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My hope is that he will feel tremendous guilt for the rest of his life, and that his rationalizations might fool others, but never him.
He’s literally a remorseless psychopath.
Cool. My hope is the boyfriend disagrees with this outcome.
Well he’s an alcoholic so his life was probably already full of regrets and numbing the pain.
He was gonna teach her gun safety, with a loaded gun while not respecting trigger discipline or the laser rule?
I'd say that's "a likely story" but the man's a Trumper so it's exactly the kind of stupid I'd expect.
Hadn't heard "laser rule" before, I assume it's the same as "don't point it at anything you care about".
Yes.
Essentially always pretend there's a deadly and infinite laser coming from the muzzle.
Just to add to this, it's a more helpful way to think about it, because people hear "don't point it at" and they think of "pointing" as an intentional action, like gesturing or taking aim, instead of thinking about all the small ways that a weapon moves as you reposition it or transition from one grip to another, and so on.
Yup.
It makes you think about not just where you point it, but everything it might "slice" as you handle it.
Or even how you set it down, or move around one sitting on table.
A pretty good analogy. I've been taught that the gun is always loaded and ready to go unless it's fully disassembled. Only exception is when you personally checked that it is not and the gun haven't left your hands after checking it. And even then you don't point it to anything you don't want a hole in.
And the same rule applies no matter the type of gun you're holding. A bb-gun, .22 or .308, pistol or long barrel or whatever, they are all always loaded.
While this is accurate and true, the laser rule, for the reasons described above, helps people to really visualize the danger created by a weapon as it moves around. Just saying "The gun is always loaded" isn't enough. Too many people see this as simply a skill challenge, like "Well of course I'm not going to accidentally pull the trigger, I'm too good for that."
I guess to put it another way, just thinking of the gun as always loaded isn't enough, because at some point in the process of operating a firearm you inevitably have to do things with it while it's loaded. So you have to teach people how to safely interact with a loaded firearm. The "always loaded" rule is really just affirming that whatever you would do with a loaded firearm, you do with every firearm.
Don't treat a gun like Tony Stark treats particle beams from an accelerator.
Dude probably never even stepped foot in a gun safety course beyond anything that was the bare minimum to legally get his gun, if there was even any requirements. I don’t know Texas law. Based on what he said to his daughter about sexual assault, he seems like a completely careless shit.
After drinking, and right before leaving for the airport.
You forgot about the like half liter of wine he had.
She did teach her gun safety. When not operated safely, guns can kill your daughter.
Yeah, stupid group of people can’t even do the thing they care most about correctly.
"Kris reportedly moved to the United States when his daughter was still a child, and had previously been to rehab for alcohol addiction. He allegedly confessed to relapsing on the day of the shooting and drinking roughly two cups of white wine."
apparently its only bad when they send murders and rapists and they do not support trump or are part of his administration.
Ah yes, the "good" kind of immigrant...
Yeah, SHE'S the one with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Wow, that’s shameful and disgusting.
hopefully this piece of shit has a resurgence with his drinking problem that will lead to an ugly demise. fuck you and all your failures Texas
"Texas fash bootlicker faces no charges for disposing of woke foreigner who happened to be his daughter"
I get that it was not intentional... but it's still homicide (I guess; in Spain it's that way if it was an accident).
It's impossible for this to be unintentional, or it's so negligent that there's no difference. Guns do not just go off, and Glocks require an intentional trigger pull.
That's normally what the charge of "manslaughter" is supposed to be used for in the courts. Murder would be with intent, manslaughter is any other act with deadly consequence.
Why that didn't happen in this case is beyond me.
There's a whole list of charges below murder. Even "criminal negligence" FFS. That he wasn't charged with something is ridiculous.
If it truly weren’t intentional (which it probably was, a Glock doesn’t just “go off” for no reason, as I understand), it would still be considered “manslaughter” here. He should’ve been indicted. This is insanity.
As someone who absolutely loved Archer, I have to recommend Hit-Monkey.
Now, I know people are sick of Marvel, but Hit-Monkey is BARELY Marvel. Especially season 1.
It’s animated by Floyd County Productions, same people who did Archer, and as for the plot, imagine that Archer were an assassin instead of a spy and that he were voiced by Jason Sudeikis instead of H Jon Benjamin and that he ends up as a ghost mentor for a monkey.
It’s fantastic. I binged the whole thing in two days this past week.
I haven't heard of this, will definitely check it out!
There's absolutely zero chance it wasn't intentional.
Dude was drunk and angry and shot her, and then immediately afterwards started feeling regret so he did what literally all reich-wingers do and refused to take responsibility for what he did
Er….how? Not even a little charge??