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3 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Man, The Onion is just money...

Texas School Picture Day Photographer Expands Offerings To Include Memorial Posters

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SAN ANTONIO—After noticing a sharp increase in demand in recent months, local school picture day photographer Allison Cummings announced Friday that she would expand her offerings to include large memorial posters. “We’re pleased to let our many Texas clients know they can now order a 26-by-34 memorial poster board of their child’s face that would perfectly represent them at a wake or vigil,” said Cummings, recommending parents, grandparents, and other surviving family members act now to purchase the large-format version of what might be the last photograph of their child ever captured.

“Take it from other mourning parents: You won’t want to be concerned with this kind of thing if the unthinkable occurs a few days, weeks, or months from now. This is the sort of high-quality inkjet print and sturdy cardboard your child deserves to have hanging above their casket. It’s only $39.99, and we’re offering 15% off and our condolences to anyone with more than one child in the same Texas school.”

At press time, Cummings was overheard instructing one smiling child to “do a serious one” in case he turned out to be the next shooter.

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ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Devin Page Jr. had just started preschool, loved playing with his siblings and loved his family.
 
1 day ago  The family of woman who was asleep when she was hit by a stray bullet says it was a “senseless crime.”
 
Apr 13, 2022  Days after a Baton Rouge mother moved with her three young children to a house on Fairfields Avenue, she was watching TV in her living room ...
 
Mar 15, 2023  Two young boys were shot when a stray bullet ripped through the wall of their Las Vegas Valley apartment on Tuesday night — and one of them, ...
Apr 13, 2022  Officials with the Baton Rouge Police Department are investigating a shooting that took the life of a toddler late Tuesday, April 12.
Missing: examples ‎| Must include: examples
 
Jan 21, 2022  Matthew Willson from Surrey was shot in 'reckless' shooting as he was visiting his girlfriend.
Missing: examples ‎| Must include: examples
 
Feb 7, 2022  Violent crime in Baltimore appears to be showing no signs of slowing down. One of the latest shootings, a man shot while asleep in his bed.
 
 

 

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We absolutely, positively cannot live with the oppression of requiring gun owners to have liability insurance cuz everyone knows that nothing ever goes wrong when good guys with guns (TM) are exercising their patriot eagle freedoms. /Texas leg.

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6 minutes ago, TexEx15 said:

He used a gun to kill a Hispanic woman who had an abortion.  How is he still in jail?  I figured the crazies would have already had a ticker tape parade for him and invitations sent to be a guest speaker at all the radical right conventions for the next six months.  Sorry Rittenhouse, your time in the spotlight is done, we got an even bigger piece of shit to promote.

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Wife just got back from visiting our nieces. One of whom has been suffering from severe anxiety, and will no longer go to the bathroom by herself. Her exasperated mom finally asked her why she won’t go by herself - did something happen? Are you afraid of something? Yes. “I’m afraid that someone will come in and shoot me through the bathroom door.”

Cool, cool. This is what we’re doing to our kids. Every other country worth a shit thinks we’re psychopaths. And they’re right.

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UT student daughter (no pics) is in Europe right now.  The first stop was London last week. They took the train to Amsterdam this past Sunday.  She and her travel mate sat with several women from Leicester on the train.  Lotta UK compared to US talk.  Mostly light and airy.  Give you three guesses and two don't count which part of the conversation made my daughter uncomfortable and ashamed to be an American.  They think we are fucking nuts to let this shit go on.....and they're absolutely right.  

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UT student daughter (no pics) is in Europe right now.  The first stop was London last week. They took the train to Amsterdam this past Sunday.  She and her travel mate sat with several women from Leicester on the train.  Lotta UK compared to US talk.  Mostly light and airy.  Give you three guesses and two don't count which part of the conversation made my daughter uncomfortable and ashamed to be an American.  They think we are fucking nuts to let this shit go on.....and they're absolutely right.  

Yeah. Ours have the same conversations regularly. We had similar ones while traveling overseas a couple of weeks ago. They all think we’re fucked in the head. Can’t argue with them.
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6 hours ago, Satchel said:
ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Devin Page Jr. had just started preschool, loved playing with his siblings and loved his family.
 
