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For the wrestling fans...

 

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Chairshot violence is once again the rise in American professional wrestling, but despite overwhelming public support for stricter controls on steel chairs, the National Chair Association (NCA) insists the only solution is easier access to chairs for all. “The only thing that can stop a heel with a chair is a babyface with a chair,” […]

 

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A small bipartisan group of senators continues to work toward a deal that could include some new gun restrictions, but not the assault weapons ban or other measures President Biden called for in a...

 

Miles to go but inches are inches.

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It’s the guns it’s the guns it’s the guns it’s the guns it’s the guns. The only way to fix this is to get rid of the guns. I don’t give a fuck if it’s your hobby, I don’t give a fuck how law-abiding or safe you personally are, I don’t give a fuck if your dad pathetic personality is entirely based on owning guns, get rid of guns. 

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1 minute ago, thewhyteboar said:

It’s the guns it’s the guns it’s the guns it’s the guns it’s the guns. The only way to fix this is to get rid of the guns. I don’t give a fuck if it’s your hobby, I don’t give a fuck how law-abiding or safe you personally are, I don’t give a fuck if your dad pathetic personality is entirely based on owning guns, get rid of guns. 

 

but muh rights 

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1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I bet those 44% also picked that it is a race issue.

“It’s a cultural issue! And I, a white man who is only around black people when they’re being paid and hasn’t updated my bigotry since the 1980’s, have all the answers.”

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Less than two weeks after surviving the second-most deadly school shooting in U.S. history, Arnulfo Reyes offered the most vivid account yet of what transpired in Uvalde.

 

 

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The next 77 minutes of carnage "destroyed" Reyes, he said, and forever changed a school, a community and perhaps a country. By the end of his rampage, a gunman had killed 19 students -- including all 11 in Reyes' classroom -- and two teachers. Reyes himself sustained multiple gunshot wounds.

 

 

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He also waded into the nationwide debate over gun violence and slammed local police as "cowards" for failing to act faster. And while Reyes recovers, he's already plotting his next act: ensuring this never happens again.

 

"The only thing that I know is that I won't let these children and my co-workers die in vain," he said. "I will go to the end of the world to make sure things get changed. If that's what I have to do for the rest of my life, I will do it."

 

 

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Three people were killed and one is in critical condition after a shooting Tuesday morning in southeastern Virginia, according to the Portsmouth Police Department.

 

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Three people were killed and one is in critical condition after a shooting Tuesday morning in southeastern Virginia, according to the Portsmouth Police Department.

 

The shooting was the second of the day and the 12th in the coastal city in the past seven days, Portsmouth Police spokesperson Victoria Varnedoe said. The rash of gun violence resulted in 18 victims, four of whom were killed, Varnedoe said in an email to CNN.

 

Earlier, Varnedoe told reporters investigators were working to identify the victims and notify family members. Varnedoe gave no other details on the victims, and said no arrests have been made.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Amazatron said:

 

It's unfortunate this ghoul was only shot in the hip.

 

The country went to war with another country over it. Is he suggesting the country should go to war against cops and kids with guns over this?

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17 minutes ago, 5timechamp said:

…meanwhile a 10 year old just got arrested for shooting a woman her mother was arguing with..

 

Is it me or has the frequency picked up.. not even weeks… its hours between incidents

 

 

 

This has always been the case for years now. Does anyone know when was the last time we had fewer mass shootings than the number of days in the year? It's Wednesday and there have been seven as of yesterday since Sunday.

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3 hours ago, Amazatron said:

 

It's unfortunate this ghoul was only shot in the hip.

 

Right right, so I want to introduce you to the Gun Owners Patriot Act where we keep tight surveillance on all gun owners and the Right to Bear Arms zones where the freedom to bear arms are allowed. 

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The perspective of a black socialist gun-owner:

 

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I don’t have much faith that the state will protect me from violence – and gun control laws have historically been used to target Black people


 

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I never thought I’d be a gun owner. I’m not particularly fond of guns. If anything, they terrify me. I’ve generally hoped my charming personality and acumen at fisticuffs would be enough to deter would-be aggressors; it wasn’t until the terror that I experienced during the George Floyd uprising that I, like many Black Americans, was moved to become a first-time gun owner.

 

I’d participated in protests and witnessed the sheer brutality of the Philadelphia police as they attacked my partner, threatened an elderly woman, and enveloped the entirety of my neighborhood in teargas. I watched Black parents flee their homes, gagging, eyes red, small children in tow. When I and others working as medical volunteers tried to evacuate the injured and elderly, we were met with pepper spray, rubber bullets, and batons. On the other side of the city, police officers let white vigilantes with baseball bats patrol the streets. None of this buttressed my belief that the police existed to protect me from violence.

 

Around this time I, like other socialist organizers, received written threats. After a series of them, as well as a direct, in-person threat to my life made in front of my home, I buckled and decided I needed a weapon, and soon. Even without the specific threats, I was wrestling with a sense that society was on the brink. It may sound paranoid now, but to be Black in the midst of the George Floyd uprising and the tail end of the Trump presidency was a time to be paranoid. Guns and ammunition were sold out across the country. More than 5 million new gun owners purchased weapons in 2020, a more than 100% increase from the previous year. After a background check and a few days for the order to be processed, I picked up a gun from a store located in a man’s home in a dreamlike suburban cul-de-sac.

 

Despite owning a gun, I do think gun control is overdue and necessary. But I also can’t ignore the history of American gun control. Much of the modern debate around gun control began in the 1960s, after the state of California – with support, ironically enough, from the NRA – pushed through legislation in response to the Black Panther party and other armed militant groups. We must ensure that any new gun control laws do not disproportionately limit minority communities’ ability to own arms for reasons of legitimate self-defense, which may be impossible given that most laws in a country as steeped in racism as ours will inevitably be exploited to oppress the already oppressed.

 

 

I will admit that I'm very much sympathetic to these views when espoused by weapons-rights advocates from minorities and other marginalized groups.

 

Honkies -- on the other hand -- can go pound sand.

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