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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#102376: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:07:26 PM

Except the college that was shot up has a median age of 38, apparently, so that's skewing a tad high.

Also, I vote we always call these shooters "Some asshole", as per this comic.

edited 1st Oct '15 1:08:47 PM by ironballs16

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#102377: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:11:56 PM

[up][up] Still, it proves that anyone can do it. One anomaly is enough to send ripples through everything.

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#102379: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:22:08 PM

The Alabama news is utterly disgusting but unsurprising.

Oh really when?
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#102380: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:22:15 PM

[up]Of course it's the ones that are primarily black. This is probably legal, but someone has to be raising a fuss about that.

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#102381: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:23:50 PM

The Civil War never ended, it just got quieter.

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#102382: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:34:02 PM

No one ever said only certain demographics could be killers.

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#102383: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:34:52 PM

[up][up][up] It actually isn't legal if the voting rights act, which, contrary to popular belief has yet to be repealed, and several Supreme Court rulings have anything to say about it. Mind you sate's have a wide latitude when it applies to federal law, several cities refuse to prosecute illegal immigrants or Marajuana users, for example.

edited 1st Oct '15 1:35:19 PM by JackOLantern1337

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Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
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#102384: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:38:51 PM

black or women spree killers and serial killers

Serial killers roughly mirror the general - male - population of the United States. Black serial killers make up around 20 per cent of the total, which is actually outsized relative to their share of the US population. The reason we generally don't hear about them is because they tend to kill other black people, as opposed to white victims.

Not sure about spree killers.

edited 1st Oct '15 1:39:16 PM by Achaemenid

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#102385: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:41:20 PM

With the Alabama news, one comment there did point out that the ones that remained open were also in higher population centers. Whether there were DMV placements in even worse-off, majority-white counties, though, he didn't say.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#102386: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:43:49 PM

[up][up]The closing of DMV's is legal, and technically isn't violating the Voting Rights Act. Unless someone decides to bring it to court and judges decide it is, but states can generally close any government facility they want, particularly under the guise of it being to expensive to maintain.

No idea what they're gonna do now to issue I Ds except go to another county over to do so.

ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#102387: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:45:24 PM

[up]

Which will easily mean a challenge to the existing photo ID law, as it's now far more burdensome to voters in the effected areas to actually get the means to vote, violating their rights on that front.

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#102388: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:45:42 PM

[up][up] It's simply, they won't get I Ds and thus won't be able to vote, that's the whole point of what's being done.

edited 1st Oct '15 1:46:21 PM by Silasw

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#102389: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:46:21 PM

[up][up][up] Indeed, it's probably legal to close all DMV offices and move operations online or to telephone...

edited 1st Oct '15 1:46:31 PM by Greenmantle

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#102390: Oct 1st 2015 at 1:49:01 PM

On a more everyday basis, this will greatly affect people's ability to just get driver's licences. Good luck getting anywhere if you aren't already in one the big cities that gets to keep their DMV.

Edit: Alabama is also closing five state parks and six National Guard armories.

edited 1st Oct '15 1:58:51 PM by Parable

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#102391: Oct 1st 2015 at 2:47:49 PM

If they're in rural counties, it won't effect much in terms of voting since being a licensed driver would probably be a requirement just to function anywhere in that state except Montgomery, and maybe Mobile and Birmingham. Rural counties are not where you want to look at targeted DMV closures per se.

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#102393: Oct 1st 2015 at 3:45:30 PM

I am from a third world country and I resent that remark.

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#102394: Oct 1st 2015 at 3:46:22 PM

Third World Countries: We find that offensive.

[up]Damn black and white faced Costa Ricans and their 1337 [nja] skillz, bro.

edited 1st Oct '15 3:49:20 PM by Ekuran

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#102395: Oct 1st 2015 at 4:17:36 PM

Alabama: Syria-On-The-Gulf. :P

Better?[lol]

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
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#102396: Oct 1st 2015 at 4:40:40 PM

@recent shooting, there's unconfirmed rumors floating about that the perpetrator was involved with the so called "incel" online communities in a similar vein to Rodger Elliot.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#102397: Oct 1st 2015 at 4:40:41 PM

Obama to veto new defense bill Cross posted in the Military thread.

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#102398: Oct 1st 2015 at 4:48:48 PM

<shrug>

Tad clickbaity. Sounds more like another step in the sausage-making.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#102399: Oct 1st 2015 at 6:45:54 PM

So apparently the shooter in Oregon had a Myspace account filled with IRA pictures.

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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
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#102400: Oct 1st 2015 at 6:47:02 PM

Really? Interesting change of pace.

The IRA haven't been relevant for quite some time now.

Oh really when?

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