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https://www.yahoo.com/news/curious-case-mexican-white-supremacist-092406984.html

The confirmation of [Mauricio] Garcia's extreme political beliefs also opened up another question about whether far-Right ideology could be on the rise among Hispanics in America.

In 2017 the Daily Stormer, the leading neo-Nazi website, launched a Spanish-language edition called "El Daily Stormer" and said it had a "big Spanish-speaking population" on its forums.

According to Tanya Hernandez, author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias it is the case that "in Latin America, white supremacy is alive and well."

Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State University, told Axios there was a "mutation that takes place as the [Hispanic] racist fringe tries to become more mainstream".

Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, said: “This is a very complicated aspect of Right-wing extremism.

"We would assume that everyone is white in a Caucasian sense. But Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race, and so a lot of Hispanics identify as being white."

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2 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Texas State student shot through the wall of his apartment by a neighbor playing with his gun. Shooter gets 90 days.

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-state-student-shot-killed-through-wall-while-sleeping

Even worse, fuckhead only has to serve 9 days, twice per year, for five years. He gets to live a normal life except for nine days every six months. Human life is cheap these days. 

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1 minute ago, royiv said:

Even worse, fuckhead only has to serve 9 days, twice per year, for five years. He gets to live a normal life except for nine days every six months. Human life is cheap these days. 

"Well, you see, his gun gets depressed when he's not around for more than 10 days, so he can't be expected to be in prison for more than 9 days at a time ..."

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2 hours ago, royiv said:

Even worse, fuckhead only has to serve 9 days, twice per year, for five years. He gets to live a normal life except for nine days every six months. Human life is cheap these days. 

In Texas, guns are more valued than people.

Stop voting for Republicans.

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So the bill that proposed to raise the age to buy semi-automatic weapons in Texas, that made it out of committee, didn’t make it onto the calendar to be voted on by the entire chamber. I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

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Just now, C-Man said:

So the bill that proposed to raise the age to buy semi-automatic weapons in Texas, that made it out of committee, didn’t make it onto the calendar to be voted on by the entire chamber. I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

There are people on that committee that needed to tell their constituents that they did something about guns.  A meaninglessness committee vote will be enough.

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On 5/8/2023 at 8:03 PM, BevoAbyss said:

There is rarely a single explanation for complex phenomena (one of the lessons of chaos/complexity theory). 

But Is one of the "smoking guns "literally right before our eyes? In our hands?

Since around 2005, the proliferation of smart phones and social media parallels the proliferation of guns and assault weapons. Of course, correlation is not causation. But, it is an interesting pattern. 2004 also marks the end of the assault weapon ban, just as Facebook and social media were taking off. A perfect storm?

It is obvious that social media massively ramps up pre-existing hate, anger, sexism, racism, prejudice, bigotry, idiocy, fanaticism, paranoia, tribalism, religious fervor, nationalism, etc. And social media are where many people look to find an identity with a tribe, and someone to blame for their problems. And with the phones, tablets, and laptops, it's all right in our faces, coming right at us, tribe v. tribe, etc. 24/7/365. 

Perhaps the medium is the message, in more ways than one? 

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The relaxing of the few pussy ass gun laws we did have has way more to do with it than social media.  If social media was the big contributor you would see this shit all over the world, but we dominate the world rankings in mass shootings.  It's the guns.  Full stop.

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9 hours ago, TexEx15 said:

If only there was a good guy with a gun… or more guns… I forget what the right answer is when it’s shit like this.

Errrr... umm... DEMOCRAT CITIES! /TexasRepublicans

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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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1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Man, The Onion is just money...

Texas School Picture Day Photographer Expands Offerings To Include Memorial Posters

Image for article titled Texas School Picture Day Photographer Expands Offerings To Include Memorial Posters

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.

Need a new "laughing / crying / angry" posrep for these sorts of posts because I always feel shitty for clicking the laughing or hook'em ones ...

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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

Image for article titled Texas School Picture Day Photographer Expands Offerings To Include Memorial Posters

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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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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