meme is killing it.
I mean if you try this in Texas, that’s on you. It’s front page news like every day.
Yeah, we know Texans are immoral, irresponsible gun owners.
Yeah how fucking old were you when you started reading the newspaper genius??
websites have pages don’t they
This is so freaking real. Some old folks seem to want that kids just stay still in silence like a furniture when they’re bored. No playing outside cuz “is annoying and dangerous”, not playing with their phones cuz “is unhealthy and dangerous”.
What the hell should they do then?!
A lot of people just hate kids. It’s a big problem
Die, i think, given our position on climate change. Kids shoukd die,
We should all collectively commit suicide, and these damn kids should shut the fuck up while we do.
Build a nuke in the backyard, obviously
The reference: nuclear Boy Scout
Thanks, never knew about that guy. Wow.
They want them to go toil in the mines
Does that count as playing outside?
We do more mountain top removal than underground mining these days.
So fresh air and sunshine! Seems like perfectly good leisure to me!
/s
I remember quite a few adults telling me that children should be seen, not heard when I was little. It was popular and sucked.
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My ex step mom (may she rest in piss) favorite saying. She said that shit all the time.
Few others I don’t hate people, I hate their actions. (She had a lot of hate)
Actions Speak Louder then Words (only good saying I took from her)
She would say these things at least once a day. But always hated the seen but not heard one. Because I was an active kid and couldn’t be ignored.
You have my sympathies.
Id offer you a hug but im too irony poisoned to figure out hiw to write the offer in such a way that it doesnt come off as mocking.
No need she died last month and apparently was just as hateful at the end as she was in lif. So no big loss.
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Get a job
The real answer.
Invest in real estate.
Coming from the generation that started that game, lmao.
Boomers with boomsticks
Band name? Band name.
hey uhhh…you tink da gun sto still open?
Referencing this
I’m noticing a trend of no-context posts just assuming everyone just read/watched literally the same story as OP did.
Well duh. Play outside… Somewhere else! :P
They should play in the park.
This is the first thing I saw on Lemmy today and it made my morning, thank you lol
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Replace the gun with a car.
How much of the “outside” can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.
I don’t understand how we accepted that as normal.
Now compare that with a carless world, kids could go everywhere.
Abduction or aggression are still a risk but almost insignificant compared to the risk of being hit by a car, yet this is the one we are talking about.
Bad straw man, bad.
And that would be great if the initial discussion was about gun vs car deaths. But it’s not, we’re talking explicitly about gun deaths and here about the societal acceptance of a person making conscious decision to shoot a kid over something as stupid as annoying prank.
Now if you want to pull up some data on a person intentionally hitting a kid with a car and killing them for flipping them the bird and how car culture doesn’t see anything wrong with that then sure we can have that discussion then.
Lmao as if boomers are that young…
I think boomer has morphed to fit a certain selection of people which basically means ‘old and out of touch’.
Boomer is no longer a age range, it’s a personality.
Like Karen.
I did this a lot as a kid. One time I went too far and my neighbor threw me up on a fence. He told me if I ever did it again, he would whip me with a belt.
Jesus Christ! That’s ridiculous. I am so sorry.
I kinda deserved it. We were doing that shit at 2 am.
To be fair it was a millenial (42 year old) who did that. Still horrible. But yeah.
I wanna say he was late gen X or xillenial, but ill freely admit I just don’t want my generation to take credit for his dumb ass.
It’s more than just dumb. It’s senseless. You gotta divorce yourselves from the love of the gun, cause this is never going to stop until you do. If it’s acceptable to you, carry on. Nothing to see here.
Ding Dong ditch was knocking or ringing the doorbell and hauling ass away. These dipshits were beating and kicking on the door in a state where you can legally shoot through the door. Agree or disagree with that but if you live there you shouldn’t be so stupid.
You got a source on that? Depending on the time of night that changes the story a lot.
I went back and looked again Someone posted another incident along side this one from Kentucky. https://www.wlky.com/article/teens-target-homes-douglass-hills-tiktok-ding-dong-ditch-prank/65961850
These dipshits were beating and kicking on the door
Where did you read that? All I’ve read so far was that they knocked and ran.
It was stated in the very first article I read. It was a local news site.
I went back and looked again Someone posted another incident along side this one from Kentucky. https://www.wlky.com/article/teens-target-homes-douglass-hills-tiktok-ding-dong-ditch-prank/65961850
The meme is referring to this murder of an 11 year old who just rang a doorbell and ran. The murderer was lying in wait in his yard with a gun, and shot the kid as he ran out of the yard with his cousin.
The cousin screamed for help and tried to save him, but he died shortly thereafter. A neighbor called the police. The murderer calmly walked back into his house, offering no aid, not in any fear for his life.
Yes I understand that. Hence the statement “I went back and looked again Someone posted another incident along side this one from Kentucky.” Someone posted that link in the first thread I read. They didn’t make it clear it wasn’t related to the latest incident. It was point in fact a admission that I got it wrong. Now you are caught up if you understand that. Yeeesh. I bet you feel that you should be right every time you get it wrong. Like this time for pointing out what I already acknowledged.
so edit and correct your original comment?
