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Recursion

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1. The first one of those was a stabbing, incidentally

Reply to jberryhill (Original post)

Mon May 4, 2015, 09:32 AM

May 2015

Over a boxing fight that was somehow less violent than the argument over it.

But anyways, yes. Americans shoot each other for any God damned reason they can find, or no reason at all. It's really an eye-opener to live somewhere else.

When a party actually tries to address the mass availability of cheap handguns, they might make traction...

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People kill people over stupid shit every god-damned day [View all] jberryhill May 2015 OP

The first one of those was a stabbing, incidentally Recursion May 2015 #1

Updated to kill jberryhill May 2015 #3

Sorry! I thought that was a gun-specific thing Recursion May 2015 #4

somebody killed his cousin over a porkchop on Christmas Day shrike May 2015 #2

You also don't see any threads where people bend over backwards trying to rationalize any of that melman May 2015 #5

There's just not a fascination with these kinds of things all around jberryhill May 2015 #6

Some assclown in a SUV shot a motorcylist in the head in a road rage incident in Indy. Myrina May 2015 #7