That’s not true. The police said the kid didn’t have a gun.

Pulling a gun does qualify as the threat of deadly force. I learned to shoot at ten, when I was tall enough to see over the bench. Before that I still spent my childhood at the range with my dad, picking up his brass after he finished a course of fire. There were two things he impressed upon me from the time I could…

Ugh, thats not where you aim.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she straight up killed him

Agreed. Another pacifist here, atheist though.  I grew up around guns, and the first rule was to never, EVER point a gun at anything that you didn’t want to kill. We only ever shot skeet and milk jugs and cans, but the gun was pointed at the ground whenever it wasn’t our turn, and was only loaded when we were…

So in Texas and I promise you this is true - you are basically legally required to kill someone to defend yourself or prove that you tried your best. It sounds crazy, I know.  But the logic is that if you only shoot to wound or fire a warning shot then you really don’t feel that your life is in danger and thus are…

Thanks for being level-headed about this. I’ve been dismissing a lot of meaner comments attacking me for being “stupid” about guns and believing “movies and TV are real.” I was just trying to give gun owners the benefit of the doubt.

Also, that it was a gun that he owned illegally. He was on parole for beating up his pregnant daughter.

Pulliam is a convicted domestic abuser with a history of harassing kids of color and getting the cops called on him. I don’t think Means was the aggressor.

You know the part where she left in the night, while he was sleeping?

The accused killed someone, went home, was found by the cops, locked in jail, and under interrogation CLAIMS he crossed the damn street — and was waving a gun around.

No, fuck Debbie Wasserman Schulz, because if she’d been on top of the voter suppression issues, as head of the DNC in charge of federal level office elections, this election would be very different. This stuff was in the papers, it was a coordinated plan playing a long game, and she was too busy taking payday loan…

I’m a religious pacifist, but I’m also a gun owner because I live in a rural area and keep livestock, so guns are sometimes necessary for humane emergency euthanasia or to protect my stock from predators. I also take the responsibility of gun ownership extremely seriously and have had extensive training. My guns stay…

Again, this guy is a POS but warning shots and shots to extremities is not how it works. A warning shot into the ground or air can kill someone you are not meaning to kill. The point of shooting someone is to neutralize a threat. A shot to the shoulder or knee, besides being an incredibly difficult feat to pull off,…

Listen, I’m 100% with you on gun control and how this guy is a POS but you need to learn something about guns. Real life is not a movie. There is no such thing as shooting someone’s knee or leg. When one fires a gun, they shoot for center mass. The point is that it is the widest area, least likely to miss, and the…

Perhaps the very rareness you point out is why we remember...

You know who else was a victim of domestic violence? The guy who got his dick cut off.

Charleston Police Department Chief of Detectives Lt. Steve Cooper: “

Means (who, at 15, was a boy, not a man), crossed the street to Pulliam, but Pulliam’s assertion the boy was armed seem unsubstantiated at the moment.

“Pulliam insisted that it’s not that he wanted to kill anyone, but that he simply wanted to make sure they didn’t kill him.”