JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@qoto.org

I'm getting really sick of people lying about guns. I just watched a pair of news commentators discuss how Americans are armed with "pea shooters and hunting rifles."

Plot twist, these are progressive commentators, arguing against the 2nd. They are lying because they want to stress how stupid any would be to resist the government. And how their pea shooters are ineffective. Yesterday these same guys said those pea shooters are weapons of war appropriate only on a battlefield, the most destructive weapons in history.

The reality is that neither extreme is true. But the argument is always extremes. I'm just revolted by it.

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

@Rasta @Stoned_Deva_ buy? Free ones from Harbor freight.

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social this can not be fixed. Defund the police.

@Shell I didn't bother to soundproof mine, because it's just me quietly weeping.

@obscurestar @StillIRise1963 , Ya, but I think places like NASA are the exception, and not the rule. And even there they play stupid games...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch#:~:text=Press-,Remembering%20Roger%20Boisjoly%3A%20He%20Tried%20To%20Stop%20Shuttle%20Challenger%20Launch,crusader%20for%20ethics%20in%20engineering.

@strawd @freemo , this link will show you the style of different rifles that use the same ammunition:

https://gritrsports.com/shooting/firearms/rifles/223-remington-rifles/

@ech , in general, a hunting rifle has a bigger more powerful bullet than an AR. ARs are almost universally .223, not .556 NATO as well. And a 9 mm, although a bigger round, is not as powerful as a hunting rifle of any calibre. That might be the weakest round commonly used outside a 22 or a 25. And law enforcement has made the slow rolled switch to the 10mm or others because the 9mms tend to bounce off things, like windshields.

@strawd @freemo not really. Once the bullet leaves the weapon the type of weapon is immaterial. You can fire the same rounds through weapons that are not styled like a military weapon. Style has no effect on what damage is done by a bullet.

@freemo if we ban the name "Steve", we will be safe, since very few "Steves" commit crimes in China, India or Japan.

@obscurestar @StillIRise1963 then the world is populated by children. Because most of us, any of us that have an opinion at least, double down on really bad opinions.

@obscurestar @StillIRise1963 I think the desire to cherry pick data to fit an agenda is universal. I even expect it of myself, and I know my personal motivation/objective is to not do exactly that. We delude ourselves... not sure why.

@Free_Press , I bet his lawyers have advised him to remain silent. He will lie on any financial disclosure forms. It's his nature. Better to pay the fines.

@Free_Press yesterday, I would have guessed that the biggest Jack Daniel's fan lived in a double wide. I would have been wrong. No fire pits are allowed in a trailer park.

Today I suspect the double wide is off the table, replaced by a fabulous Village apartment with a delightful garden, and two loving guys with 7 figure incomes and a really weird cat breed.

I need to retry JD.

@LunarLioness814@mastodon.social , on a side note, the closest I came to putting you on blast was over the "officer down" comments. To me this indicates the core problem with our police forces. That somehow that call is among the worst calls you can hear over the radio. When it should be a far worse call to hear ANYONE else is down. The core responsibility of a police force is to protect the people, not other officers. They should be the body guards we have hired to jump in front of a bullet. But instead we get Uvalde, and multiple decisions by the SCOTUS that police have no constitutional duty to protect.

I have had the call that family has died. And I have broken down on tears over the news. Emotionally, I understand the power of that "officer down" call. But I truly believe that those emotions are used to justify the dehumanization of civilians, which is apparent in most professional interactions with the police.

@LunarLioness814@mastodon.social I feel you there. It's hard to see a guy with no history of malfeasance, and so young, catch the bad luck he did. My best hope is he rethinks his career. Before he becomes what his seniors are.

@obscurestar @StillIRise1963 , true. I hope they try to answer when I ask for a 2nd example, after i respond with 30 other school, business, and public places names. That list is long, and pretty self explanatory.

@ancient_catbus you can't steal from me what I don't own...

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I wouldn't have made that connection to the KKK.