#gun culture us

[karadin]

Texas woman returns home after abortion and boyfriend shoots her to death

wow, maybe Texass will give him a medal and he can stand next to Trump, he can be their next Rittenhouse

#femicide #abortion #abortion rights #texas #right wing #gun culture us #mysogony

[yeoldenews]

A mother's word for word transcription of the imaginary phone call her four-year-old made to Santa Claus in 1911.

(source: The Harbor Beach Times, December 22, 1911.)

Through some outrageous case of serendipity I found a recording of another phone call this same child made 60 years later. Though I have to say his choice of conversational partner is a definite downgrade from the first call.

#I've started using 'our bees are all dead' as my standard filler during lulls in conversation #and no I am not kidding #that is actually 64 year old George Arthur Lincoln in the recording #I'm writing up a bio of him that will hopefully be up within a few days #because this kid grew up to be involved in Forrest Gump levels of 20th century historical events #he was the youngest american general in wwii and was involved in the strategy of d-day and the planned invasion of Japan #he was at yalta and potsdam #he started a social sciences department at West Point #which resulted in his students being called commies because why should soldiers study culture and economics instead of shoot gun at thing #he ended up as the director of the office of emergency preparedness while nixon was president - hence the phone call #this poor man had to sit through so many meetings with Henry Kissinger #his younger brother (Waunce from the letter) was also a general #they were known as 'big abe' and 'little abe'

[contemplatingoutlander]

Great point, Mrs. Betty Bowers. Unfortunately, logic seems to elude Second Amendment fanatics.🔫🤦🏻‍♀️

Mrs. Betty Bowers@BettyBowers When was the last time you heard a Republican say, "Fentanyl doesn't kill, people who take it do"?| Or "Anthrax doesn't kill, people who mail it do"? #BanAssaultWeaponsNow

#ban assault weapons #mrs betty bowers #twitter #us gun culture

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #republicans #conservatives #donald trump #gop #trump administration #economics #economy #unemployment rate #tax breaks #public debt #health insurance #gun production #culture wars #corporate profits #economic turmoil #2024 elections #memes

[knight-says-rollout]

Thinking ab how there’s a sort of wing-speak thing for both wings and doorwings

It’s heavily rooted in body language so I’m positive there’s similarities but fliers and praxians are Definitely socialized differently. Plus the hinges, weights, and attachment angles are different! So in certain ways they Can’t move the same

There’s definitely stuff that has different motions but mean the same thing, like for example wings fluttering would be the same as doorwings bouncing, because doorwings Can’t flutter

But what about the motions they share? A lot of outside factors influence the tone or meaning a gesture can have, and I think the detail wingspeak has would just amplify that, so with the different backgrounds a lot of the same motions probably have different meanings

Are the differences read as accents are? Like a flier from altihex looking at a praxian and the wing language translates like someone speaking with a super thick accent? The message comes across but the details are lost in translation

Or would that apply more between a flier from altihex and another from vos? While a grounder from praxis is speaking a whole different language?

How does that come into play after Vos and Praxis fall. Did it fuel the fire? “They’re all Decepticons/Autobots, they’re Bad, they don’t even use their wings/doors properly”

Idk man I feel like this is potential that Everyone is underusing, if we as a fandom are making it function as a language I demand nuance, I demand variation

#transformers #wingspeak #doorwings #seekers #all fliers actually but. tumblr tags have biases #praxians #cybertronian culture #cybertronian language #I’m imagining the crack that could be accomplished with this #insert a game of gossip-telephone between the Decepticons and Autobots that gets increasingly ridiculous due to mistranslation #all of them are ‘eavesdropping’ on wing based communications and Everyone is confused #‘what do you mean they were talking about gun food. what does that even m e a n -‘ #‘I’m positive skywarps actually plotting something against thundercracker this time’ ‘that’s what you said the last 3 times.’ #‘why would TC need to fly north what are the autobots planning that hangs on us sending him North?’ #‘is a Decepticon dating smokescreen???’ ‘no ok That One you’re definitely reading wrong’ ‘yeah ur right’ #‘dude starscream they just called Decepticons smelly can I please fight em’

[weaponizedhorse]

I saw this meme the other day, that was like

A;"Do you think we should make 2a more clear?" B:"It says 'Shall Not Be Infringed' how much clearer can we get?"

Then a comment that said something like "When people asked Thomas Jefferson if they could buy cannons he said 'What am I your king? Do whatever you want'"

I have an honest question that I want to have a dialogue about. Cause I have been thinking about this for days and I need answers (Sorry this gets long but I ask you to read it if you are a staunch 2a person and give feedback)

How come people always ignore the "For the purposes of well regulated Militia" part?

