Man arrested for pointing gun at 6-year-old boy's head over Halloween goody bag
Man arrested for pointing gun at 6-year-old boy's head over Halloween goody bag
🎶 This is America 🎶
"Praaaaaise the loooord and pass the ammunition!" https://youtu.be/TUOPvtVZwo8
(Those aren't just the lyrics, that's the name of the song.)
Before clicking, I thought you were quoting from "Sin Wagon," and I thought you really missed the point of the song.
"I'll trick or treat your sorry ass if you don't leave my porch right now, motherfucker!"
So he chose the trick.
Take his fucking guns away!
Can't. 2nd amendment. You have to give him more guns. Also give a gun to the 6yo.
Wen reportedly told cops that he "just wanted to scare them."
Because the best way to do that is by brandishing a lethal weapon.
Well, it probably is the best way to scare them
If only there was some socially acceptable way to scare six year olds at the end of October in North America.
Username checks out.
Finally, some good news on News@lemmy.world!
Wow, reminds me of this:
The shooting happened when Hattori, on his way to a Halloween party, went to the wrong house by mistake. Property owner Rodney Peairs fatally shot Hattori, erroneously thinking that he was trespassing with criminal intent.
Game is game, kid.
Guy’s gotta have hobby.
Sounds like a movie where his friend gave the candy that had intelligence sent by the CCP and now he really needed it back to make it to the drop off on time.
But I'm just daydream at night
Delete this fucker
Did he fire?
One should be able to deduce that the headline would be different if he had. Therefore, one shouldn't even need to read the article to realize that one already has all of the information one needs to know the answer to this question without asking it.
I think it was a rhetorical question to shed light on the fact that he did not fire.
Read the article.
Not really needed:
Mom and daughter goes to drop off goody bag at house, does this, realizes that they dropped it off at the wrong address, goes back to pick it up, shithead point a gun at the daughter's head when they try and pick up the goody bag.
Reading the article? On Reddit Lemmy?? Ain't nobody got time for that
This is why the “good guy with the gun” BS needs to die. The real world isn’t a movie: there are no designated heroes and villains. Everyone’s a good guy in their own mind until they point a gun at a 6 year old.
"There are no good guys with guns."
also
"Cops are useless."
You see, this is why nobody takes sentiments like yours seriously. If you can't defend yourself, and don't have others to protect you, then you'll always be at the mercy of whoever is the strongest.
Something tells me all the 'guns and cops are bad' people don't know how to fight.
I've been looking at your other comments and have some things to say.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, I'm not a professional nor frankly good at most things, if you have problems with my arguments please, comment it don't save it to yourself.
Yeah cause when I call the cops about my stolen possessions and raped daughter they do so much to bring justice.
If you think the cops are actually going to protect you if shit goes down, you're naive as fuck. They're not even obligated to do so.
I don’t recall saying cops are useless. Are you sure you’re replying to the right person?
The police do illustrate over and over again that even trained professionals make bad decisions when issued guns. And of course the solution isn’t to escalate things by raising the threat of officers being shot, but instead in finding ways to have less people with guns, so police aren’t on alert all the time and aren’t as tempted to use their guns as their only solution.
As a thought experiment: If we gave every adult in the world access to fire the entire planet’s nuclear payload and destroy everyone, do you think we’d all be safer? Would the world even last 5 minutes?
The more people you give access to deadly weapons, the more likely you are going to run into someone who is stupid, impulsive, or downright crazy and is going to use that weapon to harm themselves or others.
I don't think cops are useless, I think they are a flawed institution that we as a society can fix by reforms. And I don't even see the big deal in this, nothing is perfect, everything can be made better or more appropriate for the situation. Long run it would be better for police unions to agree to some changes in training, scope, and methods because it would restore and gain more public trust. And the public will benefit as well.