JamesL, what goes up must come down. This cultural practice causes hot lead to rain from the sky. I know that celebratory vertical gunfire has killed people in the US, and the laws of physics do not differ in Saudi Arabia.
Thank you for saying what needs to be said.
As a law-abiding person in the United States, I have been twice a victim of handgun crimes. These were terrifying experiences and I am only lucky to have survived them with only nightmares to show for them.
I have never met any person outside professional law enforcement who has prevented as many as many as two crimes with a personal handgun. What is far more ludicrous is the American mythology about the gun owner as defender of liberty against the government-- I'd love to see one of these bozos trying out a hand-held roscoe against US Army weaponry.
"The full context behind" an unprovoked, deeply humiliating assault on a younger boy, committed at the age of 18, which resulted in no disciplinary action by the school? I'd say we have plenty of context.
Nowadays in the public schools, for example in Houston, Texas, students younger than that have been charged with criminal mischief for writing their names on the sidewalk in chalk. An attack by a group of boys involving forcible haircutting would result in a trip to a juvenile jail, especially for lower-income, black or brown children.
Heartiest congratulations! I can hardly imagine a higher honor than to be targeted for personal destruction by the war criminals of the Bush Administration.
That was Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. The mass murderer that shot the place up was not a veteran.
I wish Jimmy Carter had had a second term. The whole world can be grateful for all he has done as a former president, however.
JamesL, what goes up must come down. This cultural practice causes hot lead to rain from the sky. I know that celebratory vertical gunfire has killed people in the US, and the laws of physics do not differ in Saudi Arabia.
Thank you for saying what needs to be said.
As a law-abiding person in the United States, I have been twice a victim of handgun crimes. These were terrifying experiences and I am only lucky to have survived them with only nightmares to show for them.
I have never met any person outside professional law enforcement who has prevented as many as many as two crimes with a personal handgun. What is far more ludicrous is the American mythology about the gun owner as defender of liberty against the government-- I'd love to see one of these bozos trying out a hand-held roscoe against US Army weaponry.
"The full context behind" an unprovoked, deeply humiliating assault on a younger boy, committed at the age of 18, which resulted in no disciplinary action by the school? I'd say we have plenty of context.
Nowadays in the public schools, for example in Houston, Texas, students younger than that have been charged with criminal mischief for writing their names on the sidewalk in chalk. An attack by a group of boys involving forcible haircutting would result in a trip to a juvenile jail, especially for lower-income, black or brown children.
Heartiest congratulations! I can hardly imagine a higher honor than to be targeted for personal destruction by the war criminals of the Bush Administration.