America..why won't you just ban the fucking gun?

[washing machine]

Drive-by happened a block over from my home early Sunday morning. Someone shot at a high school graduation party. One adult dead. Just senseless. No motive or suspect as of yet.

I've got a doorbell camera and my neighbor thinks the getaway car parked across from my house. An irrational part of me feels paranoid that the shooter(s) are going to come after me so that I don't run to the cops with footage (I couldn't even pull footage if I tried, it's not a 24 hour camera), and that same part of me thinks it's time I invest in a small firearm to protect my family.

[warehouse]

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/ ... index.html

Marijuana (and other drug users) rejoice! Hunter's team feels pretty good about the appeal, so thanks to his tribulations it will no longer be disqualifying to be a drug using gun owner in a year or so.

my medical marijuana card prevents me from owning a gun in PA. meanwhile, my drunk neighbor is walking around with a gun on his hip b/c he's afraid of everyone under 50.

[Stickman]

Arizona Man Indicted After Planning Mass Shooting at Atlanta Concert to Incite Race War
Mark Adams Prieto faces federal weapons charges after a sting operation where he devised a plan "to commit a mass shooting of African Americans and other minorities" by targeting a Bad Bunny show

BY DANIEL KREPS

JUNE 12, 2024



AN ARIZONA MAN was indicted on federal weapons charges after being arrested as part of a sting operation that involved a planned hate crime-related mass shooting at an Atlanta concert.

Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was charged with Firearms Trafficking, Transfer of a Firearm for Use in a Hate Crime, and Possession of an Unregistered Firearm nearly a month after his May 14 arrest, when he was pulled over in New Mexico while driving from his native Arizona to Florida while in possession of seven firearms.

Those weapons, the Department of Justice claims, were part of a six-month operation, during which “Prieto had discussions with two individuals working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to devise a plan to commit a mass shooting of African Americans and other minorities to incite a race war prior to the 2024 United States Presidential Election,” the DOJ said in a press release.

Prieto — who was a vendor at an Arizona-based gun show and whose previous remarks about race wars and mass shootings first brought him to the FBI’s attention in October 2023 — had allegedly targeted a concert in Atlanta that was going to be held on May 14 and May 15, 2024 at State Farm Arena for the mass shooting he was supplying weapons for, an FBI Phoenix Field Office spokesperson said.

While the Department of Justice did not specify which concert Prieto was allegedly targeting, among the notable shows on those two nights in Atlanta were a pair of concerts by Bad Bunny, scheduled for the city’s State Farm Arena on May 14 and 15.

According to the indictment (via WSB-TV Atlanta), Prieto admitted to undercover agents, “The reason I say Atlanta. Why, why is Georgia such a [expletive]-up state now? When I was a kid that was one of the most conservative states in the country. Why is it not now? Because as the crime got worse in L.A., St. Louis, and all these other cities, all the [expletives] moved out of those (places) and moved to Atlanta. That’s why it isn’t so great anymore. And they’ve been there for a couple, several years.” He added that “there would be a high concentration of African Americans” at the targeted concert.

Earlier this year, Prieto sold a pair of AK-style rifles to one of the undercover agents as part of the plan. However, while Prieto was arrested on May 14 — the day of the concert — the indictment states that plans for the mass shooting were later pushed to June.

If convicted, Prieto is facing between 10 to 15 years on each of the weapons charges. No trial date has been set yet.

[blueviper]

Drive-by happened a block over from my home early Sunday morning. Someone shot at a high school graduation party. One adult dead. Just senseless. No motive or suspect as of yet.

I've got a doorbell camera and my neighbor thinks the getaway car parked across from my house. An irrational part of me feels paranoid that the shooter(s) are going to come after me so that I don't run to the cops with footage (I couldn't even pull footage if I tried, it's not a 24 hour camera), and that same part of me thinks it's time I invest in a small firearm to protect my family.

Yikes that is scary. Understandable why you’d want to get something just to feel a bit safer.

[oasisfan35]

Drive-by happened a block over from my home early Sunday morning. Someone shot at a high school graduation party. One adult dead. Just senseless. No motive or suspect as of yet.

I've got a doorbell camera and my neighbor thinks the getaway car parked across from my house. An irrational part of me feels paranoid that the shooter(s) are going to come after me so that I don't run to the cops with footage (I couldn't even pull footage if I tried, it's not a 24 hour camera), and that same part of me thinks it's time I invest in a small firearm to protect my family.

Yikes that is scary. Understandable why you’d want to get something just to feel a bit safer.

[Stickman]

[E.H. Ruddock]

Sounds like this isn’t the first time this “security consultant” wanted to confront someone about having a gun.

[Stickman]

Sounds like this isn’t the first time this “security consultant” wanted to confront someone about having a gun.

Def thought himself as G.I.Joe

[wease]

Sounds like this isn’t the first time this “security consultant” wanted to confront someone about having a gun.

Def thought himself as G.I.Joe

Snake Eyes or Gung-Ho?

[Stickman]

Sounds like this isn’t the first time this “security consultant” wanted to confront someone about having a gun.

Def thought himself as G.I.Joe

Snake Eyes or Gung-Ho?

a fat Gung-Ho

[Peeps]

welp

[Biff Pocoroba]

We haven’t had one of these since in a while, guess we were due.

[doug rr]

school shooting season starts September 1st just like meteorological fall

[Peeps]

saw this on twitter

for republicans life begins at conception and ends in school

[Jammer XCI]

Hell yeah Summer break's over, happy first school shooting of the school year my dudes! MURICA!

[RockPusher]

We can make jokes about it, but the fact remains that there are those here, and all over America, who believe that this is the price we pay for freedom. Dead and traumatized kids. So that some insecure adult can have an ultra-lethal war toy.

[Stickman]

[Bi_3]

I really don’t think he’s thought this through and considered what the effects of locking up the parents of kids who kill other people would mean.

[B]

What if they buy their kid an assault rifle for Christmas after being interviewed by the sheriff about threatening a school shooting?

[Jammer XCI]

I really don’t think he’s thought this through and considered what the effects of locking up the parents of kids who kill other people would mean.

Not only am I for this, I say give those shitbag parents the death sentence.