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George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Call me old-fashioned, but you should be able to ring a doorbell, get in the wrong car in a parking lot, or drive down the wrong driveway without getting shot at, injured or killed.
caragraph@georgetakei and have your ball roll into someone's yard?
Talis@georgetakei Even Klingons wouldn't be so inhuman...
Michael Porter@georgetakei How dare you, George, that’s just un-American!
ZZ Bottom@georgetakei ❤️ Nra and Fox need to be made accountable.
SigmundFreudsBartender@georgetakei You can do this in most places.
Steve Hersey@georgetakei That's my kind of old-fashioned, too!
Joe ❌👑@georgetakei It's the guns, but it isn't just the guns. It's the paranoia. These people spend all their time consuming Fox News, Newsmax, and right wing talk radio and it's all about fear. Antifa and young thugs are coming to attack you! They are heavily armed! No one will help you! Your only defense is to arm yourself. Have guns? You need more guns, a better gun than your imaginary opponent has. And we'll pass "stand your ground" laws so you can safely kill anyone who you think is a threat. Don't hesitate or they'll kill you first! That's how they are taught to think.
RDS (shawphd on Twitter)@not2b @georgetakei Anyone who thinks shooting kindergartners is a reasonable thing to do has lost the plot entirely.
Urban Hermit@not2b @georgetakei
There was a young couple, Mexican American father, woman, two young kids, that decided to take their bus conversion RV to visit, Forks Washington - famous from the movie Twilight. Unfortunately at the same time, during BLM protests, paranoid conservatives on Facebook were spreading the rumour that "antifa" was send out bus loads of arsonists from the cities. Gun nuts cut down some trees, trapping this family on a forest service road and...
There was a young couple, Mexican American father, woman, two young kids, that decided to take their bus conversion RV to visit, Forks Washington - famous from the movie Twilight. Unfortunately at the same time, during BLM protests, paranoid conservatives on Facebook were spreading the rumour that "antifa" was send out bus loads of arsonists from the cities. Gun nuts cut down some trees, trapping this family on a forest service road and...
@not2b @georgetakei
...an armed mob of random guys, alerted by the local gun store guy, insisted on searching their bus. Eventually one person drove out & brought some teens to help clear the road & they got out of there. The guys searching the bus didn't even f***ing clear the road for them when they found out that they were wrong, and nobody got arrested or charged with any crime - because white old boomers get away with stuff that would get any ethnicity jailed.
...an armed mob of random guys, alerted by the local gun store guy, insisted on searching their bus. Eventually one person drove out & brought some teens to help clear the road & they got out of there. The guys searching the bus didn't even f***ing clear the road for them when they found out that they were wrong, and nobody got arrested or charged with any crime - because white old boomers get away with stuff that would get any ethnicity jailed.
PeachMcDI remember when I was a kid, our neighbors always yell at us when a ball or toy got on their lawn & we ran to get it. We were scared enough by them *yelling*, ffs
Now, the old grouches would've totally shot us 🙄😖
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/20/north-carolina-shooting-girl-parents-basketball-yard
McDyer@PeachMcD @georgetakei
I know I've taken the wrong exit here, but isn't a miniature sledgehammer just a hammer?
I know I've taken the wrong exit here, but isn't a miniature sledgehammer just a hammer?
Nedaree@Mcdyer @PeachMcD @georgetakei No. It is hammer sized but has a heavier, block-shaped head similar to a full size sledge. It does not have a claw side. You can use this to do demolition in smaller spaces, has more weight than a hammer.
SaanichGuy 🇨🇦🇨🇦@nedaree @PeachMcD @georgetakei @Mcdyer
Sometimes called a drill hammer. I have a 2 lb one with a very short handle. Great for tight spaces
Sometimes called a drill hammer. I have a 2 lb one with a very short handle. Great for tight spaces
dag@georgetakei even when you explore foreign civilizations …
Eric Lawton
Howard Wilson IIBut you don't understand, George! Muh rights! MUH RIGHTS!
As if these fictional "rights" should overrule the actual right to life...
Lionel CoupouchettyRamouchetty@georgetakei
Yeah you're old-fashion, and also right.
Yeah you're old-fashion, and also right.
Natalia@georgetakei "home of the braves" my ass!
Sasyecat@georgetakei I'm about 1 more event away from becoming Agoraphobic.
🐰 Fox@georgetakei Looks like you'll need to add, accidentally lose you ball in your neighbor's yard, to that list :(
@georgetakei George... As a living reminder of Korematsu, you experienced the "it's OK to do vile stuff if we're frightened". Does it make much difference if the state is scared of Japanese Americans or if some lowlife is frightened of shadows? It's all irrational fears justifying horrific reactions!
Aho@georgetakei if you by mistake end up infront of my door, I'll invite you for a cup of tea of coffie.
@georgetakei what, act all ladidah European? Next you’ll be asking for healthcare and basic human rights…
Shawn Wildermuth (🇺🇦++)@georgetakei You're old fashion ; )
WapitiEaterTotally agree!
