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Actual video footage, and he still says if.

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Oh I’m definitely not getting Nesrie’d!!

Closing bunker door.

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Well everyone knew the facts of this case wouldn’t change your mind.

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Sure does! Let’s watch what happens.

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Guilty of manslaughter. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/us/florida-trial-michael-drejka/index.html

Good to see the right thing happened here. Though I highly suspect (i.e., I’m certain) that, without the video, this guy would have gotten off.

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Good show. I mean there was actual video that showed what he claim was simply not true. He created a deadly situation for nothing.

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This is why Stand Your Ground is such a shitshow. You can instigate a fight and then murder someone who is just responding to your threats.

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That guy’s defense lawyer really put in the work trying to frame and justify that shooting.

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Well this sounds completely normal.

The teacher told students if he were a school shooter he’d plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs), then “fire a couple rounds and wait for everyone to hide, then press a button and boom – everyone would die,” according to student testimony.

The teacher also said “he would put a bomb in the corner and put nails in it for shrapnel,” another student told police.

When interviewed by an officer, the teacher told police he was a former US Marine and that his statements were a joke.

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Relax, all the other armed teachers would kick down the door and put a bullet through his face before anybody important could get hurt.

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There needs to be a massive awareness project to get people who have violent thoughts like this to seek help. Obviously nearly all of them wouldn’t ever act on their thoughts, but part of the problem is that people aren’t aware that fantasizing about mass murder isn’t normal.

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LOL, dark.

So we’re not only dying senselessly, we’re also the laughing stock of the whole world. Thanks, NRA!

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Dark Yes, but not dark chocolate. So I only give it 2.5 stars.

Besides why not use a Milka bar, it’s better than a Snickers anyhow.

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We were at the Culver City carnival/fair last weekend and my wife happened to walk by an NRA booth fully staffed with old white guys, sitting around talking. No one was picking up literature, asking questions, etc, which is great to see. She may have said something like “Shame on you for being here” and walked off. I hope the organization continues dying off with its members. Such an embarrassment to society as a whole, with its racism and generally shitty message.

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I could see Culver City being a tough crowd for the NRA.

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I understand this as a reaction, but not everyone who discusses this is some unstable nut ready to explode. In this instance this teacher was wholly innapropriate and lacked some severe self awareness to bring this up in class. But I myself have had conversations like this.

After Sept 11th my work buddy and I, in DC, went on a speculation about how that relatively minor attack made a lpt of Amrericans fearful. Our thought was that people in DC, NYC, and maybe Chicago and LA had some reason for concern about being in the line of Islamic terrorist fire. But this was not true of say, Des Moines, Iowa or Cheyenne, WY. What let the Patriot Act and other legislation be passed was the fear of everyone, not just the people in big cities.

We speculated on what would make the entire nation justified in being fearful. Our specualtive scenario was for a group to rent 10-15 vans and fill them with explosives and then detonate them all on the same day (perhaps spaced apart over a few hours) in small towns ans medium sized cities and suburbs. This would cause maximum confusion and horror as it would make a statement that EVERYONE should worry about being a target.

Of course, this was in 2001, a few years after Columbine when these mass shootings were exceptionally rare. The cruel irony was that this culture of fear did come, but not from foreign actors. It happened from within, from our own stupid citizens.

I would not have predicted that.

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I’m guessing most of the NRA folks around the area remember a fonder, much whiter city back in the day! My father-in-law passed away last December but we had the memorial last month at the Culver City Hall. He was fire chief for a while back in the 70s/80s. At the service, I met a guy who was really grateful to him for giving him a chance with the department. Former cop that wanted to switch over to fire instead. So my FIL hired him on to fill the newly mandated minority requirement and he became the first black fireman in the city’s history (and apparently first black police officer too, from the article I found when searching for ‘culver city black fireman’). Really great guy, glad I had the chance to talk to him and learn a little bit more about my FIL through him.

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