1 day ago  The family of woman who was asleep when she was hit by a stray bullet says it was a “senseless crime.”
 
Apr 13, 2022  Days after a Baton Rouge mother moved with her three young children to a house on Fairfields Avenue, she was watching TV in her living room ...
 
Mar 15, 2023  Two young boys were shot when a stray bullet ripped through the wall of their Las Vegas Valley apartment on Tuesday night — and one of them, ...
Apr 13, 2022  Officials with the Baton Rouge Police Department are investigating a shooting that took the life of a toddler late Tuesday, April 12.
Missing: examples ‎| Must include: examples
 
Jan 21, 2022  Matthew Willson from Surrey was shot in 'reckless' shooting as he was visiting his girlfriend.
Missing: examples ‎| Must include: examples
 
Feb 7, 2022  Violent crime in Baltimore appears to be showing no signs of slowing down. One of the latest shootings, a man shot while asleep in his bed.
 
 

 

Stray bullets flying around Baton Rouge and Baltimore? I call bullshit. 

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6 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

He used a gun to kill a Hispanic woman who had an abortion.  How is he still in jail?  I figured the crazies would have already had a ticker tape parade for him and invitations sent to be a guest speaker at all the radical right conventions for the next six months.  Sorry Rittenhouse, your time in the spotlight is done, we got an even bigger piece of shit to promote.

Yeah. Certain voices are going to lionize this shitbag. He has lived their worldview. 

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We're well on our way to going back to the days of the Wild West (or worse actually), as the GQP arm of the federal judiciary is hellbent on making sure that we can't have any regulation of guns.  

We all knew this was coming when Thomas concocted his bullshit "not consistent with our Nation’s history and tradition" reasoning, but here we fucking go.  What could possibly go wrong?

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25 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

We're well on our way to going back to the days of the Wild West (or worse actually), as the GQP arm of the federal judiciary is hellbent on making sure that we can't have any regulation of guns.  

We all knew this was coming when Thomas concocted his bullshit "not consistent with our Nation’s history and tradition" reasoning, but here we fucking go.  What could possibly go wrong?

Actually, in the wild west you were quite safe inside of cities. Most cities had a check your guns policy and didn't allow carry in public. Then had the law enforcement to regulate it. 

It was the travel between cities that was insanely dangerous. No real law enforcement out there so thieves, murderers, and pissed off natives were plentiful. 

Today it's pretty much reversed. You're the safest the farthest away from other humans you can get. 

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11 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Abbott will try to pardon him.

I think he'll wait for the next one ...

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but there will definitely be another opportunity that will fit the Abbott agenda better.

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44 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

Actually, in the wild west you were quite safe inside of cities. Most cities had a check your guns policy and didn't allow carry in public. Then had the law enforcement to regulate it. 

It was the travel between cities that was insanely dangerous. No real law enforcement out there so thieves, murderers, and pissed off natives were plentiful. 

Today it's pretty much reversed. You're the safest the farthest away from other humans you can get. 

You couldn’t legally carry a gun in Tombstone in the days of Wyatt Earp.

https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/laws/tombstone-ariz-ordinance-9-apr-19-1881/

Nowadays you can carry a weapon openly or concealed in Arizona, without a license or a permit, and Tombstone has been declared a “Second Amendment City” because “guns are an integral part of the Old West.”

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2017/01/11/mayor-declares-tombstone-second-amendment-city/96450174/

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On 5/11/2023 at 8:17 AM, YGIFS said:

And 51% of this state thinks that is just fine to put small children through so that you and I can hunt.  And their biggest threat to their sanity is a single library book.   

That is complete bullshit.  This has NEVER been about hunting. 

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1 hour ago, Gap03 said:

We're well on our way to going back to the days of the Wild West (or worse actually), as the GQP arm of the federal judiciary is hellbent on making sure that we can't have any regulation of guns.  

We all knew this was coming when Thomas concocted his bullshit "not consistent with our Nation’s history and tradition" reasoning, but here we fucking go.  What could possibly go wrong?

Remember when those assholes cried about activist judges.  They were just tipping their hand. 

