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Saginaw woman who led anti-violence march faces gun charges
SAGINAW, MI - Months after organizing an anti-violence march in the wake of a several shootings in the city, a Saginaw woman faces gun charges after police allege she threatened an employee at a salon.
Sparkle N. Roby, 34, on Wednesday, Sept. 18, appeared in Saginaw County District Court for arraignment on three counts of felony firearm and single counts of felonious assault, carrying a concealed weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, and felon in possession of a firearm.
Prosecutors say Roby on July 22 had an altercation with an employee at Unique Styles Beauty Salon in Saginaw and said she’d come back with a gun. She left the business, then returned with a pistol and waved it around, yelling for the employee, prosecutors allege.
Roby left the salon when she heard police were being called, prosecutors said. No one was injured, but police said several people were in the salon at the time.
Authorities issued a warrant for Roby’s arrest on Monday, Sept. 16. The next day, police arrested her during a traffic stop.
Roby, speaking with MLive on Thursday, said she expects the case against her to be dismissed.
“They’re all false claims,” she said. “I don’t know the person who made the report.”
Earlier this year, Roby organized the Take a Step Walk. The June 1 march was in response to several shootings and two homicides that occurred in Saginaw in a few weeks’ time.
In May, she told how her life has been affected by violence in Saginaw.
In 2005, her best friend Brandy Boose, 20, was killed in a drive-by shooting as she slept in bed with her infant. Two years later, Roby’s 26-year-old sister Tekisha R. Curry — a mother of five children — was fatally shot during a late-night birthday party in 2007.
In 2015, Roby found herself in legal trouble for witness intimidation for twice threatening a female who was a witness against her brother, Brandon Sims, who is serving 26-50 years in prison for the 2014 shooting death of Keyonus Mobley.
“When I was put in that situation, I had never been in that situation, and I learned that I never wanted to be in that situation again,” Roby told MLive in May. “I was able to grow and learn from the experience.”
She ended up pleading no contest to one count of intimidating a witness by committing a crime and/or threatening to kill or injure. As a convicted felon, Roby is prohibited from possessing guns.
In 2018, she regained custody of her sons, who had been removed from her home in 2010. They also became motivation for her.
“I learned to use my time more wisely and started doing more positive things and ever since then things have been going more positively for me,” Roby said.
Roby, who has bonded out of jail, is to appear for a preliminary examination at 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 2.
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)-“A Saginaw woman who organized an anti-violence march has accepted a plea deal her felony gun case,” Saginaw and Bay City News reported Saturday. “Sparkle N. Roby, 34, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, appeared before Saginaw County Chief Circuit Judge Darnell Jackson and pleaded no contest to single counts of felonious assault, felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, and carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.”
As part of the deal to get the plea, prosecutors agreed to drop three “felony firearm” counts stemming from an incident where witness testimony said Roby returned to a beauty salon with a gun to threaten an employee she’d had an argument with moments before.
That hardly lives up to the “authoritative” lecturing Roby gave the media when interviewed for her “Take a Step Walk.” Perhaps if “reporters” giving her free publicity had been more interested in doing a balanced job, they could have asked her on camera about her prior deal after threatening to kill a witness against her brother, now serving 26 to 50 years for shooting a man to death. She pled out on that too, making her a “prohibited person,” forbidden by law to have a gun. And just to re-emphasize, she had faced two charges for the death threat.
Roby evidently learning nothing makes Judge Jackson’s decision to allow her to be free on bond pending sentencing all the more curious. Based on results she has demonstrated extreme anger and cognitive dissonance issues and has shown a penchant for threatening to kill witnesses. Allowing a demonstrable menace unrestrained access to others is irresponsible and dangerous, although hardly unexpected considering how prosecutors and the courts have continued to show leniency to this repeat offender.
What’s also hardly unexpected is that so many “anti-violence” activists are violent themselves, particularly the ones who rail against guns and then end up using them. Cases in point:
The anti-gun Democrat politician charged with shooting her husband to death.
The “school shooter” who advocates for citizen disarmament.
The “Stop the Violence organizers” who beat a man so severely he vomited blood.
An “anti-violence” pamphlet distributor, working for the State of Illinois, who “accidentally” shot his accomplice in the head during a home invasion.
The “anti-gun advocate” busted for illegally selling firearms.Hell, for that matter, look at Leland Yee, or all those criminal Bloomberg mayors.
