BarstowCowboy
BarstowCowboy's JournalI think ar15.com had something to do with the hack, or they knew someone who did it
Is this topic off limits? I have suspicions.
An action oriented response to active shooters
Today I was driving to go to dinner with my partner and kids, and there was a van in front of me with a 5.56 bumper sticker, you know the kind of sticker that looks like one of those European country ID stickers? My partner wondered out loud at its meaning. From my studies about high powered assault weaponry, I knew that it was referring to the NATO caliber 5.56, which is also the caliber of choice of many American spree killers, including the shooter at Sandy Hook and most recently at Roseberg. Earlier today, I was at a Whole Foods in Tempe and had the pleasure of shopping with a gentleman who decided to leave the house wearing a shirt that said "Range Time is the Best Time" and was adorned with an image of an automatic handgun. He was shopping by himself, so I assume he's a fully functional adult who probably dressed himself this morning, and is most likely aware that one of his brothers in arms decided to kill a bunch of people for no reason just a few days ago, and yet he chose to wear that shirt anyways. I find myself surrounded by such people here in the heart of "The Ammo Belt", sunny red state Arizona, and have for the last 15 years. Something about this most recent shooting is different though, and I honestly felt twinges of genuine panic today at both the grocery store as well as the restaurant. As I type this I'm at a skating rink in Chandler chaperoning a birthday party, but I am not really checked in completely because I find myself looking for telling bulges along people's belt line's, wondering if days from now people will be shaking their heads and wondering out loud at why some idiot decided to shoot up a skating rink in Arizona. Anyone else going through this? I want to do something besides complain, but I feel powerless in light of what (DIDN'T) happen after Sandy Hook. Can anyone think of something short of occupying Congress?
De facto punishment of transgender individuals in the penal system.
Currently strict gender segregation is enforced in prisons, jails, detention centers and other locations where people are kept against their will. Usually when a transgender person is held at one of these facilities they are placed in solitary confinement, which is a de facto form of punishment for being transgender. Do you agree with me that these people should be allowed to be housed with those with whom they identify?
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