Gun Legislation, Crime, and Events

[smr-nj]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

All this subway talk is making me want to watch "The Warriors."  A movie my dad decried as totally bereft of plot until I explained to him that it was Xenophon's Anabasis and it mapped the journey of the Ten Thousand who needed to escape the Persian empire to get to the sea.   That Coney Island was a stand-in for the ancient greek settlement of Trabizond except it didn't have as many Russians in the 1970s. 

One of my favs. 😁

[Screwball]

About an hour or so ago Bloomberg posted this article about the United Heath Care killer;

CEO murder suspect was Ivy League Graduate Who Praised Unabomber

Behind a paywall but you can find it. More detail. I found this part interesting, FTA:
 

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On Goodreads, Mangione posted a positive review in June 2021 of Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore Kaczynski, a mathematician and Harvard University graduate who became a domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber.

It would be easy to write it off “as the manifesto of a lunatic,” in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies, Mangione wrote. “But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.”

“He was a violent individual — rightfully imprisoned — who maimed innocent people,” Mangione wrote. “While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”

 

Given his education, he wasn't a practicing luddite. Might be a nutjob trying to send a message. Who knows, too early IMO. The interesting part will be how it is all spun.

[oblong]

12 hours ago, smr-nj said:

I should probably also mention that decades ago, growing up in the Bronx, one of our childhood summer activities. (unbeknownst to parents)was playing subway tag. In the Bronx, a lot of the stations and tracks were actually above ground, not below ground, and I can definitely remember riding with my friends in between the cars with 1 foot on the step for one car and the other foot on the step for the other car and looking down.

. It was great fun.

I watched the French Connection for the first time a few weeks ago. 

[Tiger337]

13 hours ago, casimir said:

Yes, we made sure to stay back from the edge.  Never did see any rats, which I was on the lookout for.

I saw some massive rats in Boston.  I took the commuter rail every day for 11 years which had its share of characters.  I learned quickly to avoid the subway as it was just an awful environment.  Thankfully, Boston is a great walking city, so you go almost anyway without the subway.     

[chasfh]

I’ve seen a rat or two down near the tracks in the Chicago subway, but never on the platform or on a train.

[Deleterious]

Fools.  Looking for rats in the subway.  You need to head down to city hall for that.  

[Motown Bombers]

The only subway system I have been on was in Montreal and that subway was cleaner than my house. I rode the BART in San Francisco. That was mostly above ground. I do seem to recall a small section underground in Oakland. That was pretty clean as well. A lot of street performers when I got off in San Francisco. Didn't see many homeless. 

[CMRivdogs]

I've heard horror stories about the DC Metro system most of my life. Last couple of trips there we've used it with no problems. Including a trip to the 'burbs (Tysons Corners). 

When we lived in Chicago during the '90s most of my time was by train. To me the biggest drawback was when the Cubs had night games. The experience was still fairly new and it drew too many drunken "fans"

[Deleterious]

I have obtained a photo of the McDonalds employee that turned in the shooter.

[smr-nj]

6 hours ago, oblong said:

I watched the French Connection for the first time a few weeks ago. 

These are from my section of the Bronx, where the “subway” is elevated above the road… hence called the El. (Took this picture while driving there about 14 years ago.)

[LaceyLou]

6 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I saw some massive rats in Boston.  I took the commuter rail every day for 11 years which had its share of characters.  I learned quickly to avoid the subway as it was just an awful environment.  Thankfully, Boston is a great walking city, so you go almost anyway without the subway.     

LOL, I take the subway just about every day. I will admit I've seen a lot of rats, even one that came straight up to me. On the whole, it's just like Sue said about the NY subway system: be aware of your surroundings, know where you're going (or at least look like you do), and keep your valuables safe if you have to have them. There's a reason I don't carry a purse, but keep my wallet in an inside pocket. 

There are a lot of the same people who ride the same trains every day, so I've made some good commuting friends over the years, too.

[casimir]

On 12/10/2024 at 9:56 AM, Tiger337 said:

I saw some massive rats in Boston.  I took the commuter rail every day for 11 years which had its share of characters.  I learned quickly to avoid the subway as it was just an awful environment.  Thankfully, Boston is a great walking city, so you go almost anyway without the subway.     

The North End of Boston was fun to walk.  The Patriot Trail, the older buildings, the narrow roadways, Old North Church.  We took a hop on/off tour bus and at a few points where we got off, it felt like we were surrounded by a few downtowns, groups of tall buildings that were grouped together here, and over there, and over there.

[romad1]

21 minutes ago, casimir said:

The North End of Boston was fun to walk.  The Patriot Trail, the older buildings, the narrow roadways, Old North Church.  We took a hop on/off tour bus and at a few points where we got off, it felt like we were surrounded by a few downtowns, groups of tall buildings that were grouped together here, and over there, and over there.

I was just now reading in the foreword of the book "Achilles in Vietnam" about PTSD and assorted trauma about one veteran roaming the infamous "Combat Zone" in Boston in the late 70s looking for guy's raping women so he could take them out.  That world thankfully does not exist now in Boston.  If anything, its paying too much for 70% cacoa chocolate at the Belgian chocolatier is the bad thing that happens. 

[Tigerbomb13]

Another school shooting. This one in Madison, Wisconsin. A teacher, student, and the shooter all dead. 

[pfife]

yet again, killed kids are the price of "freedom". 

[Tiger337]

I can hardly wait to see the congressmen family Christmas cards with everyone in the family holding AR-15's.    

[CMRivdogs]

Remember "Drones" get more press

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Nothing to add to this.  Just let this sink in

https://bsky.app/profile/fredguttenberg.bsky.social/post/3ldjcmc3hp22j

[Tigeraholic1]

I think its wild that Biden comes out with statement after another Hanus school shooting and calls for gun law reforms after pardoning his son for a gun charge.

[pfife]

😆 🤣 😂 

You brag about voting for a felon. 

Edited December 17, 2024 by pfife

[Tiger337]

5 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I think its wild that Biden comes out with statement after another Hanus school shooting and calls for gun law reforms after pardoning his son for a gun charge.

It's kind of wild that the two things they got Hunter Biden on were illegal possession of a gun and tax evasion.  MAGAs should love the guy! 

[CMRivdogs]

If they do it it's Patriotic. If a "liberal" does it....

[Tigeraholic1]

43 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

It's kind of wild that the two things they got Hunter Biden on were illegal possession of a gun and tax evasion.  MAGAs should love the guy! 

What is your take on the pardon going back conveniently to 2014. Why not just make it about the hun and tax charges?

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

What is your take on the pardon going back conveniently to 2014. Why not just make it about the hun and tax charges?

I don't really care about Hunter Biden one way or the other, but I don't believe in Presidental pardons in general.  

[oblong]

7 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I think its wild that Biden comes out with statement after another Hanus school shooting and calls for gun law reforms after pardoning his son for a gun charge.

I think it’s wild that people that claim to be Christian are Donald Trump supporters.  

[Kacie]

8 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I think its wild that Biden comes out with statement after another Hanus school shooting and calls for gun law reforms after pardoning his son for a gun charge.

Going on 20 something hours without sleep, but I'll be damned if it didn't take way too long to figure out what a Hanus school shooting was.  Press one if you speak MAGA.