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Old 08-29-2022, 04:13 PM   #1981
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Another angry young guy with an assault rifle...
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Old 08-30-2022, 10:21 AM   #1982
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Yeah, I just got back from a week in Idaho a couple days ago. On the second last day I saw some trashy-looking assclown open carrying in a convenience store. Just had to shake my head...they're fataing hopeless down there.
Yeah but what if the federal government rose up in the *EXACT* moment and became tyrannical? Gotta be ready to defend freedom at all times.
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Old 08-30-2022, 10:28 AM   #1983
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As someone who wore profanity laced T shirts as an angsty teen. You do it for the dirty looks. Wearing a gun in public is attention seeking behavior.
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Old 09-17-2022, 06:49 PM   #1984
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Old 09-18-2022, 11:06 AM   #1985
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I'm guessing that he had all of that tactical equipment and arsenal because he was part of a well regulated militia, as stated in the second amendment. Otherwise, it would make no sense for him to have any of that, would it?
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Old 09-18-2022, 01:36 PM   #1986
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What are the actual regulations for militias in the US? We always hear that phrase "a well-regulated militia" but are militias actually regulated?
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Old 09-18-2022, 02:15 PM   #1987
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All states prohibit private militias. Militias are allowed if they are under the regulation of the National Guard though. None of the self-proclaimed militias in Trumpland are authorized though, they aren't organized well enough (or trained) to even be considered a militia, I'm guessing.

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Old 10-13-2022, 09:57 AM   #1988
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Parkland school shooter spared the death penalty and gets life in prison

https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updat...l/?id=91379423

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Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz has been spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison by a Florida jury for carrying out the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that claimed 17 lives.
On all 17 counts, the jury found that aggravated factors did not outweigh the mitigating factors.
Mitigating factors presented at trial included arguments by Cruz’s attorneys that he suffered lifelong developmental delays that traced back to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
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Old 10-13-2022, 10:00 AM   #1989
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It's a worse outcome anyway.
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Old 10-13-2022, 01:34 PM   #1990
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This guy, an incel, was arrested yesterday, preventing a mass shooting at Ohio State.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1580337185269903360

https://twitter.com/user/status/1580218384473477120
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Parkland school shooter spared the death penalty and gets life in prison

https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updat...l/?id=91379423
I am no fan of the death penalty, but if this does not merit it then how can any prosecutor argue another crime would?
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Old 10-13-2022, 02:39 PM   #1992
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This guy, an incel, was arrested yesterday, preventing a mass shooting at Ohio State.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1580337185269903360

https://twitter.com/user/status/1580218384473477120
The Incel thing astounds me, it has never been easier in the history of mankind for a dude to get laid
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I am no fan of the death penalty, but if this does not merit it then how can any prosecutor argue another crime would?
In this case, medical experts agreed that the guy was developmentally challenged due to fetal alcohol syndrome. The jury found that those mitigating circumstances were significant enough to take the death penalty off the table.

Due to being mentally disabled, if he had been sentenced to death, there would have been endless and expensive legal challenges. He likely never going to get executed, at least not for a really long time.
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Life in prison for a dude who massacred Children is going to be far, far worse than immediate death, or as FA pointed out, solitary confinement ish conditions while endless legal challenges presented to his killing play out.
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Old 10-13-2022, 07:34 PM   #1995
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The Incel thing astounds me, it has never been easier in the history of mankind for a dude to get laid
Depends what you have to bring to the table and people have less and less these days. I'm assuming the handsome homeless don't have tinder lol but then again, there really aren't any handsome homeless are there?
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Depends what you have to bring to the table and people have less and less these days. I'm assuming the handsome homeless don't have tinder lol but then again, there really aren't any handsome homeless are there?
I have 2 mentally handicapped addicted homeless kids that use tinder to get laid (both have got girls preggo sadly), it's not what you bring to the table, it's what you want to take away from the table, there's just as many meth addicted homeless girls looking for love out there, the whole incel thing is not that they can't get laid, they just don't really want to sleep with their own female equivalent
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I have 2 mentally handicapped addicted homeless kids that use tinder to get laid, it's not what you bring to the table, it's what you want to take away from the table, there's just as many meth addicted homeless girls looking for love out there, the whole incel thing is not that they can't get laid, they just don't really want to sleep with their own female equivalent
It's 100% what you bring to the table with online dating. You sound like someone who has never used a dating app. It's a digital meat market and everyone's trying to trade up and the currency is looks and status. The constant small talk, vetting and texting just for some bad sex if you're lucky isn't worth it to lots of men. Juice not worth the squeeze. Time+emotions+money for a 1% shot at something meaningful and a decent chance of some bad sex. Not all men prioritize the chance of bad sex as worth the effort and money, some actually want more than that but it's such a long shot that it's not worth it

Your post makes it sound like some strange should be enough to sate the barbarians while you look down from your tower or something lol

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It's 100% what you bring to the table with online dating. You sound like someone who has never used a dating app. It's a digital meat market and everyone's trying to trade up and the currency is looks and status. The constant small talk, vetting and texting just for some bad sex if you're lucky isn't worth it to lots of men. Juice not worth the squeeze. Time+emotions+money for a 1% shot at something meaningful and a decent chance of some bad sex. Not all men prioritize the chance of bad sex as worth the effort and money, some actually want more than that but it's such a long shot that it's not worth it

Your post makes it sound like some strange should be enough to sate the barbarians while you look down from your tower or something lol
No I only online date, again you arent really thinking about this though, you dont use tinder or a standard dating app to find your equally lonely probably somewhat overweight drug addicted goth soulmate, you find them on instagram or facebook or the like.

As a 60 year old I very successfully (far more than I ever did in my twenties) date women in their 50's and 60's like me who complain that they cant find a man to date while my single 60-year-old male friends complain they cant find a girlfriend, but what they really mean is they cant find a 35- to 40-year-old, this is all us men, women have more sense generally
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If all an average guy wants is sex, getting a prostitute makes more sense. You'll get someone way hotter and not waste time learning the mind numbing minutiae that constitutes the boring details of people's lives. Cut right to the chase so to speak. Not even that much more money especially if you are someone who values their free time

It's almost like this issue has more nuance than just 'hurr durr loser has no game and now hates women and wants to kill them now'

How many mass shootings this year? Sample size so big at this point, the details are just a bunch of noise

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If all an average guy wants is sex, getting a prostitute makes more sense. You'll get someone way hotter and not waste time learning the mind numbing minutiae that constitutes the boring details of people's lives. Cut right to the chase so to speak. Not even that much more money especially if you are someone who values their free time

It's almost like this issue has more nuance than just 'hurr durr loser has no game and now hates women and wants to kill them now'

How many mass shootings this year? Sample size so big at this point, the details are just a bunch of noise
I'm not saying the loser has no game, I'm saying that our expectations as men was always badly skewed towards 'perfect' and internet porn has just made that way way worse, that there are plenty of perfectly nice women our own age and status we can build relationships with that arent perfect, that it has never been easier to 'meet' hundreds of people in general, men and women, not for dating but dating can and does flow out of that, I used to have to go to clubs and partys to meet anyone, had to try and talk to them in a bar or ask them to dance, now I do all of that online, it has never been easier to meet people in general, not just dates
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