• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    The sheriff’s office said the woman, who was not at the home, had called deputies before the shooting to report two trespassers on her property. She also called Metz, who drove over to the home and allegedly blocked the teen’s car from leaving, KUSA reported.

    Metz then got out of his vehicle and is alleged to have fired one round through the windshield of the teen’s car, the station reported.

    These fuckeits refuse to ever just let a situation de-escalate on its own

    Like, you drive there to make them leave, prevent them from leaving. And shoot at the fucking driver before speaking to them.

    We can’t ignore the real life consequences of all this fucking fear mongering.

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      They don’t want to deescalate. They already had a big celebration planned in their head for murdering someone before they even do the act. They want to kill people so they can look like some hero. These people are sick and as far as I’m concerned their punishment should equal their crime.

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        “Yay, I get to legally murder someone today! This’ll shut up my hippy liberal relatives” -Metz, shortly before pulling up to the teen’s car

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      These shitlarpers are a bunch of weak babies that don’t have any idea how to be the big man they think they are.

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      Current report is the gun accidentally went off. Dude deserves the books thrown at him though. Kids where already off his property and honestly where not a threat in the first place. This is like that one story where the dude shot at a car turning around in his driveway.

      As someone who owns multiple guns both for sport and hunting these are the people that should not ever own one!!!

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        Gun owner here.

        1. Treat all guns as if they are always loaded - Followed
        2. Never let the muzzle point at anything that you are not willing to destroy - Violated
        3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you have made the decision to shoot - Violated
        4. Be sure of your target and what is behind it - Violated

        This shooter violated three of the four fundamental gun safety rules. That’s not an accident. It’s attempted murder.

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        Rule#1 of responsible gun ownership: always assume the gun is loaded

        Also

        Rule#1 of responsible gun ownership: never point a gun barrel at somebody unless you intend to kill them.

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          never point a gun barrel at somebody unless you intend to kill them.

          In the infantry it was “don’t point the loud end at friends”

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            But you can have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

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            Clearly you have neither spoken to a veteran at length, not are you one yourself. But here, I’ll explain it. The reason you call multiple rules/laws “the first” is because they’re all both equally and critically important.

            Ask multiple veterans what the 1st rule of warfare is, you’ll get multiple different answers. If you then reply with “I thought this other one was the first rule of warfare” they will reply to the effect of “yeah, it is.”

            Because firearms are dangerous tools that serve the singular purpose of killing or destroying a target, any target, and have been from inception to the modern day, every safety rule is just as important as all the others. Ergo, multiple first rules of firearmb safety.

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                It’s called personal responsibility. You should learn to accept that some subjects are going to be taken seriously, because they are (literally) life and death circumstances. If you don’t, they’ll just be taken seriously anyways, and you’re the asshole.

                If I had to trust some internet rando with my life, I’d have no qualms choosing @[email protected] .

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                  Attacking my sense of personal responsibility because I said “can’t have 2 rule number 1’s”?

                  It’s not me that looks like the ass but go off, hole!

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        gun accidentally went off

        Yeah, of course. The gun accidentally leapt out of its holster and into its owner’s hand, accidentally released the safety, accidentally pointed itself at the victim’s face, and accidentally went off.

        Completely unavoidable accident, really.

        Weird how these extremely common completely unavoidable accidents tend to overwhelmingly concentrate themselves on one particular country in the whole wide world, though. Must be some kind of accidental statistical fluke.

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        Not his property. His gf’s property. Dude has no legal right whatsoever to guard property that isn’t his own, does he?

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            Well if he “drove over to her property”, he might not even be an occupant

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              If you drive to your friend’s house for dinner, you’re a legal occupant of their house.

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          That’s not entirely true.

          When I took my concealed carry class in Tx there was a section on this.

          It depends heavily on the relationship between you and the owner of the property. The example given in the class was a good neighbor relationship and suggested talking about this before something happened.

          I would expect that if the shooter and the owner are in contact during the event to weigh heavily on it.

          The gist is, it depends state-to-state but I would expect that their relationship would make an otherwise LEGAL use of a firearm OK. (I’m really not sure if this is a legal use…)

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      According to an arrest affidavit obtained by the station, one of the teens reported hearing Metz say “Oh s—, my gun just went off” after the shooting.

      The kids did trespass by hopping a fence, I’m guessing his defense is going to be he was just trying to hold them there for police but accidentally discharged his weapon into a kids face. The fuckwit is really lucky the kid lived.

      I can’t understand the idiotic appeal of inserting yourself into these situations when the police are already on the way and there’s no danger to yourself to just waiting and letting them handle it.

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            A lot of injury lawyers will work for a percentage of the payout. This seems like a pretty slam dunk case for a competent injury lawyer.

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            Depends on their wealth.

            The kid was driving an Audi S4. I suspect they have some spare $$$ available. (assuming they haven’t spent it all on repairs)

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      allegedly blocked the teen’s car from leaving . . .

      Sounds like unlawful imprisonment to me. I’m sure he will be prosecuted for that (NOT).

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    “oh shit my gun just went off”

    fucking hilarious how effortless it is for them to alternate between “guns don’t kill people” and “oh shit it wasn’t me–the gun did it!!!”

    but seriously-- if you live anywhere near bumfuck tumptown hickville, for fucks sake tell your kids not to go up on anyone’s property. i live in one of these areas, and the government couldn’t hire anyone to go door to door doing census count for that one reason. they. will. fucking. kill you

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      When i was young, the US were famous for how friendly the people were and that you could just knock on any door and they’d help you. The “conservatives” have really done a number on you guys.