Maybe it's just from having watched too many TV shows, but this really feels like a "nothing left to lose" scenario, someone with a critical condition who had coverage refused, was basically told "please go die quietly for the sake of our profits" but decided otherwise.
The same could be said to apply to society on a larger level, though.
I'm pretty much in Amish country here, and I'd say the food towards either side of PA is better than what's here in the middle, so you might be onto something.
It's possible that he didn't want to be seen testing it. (A suppressed pistol firing normal 9mm Parabellum ammunition [depending on the type of suppressor] is still going to produce a supersonic crack, which will probably attract attention.) Also, there's a chance that it's a "homebrew" suppressor, or that the gun wasn't originally manufactured to mount one and therefore he jury-rigged it, either of which could cause the gun to fail to cycle properly.
Ah, if it was a homemade unregistered one, yeah, couldn't take it to a range to try it out or whatever, didn't think of that.
Suppressors are usually pretty restricted, it could have been homemade and as people said, he may not have tested it because it would draw attention. I can't imagine a wealth of options in New York state to go shoot where nobody can see. But I think he may have, because he was quick to manually cycle the gun, like he was expecting it. Though who knows.
You can get a weapon to be absurdly quiet all things being considered, but you need a potent suppressor and use subsonic ammo. Like, down to the point where the most audible noise is the cycling of the action.
True, I was overlooking that suppressors are illegal (baring law enforcement and the like) in New York.
Despite the gun jamming multiple times, he calmly cleared multiple jams and kept shooting rather than running away the moment something unplanned happened. Dude definitely had a personal vendetta.
There's people who loved Ted Bundy too.
Well, kind of. There's also an argument that he's a product of the system, and unless it's an effective way of taking down the system killing individuals is pretty pointless because they'll just be replaced by the next.
Honestly, the whole GB News situation is just peak irony, isn’t it? They brand themselves as the crusaders against cancel culture and champions of free speech, but the moment one of their own steps even slightly out of line, they pull the trigger. Taking the knee to stand against racism shouldn’t even be controversial, yet their audience threw a tantrum, and the channel folded like a cheap deck chair.So, quick story.
Someone decided to create a Fox News equivalent in the UK called "GB News". Actually, probably more a Newsmax or OAN than a Fox, clearly aiming at the demographic range from UKIP to BNP / England First. Although of course instead of just admitting it's ultra-right, it instead applies the usual euphemisms about resisting the elites and mainstream media [liberal left] agenda; being independent, honest, passionate, blah blah blah. And, interestingly, a desire to expose these elites' "growing promotion of cancel culture for the threat to free speech and democracy that it is”, as announced by its chairman and flagship journalist in an introduction to the channel. Hold that last bit in your mind.
So it seems one of their presenters decided to symbolically take the knee in sympathy with English footballers, to protest the racist abuse they were subjected to for Euro 2020. In response, their small force of determined, very right wing viewers started boycotting the channel at this disgusting display of wokedom, and three days later, the passionate and independently-minded channel fired the presenter for allegedly breaking its editorial code.
Uh-huh. Gotta love that opposition to cancel culture, eh.
GB News in crisis as exec quits and presenter is pulled for ‘taking the knee’
Director of programming at rightwing TV channel resigns and Guto Harri taken off air after viewer backlashwww.theguardian.com
Ah, seems lessons are being learned. Wrong lessons, cuz sociopaths, but lessons nonetheless.
That's a fantastic choice of words tho.
