The bad (typically gun related) things happening in America thread

WI_Red said:
That is just dumb and, while not gun related, definitely fits this thread title.
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UHC are comfortably the worst offenders in terms of claims denied among the major insurance companies. They're also the ones who initially pushed the envelope with Optum and are probably the most influential private payer in terms of driving higher costs.
 
Just a quick catch-up of today's events in a single state.

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apparently she followed a twitter account called "radfem hitler."

between the US election and events like this, i think it's safe to say that online is real life now?

e - saw a different one circulating, but that's partially redacted, so may be a different part of the same thing? some of the themes were different, it was equally online though.
 
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Female mass shooters are quite rare.

https://www.newsweek.com/are-female-mass-shooters-rise-what-data-shows-2001780

Are Female Mass Shooters on the Rise? What Data Shows​

Among the 200 shooters involved in 195 mass shootings from 1966 to 2024, only four were female, according to the nonpartisan nonprofit group Violence Prevention Project. The Nashville shooter is included but listed as "transgender" rather than female by the group.

While the data shows no female-perpetrated mass shootings in the past several years, the small number of mass shootings that did involve females all took place within the last 18 years—in 2006, 2014, 2015 and 2019.

Violence Prevention Project defines a "mass shooting" as an event with "four or more people shot and killed, excluding the shooter, in a public location, with no connection to underlying criminal activity, such as gangs or drugs"—criteria that would exclude the incident on Monday.
 


Last week an acquittal for choking a homeless man to death on the subway, this week:
 
Scarlett Dracarys said:
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That example makes sense to me. The family are avid hunters, the kid had been hunting and using rifles since the age of 7 and now at 16 was gifted a hunting rifle of his own. Now, I think a 7-year-old shooting a gun is batshit crazy, but I don't come from a hunting family. In the end, that scenario will never be illegal or out of the ordinary in the U.S.
 
Scarlett Dracarys said:
I'm not sure what's more disturbing, gifting your child a gun or CNN trying to normalize it with this bullshit of a post.
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Definitely gifting a gun to your child. But that is me, that I would not not do it and I can see through CNN BS while the ones that gifts a gun to their children probably can't. Goes hand in hand
 
MarylandMUFan said:
That example makes sense to me. The family are avid hunters, the kid had been hunting and using rifles since the age of 7 and now at 16 was gifted a hunting rifle of his own. Now, I think a 7-year-old shooting a gun is batshit crazy, but I don't come from a hunting family. In the end, that scenario will never be illegal or out of the ordinary in the U.S.
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Hunting is one thing (and I don't like hunting because...reasons). Hunting is allowed in most of the countries if not all. But in any sane country, you can gift a hunting rifle to a person (age my vary country to country, but I assume most of the times 14-16 the earliest). But this person needs to have a permit, probably training and also harsh regulations on how to store it, transport it and use it

Not against at all on that and any form of control and sensible regulation. Everybody has its own hobbies and as long it doesn't affect and threaten other's people life coolio (yes, I am that old). But that example that make sense is only used to wash and justify all other feck up gifts to minors like special AR15 kid size. That this shit actually exist it baffles me, and CNN is being disingenuous using that example to justify all the other gifts
 
4bars said:
Hunting is one thing (and I don't like hunting because...reasons). Hunting is allowed in most of the countries if not all. But in any sane country, you can gift a hunting rifle to a person (age my vary country to country, but I assume most of the times 14-16 the earliest). But this person needs to have a permit, probably training and also harsh regulations on how to store it, transport it and use it

Not against at all on that and any form of control and sensible regulation. Everybody has its own hobbies and as long it doesn't affect and threaten other's people life coolio (yes, I am that old). But that example that make sense is only used to wash and justify all other feck up gifts to minors like special AR15 kid size. That this shit actually exist it baffles me, and CNN is being disingenuous using that example to justify all the other gifts
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Fair point. I have seen batshit crazy designs on military style weapons to appeal to kids and women. It's bonkers.
 
4bars said:
https://www.nrafamily.org/content/how-to-choose-your-child-s-first-rifle/

https://www.childrenfirstpa.org/news/8-18-23-enews/ (This is nuts)
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I was in a local hardware store (DIY store) in Maryland a couple of years ago, and they had a little rack of shirts for sale near the checkout. I pulled one out to look at it and it was a child sized shirt with an American flag on the front and an outline of an AR-15 over the flag. The shirt would have fit a 5-year-old child. I was so annoyed, I put the stuff I had planned to purchase on the floor and walked out and have not been back since. It's a disease out here.
 
MarylandMUFan said:
I was in a local hardware store (DIY store) in Maryland a couple of years ago, and they had a little rack of shirts for sale near the checkout. I pulled one out to look at it and it was a child sized shirt with an American flag on the front and an outline of an AR-15 over the flag. The shirt would have fit a 5-year-old child. I was so annoyed, I put the stuff I had planned to purchase on the floor and walked out and have not been back since. It's a disease out here.
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If they would buy just the shirt and no rifle all good. But yeah, is ridiculous how they expose the youngest to killing machines
 
In my aunt's hometown in Texas, the local PD hold raffles in which the winning prize is often a rifle of some sorts. And you'll see flyers and posts everywhere including the local churches.

In even more worrisome news, the same town has civilian non-LEO ride along programs in which the volunteer citizen wears a rent-a-cop style uniform and often helps with traffic and other forms of policing (limited of course but so bizarre nonetheless).
 
MrMarcello said:
In my aunt's hometown in Texas, the local PD hold raffles in which the winning prize is often a rifle of some sorts. And you'll see flyers and posts everywhere including the local churches.

In even more worrisome news, the same town has civilian non-LEO ride along programs in which the volunteer citizen wears a rent-a-cop style uniform and often helps with traffic and other forms of policing (limited of course but so bizarre nonetheless).
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I mean, why not? its only 3-4 months of police academy which they spend a big chunk in fire arms training which I imagine many US citizen that are interested in this program have plenty of experience as gun brandisher morons. So they are quite ready for US policing standards
 
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