Two innocent men have been burned alive by a massive lynch mob after WhatsApp rumours branded them child abductors.
A large crowd gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men.
A mob dragged two men out of a police station, savagely beat them and then set them on fire, killing them, after a false rumour was spread on WhatsApp about the pair being child kidnappers.
The mother of one of the men made a desperate plea for the crowd to stop as she watched the lynching unfold on a Facebook livestream.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:09PM (9 children)
Ready to kill a crowd. But, you're kinda missing something. It isn't necessary to kill a whole crowd. You nail the two loudest motherfuckers IN the crowd, and the crowd will melt away. Bang, bang - two shots, two bodies hit the ground, then you stand back and watch elbows and assholes as everyone in sight hauls ass. If you are ever faced by a mob, you need to understand mob mentality - or your will die at the hands of the mob.
Of course, if you are a pacifist, and you believe in "gun control", then you're fucked.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:14PM
Thanks, that makes me feel better about this.
Now I just need to move to a country with sane laws, that doesn't think personal defense is an illegitimate reason to own a firearm.
(Score: 0) by NPC-131072 on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:18PM (5 children)
Are you seriously supporting rape culture? #MeToo
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:18PM (4 children)
That seems a retarded question. How in hell do my words translate to "It's alright to rape whoever you want." Is English your native language?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:46PM (1 child)
Recently people started comparing certain people to NPCs due to their shared stock responses, repetition of answers with perhaps different phrasing, and predictability.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:56PM
Yeah, there are only so many ways you can call people stupid shills before the start repeating.
My guess is that is the latest technique to try and deflect the accusations of "shill!". Very typical method of accusing opponents of the crimes you are committing.
I wonder where the trend of using NPC started, seems a little too video game centric to come from Fox & Hens.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:04PM
Welcome to the latest trend in Edge Lord culture.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:53PM
Its username checks out.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by DutchUncle on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:56PM (1 child)
"Gun control" doesn't have to mean "no guns", it should mean weapons qualification, assignment of weapon to user, proper security of weapon, responsibility for any use of that weapon (including when it was supposedly secured), and the other expectations that the military places on weapons and their use. And that goes for everybody: A bartender must stop selling liquor to someone visibly drunk, but a gun shop will sell that same person a weapon claiming it's not their responsibility to judge.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:51PM
I agree. OTOH it's quite easy for a bureaucracy to impose additional burdens over burdens till guns become unpractical. So, there should be some kind of "unsafe zone", e.g. you break into a house, you can be shot by whatever, the owner won't have to explain why the gun was illegally kept. The gun registry should not be geotagged, so you know that person X has Y gun but not where it is kept. OTOH the owner is fully responsible for the safety of the gun. Toddler shoots, owner is legally the one who pressed the trigger.
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