Someone said it was a Glock but I can’t find details. Since it was a year ago that it actually happened it’s likely there’s news or depositions out there that gave more details. Either way the guy had been drinking boxes of wine, so it was either drunken rage, or drunken drunk.

What you consider legal now, could be considered grounds for arrest or worse if the world changes. And the world is always changing.

That said, if you have no interest in torrenting files or starting insurrections out of your basement, a VPN isn’t going to do much for you. They’re barely effective for actually protecting you if the actual government wanted to go after you for something and your data and personal info is already compromised by the fact that you’re here, chatting on the internet. If you just browse social media it will give you a bigger headache to have it on since most sites now block VPN traffic and reddit will even permanently shadowban you if you log in under a VPN.

This is fine advice but doesn’t answer OP’s question, only adds to it.

As a lifelong shooter, I am extremely dubious of the man’s claims, he sounds guilty AF.

And as someone who is also an expert on raging alcoholic fathers from the South with poor firearm control, I firmly believe the guy is just a raging asshole with no impulse control and a heart full of hate, and he let the feelings win and decided to end his daughter in rage.

This has been going on forever, all Trumpism did was give it a shape so that it could make the news.

It also goes on everywhere in the world, all the time.

Our species is not what you think it is, and I am sad for every thinking, feeling person who thinks they know how bad the situation is, but hasn’t yet had that moment where it all sinks.

It really depends on the part. Austin and San Antonio are very art-focused, moderate/liberal cities in some of the most beautiful areas of the country, but everywhere in America has rural populations of utterly deranged hog-people.

A place like Dallas you aren’t as likely to get shot, but you are more likely to face weird, old-money racism and discrimination.

The problem with texas is it has some of the most vast areas of rural population, as the entire state is just this flat sprawl of land with isolated communities full of poor drug addicts who just stare at the flatness of it all before going insane.

Hyper-dimensional school desk, it follows non-Euclidian geometry. If you try to cross your legs you kick yourself in the back of the head. A day earlier.

Every day, every night.

Except when I need to focus on a meeting, that’s the point that my brain decides “I’mma start dreaming RIGHT NOW.”

I love that their new commercial is basically the same tactic that child abductors use to capture kids.

“Hey Billy, don’t you want to be a neighborhood hero? Don’t you want to help find my lost dog? Just hop in the back of my van attach this camera to your house and we’ll save all the doggies in no time at all!”

The most depressing part of all of it is that millions and millions of people are going to jump and down to throw cameras all over their homes. (I don’t have an issue with security cameras, as long as you own the goddamn feed/recordings.)

This is like telling Lemmy US leftists that they need to start reinforcing their communities and getting social and start grassroots movements to get better representation in their states.

It’s a great message, but the mob is too varied and complacent to actually treat the situation as dire as it really is.

I’m okay with banning the internet entirely. You need a license and proof that you’re using it for business, and make keyboards illegal.

I kind of like that in the end of the Seinfeld series the writers just kind of up and admitted that the main characters are all terrible people. A lot of people didn’t get it, and I was confused at first because I was younger, but the more I look back at it, the better that ending gets.

It’s simultaneously less “magical” and more mind-blowing when you understand that this is more likely to point to the universe being more accurately described as an information system on a “flat” event horizon than an actual 3D space with depth and scale.

Our brains just turn this into a 3D experience of the universe and create the illusion of space and time as separate things.

Not pictured:

The countless millions of people with their own, select worries and concerns and political ideologies each getting their own very special news stories fed directly to their phones or PC’s confirming that their misery is indeed the fault of [PEOPLE THEY HATE] and how even the people who are supposed to be smart are gobbling that slop down like piggies.

I can’t imagine people on Lemmy of all places having enthusiasm for socializing and conversations.

You like the novelty of it, but you would sit there alone and imagine having friends and then you would imagine you know how to actually listen to other people instead of just waiting for an opportunity to talk about linux or indie steam games.

Ah I see it’s time for our weekly “You’re miserable because of group-X” rage bait stupid fucking headlines.

I am far more concerned about our adults’ screen time, the people who are supposed to be running our goddamn fucking country are spending all their time scrolling and tweeting for attention and posting rage-bait and getting in trouble for irresponsible internet usage.

At least the kids growing up on the internet right now will have some kind of perspective and understanding how the shit works.

I mean, we still need to do something about algorithmic amplification of our worst feelings and impulses driving waves of insecure people into the arms of grifters and crumbling society broadly, but I want to BAN ADULTS FROM THE INTERNET FIRST.

Let’s spin the ol’ wheel of rage bait distraction for today, is it gonna be “Gender A has it worse than gender B?” how about a little run on the infinite treadmill of “Celebrity says something controversial?” No no, I see we have “Generational blame for our miserable lives but no actual action or communication to address or fix it” on the menu today.

I am getting there.

I’ve been fighting the good fight online and off for decades now, and people have broadly gotten so dense and people’s worst behavior and worst manners are now considered identities and rights, and it’s so massively annoying that I have grown tired of telling people to shut the fuck up about shit that either harms other people or harms themselves.

Now everyone you interact with is not trying to interact with you specifically, but trying to make something they can clip, snip or appeal to an audience with for views, upvotes and attention. They don’t care about exchange, they care about getting attention from their peers.

At least in real-life (whatever that means) people are on their best behavior when you’re larger than them. I really get how some cranky old dudes are always just looking for a fight.

The anonymity of the internet combined with it’s openness and freedom to shit on any conversation and muddy every water and poison any well, has broadly done more harm than good, and I am really weighing the value it has for marginalized people and the like over the overall harm it’s doing TO marginalized people and the like. I am tired of running defense for people who shit on my help, I am tired of having to argue about the most basic bullshit like empathy and civility or choosing to not be civil when required, because there’s always either some 13-year-old who just learned they can be treated like an adult online, or some tweet-farmer in India pretending to be from my country, doing their best to take over the conversation and make it about themselves and their absolutely psychotic world-views or rage-bait.

Broadly, the worst people in the world bring out the worst in others, and that’s far more infectious than good people being good because our species is all about survival, and we fight to survive.

We probably need to take away the freedom honesty. Just like China was forward thinking and employed a social credit score and took away privacy and outside influence from their internet, it sounds horrific but I totally get it. We probably will do that all over the world when this reaches a head. I don’t trust our current government institutions in the west to do it right, but the internet is killing our society, people aren’t having relationships anymore, people aren’t making friends, people just imagine the worst about each other and retreat to private echo chambers and AI chatbots that suck them off.

I gave safety instructions passed on to me by a mycologist, he shat on my message for not being detailed and nuanced enough, when people have already died from eating wild mushrooms. It’s not a place to debate fine details if people aren’t knowledgeable and experienced.

I didn’t shit on his message, he (or your alt, whichever is going on here) shit on mine, and proved my last point, which is i’ve done this rodeo before and there’s always some nut obsessed with “getting the details and science perfect from a hobbyist perspective” which just confuses people who might be curious to try but don’t know the details and facts to stay safe.

Sorry I care about keeping people safe, it won’t happen again.

I won’t see any more of your messages, I say again you are being way too “hobby enthusiast” when we’re talking about people who have already died from eating wild mushrooms. It’s not a place for dissecting nuance and details for broader public who knows far less than you. Again, you are embodying my last point and muddying very basic safety instructions given to me by a fucking mycologist for talking to average people who might be interested in the hobby with no experience. You are either dense or obtuse or both.

You seem to care more about your hobby than people’s lives, and that’s just fucking weird, and I don’t want to interact anymore because I suspect you might be a very weird person and I am wasting my energy trying to get you to see reality through human eyes.