What’s the minimum number of bullets a police officer should permit someone to fire into their flesh before, in your view, they are authorized to defend themselves?

Digging their own grave deeper and deeper with every new rugrat.

If the story was supposed to make me feel sympathy for those people, that line should have been omitted.

Look, I get that a poor person can be the victim of an unplanned pregnancy, and maybe prevented from dealing with it due to lack of abortion access or political/religious indoctrination, but when you’re dirt poor and working on baby number six...goddamn, people. Stop doing that. Baby number two didn’t fix your…

No more so than “but the roommate obviously knows every last detail of her mental state at all times because they live together, and isn’t just a fucking moron who can’t recognize when they’re in danger”.

Have some class, man. Drink bleach.

Statistics are not a shield against your own carelessness.

Right. The person going nuts with a knife is a cook with epilepsy.

I’m like 80% sure I read that very article a week ago...

This is like telling someone with no money that they need to invest their money so they will have more money.

We’ll only let you exercise your constitutional right under extremely controlled circumstances, entirely at the whim of other people, when and where we say you can exercise it. That’s not infringement!

If you’re such a fucking expert in dealing with armed crazy people, then please, sign up to your local police force and show all us primitive unenlightened people how it’s done.

Of course you use actual violence to respond to a threat of violence! That’s how you don’t get killed by the person threatening violence.

That person is not a mental health professional. They are not trained to identify and respond to erratic and risky behavior.

Side note: Have two photocopies of your passport: One to hand out to authorities, and one to stash in your shoe or a side pocket or something. Don’t hand out your actual passport for anything short of “give it to me or I shoot you”. But, even if your passport is taken away from you, the embassy will use that photocopy…

That makes that person a fool who did not appreciate the danger they were in.

From freedom of speech to “silence everything I don’t like via economic violence”.

You really want to live in a world where people are fired over personal Facebook posts. This is really what you want.

How about just raising the age for enlistment to 21?