How many children have to die before "well regulated" starts to matter? You would think it'd be one or like 10 but it's not. Since Columbine 169 children have died in school shootings so it's not that number either. Every time a school shooting happens the number of children you are hypothetically okay with dying gets a little higher. That's not counting the people who are killed in regular mass shootings, gang violence, who are injured, children and parents who are now traumatized for life. Just. Dead kids.

So my question to all the "Shall Not Be Infringed In Any Way" people is how many dead children is too many dead children to you personally? If it was your child would you change your mind then? Really honestly take a minute to think about it. If your child went to school and never came home (God forbid I pray that never happens), which is what these 169 children's parents experienced, would you still not put any effort into making sure no parent went through that again? Or is there no number too high? 10,000 children? 20k?

We are seeing more and more mass shooting committed with guns the guy got legally. No one (we'll probably someone but you get what I mean) wants to take away all guns. You can still have everything but this one specific type of gun.

So what's your number? Because the leading cause of death for children and teens in the US is gun violence and the number is only going up.

#and a broader question for anyone who will humor me #is there something in our culture or about how we are raising our young men #So that since 1982 #an 127 mass shootings have been committed by male shooters #Vs only 3 which have been committed by female shooters #it is a very stark percentage #less than 3% are women #what kind of message are we collectively sending that is causing so many men to do this #white makes are 32% of US Population But Commit 52% of mass shootings #this was all supured on cause i watched a heart wrentching video #of Anthony Padilla interviewing school shooting survivors #its a really good video i recommend it #if you read all the way to this point thank you!! i love you!! #💕💕💕💕 #gun control

[callese]

#marsha blackburn #nashville #Nashville shooting #this is amerikkka #us gun culture #nra

[news4dzhozhar]

#its not voluntary if at the barrel of a gun #forced displacement #ethnic cleansing #israel is committing genocide #the us is complicit in genocide #gaza under genocide #israel is an apartheid state #apartheid #illegal settlements #illegal occupation #save palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸 #save the children #stand up for humanity #stand with palestine #stolen future #stolen culture #stolen lives #stolen land #is there still hope for mankind? #no justice no peace #nakba 2023 #nakba continues

[lorephobic]

sooo glad the “barry is too straight to be gay but too gay to be straight” discourse is starting. finally. really desperately needed the keyboard warriors to save me from this man wearing makeup who’s invading my safe spaces (blood filled bathtubs, grave dirt beds, etc.)

#twitters reaction to this shoot has made me wish that emerald had shot me instead. in the head. with a gun. #yall are all about inclusive spaces until a dude that u think is straight puts on eyeliner and. gloves. i guess. #and then all of the sudden theres no space left in the queer community and actually he should probably like not. take inspiration from us #or pretend to be one of us #or even look in our general direction really #idk it just seems kind of appropriative for him to be wearing makeup like that #doesnt he know that only fags do that? #our culture is not ur costume? #stay in ur lane??

[canadianabroadvery]

#editorial cartoons #us gun culture #gun control

[odinsblog]

“Last year, the Supreme Court, in an originalist opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, held that the Second Amendment precludes virtually any gun control limitations that were not widely employed historically.

Thomas argued that if our nation doesn't already have a long and demonstrable historical tradition of limiting access to firearms in a particular way, then the government is not permitted to enact such a limitation today.

But of course, the vast majority of modern gun control laws don't have clear historical analogues. We didn't face the same concerns back then. Guns were much less sophisticated and much less deadly, and our society was very different. Of course, we didn't enact laws way back then to address today's unique concerns.

A few months ago, relying on that originalist decision of the Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the federal law prohibiting persons under a restraining order for domestic violence or domestic abuse from owning a gun.

At the time of the framing, domestic abuse was not a crime.

A husband had a legal right to assault or even to rape his wife. Thus, historically, there obviously were no laws preventing domestic abusers from owning a gun.

Therefore, under the Supreme Court's originalist rule, such a law is unconstitutional today. And thus, the Fifth Circuit struck the federal law down.

But of course, historically, women were considered to have virtually no rights at all. And women had no ability to vote, no ability to hold public office, no ability to participate in the political process by which the historical laws determining the scope of permissible gun regulation were made.

In that bygone era, the laws way back then were made by the men doing the beating, not by the women being abused.

And yet, originalism tells us that the fact that the exclusionary, unjust political process of a long gone age did not protect domestic abuse victims means that all federal, state and local governments everywhere today are powerless to protect those women.

Every single day in America in 2023, multiple women are shot and killed by domestic partners, and the government can do nothing to keep them safe, because 200 years ago, the men in power didn't think that domestic abuse was a problem.

That's no way to decide constitutional law cases in the 21st century.

It's just not.”

