Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/29/st-louis-couple-point-guns-at.html
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Holy shit at least point the barrel towards the ground. That’s gun safety 101.
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Has “her khaki-encased husband” soiled his pants or something?
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He pissed his pants cause he’s a scared of the antifa!
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The complete lack of gun safety in the video is astounding. That said you only point a gun towards someone if you intend to kill them, i’m pretty sure that was their intention. You don’t bring out an assault rifle out for shits and giggles.
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Stay classy hometown. I am ever reminded why I never ever want to move back.
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Holy shit, indeed! WTF were they thinking?
You want things to escalate from peaceful protest to violent stand off? This is how you get that.
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When the constitution was written, guns were unwieldy things that fired once, in a general direction, and then took 30 seconds to load again. Seeing this guy with his assault rifle is just crazy. The firepower that modern people have is astounding.
Let people have muskets.
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Additionally, while I am not up on the variations of tha AR-15; that looks suspiciously like the originator of the AR-15 the fully automatic M16-A1.
That is easy to get, but also absolutely illegal to own.
Not that an illegal weapons charge is the biggest crime here.
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Isn’t pointing a weapon at someone else without provocation a felony in the US? There’s video evidence, they should just be arrested.
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Absolutely, i’m sure they can get hit with more than just one charge and i really hope that will be the case.
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Annnnd trump shared this video as well.
He really is trying to distract us bigly.
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If this were a scene in David Lynch movie, film students would spend the next decade writing essays about the meaning of these guy’s dirty pants.
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No, that’s just the shadow cast by the last bit of humanity fleeing his body.
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He muzzle-sweeps his own wife in the video. They were ready to kill people I’m sure but they show enough incompetence I wouldn’t draw specific conclusions based on the direction of the barrel.
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He’s got plenty hostility to go around.
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OMG. Eww.
First, scrolling through Trump’s twitter to verify this was so gross I need to wash my brain now. (Not that I don’t trust you, but I thought you MUST be joking).
Second, the longer video is even scarier. At the end the guy is so careless it looks like he is inadvertently pointing his gun at his wife.
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