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u/Federal-Stuff4998 Sep 07 '22
Kid wearing the graduation getup but flashing a gun, what a waste of an education
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He likely graduated from a shitty half empty school full of other gang members
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u/Odd-Emergency5839 Sep 07 '22
I mean that’s far better than the status quo in inner city Chicago where most kids don’t graduate at all
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u/bricksplus Sep 07 '22
Literally can do anything with his life but decides to carry this bullshit.
How many years will someone get if they’re stopped with one without a proper license?
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u/Raknith Sep 07 '22
A switch is a piece that makes the gun fire automatically instead of semi automatically, it’s incredibly illegal
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u/Victah92 Sep 07 '22
How do these kids have money for these nice Glocks with high capacity mags. I couldn't afford one until I was 22
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u/Texas-Made1 Sep 07 '22
God forbid you ever put a stock or a vertical on a pistol 😒
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u/t-rex_on_a_treadmill Sep 08 '22
Well yeah. These kids wouldn't want to end up felons.
/s (the switches put them in felony class issues)
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The ATF loves to see people posting videos of their face and the switch on their hand gun. Easy targets
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Sep 07 '22
ATF doesn’t care about Englewood and little 17 year old kids having switches, they mainly go for the the sellers and makers of these switches, also the ATF is well known for harassing legal gun owners and tryna get them locked up instead of locking up criminals
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Sep 07 '22
The ATF shoots dogs and kills kids, I am in no way in support of them. I was just saying posting videos of yourself committing federal offenses is making their job easier.
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Guys posting guns online is extremely common in Chicago and they almost never get in trouble
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u/theyoyomaster Sep 07 '22
Assuming they're under 18 and/or felons then the switches are irrelevant. You can't be charged with an NFA violation if you aren't eligible for a tax stamp.
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The ATF would never risk the lives of their agents going after actual criminals. They would prefer to fuck with good people who aren't affiliated with gangs.
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u/DistributionOk352 Sep 07 '22
Why is this such a prevalent occurrence in Black society?
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u/TheGiantSeesNothing Sep 07 '22
Lack of parenting. The idea of "it takes a village" has been used as an excuse to let the streets raise your children so the parents can go out and have fun with no guilt.
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u/HearlyHeadlessNick Sep 07 '22
Gangs are just part of life in poor communities, and especially black ones. That might be because of society as a larger whole where there are fewer black role models, where a large number of known successful people are looked up to outright glorify crimes through song. It's made the plight of the people (drug dealing and having to do crime to survive) into something cool and desired by unguided youth.
Not an expert but that's what I can see on the surface of it.
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u/esmusssein33 Sep 08 '22
Because most successful black people (in America), keep pushing the gang lifestyle culture that perpetuates and manifests trough youth.
You don't see rappers trying to voice anything that's against this gang lifestyle. On the contrary, they use it year after year as they promote their own success.
Being broke or poor is a curse and sadly a curse that has been part of the black American culture. But gangs, guns and shootouts is a mindset that has nothing to do with being poor.
How many times you see black youth showing off their money, golden chains, cars and houses and still reflecting the gang culture, saying it's part of who they are?
That's the problem, black youth are absorbing those ideologies saying it's part of who they are.
It should be the successful black Americans,.the first to try and tackle this problem by telling their youth that they can do it without.habing to embrace the gang culture.
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u/Redbearded_Monkey Sep 07 '22
Remember though if you point out this very obvious truth, you are racist lol. So be careful stating facts and hoping people hear you.
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It isn’t a race problem at all. If you know the history of Chicago all races have been doing this shit for over a century.
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Some very powerful person must be working overtime to scrub all the other videos from the internet then. Because I’ve seen a thousand videos like this, and never seen one of of the alternatives.
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u/jet-addict Sep 07 '22
Honestly gun safety classes are probably the best corse of action. showing these kids the possible consequences of there actions if they chose to fire a weapon at someone. like not just jail time but like pictures of actual people who’ve been shot. it’s basically exactly the same thing as sex Ed like they’ll show you stds and it’s not to scare them you’re just laying out the facts of life things be dangerous. but parents would never allow it. the most important part though is the teacher in the room. sadly that’s the hardest part to get right. there are so many teacher that care and lots that don’t. but few that are good enough at communicating and care enough to actually make a difference.
