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Re: OMG, another school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin - RAMd®d - 12-18-2024
There is probably a better than equal 'danger' of people thinking they know why someone else did something.
Somebody saying anything, including but not limited to 'I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day', isn't necessarily telling anyone the truth.
She's still in jail, and even though she was just a little girl at 16, I hope she's denied parole next year.
Re: OMG, another school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin - DeusxMac - 12-18-2024
RAMd®d wrote:
She's still in jail, and even though she was just a little girl at 16...
My lexicon doesn't categorize a 16 year old as a "little girl"; nor do most references.
"Aged 16 at the time of the shooting, she was 5'2"..." and would have been a high school Junior.
little girl noun - A female child, especially one younger than ten years of age
"A young female child, typically between the ages of 4 and 12"
"A little girl refers to a young female human, typically one who has not yet reached puberty or adolescence. She is usually under the age of 12 and is in the early stages of her life and development. This term is often used to distinguish younger females from teenagers, adolescents, or adult women."
Re: OMG, another school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin - RAMd®d - 12-18-2024
It was sarcasm.
Like or don't, IDGAF.
Re: OMG, another school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin - kj - 12-18-2024
RAMd®d wrote:
There is probably a better than equal 'danger' of people thinking they know why someone else did something.
Somebody saying anything, including but not limited to 'I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day', isn't necessarily telling anyone the truth.
She's still in jail, and even though she was just a little girl at 16, I hope she's denied parole next year.
Sure, I don't think anyone fully understands, at all, why people do things. Sure, they aren't going to tell the truth, but the bigger issue is they don't know the truth. To think people walk around with a complete scientific understanding of human behavior built in from birth is kind of silly. It's like asking LeBron James "how do you do it?", and he answers, "hard work and I believe in myself". Well there is more to it than that, and just because he does it, doesn't mean he knows exactly how. And this stuff is way more complex.
Re: OMG, another school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin - DeusxMac - 12-18-2024
RAMd®d wrote:
It was sarcasm.
Like or don't, IDGAF.
Sorry. It can be difficult to tell whether someone is being sarcastic or just stating their opinion.
Re: OMG, another school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin - pdq - 12-18-2024
Just FYI, this teen’s parents married and divorced each other three times during her lifetime (yes, three, during her lifetime - the first time they got married was two years after this - their - child was born). The judge at the third divorce proceeding told them to cut it out.
And in this setting, Dad enthusiastically brings teen daughter to the gun range. Buys her a membership, as a matter of fact.
…and posts: “we have been loving all every second of it!” (sic)
Gift link
In [a] photograph [posted to social media from the gun range], Natalie Rupnow is wearing a T-shirt bearing the letters “KMFDM,” an apparent reference to the German rock band whose lyrics were posted on the website of one of the shooters in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
When the police chief was asked how she got the gun, he responded with the obvious:
“How does any 15-year-old get ahold of a gun?”
Almost always, in cases like this, they are given it (or given free access to it) from an adult, usually in their own household.
Re: OMG, school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin - pdq - 12-18-2024
BTW, to be fair, that's not the only place arms come from:
Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of shooting up to 6,000 rounds of ammunition every minute.
Federal agents later discovered Adair's police chief, Bradley Wendt, was using his position to acquire weapons and sell them for personal profit. A jury convicted Wendt earlier this year of conspiracy to defraud the United States, lying to federal law enforcement and illegal possession of a machine gun.
Is this law enforcement officer remorseful?
Yeahhhh, not so much:
Wendt is unapologetic and has appealed his conviction.
"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term. Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.
To a gunner, selling machine guns on the side to straw buyers for big bux is a perfectly appropriate perk of the job.