—Prof. Thomas Colby, NO, the Supreme Court should not focus on the ‘originalist’ meaning of the Constitution

#politics #scotus #guns #republicans #domestic violence #thomas colby #originalism #dv #constitutional originalism #conservatism #white supremacy #domestic abuse #intimate partner violence #intimate partner abuse #the constitution #us constitution #gun control #2a #gun culture #2nd amendment

[29625]

I’m currently watching Suiyou Doudeshou (水曜どうでしょう) which is a Japanese cult classic travel show from mid 90s-early 00s featuring four (idiot) guys, and they get assigned rooms with double beds all the time.

ALL THE TIME.

(Well, something about Suzui-san/Misutaa screams girlypop loud n proud so I’m not really surprised. Source: my gaydar.)

So…Slimav with “only one bed” arch, soon? Maybe they (+Ice, of course) travel to Las Vegas or somewhere, and there are two rooms but one is a single bed room and the other is like a (barely) double bed room. Sli and Mav just lost so bad at the casino (plus Mav lost his wallet) so Ice is like man you losers can just cuddle on the single bed while I dominate the bigass mattress and they are like no, please have mercy.

A double bed.

Well, Sli and Mav—they are super good friends at this point. They hit off pretty well and they may or may not have gotten attached to each other.

Sli would be so stoked, a sleepover in a fancy hotel! But Mav? Oh god he’s just an awkward mess. (Guys, is it gay to want to cuddle with a buddy on a double bed like my other buddy joked earlier?)

Bonus points if Slider is feeling it, too—but he’s just too repressed as a gay man in the military he keeps shaking it off, trying to convince it’s just a phase for Mav’s part—until that short dark handsome bastard drops the L bomb.

#slimav #ron slider kerner #slider x maverick #top gun 1986 #top gun fanfiction #pete maverick mitchell #slider #if you speak or understand Japanese please please please watch Doudeshou #I really wish there was translations in other languages too #Dailymotion maybe? #the double bed arch is derived from their Europe Conquest/Europe Revenge series #the casino bit is inspired by Oizumi losing casino in Vegas using the robbed money from the directors #suidou is just filled with pop culture references #like I came to like Top Gun because of suidou #when Oizumi is so hyped up about taking a helicopter ride and was like wow just like Kevin Costner!! air wolf!!! TOP GUN!!!! #and then threw up in the said helicopter #mistaa was like #You ain’t no Top Gun huh…

[contemplatingoutlander]

Serbians handed in thousands of guns in the first three days of an amnesty aimed at disarming the country following two mass killings last week, including one targeting schoolchildren.

Almost 6,000 unregistered weapons, 300,000 rounds of ammunition, and 470 pieces of mines and explosive devices have been voluntarily surrendered nationwide since Monday, the country’s interior ministry said Thursday in an Instagram post promoting the measure.

President Aleksandar Vucic announced a suite of gun-control measures on May 5, pledging to “carry out an almost total disarmament of Serbia.”

“We must make a decision to confront this evil,” he said. On May 3, a seventh-grader was taken into custody after a mass killing at Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Belgrade, in which eight children and a security guard died. The following night, eight died in a mass killing when a shooter fired from a car in Mladenovac municipality, south of the capital. [...] The gun amnesty runs from May 8 to June 8, and allows unregistered weapons to be turned in without consequence. Those handing in weapons do not have to show identification or explain the weapons’ provenance, authorities said. Owners of illegal guns can also call police to collect them from an address without repercussions.

Additional gun-control policies that Serbia committed to this month include a two-year moratorium on new permits for small firearms and hunting weapons and a review of all existing weapons permits within three months. The government said it would introduce amendments to tighten conditions for keeping and carrying small firearms aimed at reducing the legally-held number by 20 percent; institute checks on those holding weapons permits, including medical, psychiatric and drug tests; and increase penalties for weapons offenses.

Australia, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Argentina have run similar amnesty programs to reduce firearms. [emphasis added]

Sadly, the gun worshipping part of the U.S. population is completely incapable of doing something as humane and caring as this.

They love guns more than the lives of school children.

It is as simple as that.

Once again, America must appear to the world no longer as a shining beacon on a hill, but as a culture completely out of control as it slowly marches in lockstep--led by the gun lobby and GOP--towards self-destruction.

[edited]

#us gun culture #serbia #gun-control policies

[compacflt]

When it comes to historical research, do you research for things that DON'T exist? For example, foods that are common now but didn't exist in the average American restaurant or grocery in the '80s or '90's? Words, phrases, and entire concepts that are commonly accepted today but unheard of to the average American when Mav and Ice were at Top Gun?

Your writing is so unbelievably good.

not really because I don't care about food, I care about the literary device that is "taking communion." i.e. it doesn't matter what they eat, it only matters that they're eating together, for the plot.