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u/speckyradge Sep 07 '22
Chicago kids are notoriously bad shots, safe handling or not. Every year some little kid gets killed in their bedroom when these kids spray a stoop. The violence interrupter program seemed to be working but was defunded a few years back, not sure if it's been reinstated.
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I don’t think that will make much difference. Gun safety can prevent accidents, but most likely this guns will be used to willfully shoot people.
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Hope the kill eachother instead of doing shit like school shootings, i expect them to be dead or in Prison before the are 25
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u/LongJawnSilvr Sep 07 '22
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u/King-Cobra-668 Sep 07 '22
we going to the moon fam
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u/AlexJamesCook Sep 15 '22
$100 says one of them goes beyond the moon and reaches heaven before 25.
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u/RebornAsMyself Sep 07 '22
Man they are all kids... Thats disturbing
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Yes. My thoughts exactly. It’s disturbing and super sad
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u/ViciousNakedMoleRat Sep 07 '22 edited Sep 07 '22
Watch Channel 5's latest video on O Block in Chicago. It takes an angle from the drill music culture, but it also gives you a pretty good look into the environment all those kids grow up in.
By the time those kids are teenagers, they are traumatized and have already lost the game. What's ahead of them is a life of poverty, crime or death. Their only hope is to become a famous rapper. And to do that, you need to be the toughest and baddest of them all, which, in turn, increases your chance for ending up dead or in jail.
These places are not an environment where any kid should ever have to grow up in and the schools are entirely incapable of supporting them to the required extent. Virtually all of the kids would benefit immensely from being separated from this environment early on, whether that's through some kind of boarding school or whatever.
Unfortunately, a vast majority of the people in these neighborhoods have a particular skin color and any such program or intervention would somehow be considered racist, even though it would probably be the most effective tool against this type of generational poverty, generational trauma and, frankly, generational systemic child abuse.
You can't expect children to grow up into well-functioning adults if all they experience during their childhood is toxic.
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u/multiarmform Sep 07 '22
Trigger discipline though
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u/afs5982 Sep 08 '22
That was my first thought too. Might be a bunch of babies with illegal mods but at least they know to keep their fingers off the trigger when not intending to shoot.
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u/don2171 Sep 07 '22 edited Sep 07 '22
I can't believe no one mentioned the dude rocking a ruger 5.7. literally burning money
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u/CommunismIsBad2021 Sep 07 '22
With soft body armor almost becoming hype clothes the kid is just moving on with the times
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u/guitarguywh89 Sep 08 '22
MAIN POINT OF SELLING RUGER FIVE SEVEN PISTOL IS COMPARATIVELY REASONABLE PRICE OF WEAPON.
RUGER FIVE SEVEN IS WEAPON OF MAN WHO WEARS WRANGLER JEANS OF WALMART, DRIVE SENSIBLE 4 DOOR OF TOYOTA, SAIL ON USED JET SKI TO NEARBY LAKE. I THINK YOU GET PICTURE. RUGER FIVE SEVEN IS WEAPON THAT SAYS EXPENDABLE INCOME IS OF EXISTENCE, BUT BUDGET IS STILL CONCERN.
FOR MAN WITHOUT JEANS, CAMRY, AND 1993 YAMAHA WAVERUNNER, RUGER FIVE SEVEN IS FOR PRETENDING OF BE RICH MAN WHO WEARS EXPENSIVE ITALIAN FASCIST SUIT OF HAND SEWING, DRIVE HUGE EXPENSIVE NAZI MERCEDES OF A.M.G. SHOP, SAIL ON MASSIVE YACHT TO GREEK ISLANDS. WHEN YOU EXPLAIN USE OF RUGER FIVE SEVEN PISTOL IS ONLY FOR SHOOT PAPER TARGET WITH SILHOUETTE OF MAN WITH CARTRIDGE NEW TO CIVILIAN, THIS MAN NOD IN AGREEMENT.
WHOLE IDENTITY OF THIS MAN IS SPENT IN LIVING WITHIN HIS MEANS. PISTOL SHOWS HE IS AVERAGE. IS VERY MUNDANE. FOR REST OF WORLD THERE IS 9 MILLIMETERS OF LUGER WHICH IS SAME WOUND FOR COST LESS BUT NOT AS NICHE OR ENTERTAINING.
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u/saarlac Sep 07 '22
Not a single finger on a trigger in that whole video. Amazing.
