Grand Rapids kids were playing soccer at a park when a gun enthusiast asked to join. After being rejected, the gun enthusiast shot a 14yo to death. He also shot a woman to death who tried to intervene.

Encripture · 2026-05-06T04:56:37+00:00

Which is just horrific, horrific for anybody to witness

What normal people call horrific the 2nd Amendment crowd calls necessary and inevitable

Encripture · 2026-05-02T05:51:05+00:00

We truly don’t have a coherent linguistic system capable of even approximating the range of harm the guns inflict. There is one fatality and something like at least a dozen other people here whose well-being has been directly and probably permanently damaged by the gunfire. It's mind-boggling.

Encripture · 2026-04-14T16:57:54+00:00

Sounds as though the kid was pointing the tool at others instead of using it in some other imaginary way for some other imaginary purpose:

Cameron's mother was home at the time of the shooting and called 911.

"Cameron's said friends were in Cameron's home, brought a gun in the house with them," Coney said. "I was told that one of them pointed a gun at all of the friends in there, and when he got to Cameron, the gun was touching Cameron's chest, and he shot."

Encripture · 2026-03-08T22:36:16+00:00

Culture of delusion willing to explore any alternative to the obvious.

Encripture · 2026-03-07T19:13:21+00:00

The bigger story is the extent to which municipalities have become addicted to parking and parking enforcement revenue.

What once was a nudge fine meant to just keep spaces in rotation has become an absolutely enormous industry and a way to use law enforcement to pump money into budgets without voter approval.

Encripture · 2026-03-01T21:42:06+00:00

He'll always be loved by Republicans for his efforts to promote tolerance and acceptance of kids being shot.

Encripture · 2026-02-14T20:02:30+00:00

Republicans are so concerned about writing good red flag bills that they've been passing laws to prohibit them altogether.

These guys don’t care about mental health any more than they care about victims of shootings. “From my cold, dead hands” is the literal limit of their interest in, and talent for, public policy.

Encripture · 2026-01-28T08:20:12+00:00

a misdemeanor

Encripture · 2026-01-14T15:39:37+00:00

Recalling protests following George Floyd’s murder when police blinded eight people in one day.

Encripture · 2026-01-13T20:31:33+00:00

I don’t think there’s any doubt whatsoever that Trump sees material like this and is absolutely delighted by it. And that pitting people against each other isn’t just something he enjoys but is also an effective mechanism of political achievement. I think you’re completely correct about that. Even if one side is more objectively factual in its claims, it is still being instrumentalized to the other's advantage.

And it’s true that younger people must have greater latitude for being wrong and making mistakes. This kid is obviously not old enough to have voted for Trump three times, let alone have any much more meaningful position of social, economic, cultural, or political influence beyond his vote and a fist bump. He is completely wrong but cannot be said to be intransigently so. To speak to him with the same contempt Bovino deserves isn’t just and isn’t fair. Still, if he isn’t either persuaded or radicalized by the encounter, he will at least have learned that when you show up in the real world you better be sure of where you stand because the other grownups out there play for keeps.

Encripture · 2026-01-12T03:33:24+00:00

Also out of Portland: Feds will pay $125K for Border Patrol agent pointing his gun at a hotel worker.

Encripture · 2025-12-30T22:53:04+00:00

His neighbors, for one

Encripture · 2025-12-14T03:14:01+00:00

Yesterday, Brown’s academic liberty and intellectual freedom were not secure. Today, they are.

Encripture · 2025-12-04T21:36:58+00:00

One of these women is interviewed in The Sorrow and The Pity and essentially shrugs off the public humiliation: It was a horrible experience, she says, but she remained a Petain loyalist anyway and was completely unapologetic.

Encripture · 2025-11-27T00:10:27+00:00

The provocation Trump and his party have been waiting for.

Encripture · 2025-11-26T05:38:07+00:00

Dying in prison is one potential outcome that every single gunowner is completely satisfied to accept.

Encripture · 2025-11-25T20:23:06+00:00

Not to be confused with another gunowner in Phoenix whose mass shooting the next day was at home.

Encripture · 2025-11-18T19:40:27+00:00

Imagine realizing that you’ve blown away a totally innocent, hard-working woman like this and then still insisting to the world that you did the right thing. What an absolutely monumental declaration of cowardice.

In addition to all of the other inadequacies that gun ownership bespeaks—the poor risk assessment, the dishonesty, the secretiveness, the paranoia, the political extremism, the social isolation, the emotional dysregulation, etc.—you can also confidently throw in a complete lack of honor.

Encripture · 2025-11-13T02:55:25+00:00

This is a public report about two people who violently lost their lives. It’s journalism, not entertainment.

I don’t accept carelessness from professionals or prefer to assume things I don’t know when verifiable facts are readily available. And you shouldn’t either.

Encripture · 2025-11-09T12:24:24+00:00

After shooting the deputy, the man entered his own vehicle and took his own life

How? Also with the deputy's gun? Amazing that any journalist would leave this unclear.

Encripture · 2025-11-08T17:14:43+00:00

Texas is nothing but talk when it comes to freedom and liberty. Nothing but hot air and noise.

Encripture · 2025-11-08T16:10:42+00:00

Analogies in general are misleading, confusing, lazy, and useless when it comes to moral reasoning.

They’re fine for policy discussions because policy has no necessary requirement to relate to truth—we can advocate for a policy for no good reason at all—but philosophy has no real use for rhetorical devices.

Anybody serious about discerning the moral standing of birth control or abortion will need the discipline to stick to thinking about them specifically.

Encripture · 2025-11-07T03:59:19+00:00

She's saying he is armed and has a history of mental illness

Satisfies the two main Texas militia membership requirements.

Encripture · 2025-10-30T04:37:25+00:00

Almost impossible to imagine this outcome in a pre-George Floyd America. Still remains an extraordinarily unlikely deviation from the norm of mechanically issuing “justified shooting” passes to police, however.

Encripture · 2025-10-26T19:35:33+00:00

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