My favourites are killing refs for making bad calls, or killing other parents because their kid did something in a game
because they were unable to speak
Because someone in your government has decided that you have to.
This is mind blowing to me. I understand different perspective and everything and am not trying to knock anyone that genuinely and whole heartedly gets into it. But I cant wrap my head around “X knows best so we must kill for them because they taught us that way.” Like there’s actually people that think like that while acting like they are their own individual and not just a cog in someone else’s game.
On the other hand some people grow up in that culture and are that. Those are the real ones.
A frozen yogurt (no joke, almost happened at my high school)
In self defense after someone summoned Bigfoot to kill you.
Because you want to know what it’s like to kill someone.
For entertainment.
WTF?
Fucking hell America. That wasn’t even the only shooting of a young person that week. From the Wikipedia page about one of the other shootings:
The shooting gained notoriety for being one of four shootings that occurred in a one-week period in the US that were characterized by young people being met with gunfire after making a mistake.
Oh, and one of the other ones involved a 6 year old child and her parents after a basketball they were playing with rolled down the street and onto his property. Nobody died, thank the gods, but the guy who did that one was already out on bail for domestic abuse/assault.
What the fuck is wrong with that country that shit like this can happen and it doesn’t step back and reevaluate its relationship to guns?
Listen, I think there should be a lot more regulation of guns in America. But just from a media literacy standpoint, can we not take two incidents as a statement about every American?
This was four separate incidents in one week.
And I know that there are some Americans who want to see change, but the fact is that as a society you’ve gone for decades knowing this was a problem and deciding you’d rather keep the problem than fix it. I feel for those Americans who are more sane, I really do. Certainly I don’t agree with everything my government has done or is doing. But I also wouldn’t take it as a personal insult if someone were to say “wtf Australia” when criticising that government’s decisions, because it would be accurate.
This is the eternal stalemate of our two party system. Everyone agrees that there are many big obvious problems that need addressing, both parties want to solve it their own way, but (for better and worse) both only have the power to prevent the other from doing anything.
You’re right it’s appropriate to say “wtf America” about gun violence generally. I think what I was stuck on is while extremely fucked up that someone shot a person for turning around in their driveway, in a country of over 300 million people that particular thing is still a fluke. I hadn’t heard of the other incidents mentioned in that Wikipedia article until you said there were four.
For ringing your doorbell
Because you were not paying attention while behind the wheel.
Because in your impaired judgement you were ‘good to drive home’ after a few drinks.
Hold on.
There’s reasons to kill someone‽
We didn’t exactly stop the Nazis through polite conversation
“If someone tries to kill you, you kill 'em right back.” - Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
Please…
You can almost always try to kiss someone and they’ll recoil and back down. Or is that just me?
Ime it works great for small town guys.
Except Bill. Bill… Bill went all the way.
Self defense is generally a pretty good reason.
Well if you kill everyone, will there be anyone left to shame you? Therefore, it wouldn’t be dumb to kill.
“Your not a war criminal if there’s no more military to judge you.”
And when you kill a man, you’re a murderer. Kill many and you’re a conqueror. Kill them all and you’re a god.
Edit: oh. That’s my answer to op: religion.
Because they don’t have same color skin.
Pol Pot mass murdered anyone wearing glasses.