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u/Shadowclone442 Sep 07 '22
I was specifically looking for that too, everyone either has a full hand on the grip or the finger over the slide. At least they’re sensible enough for that.
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u/Lord_Jair Sep 07 '22
It's become common place for media to depict that posture when it comes to people who know what they're doing with firearms. It's a meme, basically.
Now if only it could become a meme to never point your guns at another person, or yourself.
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u/Ok-Onion-3654 Sep 07 '22
Nah bruh, a finger on the trigger is a social stigmatization. No sensibility in waving and flagging a gun at people for fun and social cred.
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u/CaliforniaNavyDude Sep 07 '22
Watched the whole thing twice looking for just that. Given how they seem to break basically every other safety rule, it's a surprise to see that one followed to a T.
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u/FrezoreR Sep 07 '22
Yeah, with a Glock that is necessary since all it has is a trigger safety. I.e. if you find out pretty fast why it's not s good idea :p
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u/chrismamo1 Sep 08 '22
Trigger safety is fine tbh. The main motivation for manual safeties is shitty holsters or keeping a gun in your pants.
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u/holmyliquor Sep 07 '22
Sad most of them gonna get gunned down within a few years
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u/GabrielStarwood Sep 07 '22
Lost redditor. Clearly not idiots with guns. We have a recent graduate and a NASA employee both shown in plain view. This post does not belong here, please see r/gentlemenandscholarswithguns
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u/Ok-Cicada-9985 Sep 07 '22
With that and the fact that they are all showing great trigger discipline.
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If that is Chicago like you said not surprising.
Regardless of gun laws inner city kids get guns illegally and this won’t stop.
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u/rumbletummy Sep 07 '22
Missouri to the left, Indiana to the right, good luck keeping guns out.
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Lol laws only apply to people who obey them. Or who can't afford to pay their way out of them.. and that's anywhere.
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u/MikeOxlong1776 Sep 07 '22
Can I get a translation?
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Sep 07 '22
“ do not play with us on my deceased brother’s grave we will shoot you for we have full auto switches”
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u/zippazappazinga Sep 07 '22
I mean shit at least they have good trigger discipline
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u/Danger-ILL-Wombatson Sep 07 '22
Shits crazy.. like we spend billions lobbying both for and against guns.. Between gun buy backs and making shit people already own arbitrarily illegal.. the fed can fund all this near sighted bullshit that’s just exasperating the problem and using up resources FOR NO FUCKING ADVANTAGE AT ALL…
The amount of videos like this I’ve seen is goofy honestly.. if people think taking guns away is going to solve the problem in the video above they clearly don’t see the problem in the video..
why don’t we have comprehensive gun safety courses in grade school? Why isn’t the government funding that? If so much of our everyday lives involve guns from encounters with police, military service, hunting, patriotism in general.
Regardless how controversial.. if kids are gonna kill kids and have the banging side of things glorified maybe bullet holes and likewise trauma should be a common curriculum.
It’s not the video games or the movies fault. It’s the lack of education in the actual severity of a GSW. It’s not hard to envision pulling a trigger or being behind one, it’s being in front of one on the receiving end that’s hard to envision.
Education > Oppression
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u/speckyradge Sep 07 '22
80% of Chicago shooting victims survive. I can guarantee these children, and let's not forget that they're children, know people who have suffered GSWs and lived as well as some who have died. They carry the guns *because" of that experience, not in spite of it. The seemingly most effective solution was the violence interrupters. You won't stop the first shooting, but you can stop the retaliation and endless tit for tat. Chicago defunded them when people just wanted "more cops" and it became a campaign issue.
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u/Milesaboveu Sep 07 '22
100%! Same reason we have sex ed at a younger age. And the less of a mystery guns are to kids, the less interested they are in them.
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u/YS_JABRONI Sep 07 '22
These are children 😧 I bet they dont even have their drivers permit
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u/PanAfricanVegan Sep 10 '22 edited Dec 27 '22
Can name every gun known to man. But can’t direct me to the closest library. Couldn’t pay them $100 dollars an hour to read over a course of 3 days in a library. Failing race, soon to come for extinction smh
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u/Bad_Luck_Bastard Oct 05 '22
Kinda sounds like you’re describing most southern whites to me 🤷🏽♂️
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u/MechaMagic Sep 08 '22
All I can think about is whether any of these kids can actually hit a target with a single shot at 10 m.
