gyrofry posted:i always assume everyone looks like their avatars
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:
“He started shooting, and I started shooting,” said gun owner Linda Cruz.
Time and time again, that armed civilian dies — shot by a round that marks him or her with paint. In only two cases, they were able to take out one of two gunmen in the process.
“It’s interesting to see how people react under stress,” said gun owner Nick Leghorn. “It’s not what you’d expect people do.”
A group called The Truth About Guns organized the simulation, hoping to learn how things might have been different in Paris — or any other mass shooting.
“It’s the one people are Monday-morning-quarterbacking at the moment,” said Leghorn.
Parks Matthew is a father of four and was curious to see what instinct would kick in.
“If I’m in a movie theater and someone pulls a gun, what am I going to do?” he said. “I know now I’m not going to just fall on my kids and protect them; I need to advance on the threat.”
He walked away armed with a little more information.
“Still got killed, but did better than I thought I would,” said Matthew.
In the end, only one of the 12 volunteer victims in the exercise survived. And it was because she ran away. No one was able to take out both mock shooters.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30835625 posted:Speaking to journalists flying with him to the Philippines, Pope Francis said last week's attacks were an "aberration", and such horrific violence in God's name could not be justified.
He staunchly defended freedom of expression, but then he said there were limits, especially when people mocked religion.
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched," he said, throwing a pretend punch at the doctor, who was standing beside him.
"You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit."
Note to the prospective and actual authors on the Rhizzone, please do not attempt self harm over this joke post as the forum can ill afford to lose more posters like bongknower1984, MarxistMario, or HenryKrinkle.
notciaNOTjew posted:Just finished reading A Theological Basis for the Organization of Ontological Thought: A view from inside my Ass and it's a real mind bender. Oh I see you have a first edition because you're also the author? Well here's a forward to put in your next reprint: fuck you!!!
Note to the prospective and actual authors on the Rhizzone, please do not attempt self harm over this joke post as the forum can ill afford to lose more posters like bongknower1984, MarxistMario, or HenryKrinkle.
that's what's fun about this forum you jackanape, people can bullshit and take funny positions and no one starts demanding footnotes.
Edited by Meursault ()
HenryKrinkle posted:this thread
getfiscal posted:notciaNOTjew posted:Just finished reading A Theological Basis for the Organization of Ontological Thought: A view from inside my Ass and it's a real mind bender. Oh I see you have a first edition because you're also the author? Well here's a forward to put in your next reprint: fuck you!!!
Note to the prospective and actual authors on the Rhizzone, please do not attempt self harm over this joke post as the forum can ill afford to lose more posters like bongknower1984, MarxistMario, or HenryKrinkle.that's what's fun about this forum you jackanape, people can bullshit and take funny positions and no one starts demanding footnotes.
Going to be fairly pissed about this interpretation of a backhanded joke as soon as I figure out what a jackanape is
An anti-Charlie Hebdo cartoon in Echorouk, an Algerian newspaper, playing on char, French for “tank”: a tank with the sign “I am tank” is shown crushing “Gaza,” “Mali,” “Syria,” and “Iraq,” January 14, 2015.
Crow posted:you wouldn't have anime disease of the mind