And, okay, showing my little-kid bias, but was there actually stuff in grocery stores in the 80s/90s that wouldn't be there today/vice versa? brands might change, like okay Pringles might not exist but you still have potato chips; and obviously specialty stuff like what you find in your average Asian market might not be commonplace, but, like, were the 90s all that different from today, American-food-wise? its my assumption that they weren't, but I also wasn't alive in the 90s, so. Um, ectocooler Hi-C, maybe? that's the one 90s food I know.

attitudes of course are what change. today's concept of being so QUICK to publicly label sexual identities would be extremely foreign, for instance. obviously people did label their sexualities in the 80s & 90s, people were definitely calling themselves bisexual and such, but probably not the people ice & mav would be hanging out with, in the Reagan-era navy. which is what my fics are about. that's the whole point.

and, also, COMMUNICATION changes. I have never used a payphone in my whole life so I actually have no idea how they work. but they were ubiquitous "back then," and lend themselves to amazingly interesting conflict (omg I don't have enough change to call my boyfriend maverick who's mad at me!!!) which is why I lean on payphones so much in my writing. honestly, im gonna be real, the invention of the cell phone makes telling stories about miscommunication so much harder. instant-speed communication would make certain stories less interesting, which is why a lot of horror movies default to the "no cell service" trope to isolate their characters, or why some teen dramas have the characters reject cell phones on principle (Alyssa or James having a phone in 2017's "The End of the F***ing World" would solve most of their problems, which is why Alyssa smashes hers in the first five minutes and James basically says he views them as a cancer to society--if they had phones the story would be boring, so the writers took away their phones).

I also feel like people used to treat society differently "back then," i.e. Going Out was much more of a thing when there were 10 channels on TV and no one had cell phones, so you Went Out and had drinks & met strangers & interacted with general society to an extent im not sure we do anymore. So that experience is way more fun to write about in the 80s than today. (u can't see me but im seething with jealousy over ppl who were born in ~1965)

idk. im not sure I did a great job reproducing the zeitgeist of the 80s/90s in my fics, bc I wasn't there to have knowledge of what they were like. I got most of my presupposed knowledge about that time period from reading Calvin & Hobbes anthologies as a kid. oh well.

#I actively avoid talking about the aids crisis as much as I can for instance #that is certainly A Can of Worms. #a massive omission in my fics to be sure. but... not one I want to touch. #these characters would be judgmental and homophobic about it I fear. #btw I stole a bunch of stuff from teotfw for my fics #Carole asking ice if he actually wants maverick or if he just goes along with things is directly ripped from s1e02 #favorite tv show of all time #top gun #edts notes #from Calvin and Hobbes I gather most people in the 80s were obsessed with hostess snacks like Twinkies etc. #and dieting consisted of chainsmoking cigs on the front porch #bloom county was also a truly informative comic strip re: my 1980s cultural education #just the way characters like opus/Steve/binkley talk for instance #people in the 80s just talk different from the way they do now #fun to try and replicate even if I can't put it into words #my god I love bloom county #my birthday is tmr I will finally be old enough to legally drink in the US 😋 #thank u for the ask 🥺

[ciderjacks]

Fffuck it fuck this country. I’m out.

#Fuck man. im indigenous I don’t want to leave my fucking land where my people have lived for millennia #Where my culture is #But I refuse to live in a state that still to this day commits active genocide and colonialism #The same which my people faced #I’m not giving my money to that. I’m not giving my time and heart to that. #I can handle the gun violence and the unbelievably bad healthcare and the inflation and the rising unemployment and all the bullshit #But I refuse to participate in a “nation” that pretends to be sooo sorry for what it did to my people while they are still fucking doing #What they did to us #Poisoning our water not letting me reconnect with my tribe making us identify as white then using it against us killing us killing our kids #And brutally killing indigenous people worldwide #I’m fucking done #ndn #death to america

[leaves-fall-down]

"There's other arab countries for Palestinians to go to!!!" This is gonna blow your stupid little mind but much like how Canada isn't just America: Second Edition™️ and how not all Latinos are Mexican, Arab countries aren't the same! They just aren't! Some arab nations speak dialects of Arabic that are literally unintelligible to each other when compared! MSA exists because of this! North Africa has many differences by itself! So does the levant! So does the gulf! If you think Morocco is the same as Lebanon or Iraq you are literally just super fucking racist quite frankly! If you're response to Palestinian's suffering is "oh well there's enough similarites between them and these other people just chuck 'em over there!" you're not only bizzarely culturally insensitive but are also racist to an extent that is probably borderline sociopathic and don't even realize it!

#what can I expect from my fellow americans though honestly #people who understand they themsleves in america have unique cultures in each state but that all the “icky scary brown people” are one #while also thanking Canada's just us but with healthcare and no guns #as for the rest of you if you say this fuck you to I hate you too lol #palestine #talking to the void