Going to try creating a sci-fi gun in MagicaCSG. I'm not very experienced in detailed hard-surface modeling, so it's going to be an interesting challenge.
Disclaimer: I hate real-life guns. My sci-fi gun will emit a peace beam. ✌️😉
I don't know yet which direction this will go, but I notice more and more that adding details is a fine balance between "No, this doesn't work" and "Yeah, I like it!" 🙂
The links between #crime, #poverty, and social #opportunity are so basic that they're covered in every intro. #sociology textbook, yet #conservatives insist on ignoring causation, reason, and evidence, and think more #guns and #prisons will keep them safe. It's frankly idiotic.
Thurs, the #Biden admin announced they are closing what is known as the #"GunShowLoophole," by tightening up the definition of what it means to be "engaged in the business" of selling #firearms.
The #ATF has just implemented a change in the federal register language, which was previously more specific to who was selling guns, & the agency did it in accordance w/the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, passed in 2022.
The rule now explicitly lists the types of commercial activities that indicate whether a person should become a federally #licensed dealer & thus be required to run a background check; prevents people from evading the licensing & #BackgroundChecks requirements by claiming that they are just selling a few #guns, acc/to the WH; & prevents people from falsely claiming that guns are part of a personal collection & exempt a seller from running a background check on a buyer.
“It will also close the #GunShowLoophole & it closes the fire sale loophole as well by clarifying how #firearms dealers who go out of business or lose their #license must go about liquidating their inventory,” #MerrickGarland told reporters. “Under this #regulation, it will not matter if #guns are sold on the internet, at a gun show or in a brick & mortar store, if you sell guns [you] must conduct #BackgroundChecks.”
RW Media hosts (like #Hannity) are pushing #RFKJr HARD as a "Liberal Hero" who "champions the 'nutty' #liberal causes the Far Left adores" in hopes of him siphoning votes away from #Biden.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has told us – US, not herself, if you can imagine – that we all need to repent and her god, who's aching to hurt someone Marjorie dislikes, is unleashing earthquakes and eclipses to warn us of the wrath that's coming for us (not for Marjorie) if we (not Marjorie) don't repent.
"Greene’s name should never be uttered on television or published online or in paper without a link to the video of her harassing David Hogg, a teen survivor of the Valentine’s Day 2018 school shooting that killed 17 people. In the video, Greene, carrying a large beige tote bag and a single-use plastic bottle of water, is stalking Hogg on a sidewalk near Capitol Hill, where he was lobbying for gun reforms in March 2019. Here is the video."
"Think about this: A congresswoman got her start in politics harassing a teenager, and not just any teenager, but the traumatized survivor of a school shooting. She accused him of being funded by George Soros. She called him 'a coward.' She even warned him that she had her own gun in her purse.
(See link below to the video Burleigh is referencing.)
David Hancock offered evidence that Rittenhouse not only failed the standard tests for entry into military service, but was permanently banned from applying to the Marines.
"Kyle failed to learn a single thing. He remains the same uneducated, arrogant, and antagonistic individual, incapable of telling the truth."
Pointing to a tweet Ohio right-wing Senate candidate Josh Mandel has just made featuring a MAGA hat and a gun, Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes,
"Perhaps it was always going to come down to this. A MAGA hat and a gun. Two emblems of Trumpism, a movement fueled by capitalist glamour and thuggery, the former providing cover for the latter, as in this tableau."
Nearly Two Years After #Uvalde Massacre, Here Is Where All the Investigations Stand
As a grand jury considers whether any law enforcement officers are criminally charged for their inaction during the Robb Elementary #shooting, some families say they feel they've been let down and betrayed by elected officials.
“Name a force or impulse that threatens the stability of the American political system – distrust in the fairness of elections, conspiracy theorizing, the embrace of authoritarianism – and it is always more prevalent among rural Whites than among those living elsewhere."
~ Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (New York: Random House, 2024), p. 5
“In 2020, the age-adjusted gun death rate in rural communities was 40 percent higher than that for large metropolitan areas. The same year, the murder rate in rural America surged 25 percent. Donald Trump was still president in 2020, yet somehow the same media that blamed liberals and Joe Biden for urban crime never held Trump to account for the rural crime surge during his presidency.”
"All told, premature deaths from reduced healthcare access and facility closures, healthcare ignorance and scientific skepticism, and a fatal devotion to guns and drugs are killing rural white Americans—especially downscale rural whites.”