A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend's house in rural upstate New York, authorities said.

A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said

:agony: :agony:

The shooting happened just days after a Black teenager in Kansas City was shot twice by a White homeowner after going to the wrong address to pick up his siblings. No words were exchanged before Andrew Lester opened fire on 16-year-old Ralph Yarl as the teen stood at Lester’s front door, according to a probable cause document obtained by CNN. Lester, who told police he thought the teen was trying to break in, faces two felony charges in the case, which has reignited the debate over so-called “stand your ground” laws.

Truly wack-ass, goddamn awful country where "shoot first, ask questions later" is taken as ethos

  • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    What the hell makes people like this? I can understand keeping your guns accessible if you live by yourself way out in the boonies, but how anyone could just open fire on a random car pulling into their driveway or some person standing on their front porch is beyond me. How many of these sociopaths are coexisting with us, just silently waiting for an opportunity to murder a random teenager?

    • an_engel_on_earth [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      how anyone could just open fire on a random car pulling into their driveway or some person standing on their front porch is beyond me

      that's exactly it, these demons want to live out their revenge/punisher fantasies and just sit praying for a sliver of a pretext to pop some caps

      • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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        1 year ago

        This 100%. When that kid rang the doorbell, the dude saw it as an opportunity and knew he wouldn't be held accountable thanks to shit bags like Zimmerman and Rittenhouse.

    • AernaLingus [any]
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      1 year ago

      What I have never understood about the "open the door and shoot at a stranger" phenomenon is: if you're really fearful for your life, why wouldn't you just stay in your home? Fine, go hunker your paranoid ass down by your door with your gun in case they try to break in, but if they're an actual threat why would you expose yourself?

    • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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      1 year ago

      silently waiting

      If you take folks at their word, then there are a lot who aren't silent. I've met plenty of Neoconfederate types who love to socially fantasize about getting an excuse (usually burglary, spiced up with the burglar being high to help them feel like they have a figleaf of ability to claim self-defense) to do violence. Some of them want to be Batman and just permanently injure a poor person before turning them over to :thumb-cop:

      Most though, want to be what they think the Punisher is, which is mostly indistinguishable from an IDF soldier

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Fun fact: consistent indoor shooting range users have the highest modern lead exposure risk outside of workers in industrial manufacturing jobs. So yeah...

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      Unless it’s the police of course. They can go wherever they please and reap whichever souls they please, and it barely requires a high school degree.