There are plenty more examples. Here are some I talked about 15 years ago for a GUNS Magazine column:
The gun and ammunition straw purchasers for the Columbine killers who apparently decided going full anti-gun would make things easier on them.
The Million Mom March sponsor who got a .45 and paralyzed a man she wrongly thought had killed her son.
Another Million Mom Marcher, this one a chapter president, who was busted with drugs and a gun with a filed-off serial number by police investigating a drive-by shooting.
“Long Island Lolita” Amy Fisher, who had her anti-gun epiphany after shooting her sex partner’s wife in the face.Then there’s my personal “favorite” for insane hypocrisy, Columbine killer Eric Harris, whose “Guns in Schools” report concluded, “a school is no place for a gun.” And guess who agreed with him:
“First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period … with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.”
The projection in the gun-grabbers is strong, and it’s fair to surmise how much of not trusting others with guns arises from knowing what’s in their own hearts. In any case, that should not be allowed to have any bearing on the rights of those who suffer no such moral defects and impulse control issues, and the bottom line and undeniable truth is, anyone who can’t be trusted with a gun can’t be trusted without a custodian, a concept that evidently escaped Judge Jackson in the Roby case.
And unlike the gun-grabbers, “our side” even insists on full due process before meting out legal consequences.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday February 03 2020, @07:28AM (4 children)
That one makes sense. If you are illegally selling firearms and the government makes them all legal you are out of business. On the other hand, the more illegal they are, the higher the price you can charge. Simple economics really.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 5, Touché) by FatPhil on Monday February 03 2020, @09:02AM (3 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 03 2020, @02:23PM (2 children)
Would you say he shot himself in the foot with this one? :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday February 03 2020, @07:09PM (1 child)
Before or after he put it in his mouth?
Not sure if he cares, but these kinds of people are not "liberal", and they probably should be isolated from genpop
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @07:09PM
I think you'll find that's the other side.
https://archive.fo/FrPxN [archive.fo]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @08:06AM
Seriously, Runaway! A story from www.ammosexual.com? What do you think we are here at SoylentNews? Take your second mending pron somewhere else!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @09:17AM (2 children)
The problem isn't that these are liberal activists. The problem is that these are niggers. Who the hell has a name like Sparkle or Tekisha? Only niggers have names like that.
When a group of niggers get together and start talking loudly or arguing, they sound just like a bunch of monkeys. That's because niggers are monkeys.
You wouldn't let a rhesus monkey have a gun or roam freely on the streets, now would you? Of course you wouldn't allow that. Then why would you allow niggers to have guns or roam freely on the streets?
Monkeys are known to be aggressive and bite people, often spreading diseases. That's why monkeys belong in the wild in Africa or they belong in zoos. Many jurisdictions won't even allow you to keep monkeys as pets. They are known to be dangerous. Niggers are just like any other type of monkey. They belong in the wild in Africa or in a zoo.
This story has nothing to do with liberals. It has everything to do with nigger monkeys being allowed to have guns and roam freely on the streets. This wouldn't be a problem if niggers were kept in zoos where they belong.
I'm sure you'll agree with me, Runaway1956.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday February 03 2020, @08:43PM (1 child)
I don't entirely agree with you. The reason why, as my Grandma told me when I was a little boy, is because Black women take their hair very seriously. Black womens' hair appointments must be scheduled well in advance, take an entire day or two, and are more complicated than many surgical procedures. Hair salons that cater to Black women are subject to federal HAZMAT regulations and they have regular visits from special trucks to get rid of their hazardous waste.
Black women have a good sense of humor about everything else, but do not fuck with the hair situation. If you are dating a Black woman, never touch the hair and never mention hers unless she brings it up first. Her hair weave is her own sacred temple, and only she can decide access to it.
From the perspective of Black women, messing with their hair situation is like kicking puppies and laughing at cancer patients -- it will have their blood boiling in an instant. And besides the hair, Black women like getting their nails done and so you will have to deal with that, because Black women like very long fingernails honed to a razor's edge. And yes, they also carry guns (they prefer the Sig P220) in their purses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @11:21PM
Sig P220
Euro-trash! A classy woman carries a Model 60 Ladysmith
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 03 2020, @02:13PM (19 children)
...that people go nuts around guns and start taking the law into their own hands? Sounds like this woman was acting more like the kind of people you'd praise than the kind of people you'd blame. Sounds to me like you're just upset she got to have her gunpowder cake and eat it too.