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9 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Add in suicide by firearm and the balance sheet gets even more lopsided.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-rural-areas-die-at-higher-rates-than-those-in-urban-areas/

Homicides are higher in urban areas, but overall gun deaths—most of which are deaths by suicide—are higher in rural areas, other NCHS data show. Rural deaths by suicide have increased by nearly 50 percent from 2000 to 2018, a separate analysis found.

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8 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

What’s the murder rate? 

The entirety of Blanco County as of 2021 has a population of 11,886 so I'm not sure that sample size is going to tell you anything. It can be 0 several years then then 52.something the next. But you were commenting on stray bullet incidences, not murders (which can occur by a variety of means) within a broader gun violence context.

In that context, anecdotally, in the almost exactly 20 years I've lived the Eddie Arnold version of Green Acres compared to the previous 36 of the Zsa Zsa version, as far as gun violence-

1 suicide by former co-worker

1 suicide by next door neighbor on Xmas Eve

1 murder of co-worker's son at drunken party

Boss's Silverado showing up on a Monday with a bullet hole thru the quarter panel (it lived, we laughed)

If I extended the degrees of separation, I could include more, like a fund raiser for a plant (I delivered to) employee's son killed in hunting accident.

And that's excluding numerous gun violence averted anecdotes of guns being drawn or about to be drawn.

In defense of your implied point, times have changed, but I've wracked my brain trying to think of gun violence when I've lived in the city, and the closest I can remember is old home movies of my grandfather and relatives target shooting in some park in Houston in white button ups and ties.

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9 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Murder RATE? You asked a question you don’t want to know the answer to.

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From 2016 to 2020, the two U.S. counties to experience the most gun homicides per capita were rural:* (see Figure 1)
Phillips County, Arkansas: 55.45 age-adjusted homicides per 100,000 people
Lowndes County, Alabama: 48.36 age-adjusted homicides per 100,000 people**
From 2016 to 2020, 13 of the 20 U.S. counties with the most gun homicides per capita were rural: (see Figure 1)
80 percent of these 20 counties are in states that received an “F” grade for their weak gun laws, according to Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s 2021 annual state scorecard rankings.
In 2020, the total gun death rate for rural communities—when age-adjusted per 100,000 people—was 40 percent higher than it was for large metropolitan areas.

@ChickenSandwich but what is the murder rate per square foot? huh, smart guy?!?

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We're well on our way to going back to the days of the Wild West (or worse actually), as the GQP arm of the federal judiciary is hellbent on making sure that we can't have any regulation of guns.  
We all knew this was coming when Thomas concocted his bullshit "not consistent with our Nation’s history and tradition" reasoning, but here we fucking go.  What could possibly go wrong?

The next step is to remove the age limit all together. The Constitution doesn’t limit arms to adults.
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We're well on our way to going back to the days of the Wild West (or worse actually), as the GQP arm of the federal judiciary is hellbent on making sure that we can't have any regulation of guns.  
We all knew this was coming when Thomas concocted his bullshit "not consistent with our Nation’s history and tradition" reasoning, but here we fucking go.  What could possibly go wrong?

The next step is to remove the age limit all together. The Constitution doesn’t limit arms to adults.
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The next step is to remove the age limit all together. The Constitution doesn’t limit arms to adults.

Actually it does:

Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
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2 hours ago, Fastbreak said:


Actually it does:

Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

Unorganized militia =/= well-regulated militia. 

 

 

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What’s the murder rate? 

lol you really thought this was a slam dunk

Murder RATE? You asked a question you don’t want to know the answer to.

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From 2016 to 2020, the two U.S. counties to experience the most gun homicides per capita were rural:* (see Figure 1)
Phillips County, Arkansas: 55.45 age-adjusted homicides per 100,000 people
Lowndes County, Alabama: 48.36 age-adjusted homicides per 100,000 people**
From 2016 to 2020, 13 of the 20 U.S. counties with the most gun homicides per capita were rural: (see Figure 1)
80 percent of these 20 counties are in states that received an “F” grade for their weak gun laws, according to Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s 2021 annual state scorecard rankings.
In 2020, the total gun death rate for rural communities—when age-adjusted per 100,000 people—was 40 percent higher than it was for large metropolitan areas.


