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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
As I understand it, idle hands are a major component in police bullshittery. When they start picking fights, it's partly because they're bored. They're restless. They have nothing to do and they're itching to do something. Historically, that has been a recurring problem with peacekeepers for millennia.
These cops aren't bored and they're probably not going to feel restless for a long time. This is exactly the kind of incident that reminds responders why they became cops in the first place.
edited 3rd Dec '15 8:29:58 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think they figure it is more useful than just denouncing the acts. It provides more peace for a person to pray than for a person to feel angry.
Good intentions, however, pave the road to hell. Sometimes, you have to get angry.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesIf any god could or/and wanted to stop this, it would have been done the last few hundred times a mass shooting happened.
Using religion as shield and bait to defend a system that has nothing to do with it(no firearms in the Bible, ya know. They kinda need time to get invented and such) is nothing but dishonest quasi-moralism.
It lets you do nothing and let the inconvenient truth of current legal and cultrual situation not working take lives once again, and when you get criticized for it, you can raise your shield with Jesus attached to it like an Egyptian cat, then shout "So you attack me for PRAYER??? How dare you??? I am offended!"
Conveniently shutting down action too. Aren't crocodile tears of self-pity fun? Fuck the lost lives, it's the feeling of being useful without actually being useful that matters here, amrite?
A random person praying? Fuck it, go ahead. It's not like a random Joe/Jane off the street could do anything else, so knock yourself out. But lawmakers whose rampant obstructionism of anything that might help in desperate need to keep the current situation going - they're directly at fault, their "prayers" are crocodile tears and any god worth their salt has adblocked those long ago.
edited 3rd Dec '15 9:33:20 AM by Luminosity
Oh, lovely. A Muslim US citizen who was radicalized.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"No objection, although I don't watch that thread.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

You don't necessarily have to go to Utah and buy the gun yourself to bring to California. Have someone over there buy it for you.
Oh really when?