Sounds to me, in fact, like you're so triggered (haw!) you can't tell your arse from a hole in the ground whenever the subject of firearms comes up. My new nickname for you is Moron Labe.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @04:05PM (17 children)
You can be judged by who your friends are. Openly siding, by your own volition, with violent criminals, is rather more meaningful than attempts to attach guilt-by-association to the opposing side by incessantly parading straw Hitlers around.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @04:26PM
"Openly siding, by your own volition, with violent criminals"
So you agree that Trump supporters are wrong?
HALLELUJAH!
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 03 2020, @05:58PM (15 children)
...what Runaway does every time someone brings up the murder of Heather Heyer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:16PM (14 children)
Oh c'mon! Look at her. it was a mercy killing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:49PM (12 children)
I dislike this trend of shock humor and/or lack of filters for good/bad content. Guess it'll be another decade or more before internet denizens are socially shunned enough to drop their adolescent puking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @08:49PM (11 children)
Sorry, bub. Fart jokes are always funny. So's yo mama!
Really you should quit bellyaching and learn how to scroll past instead of stopping to make a big stink on how offended you are. Nobody wants to hear about it, so you can shitcan the pearl clutching holier than thou self righteous bullshit!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @09:44PM (10 children)
When good people do nothing you violent assholes flourish. So I stop and at least inform you about what decent human beings think if your hate-fetish. Not to mention your "joke" is really bad. The only people who might be amysed are also the ones getting an erection from it.
Pure bile, and if you don't like being shamed then don't be shitty.
PS: your response makes you 100% a whiny bitch, you couldn't even muster up some canned masculinity for cover?
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @11:10PM (9 children)
Heh, We do it because you always give us the money shot. You're too emotional to even have the self discipline to ignore the post. That's what we love about you! You give the internet its best material. You honestly believe people like you can shame us, or even anybody? You need to look at yourselves. But we know you won't. You'll just keep blaming everybody else. Shame on you! Don't be such an ass!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @11:45PM
There is that pretend masculinity, I'll remind you that you complained that I didn't like your tasteless joke. You win hypocrite baby of the week!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 04 2020, @02:53AM
Most boys outgrow that shit in fourth grade, usually after a teacher lets them have what-for a few times. What's your excuse? Arrested development? Hell, not just arrested, but detained in a black site somewhere, in your case.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 04 2020, @04:43PM (6 children)
Why would we ignore it? Calling out assholes is where all my internet points come from!
No, absolutely not. The purpose is to make you look dumb in front of any passers-by.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @07:09PM (3 children)
Who do you think you're making him look dumb towards exactly? I mean do you people even have any sort of self awareness anymore? What a normal person here sees is:
1) Guy with a tasteless sense of humor making some mildly amusing wisecracks.
2) A handful of millennials taking offense and trying to virtue signal their little hearts out.
Nobody's making anybody look dumb. You're just playing your stereotyped role without even realizing it because you lack the awareness or empathy to even begin to imagine how people might see you, let alone others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @09:41AM
Runaway looks towards your dumb, AC. Can't you see it? When you stare into the Runaway, as Friederich Nietzsche said, the empty void of the lack of intelligence of an Arkasaws yokel stares back at you. This is what we are making him dumb towards looking. I think. Your syntax is strange. Are you an illegal alien speaker of English, AC?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday February 06 2020, @02:52AM (1 child)
Amazing how many old farts hate the next generation. As if they have no responsibility for anything that is going on in the world today.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 06 2020, @07:27AM
My kids never listened to me. I wanted to inflict the same ignorance and stupidity that I had suffered from for my entire life on them, just out of a sense of revenge for having fathered them. They were so much smarter than me, they made more money, they understood the universe in a way I could never. So, I hate them, and voted for Trump, because his kids are just like my kids. GET THEM OFF MY LAWN!!!!!
So, there it is. Runaway hates most of his kids, too. Cain't understand them. And this is in Arkansaws. Amazing.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @07:24PM
And as an aside to the above this is a perfect microcosm of exactly how and why Trump was elected. 'Heh heh - we'll make people think he's literally Hitler. Nobody will ever vote for him!' It's such a neanderthalic level of cognition, if you can even call it cognition. Those who conspired in this nonsense again lacked the self awareness to understand that people do not simply eat what you're trying to feed them, but rather interact with the system as a whole: 'Wow, these people have totally lost their shit and gone way too far off the deep end. It's seriously time for a change.'
