Surprise, another old white guy

Investigators learned that several children were playing hide and seek in the Starks community and were hiding on the neighbor’s property.

Doyle told detectives that he got his gun when he saw shadows outside his home and shot at people he saw running away, unknowingly hitting the girl, officials said.

https://apnews.com/article/hide-seek-shooting-louisiana-girl-neighbor-b59a1232f3fd309e1afd02174026fad7

Injuries not considered life threatening

Folks, it’s time to talk to our kids about staying away from old white people, especially their houses. Not even kidding.

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    "Why don't kids play outside anymore?"

    Well maybe because "outside" consists entirely of:

    1. P R I V A T E P R O P E R T Y where the landowner will shoot you on sight

    2. 6-lane stroads where a 10-ton SUV driver will run you over and not even notice it

    • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Fucking hate 99% of outside because of cars lmao

      I saw a banger post on r/fuckcars: bring back city walls

      Reminder that cars are weapons

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        just wana be a guy at the gate with a halberd laboriously explaining that you cannot bring your SUV in the city

        • Comp4 [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          When a guy in a hummer tries to sneak past the city gates. Stop right there, criminal scum!

          • Dolores [love/loves]
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            2 years ago

            i might have a halberd but i also have a remote control to the bollards, i'm flipping your ass, carfucker :anarchista-chad:

            • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              The remote control is activated by slamming the halberd down so it looks like I have a cool area-effect attack

        • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          That would be a good job. Cars belong on racetracks I think. With some obvious exceptions. E.g. ambulances (cars slow them)

          Basically if you need a car for your job, fine

      • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It makes me sick the number of people in my life who've expressed that exact position. I used to think they were just talking repulsive shit, but now I think a lot of them were being honest

        Like, fuck, I'm not even close to pacifistic and this is incomprehensible to me. It's bad enough to be willing - or worse, eager - to shoot somebody for trying to steal your Xbox, but this guy apparently just uses his house as a people-hunting stand

      • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Give it 3 years and they will start killing solely "because I can lol".

        One of these boomers is going to unironically say "I did it for teh lulz".

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  • BGDelirium [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It was and is always time to talk about staying away from old white peoples houses.

    There was a reason most kids movies up until the 2000s had an ornery old white person that everyone in the neighborhood knew was a piece of shit.

    Dennis the Menace did no wrong.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly, I somewhat wonder if we need to start holding capitalist media accountable for hysteria and fear-mongering about petty crime. Boomers all get their news from TV and Newspapers that scream at them about youth crime and make it seem like they're going to be attacked by thieves at any moment. This makes them paranoid and trigger happy.

    • daisy
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      2 years ago

      No disagreement on anything here. I'm also wondering how much undiagnosed neurological damage has happened in older people now society has decided to just let COVID rip. We know that COVID can have serious neurological effects, especially in older age groups. And that's not even getting into how poisoned the boomers were by a lifetime of lead exposure, another proven source of neurological damage.

    • DoubleShot [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Just the other day, some of our Chilean comrades here were saying a big reason for the electoral swing rightward there is the bourgeois media portraying Venezuelan immigrants as creating a massive crime wave in the country.

      In the US, scaring the old white people is so effective because it plays into their notions of white supremacy. By being afraid of minorities, their feelings of racial superiority are actually increased.

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        • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Propaganda and who owns the means of propaganda are material conditions so that argument wouldn’t even stand on its own two feet

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      18 days ago

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  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Stale crackers are so feral. I did a horticultural consult for one who was as giddy as a child in a toy store as she described wanting to murder squirrels for trespassing on her lawn in a desert. Pure death drive wrapped in a treat hog body.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It makes me happy knowing that people like her will be slowly malnourished to death due to climate change while managing to find less food than the squirrels do.

      • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They probably won't. She'll probably live the rest of her life in relative prosperity while people in South Asia suffer increasingly bad unlivable heat waves and flooding every year.

        There will only be justice if we create it.

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  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    When chuds say communists would take away their guns, they are correct. These people should in no way have guns. They shouldn't even have kitchen knives.

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

    thinking back to being in high school playing manhunt with some friends in their neighborhood and traipsing around people's backyards. insane to imagine there are places where that's deeply unsafe.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    the castle doctrine brainworms affects everyone in the U.S. regardless of race; like the basketball dude from a few weeks ago. of course, you are more likely to be the victim if you are black.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    At least America is good at putting people in jail forever. He's going away for a long time, right? Right?

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      He could make the right noises and give interviews about the importance of guns and freedom and liberty and other flag waving shit so some right-wing billionaire funds his legal defense.

      In the US - you get what you pay for.

  • Comp4 [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Yakubian Snow apes are a vile and dangerous species.

  • VernetheJules [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    when he saw shadows outside his home

    Not quite on the level of fearing his own shadow, but almost