mctoasterson

I know a lot of international adoptees and certainly have mixed feelings about it.

I think it is natural, as countries modernize and grow economically, that they begin to see diminishing value in outsourcing orphaned kids. It becomes something of a point of pride or pseudo nationalism.

It is also worth mentioning however that many Asian countries in particular have a cultural tradition emphasising the importance of blood heritage etc. That cuts against the viability of domestic adoption in those countries. It is an uncomfortable fact. Nations like China, Japan, and Korea, have work to do in reforming the cultural acceptance of domestic adoption.

As a general principle it seems that the preferred option on behalf of the child should always be adoption by close relative, followed by an adoptive family in their culture of origin, with international adoption as a last resort. Children deserve loving families and any of the above scenarios is better than an institutional orphange in any country.

EDIT: Obviously none of this is meant to downplay the seriousness of adoption fraud. We can all agree that practice is dispicable.

Mad respect for Luck. I know the discs in his back were messed up but at least he got out while he still has quality of life.

I agree that, while I love football, we don't need any more Aaron Hernandez, Jovan Belcher, or Junior Seau situations.

The pics I saw indicate it was actually an SKS that was bubba'd (crappy polymer stock) so the dude probably bought it out of the back of someone's trunk or at a gunshow.

I bought the original on Steam sale about a year ago. Played 2-3 hours. Didn't really feel hooked by the story or the gameplay. Graphics looked great to me on the SteamDeck.

The reporting placed the gunmans position across the street from the golf course, so yes you're correct, but only in a semantic sense.

If I am not mistaken FL has one of those statutes that permits Open Carry only while lawfully engaged in fishing/hunting/camping.

In some states it is legal to open carry a rifle on a sling in public. Pointing it at/across a public street from a semi-concealed position, as the suspect was, isn't legal in almost any situation, in any state.

MarioKart - Yoshi

Smash Bros - Samus

Mario Party - Monty Mole

It also makes one hell of a Fuck/Marry/Kill

Yes I'm not saying there was zero violence in society. There were things like Al Capone's St. Valentines Day Massacre, Bonnie and Clyde, the Kansas City Union Station shootout, etc. but these were extreme outliers in society at large and were international news because of it.

What is relatively new is the concept of an average student or worker becoming disgruntled and deciding to mass murder peers in a singular incident, usually with some grandiose manifesto attached to it.

Last report I saw was the suspect left an "AK47 type rifle" with a scope, at a vantage point 300-500 yards from Trump's location at the time.

Now granted journalists don't tend to know a damn thing about firearms, or ask good follow up questions so who knows, it could be a DMR type of rifle like an SVD that the uninformed would mistake for an AK.

But if it's just a standard 7.62 x 39 AK pattern rifle, scoped or not, that's ... very optimistic at that range.

Something definitely broke in society around that time though, and "access to guns" only describes an outlet or mechanism, and not the underlying problem.

Pre-1968, civilians could buy full auto machineguns. At one point in the 1930s the Sears catalog would send a full auto Tommy Gun straight to your house via mail order with no background check. And yet in those eras the idea of a grand spectacle suicide/homicide event would have been absolutely unthinkable, even among the most disposessed in society.

The root problem is something more like cultural narcissm, for lack of a better word.

The concept of a deep cynical anti-hero move like publicly murdering pseudo-random aquaintances is a relatively modern problem. Maybe we need to do a better job suppressing "main character vibes" and narcissism, the acting out and sociopathy that is prevalent now.

Imagine thinking that platform only "went bad" recently.

Jamar Chase is a big fucking baby