Adding to this:

States with the highest gun deaths per capita (25/100k or more): MS, LA, NM, AL, WY, AK, MT


States with the lowest (10/100k or less): MA, HI, NJ, NY, RI, CT, NH, CA

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
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“Gun deaths”.  I couldn’t give a single less fuck about suicide by gun. Negative fucks, really.  Maybe you missed post 3693?

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“Gun deaths”.  I couldn’t give a single less fuck about suicide by gun. Negative fucks, really.  Maybe you missed post 3693?

Really? You don’t think that gun-owning parents who have teens going through stages of angst should take responsibility and lock their guns away and hide the key?
Because 1) that prevents youth suicides, and 2) I sure as fuck did it. But, glad to know you don’t care about kids getting dad’s gun and ending it all. After all…they aren’t YOUR kids, and as we’ve established, we could be talking about all the pain, loss, and suffering in the world, and so long as it isn’t YOUR kids, you don’t care. Hell, you NEGATIVE care.
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Just now, Brisketexan said:


Really? You don’t think that gun-owning parents who have teens going through stages of angst should take responsibility and lock their guns away and hide the key?
Because 1) that prevents youth suicides, and 2) I sure as fuck did it. But, glad to know you don’t care about kids getting dad’s gun and ending it all. After all…they aren’t YOUR kids, and as we’ve established, we could be talking about all the pain, loss, and suffering in the world, and so long as it isn’t YOUR kids, you don’t care. Hell, you NEGATIVE care.

I very much believe in safe gun storage.  I don’t believe suicides should be used to cloud the statistics.  Like 19 yo “children” that also happen to make up the vast majority of “leading cause of death of children” stats.  Fabricated bullshit.  

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4 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

@fattyflattie I lost one of my best friends to suicide. He had a 2 newborn baby, was suffering from depression, lack of sleep and drinking too much. He got in an argument with his wife, went upstairs and blew his brains out.

I guess I say that to say I think you’re probably not a very good person.

I’m sorry. I’ve known 5.  2 gun, 3 hanging.  One was a cop that mirrors your friends story (but cops are all evil so fuck him he’s probably in hell anyways right?)  You place part of the blame on the gun, I don’t.  
Suicide stats are cheapened to try and advance an agenda. Same as “children” drying in droves.  

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1 minute ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

You’re the new Johnny Sack.

Lol. Other than our recreational hobbies, I don’t have much in common with Sack. We probably vote similarly, but I don’t pay rats to fuck.  But I understand your insult. Maybe someday someone will try and convince half the country to end fly fishing, your passion, and you’ll have something to stand against. 

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America, where my hobbies supersede our societal health. A community of selfish pricks yelling that the real problem is the division in our country....generated from that selfishness. And fatty is the Grand Poobah of it all. 

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56 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Lol. Other than our recreational hobbies, I don’t have much in common with Sack. We probably vote similarly, but I don’t pay rats to fuck.  But I understand your insult. Maybe someday someone will try and convince half the country to end fly fishing, your passion, and you’ll have something to stand against. 

I’m actually glad that you are here and sharing your beliefs. It’s a window into what I believe is essentially a pyschopathic mind.

We all need to understand that there are millions of people with these beliefs around us. They’re our neighbors, colleagues, parents on our kids’ sports teams.

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47 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

America, where my hobbies supersede our societal health. A comminuty of selfish pricks yelling that the real problem is the division in our country....generated from that selfishness. And fatty is the Grand Poobah of it all. 

Now do alcohol and recreational drugs. 

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i mean as far as i know neither Tito's nor weed are specifically designed with the sole purpose of blowing someone's face off, but otherwise sure, they're the same. 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

I’m sorry. I’ve known 5.  2 gun, 3 hanging.  One was a cop that mirrors your friends story (but cops are all evil so fuck him he’s probably in hell anyways right?)  You place part of the blame on the gun, I don’t.  
Suicide stats are cheapened to try and advance an agenda. Same as “children” drying in droves.  

so y'all like cops again this week?

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