According to the SCOTUS’s “originalist” branch, when the founders said “well regulated militia” what they actually meant plain as day was “uses equipment that isn’t faulty”
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It’s texas. There are no zoning laws, and owning an exotic cat takes less waiting periods and background checks than buying an AR.
I could easily forsee wanting to pack heat as I walk past the for-profit prison next to the school, just in case some dude in an orange jumpsuit riding a leopard jumps out of the hedge at me.
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Texas Woman, America’s second-worst “superhero”. Always trying to give Florida Man a run for his money.
Apologies to our resident FloridaManJefe. He’s a good egg!
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That poor dog could’ve gotten real sick. Do you realize just how dirty little kids are??.
We are all clockwork automatons, capable of regulating our actions so as to reproduce God’s cosmic metronome.
The sense of regulation that came about later is an affront to freedom.
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If only the gun had a gun it could have shot the woman before she shot her son.
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That was my first thought - how the hell did this escalate so quickly? How was this not someone looking for a reason to use the weapon?
Ah, Texas. And I live there.
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I agree. She obviously can’t shoot, and we can all be glad that the dog wasn’t shot. But with all the cases in the news in the last couple of weeks of dogs killing children (I have seen probably 3 different cases), I can at least imagine someone seeing a small dog running towards their child, not being sure if its a puppy or a pit bull or what, and shooting at if if they happened to be armed. Maybe she had been attacked by a dog in the past and is deathly afraid. You can’t know what is in her mind. Maybe it was just being absolutely stupid, but most people don’t just shoot puppies. That defend your child at all costs reaction could kick in and if you are armed, maybe you save your kid being bitten in the face, but it could also end in a disaster. It is very sad the child was shot, and the mother shouldn’t have been shooting if she couldn’t hit what she was shooting at. One version of the story suggested it was a ricochet, and I guess it can be hard to hit a quick moving target up close. But really, if someone is going to carry, they need to be responsible about it (accepting that some folks will contend that responsible carrying is an oxymoron).
Gatto is fine with her.
She just likes to cuddle.
We’ve bunnies and squirrels in our yard,
she takes no notice.
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And that definition works here as well.
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Fuck no, she needs to be in jail and then never allowed to possess a gun ever again, as she’s conclusively proven she can’t safely have one. Or any kind of weapon. Or, frankly, a child.
I’m trying to sort through all the different layers of fucked-upedness going on here and failing. That her response to a puppy is “this animal must be put down with prejudice” not “shooed away.” That, for protecting herself and her family she feels she needs a weapon, and she’s not carrying pepper spray or a taser, but something intended to kill people. Something with which she’s had no training or safety knowledge. And she’s willing to randomly start spraying bullets in public, with other people in the crossfire, including her own children.
The other problem is that the people telling those anecdotes are usually delusional. I saw a study some while back that looked at self-reported anecdotes where people claimed to have “defended themselves” with a gun, and found that mostly they were the only ones breaking any laws, whipping out guns and threatening people because e.g. the person was being rude to them. (Another study found that people who carried guns were more likely to escalate even minor conflicts.)
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Big dogs (like boxers) tend to get spayed or neutered a bit older these days. Our vet wouldn’t touch our medium-big mutt until he was at least six months old.
The owner might be the asshole you describe, or not. It really isn’t clear from the story.
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The gun shot fine. Therfore this woman was in a well-regulated militia. According to the supreme court.
If you disagree, take it up with the piss drenched skeleton of scalia.
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Ted Simon is a British journalist who rode a motorcycle around the world between 1973 and 1976 [1]. He was asked whether he’d bring a gun, and hadn’t really considered it until the question was asked.
He eventually decided that having the gun would be more likely to put him in danger. His idea of what was “safe” would change; he’d take risks with a gun that he wouldn’t unarmed. He felt that without a gun, he’d be much more likely to think ahead carefully and try avoidance and de-escalation as his go-to strategies.
[1] Jupiter’s Travels, Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph by Ted Simon | Goodreads
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I doubt there are any civilians who carry handguns that aren’t regularly fantasizing about getting the chance to use their guns. For some sad people, a handgun isn’t a tool with limited use-cases, it’s a major part of the person’s self-image.
Avoiding a puppy turned into “defending our lives from a vicious canine” for this fantasist.
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Sort of related:
Nah. She needs some time in jail, and never be allowed to carry a gun again.
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without the gun, utterly no story here.
instead we will hear more and more of this
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Again, most parents’ instinct would be to lift their child out of reach of the puppy.
She quite clearly shouldn’t have been shooting at all.
This wasn’t a person who found herself in a situation where she needed to defend herself with a gun, this was a person who was looking for an excuse to use a gun.
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