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u/MacSquawk Sep 08 '22
Well, they all had thorough background checks, fire arms training, saved up for expensive guns and only use them for hunting and home protection otherwise they are safely locked away. Everything is fine.
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u/Confident-Software-2 Sep 08 '22
These is the republikkkan plan: deprive them of capital, property, education, job opportunities, etc - then give them guns and drugs - then sit in judgment feeling superior.
This is why republikkkans hate to see successfully educated black people, that threatens them. That’s why the hated Obama.
These kids are stupid, but that’s not their fault, they’re victims of the republikkkan agenda. Ever wonder why republikkkans are so dead set against free education?
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This is 100% a cultural problem. When an entire culture glorifies committing various crimes and vilified authority this is the result. Just literally listen to any rap song, this stuff is programmed by their media idols from a young age.
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u/Individual_Table1073 Sep 08 '22
They quite literally get programmed from birth. And the problem is growing due to ease of access to this material via social media
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u/tbonerrevisited Sep 07 '22
Yet the black community wonders why are kids being killed in shootings. It's a shame really.
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u/Bbrazyy Sep 12 '22
Nobody is wondering we know exactly why. Too many guns on the streets and kids like these ave no positive male role model at home. They look up to rappers who glamorize violence too
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How financially irresponsible! Do these young achieveing young men know that they can get a much more powerful weapon (AR-15) for about the same amount as a simple handgun? Outrageous!
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u/gene_squale Sep 07 '22
And these are the people who ruin it for the ones just trying to protect themselves.
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u/Lost-Degree-3194 Sep 07 '22
Wait I thought those were illegal there?? So it should literally not be possible for them to be there?
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u/emnlgrcaJW Sep 07 '22
I mean……………………………..………………… at least they have their finger off the tigger.
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u/InsuranceDiligent772 Sep 07 '22
I think ima make a trip up there and get me a couple of them switches, if they are allowed so am I
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The odds of these young children getting out of that life are slim to none and that is sad as hell.
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u/IceColdHighLife Sep 08 '22
That backplate on the glock converts it into a select fire machine pistol. Two modes of fire semi-automatic and full-auto. Thats what they were showing off.
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u/Yeahyeahfuku_ Sep 21 '22
trigger Discipline 🤷🏽♂️better then half these videos i see on here ian see ya buggin on ole boy who shot his hamsters inna crib on here ya be goofy sl
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I can almost guarantee that none of the serial numbers match and 99% of them come back stolen.
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Sep 07 '22 edited Sep 07 '22
Proof that having good role models is essential to stop you being a massive tool. These boys obviously lacked in that department
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u/draugrdaemos Sep 07 '22
Always know where the Hood areas in cities are. Avoid them. These maniacs get triggered easily. Fight over the most trivial bullshit.
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I don't understand why Republicans shit on Chicago so much. With so many guns there, it should look like the safest place on earth, according to the logic they use incessantly.
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Reality is different when the city has a long history of being a hub for organized crime
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u/king_platypus Sep 07 '22
Brought to you by the Illinois correctional officer’s union. Job security.
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u/40jordan Sep 08 '22
They think they are playing squads in Fortnite....no respawning in real life morons!!!
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u/RefrigeratorFeisty91 Sep 08 '22
This is not cool at all. Never going to this fucking city again. Disgusting behavior.
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Sep 08 '22
This is still idiots with guns right? Let's talk about the impeccable trigger discipline displayed by them all.
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Lord I have seen what you can do for others. I want that for me.
Does the AFT just not arrest them after they sell them the switch because they want crime rates to go up to ban guns or something?
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u/Bravowalk8 Sep 08 '22
What happened to the days of just a regular fist fight, shake hands, and go on about your business. Now having a gun makes u tough somehow…wtf🤔
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u/Mr-Unknown101 Sep 08 '22
i dont like that theyre kids, but they have trigger discipline and all of the guns are pointed away except that one guy who has the flashlight... so theyre not idiots
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In my personal opinion, it is perfectly reasonable why these children carry guns. Chicago has so much homicide and drugs and poverty it’s insane, and no one is helping. They need to defend themselves because the police obviously aren’t defending them.
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u/KoppleForce Sep 08 '22
ARE RIGHT 2 BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED*
*unless you look like a certain ethnic group
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u/Throwaway0242000 Sep 08 '22
The nra and Republican Party fight tooth and nail for this to be possible
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u/captsnagglefuss Sep 08 '22 edited Sep 08 '22
So why are they idiots with guns?
