreadful. One wonders why they couldn't first give an anaesthetic gas...