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Re: Only in America

Post by macdoc » Mon Oct 31, 2022 7:29 pm

also may be due in part to decriminalizing mj
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Post by Joe » Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:52 pm

Another mass shooting in my town. Some nut shot up my youngest daughter's favorite night club last night. It's lucky she wasn't there, as she usually is on Saturday night. They have drag shows and she does makeup for some of the performers.

She lost good friends, and is waiting to see if those who were wounded make it.

It's a hell of a thing for a 23 year old to go through, and too many of our young people have.
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Post by Tero » Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:06 pm

2nd Amendment! (Which was written so "militias" could hunt down escaped slaves)

Killing 3 plus yourself not a mass shooting:
There have now been 601 mass shootings in the US in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as a case where four or more people are shot and wounded or killed, not including the shooter.
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Post by JimC » Sun Nov 20, 2022 7:46 pm

Joe wrote:
Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:52 pm
Another mass shooting in my town. Some nut shot up my youngest daughter's favorite night club last night. It's lucky she wasn't there, as she usually is on Saturday night. They have drag shows and she does makeup for some of the performers.

She lost good friends, and is waiting to see if those who were wounded make it.

It's a hell of a thing for a 23 year old to go through, and too many of our young people have.
Very scary, Joe - a rotten thing to happen... :(
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Post by Joe » Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:37 pm

That's a fact. She was planning on going, but some friends invited her over for dinner. Needless to say, we're all pretty shaken.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:00 pm

Live by the gun Joe? Just how many more?
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Post by Svartalf » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:11 pm

Wasn't Colorado made civilized more than a century ago? or can a lynch posse still go to the local jail and drag that SoB out of there to make it a tree ornament?
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:14 pm

I thought that was whole of America. "Nuthin'like a good linchin'"
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Post by Sean Hayden » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:31 pm

Sorry Joe. Sucks that it’s going to take everyone knowing someone hurt by gun violence before things change.

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Post by Joe » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:35 pm

Thanks Sean, I'm not sure even that will do it. Congress people have experienced it, and still nothing changes.
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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:45 pm

Glad she wasn't there, man. Sorry she lost friends. :(

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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:10 am

Hugs for Joe and Mrs Joe :hugs:
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Re: Only in America

Post by laklak » Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:07 am

Fuck Joe that's horrible. So glad she's not hurt.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: Only in America

Post by Svartalf » Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:49 am

She should come dwell with me, I live in the gay quarter and nobody does such things in Paris, they keep doing it to the Jews next door
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Re: Only in America

Post by Joe » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:35 pm

Thanks all!

I'll pass on your offer Svarty. NIkki loves Paris and speaks French passibly. However, she is planning to move to South Carolina where her current beau is stationed. She is finding the rent here too high for her budget.

Interestly, the service for the victims was in a synagoge. As it was also Transgender Day of Remembrance, they read aloud the list of trans people murdered in the last year by name, date, and location as part of the ceremony. It took about 25 minutes.

KInd of puts things in perspective. :(
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