Skip Navigation
Jump
Colorado teen shot in the face by town councilman after going to home to ask permission to take homecoming photos
  • There are 5 basic rules for guns:

    • Treat every gun as if it were loaded.
    • Always point your gun in a safe direction.
    • Never point your gun at anything you don't intend to shoot.
    • Keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot.
    • Be sure of your target and what's beyond.

    What I posted was a subset of the five then alluded to the full list.

    4
  • Jump
    Colorado teen shot in the face by town councilman after going to home to ask permission to take homecoming photos
  • It's way more than just trigger discipline. There's the traditional rules of course:

    • Never point your gun at something you do not intend to kill
    • Be sure of your target and what's beyond
    • Trigger discipline

    But there's also reasonable shit beyond the 5 basic rules:

    • Don't willingly put yourself in a situation where use of a gun may be warranted.
    • Property isn't worth killing over, especially in situations where you had to go out of your way to put yourself in perceived danger to protect it.
    • Don't block in the person you are trying to convince to leave.
    • People with guns commit more acts of violence than those who don't. Owning a gun is an irresponsible choice. There are more and there are less responsible gun owners, but owning a gun puts you and those around at a greater risk of violence. When all you have is a hammer ...
    10
  • Jump
    Kamala Harris Accepted Trump’s Racist Lie That Immigration Is Bad
  • properly documenting the people who enter our country is vital for providing public services ...

    Not really. We can track that the same way we track non-immigrants: census, job reports, bank accounts, change of address forms, buying private data hoards.

    Frankly I'd be in favor of just letting people in and letting them legally work. Our current system allows people in but then they are just expected to lie around waiting for permission to stay. Meanwhile they aren't contributing to the broader economy. Let them work while they're here and more of them will get off the streets, there will be more money going towards taxes, and there will be a broadening pool of people that can actually afford to buy things.

    1
  • Jump
    J.D. Vance Can’t Explain Why Trump Threw Him Under the Bus in Debate
  • Cause Trump is incapable of admitting fault. He wanted his supporters to kill his last VP because Pence recognized that America didn't want Trump.

    72
  • Jump
    YouTube Music’s AI radio is officially called 'Ask Music'
  • Cool! Yet another way to have Google loop the same 20 songs tangentially related to the artist I searched for without actually playing the artist I searched for.

    23
  • Jump
    Melania Trump questions Trump assassination attempt story: 'We need to uncover the truth'
  • Ya want the truth? Lax gun laws led to public shootings as an easy way to gain notoriety. So many people took the school shooting route that they are now old hat. Want to get famous? Take out a prominent politician. What doesn't help is Republicans blocking every effort to control access to guns (even those the majority of Republicans want) and Trump's rhetoric stoking fear and normalizing violence.

    14
  • Jump
    Elon Musk Says He Survived On $1 Per Day Before Becoming The Richest Man In the World – 'In America It's Pretty Easy To Keep Yourself Alive'
  • As long as you aren't sleeping in your bed when the police get the wrong address, or sleeping in an encampment when the police decide to steal all your belongings for living while poor, or kicked out of the library for not having access to a bathroom, or finding yourself in a grocer, mall, concert hall, theatre, school, etc on a day a shooter decides to show up.

    Also you can't survive on $1 per day without someone caring for you. That will not keep you off the streets and fed, and it will most definitely not cover fees for access to self improvement resources or recovery.

    27