Are flasks still okay? This is going to significantly affect my enjoyment of certain movies.
Next up - why doesn’t Heller apply to Stun Guns?
But what about electrical arms like stun guns, invented in 1972? Are they covered under this line of Supreme Court reasoning? Currently, that isn’t clear.
The Supreme Court is being asked to decide—in a case challenging a Massachusetts ban on the private possession of a stun gun, or a “portable device or weapon from which an electrical current, impulse, wave or beam is designed to incapacitate temporarily, injure or kill…” The challenge before the justices comes in a burgeoning era in which a hodgepodge of weapons are being constructed at home DIY-style and via 3D-printing technology.
The case seeking the Supreme Court’s attention concerns Jaime Caetano, who is appealing her 2013 conviction on Second Amendment and self-defense grounds. She claims a right to a stun gun to protect herself from what she said was an abusive father of her children.
The prohibition against personal ownership in the home of Stun guns has always eluded me.
This could’ve been pretty bad at the Pokemon Championship
Two men have been arrested after allegedly threatening violence to attendees at the Pokemon World Championship in Boston.
A release from the Boston Police Department says they were notified of the social media on threats Thursday and were able to stop the two suspects as they attempted to enter the event a few hours later.
Detectives discovered that the two men had driven from Iowa with several guns in their vehicle that they did not have licenses for.
Police later searched the vehicle and found a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15, several hundred rounds of ammunition and a hunting knife.
The men were arrested at their hotel in Saugus on Friday after arrest warrants were issued.
I just heard about that - that’s fucking atrocious.
Hal9000
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I just saw that a TV reporter and cameraman were murdered live on air in Virginia.
That just sickens me.
Hal9000
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Regarding that link…please, do yourself the favor and don’t watch the video. It’s been a few years now since I’ve had to watch someone terrified of their own, inevitable demise, trying to fight it…the ability to be aware of our own suffering and to be horrified of our own oncoming termination isn’t pleasant. Glad at least that sort of thing isn’t a part of my job anymore.
Maybe if the reporter was armed, this might not have happened. She could have continued the interview while returning fire.
Cost of freedom.
If we’re not adopting even mild measures of gun control when someone executes a school building of five year olds, we’re sure as hell not doing it for a nice reporter and her cameraman getting shot on camera.
More water for the Tree of Liberty, right?
The CNN story doesn’t actually show the video. It just plays the audio, which is terrible enough.
Fair warning: The actual live broadcast killing video is going around on social media.
JonRowe
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The video itself isn’t graphic, just shocking, like a jump scare. You don’t see very much, but it is horrific. Out of fucking nowhere.
Hal9000
3698
It’s midway down.
Jon Rowe, we used to have to watch mandatory safety videos like this, too. It is just a darkness to the core.
Blah.
Timex
3699
The video footage has an image of the shooter himself.
Not graphic, but the idea of seeing a guy who’s shooting the cameraman may disturb some
@BruceLeshan
BREAKING Va Gov @TerryMcAuliffe says police believe @WDBJ7 gunman is disgruntled former station employee. @wusa9
Oghier
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Surely, he was a “good guy with a gun.” Until he shot all those people, anyway.
Why are white men so disgruntled all the time?
Timex
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Actually, seems like it’s a light skinned black guy.
He used to be an on-air reporter for the station. Amazing. I would’ve bet anything he was some schlub in the support or tech side of the operation.
Well I got nothing then. This doesn’t make sense.
KWhit
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WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!