Hillary got about 3.5 million fewer votes than Obama did 8 years prior. Trump received more votes than any republican, ever. Yes she won the popular vote is a decent retort except for the fact that the margin she won the popular vote by was less the margin she won California by. So all that datum tells you is California has become an easily exploited pool of folks that'll vote, en masse, for a flaming turd so long as you stick a (D) beside it.
The most ironic thing here is I'm liberal. But I also have a nice tasteless sense of humor, and think the neo-democrats are somehow spreading collective literal retardation. Sanders may be the only solution since he's liberal but, at least relatively speaking, without the identity politics and virtue signaling crap that really seems to make people just literally stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @04:40AM
HA! Fuuunny! You're not "calling out" anybody! You just get your points from democrat assholes. Yours is what is commonly called a circle jerk.
The purpose is to make you look dumb in front of any passers-by.
And like your caucus and all things democrat, you're a miserable transparent failure. You have no idea how to play the psycho's game. You have no depth at all. You're just follow like those minions in that movie.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 04 2020, @02:57AM
By that logic, rounding up you trolls and dropping you all in an open sewer wouldn't be mass murder, it'd be vaccination. Hey, good for the goose, good for the gander. Cue the "whaaaa, the mean lady's so hateful to me, mommmmeeeeeee~!" pants-wetting in 3, 2, 1...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @08:03PM
The primary purpose of armaments in sane hands is self defense.
Not only utilizing her weapon as the offender, but with some degree of planning since she had to drive elsewhere to get it? That's just really screwed up. I don't see why we don't have much more draconian punishment for any sort of non-defensive use of weapons against other humans. The world would be vastly better off without people like this.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Monday February 03 2020, @02:45PM
"take a step walk" sounds like something from Idiocracy, BTW
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @03:48PM (6 children)
We're not the violent fascist always dreaming of violently oppressing people, it is dem damn libruhls!!/s
For real, this gun stuff is just more FUD because they can't take their anger out on the fed like they got so used to so they're drumming up drama to keep the hate train moving. What would conservatives be without something to hate?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 04 2020, @02:54AM (5 children)
Potentially a lot saner, and more interesting to talk policy with. They'd still be wrong, but it would be a reasonable sort of wrong and one where the path into (and out of!) wrongness would be chartable and nagivable.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:45AM (4 children)
I just wish progressives wouldn't be so accommodating when conservatives start looking around for something worth hating. They're pretty much jumping the shark at this point with just their core beliefs, fringe nonsense aside.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 04 2020, @06:47AM (3 children)
And here we have Exhibit B...or, put another way, "haters gonna hate, let 'em hate." "Conservatives" in this country are no such thing and haven't been since Reagan.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 04 2020, @02:19PM (2 children)
Fair enough. What should I be calling progressives then since what they're making isn't progress towards what anyone wants?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @04:02PM (1 child)
Neo-liberal.
But since we're updating language use here maybe you should give examples of what you mean. Progressive has never been a word I've identified with politics other than vaguely liberal.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 05 2020, @04:46AM
It's a "snarl word," in his mouth (beak?). It's used for the emotional punch, not any actual meaning. Press him on it, and he'll probably say something to the effect that "anyone calling themselves progressive is just a commie authoritarian nanny-stater who thinks they know better than me." See his (current as of this post) H. L. Mencken quote, which the speaker would turn in his grave to know is being misappropriated and twisted much like what happens when white racists selectively quote MLK Jr...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @03:54PM (4 children)
It's much safer to threaten people with a gun, rob them at gunpoint, etc, when you can be sure the victims are defenseless. Simple expediency.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 04 2020, @05:56AM (3 children)
Mostly what they want is to be in control. It's entirely fear that motivates them and control dispels fear. Mind you, they can only achieve the illusion of control, which is easily dispelled, so they never actually lose their fear. When I say they're pushing way harder than the conservatives for a totalitarian state, this is exactly what I mean. They can't achieve actual control, so they can never stop pushing for more.
Why? Ask me another time. I hate walls of text and this would become one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 04 2020, @04:53PM (2 children)
Totally! The people stockpiling weapons and ammo are definitely not doing so out of fear!
The people who desperately need a WALL are just building it for fun.
Yet another scary brown caravan will show up just in time for the 2020 election because that definitely doesn't work to rile up the base.
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 04 2020, @10:51PM (1 child)
You got it backwards. If you're prepared for something, you don't fear it.
