• ZeroCool@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    Yep, how many stories have come to light in the last year or so where some braindead hick that subsists entirely on a diet of Tucker Carlson and Breitbart winds up murdering someone for turning around in their driveway or mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell?

    Conservative media has had these people utterly terrified of their own shadows for decades and predictably, now that the rhetoric has reached critical mass in the Trump era these lunatics are getting violent.

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      1 year ago

      That happened about a half hour away from where I live and the victim was the same age as my older son so that one hit hard.

      If I need to turn around and the only way to do so is to pull slightly into someone’s driveway, I’ll do that. It shouldn’t be considered out of the ordinary at all. Worst case scenario, pick up the phone and call 911 to report the situation. There’s no reason to go charging out, guns blazing, because someone was turning around in your driveway.