Breath fairly taken away by this note at the end of Washington Post article illustrating with 3D models the destruction caused by an AR-15’s bullets.
It’s not just theoretical. With autopsy reports and family consent, they use those 3D models to show us how Dylan Pozner (6) and Peter Wang (15) were killed. Thoughts and prayers can fuck themselves.
If you’re up to it, I think it’s useful knowledge, and here’s a gift link: https://wapo.st/3B5O47K
@Holberg thank you for the gift link.
This article is incredibly well done. Makes it crystal clear the kind of destruction an AR-15 can do.
I have never bought the excuse that anyone "needs" these guns. They are like truck balls, a toy that lets you show everyone how badass you think you are.
OR you are interested in slaughtering people in unimaginable ways.
Imagine someone you love dying in this way then tell me how much more you value that gun.
the whole gun debate is so impossibly mired in old, stale arguments that everyone's heard a thousand times, and already has equally old, stale counterarguments
it's too easy to pick apart the bad-faith and self-contradictory right-wing arguments so let's focus on the good-faith liberal arguments
yes, you're right, of course the framers were thinking about the militia, but this whole argument is just as hogwash as the current court pretending to read the minds of dead white men from the 1700s as the only valid guide to whether everyone can carry weapons in times square
and on the left we think right-wingers just need a little education and they'll think like we do, just show them photos of ripped up bodies, and they'll understand
but they're not unaware, many have fought in actual shooting and bombing wars, they know better than we do the horrific effects of these weapons
in their minds they're the good guys, the ones who are hard-headed enough to withstand brutal consequences in service to lofty abstractions like freedom and tradition and nation and purity and god
repeating the old, stale arguments and counteraguments gets us nowhere
instead of wishful thinking about eliminating all the weapons, we need to understand our adversaries and act accordingly
@Holberg Thank you for the gift link. Really well done, by the WaPo team.
It's such an horrendous dereliction of duty for (mainly Republican) politicians to let this go on and on and on...
@Holberg when Moses went up to get the tablets of stone. God don't say.
"Look Mose old chap..in a few years time, a nation will be so wrapped up in the Christianity to come that they will develop a weapon that kills innocent people for fun. And they will empower it's populous to have such a weapon and use it without qualm"
"Why lord?"
"Dunno but we'll go for thou shalt not kill"
Yes, that's an excellent article. And boy, that finisher you screenshotted is tough.
I'm sobbing. This was powerful, even as I am well aware what this weapon can do.
I live about an hour from Sandy hook, so we were inundated for months, but no images. Then Jones began his bullshit.
Every single lawmaker should be shown photos of every victim, after every single shooting.
And fuck the talking heads that remind us about gun violence in "Chicago..." just fuck off.
Guns dont kill people.
Republicans in office kill people.
That was grim af but interesting too; I hadn’t previously understood this about high velocity rounds.
Completely insane to want a society where walking around with these weapons is a normal thing to do.
Thanks for sharing.
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