Nashville college freshman Jillian Ludwig dies after being hit by a stray bullet at a local park
Nashville college freshman Jillian Ludwig dies after being hit by a stray bullet at a local park
The alleged gunman, Shaquille Taylor, had previously been released for incompetence to stand trial in a separate shooting.
You're viewing a single thread.
From the article:
"Taylor had been criminally charged multiple times in the past, including in 2021 when he was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon."
Yeah, that's definitely someone who needed to be out on the streets and still armed. 👌 what the fuck
That's what happens when people can do private sales without any checks 👍 FREEDOM MOTHERFUCKER!
Permanently Deleted
Thank goodness mentally incompetent people can still purchase and own firearms, wouldn't feel like freedom any other way.
Permanently Deleted
But mentally incompetent people can hold guns? Wonderful
Permanently Deleted
Yeah but that makes it harder for people to actually address the fact that high rates of firearm ownership is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for high rates of homicide, which has consistently been correlated with a lack of socioeconomic mobility among young adult men across societies and times. But that's hard, so instead we just sarcastically post "FREEDOM" and "now is not the time to address guns" while, ironically, never actually doing the difficult but necessary work of discussing the underlying structural economic conditions and caste dynamics which lead to this problem. Because that's hard.
High rates of gun ownership is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for high rates of homicide. "Necessary" would imply that high homicide rate is flat out impossible without high gun ownership, which is clearly not true.
Mentally incompetent Americans. Mentally incompetent people in civilized countries usually don't even come close to guns.
EDIT: Looks like the ammosexuals don't like my take. Yes, people lile you are left unarmed for good in civilized countries, if you like it or not.
Wouldn't his status as being mentally incompetent come up somewhere? I'm not from the USA and hate guns so I don't know all the details about these background checks.
In some of our states, a "background check" is when the examiner looks up from his desk. If you're blocking the background, he checks the "good to own a firearm" box.
Yeah except the part where it is federal law that all FFL dealers have to run an FBI NICSs check on all gun sales in every state because that is a federal law.
Permanently Deleted
The alternative is that you have to do paperwork every time you buy or sell a gun, which is actually worse than innocent people dying
The only paperwork I need is the one written by a bunch of old white dudes who owned slaves and barely washed 😎
Looks like someone didn't find that funny 😂
Freedom to kill innocent people, freedom to die randomly by flying bullets.
Can't have one without the other (contrary to what ammosexuals believe)