The people wanting a wall like what America is and don't want it to turn into another Mexico. I mean, I understand you want all the illegals you can get up here so they can vote in your anti-voter-ID states, but I invite you to go spend a year in Mexico and see if that's something you'd enjoy. Staying in touristy areas will be considered cheating.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday February 06 2020, @03:09AM
You're really coming across as a special snowflake.
Would you turn away someone in need on your doorstep? Walk over them and then complain that they're living in the streets because they lost everything and they're broken inside and that's their fault they're not tough enough? Or didn't pick the right parents? Of course you would.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @04:18PM (5 children)
Just another manifestation of the vibrant black culture in this country.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @04:29PM (4 children)
Pretty sure the slaves didn't know shit about guns till they were brought the the US and brutalized for hindreds of years. Amazing that even with the brtues continuing their oppression the black community continues to exist.
No genocide for you, now go sit in the corner and be ashamed of the heritage you take so much pride in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @08:53PM (3 children)
I can't quite parse that what you wrote as English, but if you played the victimhood card: I'll call and state that my ancestors were oppressed for hundreds of years by landlords, princes, clergy and Nazis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @09:25PM (1 child)
Cuz u dumdum 4realz
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @09:44AM
Fixed the idiot grandparent post. Was not C-A-T in the preschool catechism? In a Hat?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday February 06 2020, @03:15AM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @05:47PM (1 child)
Racist buncha meat heads too arrogant to actually edumacate themselves!
Now maybe it is possible Runaway is not a true blue racist, but his journals sure seem to strike a chord with the proud boys around here.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday February 06 2020, @03:20AM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:14PM
Like in the UK! [standard.co.uk]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @07:59PM (1 child)
Yeah, I agree. Doesn't change the fact that we urgently need real gun control, though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @08:43AM
we urgently need real gun control
Practice, my dear, practice!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 04 2020, @09:03AM (2 children)
Runaway, you syncophantish coward! You cannot even post a comment in your own agit-prop ammosexual journal for me to mod "offtopic"? You are a coward! An alleged man hiding behind a mechanism, a twerp, a wuss, a poutroon, a knave, a Republican! I will willingly take your weapons from you, you cowering mess of jello of a man, just name the time and place. We, and all local law enforcement, are aware of your teetering on the edge of going bat-shit (and please, you illiterate imbecile, get the idiom right, please?) insane and shooting up a mall, a pizza parlor, a church, or a Greyhound bus. We will do our best to stop you, preferably before we have to put a .40 caliber slug into your center-body mass.
Poor Runaway! Survived the operation, that taxpayers paid for, but did not survive the ammunition, that taxpayers also paid for. Kind of a Lose/Win scenario, don't you think?
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 04 2020, @09:58AM (1 child)
No, really, Runaway1956 is a coward. He runs away, right there in the username. Afraid of transexuals. Afraid of abortions. Afraid of immigrants, and muslin. Afraid of losing his job. Afraid to use his real name, for fear of losing his job. Afraid of Democrats, and Clintons, and liberals, and educated people in general, since they know more than he does but he has no way to tell how much more than him they know. Must be terrifying to live in a world filled with that much fear. Seems the only thing that might help, is holding on to a gun. Doesn't reduce the fear, but gives you something to finger and spin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @04:05PM
TMB explained it nicely up above, but I think he might have intended to be describing another specific group.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 04 2020, @08:47PM (1 child)
This news story if filtering through the core: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/04/shoot-socialists-rodney-garcia-montana/ [washingtonpost.com]
Tell me again who the domestic terrorists are. Go ahead Runaway, we're all waiting. That is a politician too, not just some lone nutjob
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05 2020, @09:45AM
Garcia also said that the Constitution says you can shoot or imprison anyone from Arkansas, because that is what it says in the Constitution. Said this he did.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday February 05 2020, @04:59PM (2 children)
She knows, from her own personal experience with gun ownership, how dangerous guns can be, especially in her possession.
With proper gun control, she can see that her random violent flare-ups would have limited consequences.
Of course she'd prefer guns to be hard to get. It would make her less dangerous.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday February 06 2020, @03:26AM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 06 2020, @07:35AM
I had a gun, once. For personal protection. Woke up in the middle of the night with something in my bedroom, moving around. Shot off a good three inches of my penis. If guns are outweighed, only fat people with have guns! I keep telling you! Why don't you listen? Second Amendment!! You want to see what is left of my penis? 9mms leave wicked scars, but it still sort of works, if you suck on it hard enough. The Penis, not the 9mm. Though I will take either.