But can these tragedies shed even a brief ray of light on the depths of fear people are living in?
So much so that they'll attack first, ask questions later.
There is something fundamentally very wrong going on. And it's deeply ingrained, buried in our society's Psyche.
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@georgetakei America, where the smallest mistakes mean instant death
Jason Cox@georgetakei Call me old fashioned, but I draw the line at getting in the wrong car. If someone opens up the door to your vehicle and just gets in, you have no idea of their intention.
That being said, I know the event that you're referencing and I hope that man has the book thrown at him for attempting to gun them down as they ran. But in general, getting in the wrong car is like walking in the front door of the wrong house. That crosses a red line that both sides can agree is a red line.
@jasoncox @georgetakei we owned a bright yellow SUV. Very easy to find in a parking lot. Now have a generic white SUV where numerous people have opened the door thinking it was their vehicle. We laugh and carry on. No one shoots anyone. But it is Canada!
@georgetakei
Faux gnus induces fear in the uneducated, weak minded, and naturally paranoid. Season those folks with the proper dose of lies, deliberate misinformation all Q-ued up and repeated like a drumbeat, and several foreign actors intent on disrupting society, such shootings are predictable and expected. Sad to say. Sadder to experience it up close. Saddest that our current socio-economic reality makes it virtually impossible to change.
Faux gnus induces fear in the uneducated, weak minded, and naturally paranoid. Season those folks with the proper dose of lies, deliberate misinformation all Q-ued up and repeated like a drumbeat, and several foreign actors intent on disrupting society, such shootings are predictable and expected. Sad to say. Sadder to experience it up close. Saddest that our current socio-economic reality makes it virtually impossible to change.
HTPC NZ@georgetakei just as there is no gun issue, there is no racism issue as it's all in self defence / standing ground unless the perpetrator has skin color that's is non white...
Dan@georgetakei that's normal in most countries
FrankH You would assume....
#FearMongering #CowardsWithGuns
Lu@georgetakei Seeing what is happening in your country makes me sad. When did guns become more important than people.
Khaled Diab@georgetakei I feel so sorry for Americans who have to live with so many preventable tragedies.
It's such a relief to live in a society where guns are rare and the murder rate is negligible.
Scenario@georgetakei You should also be able to stroll down a corridor without being skewered.
Jamie@georgetakei When I was 18 I went to the station to collect my mother. My friend went to ask what time the train was due and before he came back a similar car stopped next to me. He got in it, looked at the driver, they both did a double-take and he got back out again. No guns were fired and, as this is the UK, it was unlikely anyone at the car park even owned one. I'm not visiting the USA - it's scary!
Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.
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Hotmatsutaro@georgetakei In what country do you live without that risk?
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@Hotmatsutaro the other countries
@georgetakei You can’t do that in a country with an old, white, and armed population that has been terrorized by shows like “Cops” and morons on Fox News. Don’t believe me? Watch a “Cops” marathon one day and watch for the demographic targeted by the commercials. Viagra, Depends,MedAlert, and “cures” for shingles, diabetes and arrhythmia. The brainwashing has been going on for decades.
Computeforloot 
@georgetakei some people are just thoughtless morons
acm@georgetakei NO MISTAKES! EVER!!
@georgetakei
Yeah, the social division into groups that hate each other in America is another betrayal by the Trumplicans
Yeah, the social division into groups that hate each other in America is another betrayal by the Trumplicans
Dusty Beo@georgetakei !!!!!!!!!!!!
⚒︎(((🇻🇳Das Classist🇱🇦)))☭@georgetakei Okay, Boomer
Bater Kari@georgetakei Shooting at me will get me pissed off and the shooter will get a painful demonstration of some Marine Corps training. I'm a salty, old-school US Marine Corps veteran.
LAF and LOVE@georgetakei In a typical Florida grocery store parking lot, there are now hundreds of 80+ seniors wandering the lot looking for their cars terrified of getting shot if they make an error. 🚗🚗🚙🚙🚗🚙
MT Nickerson@georgetakei no shit. Probably ole with guns are dangerous and need to be regulated. Heavily.
PRO2ADavid@georgetakei I have to add, defend yourself without shooting or stabbing the actual criminal and not be vindictvely prosecuted. True story!
Martin the paranoid android@georgetakei I dunno man, it’s a slippery slope, what’s next, affordable healthcare?
MsSmartyPants@georgetakei
I sat in my mini van with a friend when a man who was talking with his wife while trying to stick his key in my van's lock. I slowly lowered the window, and we laughed and laughed. Good thing we're in Canada and none of us had a gun.
I sat in my mini van with a friend when a man who was talking with his wife while trying to stick his key in my van's lock. I slowly lowered the window, and we laughed and laughed. Good thing we're in Canada and none of us had a gun.
Grrjessi@georgetakei I was with a friend in canada and she told me turn around and she laughed at my fear.
dogpile@georgetakei or your ball roll in a yard
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