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The Biggest Con

Jess Piper grew up around gun-toting anti-government posers, men who are just white supremacists worshiping an orange god.

https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-biggest-con

#guns #missouri #USA #uspol

"A radical expansion of recreational shooting
rights in NSW is being supported by the government. Minns government backs bill promoting hunting in NSW’s state forests and crown land."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/14/minns-government-backs-bill-promoting-hunting-in-nsws-state-forests-and-crown-land
#ShootingLobby #guns #recreation #NSW #stateforests #CrownLand #safety #wildlife

So… I’m either reading or re-reading all of Stephen King’s stuff and this is a thing that he wrote and published as an Amazon single.

It’s interesting.

He makes a lot of good points as a guy who owns and seems to like guns. There’s space for nuance here somewhere between “guns are evil,” and “all guns should be open-carried all the time in all the places by all the people,” that I feel not enough people want to acknowledge.

More importantly (to me), though, was the defeated tone that comes from having watched shooting after shooting after shooting. All the thoughts and prayers that don’t amount to shit, all the legal measures blocked by politicians that live in gun manufacturer’s pockets, and the crushing depression that comes from the certainty that this will continue to happen until the end of time or until something substantial happens.

But the thing that’s interesting to me is that so many people who obviously can’t read subtext in King’s books freaked out when this came out. They said he shouldn’t get political or opine on serious matters but held been doing that literally since his first book.

These are the idiots who failed English in high school for not being able to recognize symbolism, subtext, or meaning. The people who are taking everything at face value.

You know. Morons.

And these people were upset but I don’t get it. This isn’t anti-gun. This isn’t anti-gun owner. This is a measured appeal for common sense that made people upset because it dared to ask for limits on supposed freedoms.

Look, take it or leave it, okay? People believe what they want to believe. But I think there’s something wrong with someone who ignores literally everything except the boo-scares in a series of over 60 novels and then complains when the author’s feelings become too obvious to ignore.

Maybe King just isn’t for them.

#books #bookrecommendation #booktok #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksky #readersofpixelfed #read #readinglog #stephenking #guns

Police seize over $1M in items, dozens of guns in southern Ontario raids
Police in Barrie and Simcoe County say they recovered over $1 million in property including several dozen guns as part of a recent fraud investigation.
#police #crime #fraud #guns #Ontario #Barrie
https://globalnews.ca/news/11236435/police-seizure-items-guns-southern-ontario-raids/

David Hogg -- who wants to primary "do-nothing Democrats" and whose organization, Leaders We Deserve, did nothing and ignored multiple emails when I asked for help regarding a gun problem in Maine -- is leaving the Democratic National Committee. #Politics #Democrats #Democrats #GunViolence #Guns #US #USpol #Hypocrisy https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/david-hogg-dnc-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.1jai.3VavVSoDcIVF&smid=url-share

Via #EuropeSays, June 11, 2025

#OrganisedCrime doesn’t need #guns to get its share of #Italy’s #EU recovery cash. All it needs is paperwork.

#Rome is the largest beneficiary of the EU’s post-COVID recovery fund – over €200 billion – to rebuild its #economy. But instead of a national renewal, experts warn weak oversight of the €200 billion windfall is leaving the door wide open to waste, #corruption, and, in some cases, #MafiaInfiltration.

#Mafia

https://www.europesays.com/2155379/

OK, it should be obvious, but it is always good to see some numbers, even if the morons who promote ‘the right of bears to arm’ won’t listen

Gun violence is the leading cause of death of children in the U.S.—and states with loose gun control laws bear the heaviest burden, a new study found

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-map-shows-how-gun-deaths-of-children-have-increased-in-states-with-loose/

#Guns #ScientificAmerican #Children #Death #BloodyObvious #USA

New findings about #guns:

More than half of U.S. teens living in households with firearms believe they can access and load a firearm at home.

Even when their parents report storing them locked and unloaded, more than 1/3 of teens still believe they could access and load one. https://buff.ly/I9kFuuE

"The Trump administration is proposing a change to how people convicted of crimes can have their gun rights restored, raising concerns over what this means for victims of domestic violence."

https://19thnews.org/2025/06/trump-proposal-domestic-abusers-gun-access/

#PublicHealth #GunViolence #GunSafety #guns #firearms #women #DomesticViolence #ATF #DOJ

From Dunblane to Graz: Europe's deadliest school shootings.

Mass shootings at schools, universities and youth centres remain rare in Europe compared to the US.

In recent decades, European governments have tightened gun laws in response.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250610-from-dunblane-to-graz-europes-deadliest-school-shootings?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Europe #MassShootings #GunLaws #Shootings #Guns #Graz #Austria #Dunblane #Scotland #Prague #Czechia #Vracar #Serbia #Erfurt #Germany

Death Unleashed
Old project made with same lamborghini model i posted a day ago.
Always been fan of need for speed, fast and furious saga.
But I am also fan of Ghost Rider. Hah pure vengeance.
So intermixed both together as grim reaper.
Feel my fire in the tire.
Created in Blender 2.92 with cycles.
Post work done in GIMP.

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/nishant_neeraj

#art #artist #car #death #grimreaper #rider #guns #bullets #fire #arsenal #mastodon #mastoart #rage #power #force #domination