Yes, yes he does and they wouldn’t show if he combed his hair right.
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I know next to nothing about firearms but enough to wonder, of what use is an AR-15 platform style rifle to a hunter? I mean, wouldn’t hunting be the connection between guns and getting a pubescent male interested in the outdoors? (Not to mention that hunting isn’t the only way to get someone interested in the outdoors. Dirt biking, for instance, if hiking with your dad on some trails doesn’t seem active enough and if making some conversation as you observed your surroundings together was too much of a challenge.)
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I fully agree with your larger points about the complexities of parent-child relationships, especially when a child is just 13/14, and about getting AR-15’s and their ilk off the streets. But as my comment elsewhere here (which I made before reading this comment of yours) indicates, this parent seems to have had misguided ideas about father-son bonding, guns, and the outdoors. There’s so much we don’t know about the situation of this father and son (for instance, why is the mother never mentioned in news reports? are there other children? other family?), but if the father sought to interest his son in the outdoors, why via guns? Why, for that matter, the outdoors? We need to learn more, but at this point this story feels likely to be about a constricted and toxic notion of “manhood.”
ETA: So, more is coming out. From WaPo: " This week, the boy’s aunt, Annie Brown, told The Washington Post that the teen had been “begging” the adults around him for mental health support in recent months.
“Before Thursday’s announcement, the teen’s grandfather, Charles Polhamus, said he wanted Colin Gray charged along with his son.”
Looks like the boy’s maternal grandfather (not sure which side of the family the aunt is from) isn’t keen on his son-in-law. Oh, and this from the NYT:
“Earlier on Thursday, Charlie Polhamus, the teenager’s maternal grandfather, said he believed his grandson was responsible for what happened, but he also cast some of the blame on the tumult in the teenager’s home life with his father, who had split from Mr. Polhamus’s daughter. 'My grandson did what he did because of the environment that he lived in, Mr. Polhamus said.”
A puzzlement: what are those 8 charges of 2nd degree cruelty to children about? The children injured by Colt’s rampage?
Also: a 14-year-old should not be tried as an adult, certainly not automatically. Georgia law sucks on that one.
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It would have been good to know that before I, in 2017, dedicated my life to this as an 18 year-old in college. It just feels like a big ripoff.
Welcome to being a grown-up and experiencing what a lot of 25 year olds go through… wondering what that misspent youth was about?
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When I was in basic training in the U.S. Army we started off weapons training with Model 95 bb guns made by Daisy.
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So should this.
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I may as well stop editing and just provide this link. CNN seems to have the scoops here. One sad story of a family that got all f-ed up.
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I should have followed up on the link you provided before commenting elsewhere here.
Hey, Nick, how does it feel to realize you were even dumber than all those people who thought that “One Weird Trick To Get Free Money From Your Bank’s ATM” would have any consequences?
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I, for one, am perfectly happy to give him the credit if he pulls it off.
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thanks, I didn’t think to go right to wikipedia. I was too wary to google it, figuring I’d get a bunch of stuff that I did not want to see.
I appreciate the link!
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I agree that even though he seems to be breaking with Trump, he’s not breaking with the vile attitudes and policies Trump has supported and pushed.
Trump may lose his status, but Trumpism will live on.
How do we correct that?
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It didn’t.
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Groypers
The question remains: why did they name themseves after “a rotund green, frog-like creature with its chin resting on interlocked fingers”?
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Isn’t a gun one of the 12 Days of Christmas gifts? Sigh.
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The amount of MAGAts and arsonists who didn’t KNOW what they were doing, and were somehow buffaloed by 2020 election lies is approaching ZERO.
And as we can see, and have seen for decades…the RW doesn’t want someone more reasonable to vote for. They aren’t looking for an off-ramp so they can re-merge with a more sane species of Republicans.
Chump’s lies were only to serve himself. Never admitting he lost the election gave him (with the help of SCOTUS) a way to claim that everything he did was official and trying to find electoral corruption. But it also had the benefit of shielding his horde of skeevy liars who could claim they didn’t KNOW and thought they were doing the bidding of their prez.
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Wiles, LaCivita, Cheung, Caporale, Picard, Grenell, Parscale, Scavino, Jason Miller, Stephen Miller, Boris Epshteyn, Beavis and Butthead are all witnesses and participants in federal crimes…and that is even before you get into all the money they have been misappropriating, misusing, grifting, and stealing.
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Earlier this year, in a report about “the operatives who benefited from Jan. 6,” Mother Jones included information on Caporale’s role in the event.
“Event Strategies—a company run by former Trump aides Justin Caporale and Tim Unes that had experience staging Trump rallies—turned a tidy profit on January 6. Caporale was one of [Trump fundraiser Caroline] Wren’s first calls after she learned of [Julie] Fancelli’s spending plans, and he played a key role in planning the rally,” Mother Jones reported in January of this year. “The January 6 committee’s final report noted that a December 29 text Caporale sent Wren citing plans for ‘a call to action to march to the [C]apitol and make noise’ was the earliest indication the lawmakers found that Trump planned to urge his supporters to descend on Capitol Hill.”
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A quibble from an outside observer 
. A root cause analysis would suggest that the problem is gerrymandering, which renders the EC dysfunctional. Do not understand the premise that it is completely acceptable for the party in (state) power to rig electoral districts so that they remain in power. That a racial gerrymander is wrong, but a partisan gerrymander (which coincidentally disenfranchises the same voters) is ok. A representative democratic government of any flavour should have (a) a right of citizens to vote, (b) a right to have that vote counted, and (c) a right to have that vote count. A representative districting in the EC would much more closely track the popular vote.
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He’s got to get back to basics! Stoves and bacon. Batteries and sharks. Low-flow toilets and showers.
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Unlike the Devil, who mixes lies with the truth, everything vomited forth from these drugged cockroaches on two legs is always a lie, so no one should believe what they claim about not voting for the Felon/Rapist.
Have a great Friday!
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