On June 12, 2022, 26-year-old Nicholas Roske arrived at the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh bearing
a firearm;
black tactical chest rig and tactical knife;
two magazines, each containing 10 rounds of ammunition;
17 additional rounds of ammunition;
pepper spray;
zip ties;
a hammer;
screwdrivers;
a nail punch;
a crowbar;
a pistol light;
duct tape;
hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles;
lock-pick tools, along with other items.
Roske confessed to planning to assassinate Kavanaugh. He faces 30 years in jail.
He also insists on being called Sophie and “she.”
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LOL Kid, are you suggesting that there is some kind of pattern here ;-D
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Who, me? Nah, I’d never. 😂😂😂
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What a coincidence!
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Does it matter at all that Nicholas arrived at Kavanaugh’s house (guarded by US marshals who noted his arrival), texted his sister who convinced him to call 911, and did so? He literally asked the cops to come get him. There was no violence. It’s disingenuous of you to skip that.
He also wasn’t asking people to call him Sophie at the time, and trans people weren’t part of his motivation.
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It’s not about the guy. It’s about the environment that created him. All this weird fetishist violence and attempts at violence… that’s coming from somewhere. These people are hanging out in the same discord chats, getting radicalized in the same internet social milieu.
So no, while we are glad he chickened out, that’s a bud off the same bloody tree, everybody knows it, and that tree needs to be uprooted.
-ethyl
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The environment that has created him is living in the USA in the 21st century. Firearms are widely available, and there are plenty of examples of other shooters.
Shooting someone (or multiple others) is a scenario people’s disturbed minds will gravitate to because it’s what you do.
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The usual. Mental illness and guns. How you don’t get tired of repeating the same thing on a loop is a mystery I’ll never solve. Just out of sheer boredom you could have sat it out.
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“Mental illness and guns”
To be fair, that is the problem, not guns per se but the combination of access to guns and high levels of mental illness. As I figured out long ago:
Guns + Crazy people = Bad.
But corporate media and good-thoughters are actively promoting a wide variety of mental illnesses so that everybody can retreat into their own personal brand of crazy.
But to get there, our beloved anonymous would have to admit that the belief that a person can change sex (rather than merely mimic elements of the other sex) is a mental illness which is wrong-thought.
The US has long had a crazy people problem (as Skallas once pointed out, immigration itself tends to increase people with ADHD type disorders because in large degree that’s who the prospect of leaving everything behind and starting over appeals to). National ADHD is also the source of a _lot_ of US success (in addition to winning the geography lottery).
Levels of non-gang non-suicide gun violence in the US are barometers of national collective mental health (and barometers of the collective mental health of various subsets of the population).
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Right. The exact same environment I, and everybody I know, grew up in. And yet somehow, we haven’t become furry trans political assassins.
Gosh, how did we escape that?
Try again.
-ethyl
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Trans MtF are 0,28% in population. Yet they are far FAR beyond that in these murders. Guns apparently have a very different effect on different people.
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Oh, but that’s the same thing raaaaysists keep pointing out about blacks and murder rates.
So that’s clearly racist.
-ethyl (/sarc)
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Meth,
If everyone who owned guns or grew up in a family that enjoyed shooting went out and murdered people, the country would look very different.
You want to feel offended, so you’re arguing about something I didn’t say. I can’t help you with that.
Clarissa, where have I said “mental illness”? That’s not necessary at all. Idealists, especially young people, can very logically come to the conclusion that murdering some people is necessary for the greater good.
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The handle “methylethyl” is a personality test.
long enough to be inconvenient to type. Not everybody shortens it the same way, and the choice is an efficient sorting mechanism.
Thanks for participating.
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It’s totally a Rorschach test. I’m loving it.
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It doesn’t work on chemists 😉
-ethyl
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I confess, after me being scrupulously polite and you making a point over and over again that you and many other people grew up with guns and haven’t murdered anyone, I express ed a slight displeasure by abbreviating your name this way on purpose.
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Clarissa, thanks for being clever. You two wrapped that up nicely and I feel totally owned.
On a serious note, we’re 1/4 through this century and the shooter is an archetype in American psyche. Kids grow up doing school shooter drills and hearing about various shootings that make it to the news.
This by itself makes it more likely that someone will think of doing that.
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There are kids who have bombs dropping on their heads and not using that as an excuse, so I’d stay away from that argument.
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What argument? I didn’t make an argument that kids in a different country (I presume Ukraine), a very different environment, without mass shooters and school shooter drills, then go on to shoot others.
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You should be ashamed of this comment because it’s absolutely atrocious. But the saddest part isn’t that you made the comment. Anybody can say a terrible, rude thing, although you say them much more often than anybody else here. The saddest part is that you will never understand why your comment is pouty, self-righteous, self-aggrandizing and embarrassing.
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Whether you like it or not that was amusing. Might I suggest that you identify yourself by at least appending a letter or two. Because sadly at the moment, you are presenting a rather unfortunate image:
and worse, some of us suspect that it actually was a goat rodeo ;-D
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