Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspectin Saturday’s shooting, was registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania records.
Already the republicans are dismissing his voter registration as meaningless. Here comes the “mental illness” angle.
Edit: apparently it’s not uncommon to register with the party you oppose in PA. This is going to be a fun ride.
Are you purposefully being a dipshit or are you actually this ignorant?
Today’s AR-15 is more accurate, can shoot faster, has faster bullets and more damage than the Hi-Point 995 Carbine that the Columbine Shooters used.
Or do you deny the shift in tactics between 90s mass shootings and today’s mass shootings? Or are you so ignorant that you don’t even know the difference between these guns?
Do you expect me to talk elementary knowledge about guns and make huge posts discussing the history of mass shootings every time I make a post? Or are you really so ignorant about history you can’t figure out what I’m talking about? I’m sorry that I assumed you were a knowledgeable gun owner and/or enthusiast who could figure this out on your own.
“these guns that are different than a completely different kind of gun that nobody brought up before this particular comment are completely different!”
Your grasp of the obvious amazes me.
Do you always resort to ad-hominem when called out for thoughtless comments?
It’s still not a good look, dear.
You’re talking about the fucking 1990s style Assault Weapons Ban.
And suddenly its unfair for me to bring up mass shootings that took place during that ban, and compare them to the AR-15 (aka: how mass shootings happen today).
Got it. You’re a dipshit who was hoping that I was some kind of ignorant dumbass. You guessed wrong. Learn history next time before you challenge random people online.
You try to say here you shouldn’t need to talk about specifics “because we all know…” but in other comments you backpedal and say you’re dumbing it down for others.
So which is it?
I think you just hit “reply” before your brain caught up with your fingers and heart.
Given your demeanor, I’d say you still have awhile to go before you exit “childhood” regardless of what your ID says. Keep going with the baseless personal attacks, surely you’re one more comment away from changing my mind?
Have a good one I guess. Keep being angry and responding to everyone calling you out, it’s going well for everyone involved.
That’s a lot of words for “I’m sorry I was too ignorant to think of AR-15 vs Hi-Point 995 Carbine despite it being the obvious fucking example” and “I don’t have a reasonable argument to talk about 90s gun control vs today’s regime”.
Go complain to someone else and your welcome for the education. If you have a real discussion argument to continue, feel free to ping me. But its blatantly obvious that you have nothing to go on with regards to how bullets work or why the AR15 is a problem in today’s society.
Hmm, to keep responding to see how long you drag this out, or leave and give you the satisfaction of some perceived “final word” like you’ve won something, or have some kind of superior knowledge that you have yet to actually show?
I guess that depends on how petty I feel today. At least as petty as the person I’m responding to, clearly.
Okay, we can end here. I got what I want anyway. Feel free to ping me if you ever come up with a real point about AR15 rifles. Or don’t, because you’re wrong on history and obviously know it.
I’ve got you to stop talking about guns on a gun control topic, and have ended with my point before we’ve gone fully childish.
Its all fun and games at this point baby because you’re out of discussion points and are just in childish response phase. I’ve taunted you with my main point that you apparently find unassailable and are running away from.
So the answer is: as many as it takes. The more responses you give to me, the less likely anyone else clicks into this discussion because we’re way past the Lemmy.world range of replies. Its really just you and me at this point, and I’m more than happy to end with a 15+ deep reply chain now, if only to prove the full inability for you to respond to my AR15 point I started with.
The more posts you leave me, the better my point becomes that you have nothing on your side of the discussion. So I’m cool keeping up with this. What do you gain from these childish reply wars?