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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • Do we actually know if he had a knife? Initial reporting was that the police knew he had a knife because he refused to take his hands out of his pockets. While he did threaten them, it was contingent upon them continuing to follow them. He did not actually attack them until after multiple officers attempted to tase him. Furthermore, so what if he had a knife? As far as we’re aware, he’s got a second amendment right to keep and bear arms. Being armed isn’t an excuse to be killed by cops because you are generally explicitly allowed to be armed.

    All in all:

    • We don’t know he’s armed
    • We don’t know his intentions
    • He didn’t immediately attack anyone
    • While he did threaten them he made no indication that he intended to follow through until he was attacked
    • He continued to try to leave the situation until he was attacked
    • The police attacked him first
    • He didn’t have a gun
    • 4 people were shot by the police; he was killed (this seems to have been erroneously reported earlier. He is now reportedly in critical condition), an officer and 2 bystanders were wounded
    • No one was stabbed

    While that is textbook escalation, it really doesn’t seem like they shot him cause he had a knife. They shot him (and 3 others) cause he didn’t care about their authority and they couldn’t let the guy that was already on the train go. And all that came about because he tried to skip a fare that costs around the same amount as the bullets fired.






  • It’s way more than just trigger discipline. There’s the traditional rules of course:

    • Never point your gun at something you do not intend to kill
    • Be sure of your target and what’s beyond
    • Trigger discipline

    But there’s also reasonable shit beyond the 5 basic rules:

    • Don’t willingly put yourself in a situation where use of a gun may be warranted.
    • Property isn’t worth killing over, especially in situations where you had to go out of your way to put yourself in perceived danger to protect it.
    • Don’t block in the person you are trying to convince to leave.
    • People with guns commit more acts of violence than those who don’t. Owning a gun is an irresponsible choice. There are more and there are less responsible gun owners, but owning a gun puts you and those around at a greater risk of violence. When all you have is a hammer …









  • It was a lot easier to pretend to be a good person when every moral failure you make wasn’t broadcast around the world the moment it was discovered. Case and point, look into Bill Gates more. He wasn’t always a respectful guy, got caught up in the whole “filthy communists” schtick when the government was investigating his company, advocates for more restrictive control of aid distribution favoring manufacturers more than those he’s trying to help, conflicts of interest in his charity, opposing twitters ban of Trump after the insurrection, etc.