Belmont University student Jillian Ludwig dies after being hit by a stray bullet at a local park
www.nbcnews.com
The alleged gunman, Shaquille Taylor, had previously been released for incompetence to stand trial in a separate shooting.
  • Whisp@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    From the article:

    “Taylor had been criminally charged multiple times in the past, including in 2021 when he was charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon.”

    Yeah, that’s definitely someone who needed to be out on the streets and still armed. 👌 what the fuck

    • porkins@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Truth. It can stop if we get rid of the gangsters in the ghettos with their illegal guns. We don’t need more cops, just higher rent and taxes to price you out of your dwellings and force you to leave since you refuse to get an education and find jobs.

      • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Man it’s like you just hate people and thinking.

        If you deprive people from a legal means of housing and feeding themselves, they will house and feed themselves in less legal ways.

        • porkins@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Or some of you will realize that you need to get an education and a job and help the others learn. The ones that don’t learn should be sent to a remote part of Alaska and provided survival manuals that they need to figure out how to use to build a civil society. Their will be sentries ala Escape from LA/NY and these criminals can either choose to live in peace or chaos. Drones will televise for entertainment.

          • kurwa@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Oh yeah it’s so easy to get an education right? That’s like free right? Be quiet with your psycho rambling, go to Alaska yourself.

            • porkins@sh.itjust.works
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              1 year ago

              Ever hear of public primary and high school. It’s free. You just need to make the kids show up so that they don’t end up being criminals.

              • kurwa@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                Yeah sure every school is equally well funded enough to stop kids from doing crimes. Crimes never occurr at schools.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      450+ million guns, you’re not stopping gang violence like this which is the mass majority of all of our gun crime, by banning guns from lawful citizens. Dudes like this are already barred. Why don’t you ask, why out system let him out.

      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Says man from only country where this happens regularly.

        Plenty of other countries haven’t banned guns from lawful citizens and dont have this problem.

        • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Ok, man from perfect country. How would you personally solve this problem of gun violence? Would you form a posse and roundup all of the crazed lunatics out there who would dare to try and protect their families with a firearm? Would you raid the houses of anyone who may or may not have owned a gun in the past and search under the floorboards?

          Seriously I want to know. How would you help all of these mentally ill people who seem to think that guns are toys, or just deeply want to harm other people?

          • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            You don’t need me to tell you that. You wouldn’t believe me anyway. There are plenty of professionals who have studied and acquired factual data of how other “perfect countries” do it and the differences. From the differences the solutions become very clear.

            It’s about restricting access, not banning. There’s no one size fits all solution because nothing is perfect so you pick your poison. Find a country where this doesn’t happen every day (so any developed country), look a the way they do things and pick the one you prefer to support - they all have upsides and downsides. What you have isn’t working though.

            • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Every country that has basically an effective ban, also has safety nets for the people, doesn’t have a gang problem like we do, and focuses on education and not locking everyone up. They also never had 450+ million firearms in civilian hands. So please share with the class how you think you could pull it off without having all those safety nets in place.

                • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  I’m fine with adding in the safety nets, they’ll do 100xs more than any regulation you put in place will do. I’m not ok giving over a monopoly on force to people like the current Republicans. Why any of you think that’s a good idea is just insane.