His actions were justified given that he was being shot at. I disagree wholly with you. I think the whole US gun-carry society is stupid and causes these stupid deaths, but within that context, I didn't see him doing anything wrong except trusting libs to act reasonably.
I think their only mistake is going to a lib march when plenty of anarchists warned others to stay far away from it. I also think what you're doing is victim blaming.
While people are pointing guns at him, and potentially already shooting him. Anyone would panic in that situation. Fact of the matter is that he was perfectly peaceful until someone escalated massively.
The witnesses to the event were frightened for their lives and said he raised his gun.
Do you know just how unreliable witness reports in traumatic situations are? We have no clue what actually happened.
Unless more evidence appears, I'm more inclined to believe the person who didn't shoot anyone, even when they had plenty of opportunity to do so (in self defense no less) and have a history of protecting others.
Ye which is why I'm inclined to believe the non-killer's story rather than the ones with the most incentive to lie
The victim blaming with assumed narratives no less, is astounding.
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A single blurry still doesn't pose a convincing argument that he was or wasn't pointing the weapon towards the crowds.
We don't go around making plausible reasons and then asking the victim to prove them wrong. Maybe the killers are lying to cover their ass?
Facts on the ground is: Arturo didn't shoot anyone, had a right to carry, a bystander was killed by the "good guys" and Arturo was shot himself. Nothing in all of this proves that Arturo was a danger to anyone.
Maybe he panicked? Maybe he didn't want to hit bystanders. None of us have been shot before, but from all I know, all rational thought easily goes out the window.
Israel’s element of surprise was enhanced by Iranian officials’ apparent assumption that Israel wouldn’t attack while talks over its rapidly advancing nuclear program were ongoing with the U.S.
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After yet another bot scraping wave forcing me to do sysadmin work at 3am, and me ranting about it on lemmy, @[email protected] linked me to a post that referenced iocaine which sounded a perfect way to get back on bots that don't respect our resources and time.
At the same time, we recently on-boarded @[email protected] as an extra sysadmin to reduce the "bus factor" of our instance (say hello), and they graciously offered some spare compute they had lying around. So I thought, since serving iocaine to bots doesn't really require any serious uptime, why not put it those resources to good use.
So after a couple of hours messing up with things, I've now deployed iocaine to protect our instance as well as fediseer. This should hopefully start messing back with these bastards by serving them some surrealistic nonsense I had squirreled away.
If you want to see this in action, set your user agent to GPTBot and visit our instance. If you find yourself trapped in iocaine somehow, just let us know.
In they tune of "if you're happy and you know it clap your hands"
Surprisingly, I agree with you. I think jackbooting around with an AR, lefty or not, is generally stupid.