https://nitter.net/SawyerHackett/status/1539405926905569284?t=w9ZUIX9ZA5-fKGAowLAEqQ&s=19

  • Soap_Owl [any]
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    2 years ago

    I am constantly astounded people don't invoke their 2nd ammendment rights dealing with the police

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      well the law only exists in it's enforcement if invoking the 2nd ammendment doesn't get them to not shoot you because they think you might not have a gun then there effectively is no 2nd ammendment

      • Soap_Owl [any]
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        2 years ago

        And yet. You can buy a hunting rifle at walmart and there cant be security cameras overlooking every doughnot shop in Uvalde.

        A lot of people depressed enough to do anything in that city for quite some time

          • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            I’m sure people do but most of them don’t have the military training that Dorner did so it doesn’t last long

              • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                Yeah that’s why the cops were shitting bricks and panicking. He was actually pretty good at tracking them down and doming them

                • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  Anderson Cooper received a package at his office containing a DVD that stated Dorner's case against the LAPD. The package also contained a bullet-riddled challenge coin issued by LAPD Chief William Bratton and a note inscribed with "1MOA" (one minute of angle), implying that the coin was shot at 100 yards (91 metres) at a grouping of 1 inch (2.5 centimetres), boasting of his accuracy with a rifle.

              • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                Dorner was a United States Navy Reserve officer, commissioned in 2002. He commanded a security unit at the Naval Air Station Fallon (Fallon, Nevada), served with a Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit from June 2004 to February 2006, and was deployed to Bahrain with Coastal Riverine Group Two from November 2006 to April 2007.[17] He was honorably discharged from the Navy Reserve as a lieutenant on February 1, 2013.[18]

                In 2002, while a student at Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base (Enid, Oklahoma), Dorner and a classmate found a bag containing nearly US$8,000 (equivalent to about $12,100 in 2021) that belonged to the nearby Enid Korean Church of Grace. The two handed the money to the police. When asked their motive, Dorner replied that, "The military stresses integrity. ... There was a couple of thousand dollars, and if people are willing to give that to a church, it must be pretty important to them." Dorner also stated his mother taught him honesty and integrity.[19] During his time as a reservist, Dorner received a Navy Rifle Marksmanship Ribbon and a Navy Pistol Shot Ribbon with expert device.[20][21]

          • Soap_Owl [any]
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            2 years ago

            I lived in the area at the time. It was absolutely wild. Ameria is fash but that was fash fash. The press reports on tv were absolutely nightmareish with cops bragging about kills. Cops were shooting people just in case. The news was begging people to not go out in cars that looked liek the ones dorner used. People were afraid to go out. Half from fear the cops would get toy. I was afraid to talk to anyone about my opinions. That was the future for real. For a while the ambulances where the cops died were totemic. Shit was wild.

    • D61 [any]
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      2 years ago

      I haven't watched "regular" network TV news in forever so I don't know if anybody outside of us internet weirdos is still thinking about this enough to care.

      • Soap_Owl [any]
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        2 years ago

        The people who lost their kids I imagine will have some fairly extreem emotional reactions

        • D61 [any]
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          2 years ago

          Locally, this makes sense, but nationally it still gets to be seen as an unfortunate thing that happened "over there to somebody else."

          • Soap_Owl [any]
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            2 years ago

            Every journy starts with the first step and all that

            • D61 [any]
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              2 years ago

              I hope their trauma radicalizes them towards progress instead of regress.

        • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Imagine being thrust into the national spotlight and not saying terrorism things to the reporter

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I get it, but you would think that the practice of no-knock raids specifically would have resulted in a lot more officers down as people defend themselves from what they have every reason to believe is a violent robbery.

          • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Not true, Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend was armed and rightfully defended himself against armed intruders, so they riddled the house with bullets.

        • Soap_Owl [any]
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          2 years ago

          It probably does and they don't reprt it. But also it probably doesn't because a dozen guys with heavy weapons and armor is pretty effective against someone who is poor and asleep