Probably not many. I very much doubt the employees there aren’t packing heat.
Is that a tactical shotgun on the counter?
Looks like it.
I don’t see the Axe Gun from S.H.I.E.L.D. I’m disappointed.
It’s a sad state we’re in when a school shooting that results “only” in injuries of multiple people barely moves the news needle.
They were reporting the Parkland shooting as a dozen plus injured at first also. Wouldn’t be surprised to learn of deaths as we learn more about this one.
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
Meanwhile…
Interesting. Most of it seems sound legally for the most part. The require being institutionalized against your will, which is a fairly hard bar to clear most of the time (though there are horror stories about parents basically killing their children by doing it).
The age thing is a non-starter imo. The Constitution doesn’t declare 18 as a magical age where you get to own specific firearm or anything. If they found against the 21-year-old thing then I don’t see what would prevent a 10-year-old from citing it and saying they should be able to buy a gun since it’s a right. But historically SCOTUS has stood by reasonable regulation and being 21 is fairly reasonable. Sure we send kids off to war younger than that, but those kids are also very strictly regulated in literally everything they do, so it’s akin to going shooting with a parent in a lot of ways.
Also this dude is a fruit loop. Like serious mental issues and he shouldn’t be anywhere near a steak knife, much less a firearm.
Note pistol, not assault rifle. Maryland bans them,IIRC. Wonder why the result was less horrid?
I’m as anti-rifle as anyone but I’m pretty sure this kid was just out to kill his ex. The 14yo could have been shot by the resource officer for all we know.
Well this is a thing. This is very real - lots and lots of videos of people shooting guns on YouTube.
What if someone makes a game that’s more or less a 1:1 weapon simulation that streamers “play” and show viewers how to assemble guns and succeed “in-game?”
I’m sorry. This is bullshit.
Bullshit as in “the article is wrong and it’s not gonna happen” or bullshit as in “it’s bullshit that weapon vendors can’t market to youtube viewers?”
I would imagine it’s the latter, and it is quite draconian in scope. I think there’s value in videos that teach firearm safety, and of course there is a lot of sport shooting, but I imagine that’s really tough for YouTube to parse out fairly.
I wonder if a video of a biathlon event would pass muster.
Bullshit as in there are a lot of videos on Youtube that are people making explosives. doing seriously dangerous shit. But people shooting guns is causing shootings.
So maybe shooters are goona shoot at people anyway, but Youtube doesn’t want to be the Online Education Destination for mass murderers who want to better prepare for a high score. Google is a private company that isn’t discriminating against a protected group (at least in THIS instance, hah) with this move, so while these restrictions will also punish honest people, I don’t see how it isn’t their perogative to enact them.
Unfortunately the article doesn’t say what, specifically, their motivation or goal is, beyond typical corporate-speak nonsense, but for all we know they have evidence that training/information/marketing videos that fall under this umbrella have been used in specific ways by specific people that Youtube doesn’t want to lend aid to.
Of course, they still have Boeing 767 training videos up in case any future terrorists want to recreate 9/11 and don’t feel like picking up the latest version of Microsoft flight Simulator.
I’m not without empathy for hobbyists though, because I can imagine how upset I’d be if they nuked general home & appliance repair or gaming videos from the site.
Youtube is a shit show.
I watch a lot of channels that will be affected by it. One of them does historical stuff and it wont matter. They’re already getting raked over the coals by the neverending ad bullshit. Youtube is ripe for a fall. Rest assured they’ll ban everything that uses the word gun because they can’t be bothered to ever look at anything, they just let their idiot robots do it. So every game with guns in it will be banned because at some point someone will say the word “gun” and the bot will flag it.
Meanwhile…
That is massive!