• Twofacetony@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    The firearm culture, and how normalised it is.

    I went into a Walgreens in Chicago, and waited in line behind two other people. There was a cashier free but the person in front of the line was waiting to be called. The guy behind the person in front politely said, “ma’am, the cashier is free” ‘I’m waiting to be called” was the response.

    So the guy behind her just walked past her, and she pushed him and said, “Careful buddy, you’ll get shot for doing something like that”

    I was taken aback at how quickly a simple discourtesy escalated to shooting someone. It just blew my mind that shooting someone over queue jumping was verbalised, and seemingly normal to each other.

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        4 hours ago

        You got down voted but Chicago is just a weird place. When someone feels the need to make a website with a comical spin on the violence then something is very wrong. They have a Shot-in-the-Ass-O-Meter and Shot-in-the-Junk-O-Meter which are at 96 and 31 for the year so far.

        Edit:Had to fix link…