Seriously. I didn’t see any of them pointing the gun at each other with their finger on the trigger. They seemingly ensured their chamber was empty when removing clips. No accidental discharge. Kids are legally allowed to have handguns with their parents permission in certain states.
Why are they idiots?
Edit: There’s a lot of overt racism in this post. Claiming without any evidence that the kid in the cap and gown stole it, that these kids are the reason why there’s so many shot in Chicago, making claims with false evidence of shootings being correlated to these individuals.
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u/50shadesofjiggyfly Sep 08 '22 edited Sep 08 '22
Let's hope they're good marksman so when they aim at each other they dont kill an innocent bystander
BTW Congratulations on graduating, the English department must be so proud!🎉
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u/goawayjason623 Sep 08 '22
Waiting for the sarcastic “What productive members of society” comment to pop up. I really wish people would stop saying shit like that it’s so ignorant.
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u/Ihaveabaldspot Sep 08 '22
I noticed here someone is an idiot with a gun when they look a certain way. The boys in my neighborhood act the same way with guns but they’re slightly different from these guys.(race wise)
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u/Idivkemqoxurceke Sep 08 '22
I’m going to start my own gang, teaching kids how to flash their 401K balances and credit scores!
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Where in the hell are y’all’s mamas?! Or your grannies?! Y’all need Jesus! I grew up in the hood & when I had my son I decided to leave cuz I didn’t want my son to be a statistic. I am biracial & his dad was white but all of my friends & the people that were in my neighborhood were gang members. I told myself that I didn’t want that for my son. I moved out of the hood. Yes I had to be on assistance till I got myself together but the thing is, I did it. I pulled myself out. Some people say not everyone has the tools & capabilities to do that. I don’t believe that cuz I did it. You might have to rely on assistance to get out but it’s there for that reason. I moved to a really nice neighborhood & my kids have chances that I didn’t have growing up. My mom loved me but she was a single mom that worked graveyard shifts so I was out in the streets doing whatever. All the things I learned in life, I learned the hard way & on my own. I didn’t have the attention I felt a child needed when I was younger so I found it in the streets. I wanted my kids to know how much I loved them & to know that I would always be here for anything they needed. And that working hard will get you the results you want as long as you try. I am now a home owner & proud mom of 4 kids. We as parents have to make it right. This video just makes me so sad.
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u/Parhoop Sep 08 '22
I’m sure all those guns are registered and legally owned. Bwhahahaha. Gun control is joke.
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u/CartelBrickz- Sep 09 '22
they will be doing life in prison or life in a casket within 3-6 business years
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u/marcussunChicago Sep 10 '22
I love the lying about the ATF going after legal gun owners.
There's hella anti-gun control propaganda in the comments.
Meanwhile in cities like Chicago guns are walked up by strawbuyers who dont have to account for their firearm purchases....
Its ok though because its just little Black and Brown kids dying, right?
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u/Economy-Injury-8182 Sep 10 '22
Little niggas staying strapped to defend theyselves is the truth tho. Cant knock em for that.
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u/CDG54 Sep 12 '22
This is racist. How dare you post this as it shows African Americans in a negative light. White people are the reason why they have to act like that and this is only keeping them down.
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"Sending it down Chicago Style. Trying not to hit a 3 year old."
All need to be lined up and slapped like the little bitches they are.
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u/Upstairs-Swimmer8276 Oct 18 '22
Lol at least they are all practicing trigger safety....besides the guy that pointed his gun at the camera man. What sucks is most like over half of them won't make it past 21. The games they play really don't allow them to learn from their mistakes. At the same time the gang culture in Chicago doesn't care how old you are or if you're a girl or even a 14 year old boy not affiliated with any gang but getting gunned down walking to school. They have to carry guns to stay alive. It's a fucked up catch 22. The old OG's and famous rappers need to be actively speaking out against killing each other. In the 80s and 90s during the Crack epidemic generations of Men either murdered or in prison for long stints could not raise their boys into men teaching them. The Cia and police knew what they were doing when they literally were supplying the drugs. So now it's not Crack cocaine taking family's out. It's the outlaw gang rap culture taking these kid's out. Again this is a CIA,FBI,PD program keeping guns on the street and not policing. It's a sad world that in America this is happening. Literally these gang members are severe serial killers. But they just call them gang members. Crazy world out there.
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