I wish the article would show a screenshot of what was posted, however 'uncivil'. Found this on a linked facebook post - no clue if it's accurate. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=25571453995778528&se...
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Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
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Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#52I think this is an example of using slow trials as a nonjudicial weapon. The defendant did not break the law and isn't likely to be convicted (at least not on appeal), but they can hold him in jail for months because they got mad at his Facebook post.
And that's why there should be serious consequences for everyone involved in this prosecution and prosecutions like it. If the case is as described here, there should be jail time involved for kidnapping and false imprisonment. But any justice system always protects their own.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#53I wish the article would show a screenshot of what was posted, however 'uncivil'. Found this on a linked facebook post - no clue if it's accurate. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=25571453995778528&se...
If this is accurate, this whole thing is beyond hysterical. Irrespective of political beliefs, this is an insane thing to have happen in the U.S. (this example is innocuous speech protected under the 1st amendment).
Spooky shit as it sets precedence for anyone to go after anyone for a social media post on any grounds. That's psychotic.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#54> Bushart did not elaborate, but the context seems clear: Why should I care about this shooting, when the sitting president said I should "get over" this other shooting? From one perspective, this is clearly bad governance. He's using his free speech rights that generations of us died for, to point out hypocrisy. I'm going to say it, and we'll see if I get arrested for it. Charlie Kirk was one of the useful idiots gr…
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> while the percentage of households with guns has gone down, significantly
The civilian gun stock has grown significantly since the 60s [1]. These data, together, seem to imply a large (but declining) number of households with a couple of guns and a few households with a ridiculous number of guns.
Of course, the dagger in your argument is that American divorce rates are not extraordinary [2]. Our gun ownership and school shooting rates are.
Given school shooters [3] (and now political shooters) come from gun-owning households, it seems fair to pin the blame for these events on that fraction of one third of American households who maintain private armories.
[1] https://www.thetrace.org/2023/03/guns-america-data-atf-total...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_divorce_r...
[3] https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/27379/Study-Adoles...
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#55The excuse for why he was arrested (some school in the area shares the same name as the one that Trump was downplaying a shooting at) is, of course utter bullshit. Its amazing how far people are willing to bend over backwards to explain how the speech of these public figures is harmless and non-threatening and none of us have anything to worry about (despite their actions putting the lie to it), but apply an entirely…
What school shooting did he die in?
#497 by my count, excluding non-fatal ones.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#56The comments on this article are horrifying. It's clear people have lost their damn minds.
Which comments you have an issue with?
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#57I wish the article would show a screenshot of what was posted, however 'uncivil'. Found this on a linked facebook post - no clue if it's accurate. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=25571453995778528&se...
The article has a hyperlink on it : "Bushart shared an image[1] of President Donald Trump with the quote"
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#58The comments on this article are horrifying. It's clear people have lost their damn minds.
Funny thing is, I’m not 100% sure which “side” you are referring to…
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#59I think this is an example of using slow trials as a nonjudicial weapon. The defendant did not break the law and isn't likely to be convicted (at least not on appeal), but they can hold him in jail for months because they got mad at his Facebook post.
And that's why there should be serious consequences for everyone involved in this prosecution and prosecutions like it. If the case is as described here, there should be jail time involved for kidnapping and false imprisonment. But any justice system always protects their own.
> why there should be serious consequences for everyone involved
Do we have names of the arresting officers, prosecutors and judge this is in front of?
With that we can determine who above them is elected.
Re: Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme
#60Amazingly even this post is a reflection of the discourse around Kirk. There are replies equating any criticism of Kirk to celebrating his death and glossing over his past nasty behavior. All seems to detached from reality.
There is a group who has never debated anything in good faith, and they are certainly not about to start now.