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Re: Only in America

Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Jun 23, 2021 1:02 pm

Send him to the chair!
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Wed Jun 23, 2021 2:37 pm

Success! Euthanizing worked.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - An elderly Lincoln woman, who had been hospitalized in critical condition after being shot by her husband, died from her injuries Wednesday morning, according to the Lincoln Police Department.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Wed Jun 23, 2021 4:00 pm

Pandemic: less shootings
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Re: Only in America

Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:11 pm

Yeah, but what aboot Chicago, ay?
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Re: Only in America

Post by Hermit » Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:53 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
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Yeah, but what aboot Chicago, ay?
Well, those statistics are good news for Chicago. They make the city's murder rate look increasingly normal.
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Re: Only in America

Post by JimC » Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:20 pm

The relative increase in injury-only shooting seems to indicate a deterioration in American marksmanship... :nono:
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Re: Only in America

Post by laklak » Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:24 pm

And no wonder, ammo is too scarce and expensive for much range time.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Woodbutcher » Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:35 am

Tero wrote:
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Why wait till you are 80 and your aim is bad?

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A 78-year-old woman is in critical condition after she was allegedly shot in the head by her 80-year-old husband early Sunday morning.

Officers responded to a report of a shooting just before 6:30 a.m. near 18th and Dakota Street. Lincoln Police said they found a 78-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her head. The woman, who has not been identified, was transported to a local hospital where she remains in critical condition, police say.
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A Lincoln man accused of shooting his wife early Sunday morning told police he shot her because of her deteriorating condition due to Alzheimer’s, according to court documents.

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Re: Only in America

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:53 am

Tricked into participating in the filming of gun control/anti gun violence videos. Oh the outrage of it all.

'Former NRA president tricked into gun violence prevention video'
A gun violence prevention group has released videos in which they trick famous pro-gun figures into addressing a sea of empty chairs, representing children and teenagers who were shot and killed before they could graduate from high school.

Change the Ref, a gun safety organization founded by Patricia and Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was murdered in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, released the videos Wednesday.

As drone videos show sweeps of thousands of empty white seats, overlaid audio from 911 calls brings in the terrified voices of students trapped in schools while bullets are flying.

Speaking to the empty chairs in the first video is NRA board member David Keene, who was the pro-gun group's president from 2011 to 2013.

Keene invokes the Virginian founding father, namesake of the fake James Madison Academy he thinks he's addressing, to ask that the graduating students uphold the second amendment that Madison is credited with authoring.

A woman who answered the phone at Keene's home declined to comment.

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Re: Only in America

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:35 am

Nice one.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:11 pm

The country with the most guns also has the thinnest walls.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Seabass » Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:38 am

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During a traffic stop last week, an Arkansas sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a teenage boy who was only armed with a neon-blue jug of antifreeze, family members told VICE News.

Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Michael Davis stopped 17-year-old Hunter Brittain near Cabot, Arkansas, at about 3 a.m. last Wednesday, and it’s still unclear why. Hunter had been having trouble with his truck when Davis pulled in behind him outside of a local auto repair shop and flashed his emergency lights, according to the account of a 16-year-old riding with Hunter at the time. When Hunter went to put the antifreeze behind his back tire so his vehicle wouldn’t roll into the officer’s, Davis allegedly fired at him.

“Before he could get there, he was shot in the neck,” Hunter’s uncle, Jesse Brittain, told VICE News. “We can’t begin to understand why he would take a shot at that boy.”
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Re: Only in America

Post by Seabass » Sat Jul 03, 2021 10:46 pm

All wars are fought with weapons, and the guns used to murder tens of thousands of people in the Mexican War on Drugs mostly come from America.

From handguns, to AK-47s and 50-calibre sniper rifles, weak US gun laws allow the drug cartels to arm themselves to the point where they can take on the Mexican army, shoot down military helicopters and take over entire cities. The trade in illegal drugs and illegal guns are inextricably linked.

This is how the War on Drugs is actually fought.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Sean Hayden » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:12 pm

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Re: Only in America

Post by laklak » Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:15 pm

Seabass wrote:
Sat Jul 03, 2021 10:46 pm
From handguns, to AK-47s and 50-calibre sniper rifles, weak US gun laws allow the drug cartels to arm themselves to the point where they can take on the Mexican army, shoot down military helicopters and take over entire cities. The trade in illegal drugs and illegal guns are inextricably linked.

This is how the War on Drugs is actually fought.
I thought it would be useless to try to fight an army with civilian weaponry, particularly since Sleepy Joe has no problem nuking the civilian population.
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