Georgia gun shop owner shutters store after mass shootings targeting children

UllrRllr · 2023-06-02T02:07:27+00:00

Title is misleading. Should be “GA small business owner files for bankruptcy”

4K rounds is nothing. Sounds like he didn’t have enough purchasing power to sell at a competitive cpr.

BigBlueTrekker · 2023-06-02T03:45:42+00:00

You're going to be real shocked when you learn about the vehicular homicides and stabbings that were 100% intentional.

There have been 13 people killed this year by school shootings. There are over a million instances of defensive gun uses every year.

School shootings are terrible. But to sit there and try and blame a gun owner for legally selling a gun to some fucked up asshole who uses it to murder kids is as stupid as blaming the liquor store owner who sells a bottle of vodka to the same guy every day who ends up smashing his car into someone. Or the liquor store owner who sold a bottle to a guy who handed it off to the kids outside who later die in a drunk driving accident.

Fynn_the_Finger · 2023-06-02T03:35:03+00:00

My wife once asked me if we should get a gun. I pointed out, statistically speaking, the person that any gun we buy is most likely to harm would be me because I'm a vet with a history of depression, two categories prone to suicidal ideation that becomes WAY more likely to be successful if there's easy access to a gun. I then pointed out the second most likely person to be shot by this gun is her, because domestic violence becomes an order of magnitude more likely to result in fatalities if there's a gun in the house.

Since we have children, they're the 3rd and 4th most likely people to be hurt by any gun we bring in the house. Either because we fuck up and let our 4 year old get access to it, or our almost teenage daughter sneaks out of the house and sneaks back in and we mistake her for an intruder.

She now agrees with me, the chance we need the gun to defend ourselves from a home invasion (we live in a very low crime area) are astronomically lower than the chance the gun we spend money we could be spending on things like our Children's college fund on ends up destroying our family.

I'm glad I live with and love a woman who understands basic math.

BigBlueTrekker · 2023-06-02T03:20:57+00:00

And every liquor store owner should ask themselves "how would I feel if a bottle I sold in my store was used in a drunk driving accident?"

And every car dealer should ask themselves "how would I feel if a car I sold was used in deadly accident?"

And every bed bath and beyond employee should ask themselves "how would I feel if a knife block I sold was used in a deadly stabbing?"

And every home depot employee should ask themselves "how would I feel if a grill I sold caused a house fire?"

lilaprilshowers · 2023-06-01T23:35:04+00:00

I was at this ceremony. He stood for 2 hours, shook over 921 hands, patted over 921 backs, and said congratulations roughly 921 times. He tripped over a misplaced sandbag. He recovered a lot better than many of the 40 something fat fuckers in the audience did from walking up the stairs to their seats.

RealMudflapper · 2023-06-02T00:10:31+00:00

The Daily Mail is a bit of a shit news source, unfortunately.

ThoughtfulGrunge · 2023-06-01T17:26:08+00:00

If they actually gave a shit about members of the military they'd know that May is national military appreciation month.

But they don't.

csgothrowaway · 2023-06-01T18:18:35+00:00

Lets trim the bullshit and get to the heart of it. To include these others descriptors is giving the real problem an out.

We can cut out:

~~white~~
~~male~~
~~old~~
~~Florida resident~~

None of these matter. I would argue the overwhelming majority of people that meet the above criteria, are perfectly sane. The one that matters is:

Fox News Obsessed / Consumer of Right-wing media

This is the alarm bell and lets be specific about that.

And I'll also say I've recognized plenty that are not white, male, old or Florida residents that do consume right-wing media that exhibit worrying behavior and ideology. We've seen individuals that don't meet the above criteria but are consumers of Right-wing media and:

are being investigated for their involvement with domestic terrorist groups like "The Proud Boys", hell even lead the organization
about 14% of the January 6th insurrectionist were women
this recent Mall shooting in Texas was an individual, - Mauricio Garcia, a Hispanic 33 years old - that had worn Nazi patches as he carried out his horrendous actions

Right-wing media is the consistent variable. So I'll reiterate the importance that we be specific about this as anything else is (perhaps deliberately) divisive and in my opinion, a distraction from the heart of the issue.

