Domestic and International 'Nutter Runs Amok' Thread

You know how to make friends. Jesus.

Not sure how close quarters it would be, she looked pretty tall in that shot

More like S n'W in her case...

Perfectly normal hobby.

The US has a combination of factors. An unwillingness or inability to identify mental health issues with young men, decades of alienating propaganda around idealised lifestyles and instant access to mass murder weapons. The only criteria to owning an assault rifle in Texas is that you are 18 years old. That's absolutely absurd.

School shootings now so established in the culture that each one encourages and legitimizes it as a course of action for angry and disaffected young men.

My brain has never grokked this argument. But anyway...

The thing I don't get is that the courts in America seem to interpret the constitutional right to bear arms in a very different way from the way they interpret other rights.
There are lots of other rights that are limited or restricted in specific circumstances. The most obvious one being free speech vs pornography.

As such, it seems like the basic idea that, 'even if you have a constitutional right to guns, the government can place some reasonable requirements or limits on it' has already been accepted in other areas.

While I don't personally agree, I get the argument that for a farmer in a rural area owning a shotgun might feel necessary. There's never going to be an outright ban on guns in the US, so some kind of logical and well thought out compromise between both sides seems necessary.

Proper gun licenses similar to driving licenses, plus high taxes, seem like the obvious step, and you'd think that these kind of events would be enough to kick start a cross-party group working constructively on a compromise solution.
Though of course I realize that the discussion over there has gone so extremist partisan that that's never going to happen.

Though I think most american people actually *do* support gun control, it's the politicians who are against it.
I'd have thought the risk of your own kids getting slaughtered simply for going to school would be enough for a lot of parents to prioritize it as a political issue.. but apparently not.

I guess the highly political nature of the supreme court over there is a problem in this case, and similar ones. Prevents much compromise and makes everything very all-or-nothing.

I'm doing mandatory anti terrorism training. Again. I work from home. All the buzzwords...

- unskippable cutscenes
- interactive bullshit
- terrible acting
- text that is read out at half the speed you can read it
- "you didn't click the right thing, start again"


I also don't need to see a video about how a fucking hotel receptionist would talk to someone. I am specifically in my role so I don't have to deal with people.

There is not. There's a hotel reception level, a train station level and a "pretend you work in a call centre and someone's rung up about a bomb" level.

It's shit.

Are there any questions on scenarios where you are either a raper or a rapee?

Does it at least have quicksave?

Do any of the scenarios make you feel like a big man?

Sadly, most "solutions" to scenarios were to "offer good customer service".

Actual quote - "we have learned that good customer service can deter potential threats".

The idea being that if someone says "are you alright sir?" to a terrorist, they immediately remember their manners and leave.

If only they let the good guys open carry on aircraft.

Give the air marshalls hand grenades. That'll show them terrorists.