https://www.europesays.com/1992904/ Two charged after boy killed in accidental shooting on rural NSW property #accidental #arrest #australia #charge #court #Crime #death #discharging #Emergency #Firearm #incident #killed #NSW #police #rural #shooting
#Firearm-related #deaths among children and #teenagers in the United States have risen sharply in recent years, increasing by 50% since 2019.
In 2023, firearms remained the leading cause of death among American youth for the third year in a row.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/21/youth-gun-deaths-in-the-us-have-surged-50-since-2019/
I'm slightly surprised the offender didn't get a whole life order in this case (3 #murders using an illegally obtained #firearm) even though he was young, but he will remain in #prison for longer than I am likely to be alive!
I still think there's an anomaly with #sentencing for #murder in #England / #Wales - those who target people known to them seem to get get shorter #sentences than those who attack strangers
My only regret leaving #meta properties in 2017 after Zuck glazed Trump the first time is that there is no archive of just how correct I was about so many things. Including #Democrats not being up to the task in this timeline. I'm not a lib, neolib or lefty really, I have always been a #green #antifascist and #AntiConservative who could read very clearly how Dems are neo-liberal-fraud-fucks. And they found out again. Now it is time my so wrong dears, time for you to acquire a #firearm.
Cleaner pics of the early versions of my hybrid cyborg OC thing, Axel
Leftists, POC, fellow LGBT folks, and any other minorities: Arm yourselves. I'm not joking in the slightest. It might make you sick to your stomach to hold a gun, something made for killing, something used for atrocities at home and abroad, but you should have one and know how to use it. Take training courses, store it safely, practice with it; as much as we want to see no need for guns, to avoid them, ask yourself: Are you really okay with fascists being the only armed ones?1/?
I got moderated off a generally lefty art and academic email discussion list this time 8 years ago for proposing that my libs organize self defense, including home protection, a #firearm. (Still a good idea.) #Democrats are having trouble changing - I say that as an enthusiastic and yes, financial supporter of the #Harris2024 campaign.
But I am also on the record with my excellence in pale #hope! Maybe you can use that tonight? Oct 5th:
WHERE IS YOUR DATA? Without Consent, Gun Industry Gave Customers' #Info to Political Operatives
GUN OWNER LISTS: For years, #America's most iconic #GunMakers turned over sensitive #PersonalInformation on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives.
Those #PoliticalOperatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally #Firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for #Congress and the #WhiteHouse, a #ProPublica investigation has found....
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nationalnewswire/posts/1274219993503374/
His arrest came after police reported 3 #shootings in a matter of weeks at the #DNC #Tempe office bldg. The first incident occurred on Sept 16 followed by another on Sept 23. The most recent incident occurred on Oct 6, when the building was damaged by BB Gun & #firearm rounds…. All of these incidents occurred between midnight & 1am, police said.
Kelly, 60, was arrested on Tues night by #Tempe Police & charged w/multiple #felony counts, including unlawful discharge of a #firearm, #shooting at a non-residential structure & committing an act of #terrorism, & 3 misdemeanor counts of #criminal discharge….
#FBI agents searched his home Wed morning & found ≥120 #guns, 250k rounds of #ammunition, #BodyArmor, a #GrenadeLauncher & dummy #grenades. They also found #guns in his car, including a fully automatic weapon….
The 49-yr-old man, identified as Las Vegas resident Vem Miller, was stopped in a black SUV by sheriff's deputies around 5PM local time on Sat & taken into custody w/o incident, acc/to the sheriff's office. #Trump had not yet taken the stage.
Jail records show Miller was released on $5k bail on Sat after being charged w/possession of a loaded #firearm & a high-capacity magazine, both misdemeanors.
The org had already reshaped America once. >1 decade earlier, it brought a case to #SCOTUS about individual #gun rights, & the majority ruled, for the 1st time, that states could not ban a #law-abiding citizen from owning a #firearm.
While fights over gun-reform #legislation would increasingly dominate the attention of Americans, that victory placed the #SAF at the vanguard of a hidden #legal war, which continues … to challenge the #GunRegulations that are already on the books.
I hadn’t seen this & holy hell is this disturbing.
A coalition of #Republican *lawmakers* want to make the #AR15, a #SemiAutomatic #firearm, #Michigan’s state #rifle, a move that concerned #GunControl advocates.
HB 5792, introduced by Rep Brian #BeGole (R-Antrim Twp), the fmr #sheriff of Shiawassee County, would make the #MilitaryGradeWeapon the state’s ofcl rifle.
#AmericanGunEpidemic #GunFetishism #GunViolence #Republicans #MIpol #USpol #law
https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/gop-legislators-seek-to-make-ar-15-michigans-official-state-rifle/
#BBCNews - #Poland 's #firearm bill sparks human rights concerns
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clly79jvy8do
Poland’s parliament has approved controversial proposals to decriminalise in certain circumstances the use of firearms by #border guards in self-defence.
A #Texas court found that #Rahimi had “committed family violence” & that such violence was “likely to occur again in the future.” It issued a protective order [aka #RestrainingOrder] that suspended Rahimi’s #GunLicense, prohibited him from having #guns & warned him that possessing a #firearm while the order remained in effect might be a federal #felony.
Rahimi later violated the protective order & was involved in 5 shootings between Dec 2020 & Jan 2021.
The #gun counts #HunterBiden faces are rarely stand-alone charges. Usually such violations are attached to ≥1 other alleged #crime, e.g. armed robbery.
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023, federal prosecutors filed 3,863 cases in which the #unlawful possession of a #firearm was the lead charge, per Syracuse’s TRAC database.
In 130 of those cases, or ~3%, the lead unlawful possession charge was related to making a false stmnt to acquire the weapon. The amt of false stmnts + drug use is likely even lower.
"I think you're a rebellious bunch. But let's be rebellious & vote this time."
The nation's top #gun rights group has now endorsed #Trump 3X - in 2016, 2020 & 2024.
The org cheered on Trump during his 2017-2021 term, as he appointed 3 #conservative justices to #SCOTUS & took a series of steps sought by the #GunLobby.…Including designating #firearm shops as “essential businesses” during the #COVID19 #pandemic, allowing them to stay open.
Firearm-related injuries have been the leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the United States since 2020, surpassing motor vehicle crashes. New research from the University of Minnesota shows the sharpest increase in firearm-related mortality over the past decade is not in urban areas but among Black rural youth.
Read more about the research here:
https://popresearchcenters.org/sharp-rise-in-firearm-deaths-among-rural-black-youth/
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