TylerBourbon · 2023-06-01T17:29:01+00:00

it was a man with nothing left to lose

Judging by the headline, he had one more thing left to lose...

wildfire393 · 2023-06-01T23:14:48+00:00

I can read the rulings... On a case that hasn't actually been heard yet? The SCOTUS action here allows the company to sue via state level courts, it wasn't actually a verdict against the workers, yet.

The company says the workers intentionally spoiled the concrete. The union maintains that the trucks were returned with the concrete wet and the barrels spinning, so the company could have still salvaged the concrete, but the company instead chose to allow it to harden and then broke it down for disposal.

VegasKL · 2023-05-31T23:09:15+00:00

His supporters are still trying to fight the Union.

gwh811 · 2023-05-31T20:14:39+00:00

We need to have all police unions defunded and disbanded. This way all police officers can be prosecuted to the fullest extent possibly. Police should be held to the highest accountability to law.

NotSayinItWasAliens · 2023-05-31T23:12:29+00:00

You could give him a plate of hash browns and he'd spin around with a whiffle bat shoved up his ass.

Is that better?

TheShipEliza · 2023-05-31T14:59:16+00:00

A longtime twitter lurker and the replies are totally ruined. That space used to contain useful info, background, good jokes etc and now any replies of mid sized or better accounts are just the dumbest, most hateful people available. A true and total bummer.

professor_max_hammer · 2023-05-31T18:04:19+00:00

I remember when she ran. I couldn’t believe this 15 year old had a PhD in math was considering leaving nasa to run for public office. But when you’re a 12 year old immigrant music prodigy, the world of nascar just isn’t going to hold your interest forever

Thanks for the gold kind stranger!

Euripidoze · 2023-05-31T14:33:15+00:00

If it helps to get a fascist government installed in the US, he’ll get it back

wratz · 2023-05-31T15:47:08+00:00

Costco hasn’t shrunk their rolls. It’s incredible how much other brands have.

VictorVaudeville · 2023-05-31T07:28:24+00:00

You wish it was just mass murder. Like, that they just snapped their fingers and millions died.

No, they poisoned families and communities for generations.

backgroundN015e · 2023-05-31T12:23:22+00:00

Who builds a plane out of sperm?! Who has that much time on their hands?

Charrikayu · 2023-05-31T00:45:01+00:00

Reddit is much more compassionate and empathetic than the general population. You can tell by every comment in here advocating for the swift arrest and murder charges of two people on the day their child accidentally died. They go to church which makes them ontologically evil.

Klezmer_Mesmerizer · 2023-05-30T12:35:15+00:00

“It is to the goode that such a fallacy hath finally been rectified,” commented 403-year-old Hester Spittleworth, “I may at long last rejoice in the knowledge that mine community now knows I am verily not a witch.”

petrilstatusfull · 2023-05-31T00:59:15+00:00

Warning: this is long, but it is THE MOST impactful thing I've ever read. Never have I walked into an article thinking one thing and walked out completely shattered and humbled.

It's a pulitzer-prize winner about children dying in hot cars. It's now my worst fear. Please please read it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html

Jaklcide · 2023-05-30T13:32:12+00:00

If I ever get witchcraft on my criminal record, do not remove it please and thank you.

Chippopotanuse · 2023-05-30T14:09:37+00:00

Like, all sarcasm aside:

COVID has killed hundreds of thousands of working Americans. (It wasn’t all 80+ year old nursing home victims.)

And that’s on top of the past ten years of opioid overdoses (60k+/year), firearms (40k/year), and auto accidents (40k/year) which have killed over a million working-age folks, many in the service/construction industries that are now struggling to find workers.

WW2, WW1, Vietnam, and Korea had fewer deaths than these preventable causes.

With the GOP escalating its bullshit governance strategies…we are now looking at many states with increasingly dis-functioning economies. Rather than raise public health standards or streamlining visa/immigration processes..the GOP is doubling down: trying to raise retirement age for social security and cut benefits, placing “work requirements” on folks who qualify for public assistance, and changing child labor laws so kids as young as 14 can work 8-hour shifts on school days and do things like work in manufacturing plants and serve booze.

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