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pinkstarburst

(2,106 posts)
19. This right here. Some of the dumb things we all did as kids
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 10:52 AM
Sep 2025

are no longer safe in 2025. Running around at 11:00 at night banging and kicking on doors of random people you don't know in the dark is a really bad idea and parents need to be having these serious conversations with kids--that just because you see it on TikTok doesn't mean it's a funny prank you should go out and try. You never know who is going to be on the other side of that door, like a guy with 20 guns and you bang and kick his door one too many times late at night, and he's going to snap and you could end up dead.

Tragic.

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Why didn't he just come out of his house and yell at them or heck even brandish a firearm? LeftInTX Sep 2025 #1
Brandishing is illegal in many states Kaleva Sep 2025 #3
Well, no one would have died. Wouldn't yelling be an option? LeftInTX Sep 2025 #15
Yelling often works! Kaleva Sep 2025 #21
They reach you in CCW class DenaliDemocrat Sep 2025 #5
Yes, but brandishing would have been much preferable to killing the kid Mysterian Sep 2025 #30
We had an inground pool at our house in Akron (pretty rare thing in those days). And kids would sometimes jump the ... marble falls Sep 2025 #26
He had 20 firearms in his house . . . . SarcasticSatyr Sep 2025 #2
seems like really, really stupid pranks with so many gun humping cowards around Skittles Sep 2025 #4
So it was premeditated. He was lying in wait. And he knew they were just ding dong ditchers ms liberty Sep 2025 #6
Worse..he laid eyes on them before he fired the gun..knew they were very young BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 2025 #7
And he wasn't frightened. yardwork Sep 2025 #27
An important point. ms liberty Sep 2025 #33
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You're okay with killing someone for ringing a doorbell and running away? DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2025 #10
i am not ok with children running unsupervised. rampartd Sep 2025 #12
Then call the police. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2025 #13
Shooting the kids makes up for poor supervision? The death penalty for being kids? marble falls Sep 2025 #14
How about women who wear revealing clothing? Heidi Sep 2025 #16
GOOD QUESTION! marble falls Sep 2025 #22
They should not be MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD for it. How utterly niyad Sep 2025 #28
Well? How about an answer? Heidi Sep 2025 #29
Any defense of this monster, any attempt to in any way justify or excuse niyad Sep 2025 #31
Cause nothing says justice like shooting a retreating kid in the back from an ambush? ... marble falls Sep 2025 #11
He gave an eleven year-old kid the death penalty. Aristus Sep 2025 #9
dude needs to be locked up pimpbot Sep 2025 #17
This right here. Some of the dumb things we all did as kids pinkstarburst Sep 2025 #19
This is not new, we did this as children no internet MagickMuffin Sep 2025 #32
I never did anything like that, did not tp or egg houses, make stupid niyad Sep 2025 #34
If he was waiting, that's premeditated murder. sakabatou Sep 2025 #18
A lot of gun people want a chance to use it JI7 Sep 2025 #20
And too many will find that chance, sadly. Heidi Sep 2025 #23
"including police", and how. marble falls Sep 2025 #25
Why I no longer own handguns. I would make a terrible mistake, allowing things to escalate knowing I had an equalizer. marble falls Sep 2025 #24
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