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[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But my god is more peaceful than yours. You'll accept this or I'll have to kill you. /s

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The whole world must learn our peaceful ways - by force!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Fucking hell America. That wasn't even the only shooting of a young person that week. From the Wikipedia page about one of the other shootings:

The shooting gained notoriety for being one of four shootings that occurred in a one-week period in the US that were characterized by young people being met with gunfire after making a mistake.

Oh, and one of the other ones involved a 6 year old child and her parents after a basketball they were playing with rolled down the street and onto his property. Nobody died, thank the gods, but the guy who did that one was already out on bail for domestic abuse/assault.

What the fuck is wrong with that country that shit like this can happen and it doesn't step back and reevaluate its relationship to guns?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A few years back it snowed in Seattle, which is uncommon. I saw a video where folks were having a snowball fight, as you do. A snowball entered the partially open window of a driver. The lady proceeded to Hop the curb, and drive up some embankments trying to hit people with her car.

For a fuckin snowball.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Guy I know was in his car when it was hit by kids having a snowball fight. So he drove straight at them onto the pavement, trapped them in a shop doorway and cracked their heads together before heading in his way. There was an article in the local paper about the police looking for him because one of the kids suffered a broken jaw. He still feels that it was a justifiable course of action .

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because someone in your government has decided that you have to.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

According to Johnny Cash it's "just to see him die".

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Pol Pot mass murdered anyone wearing glasses.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Revenge. How should killing a person make it better?

And war, some rich people profit, normal people die

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

because they're mad at the person for being gay, trans, or a different race or religion than you.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Well if you kill everyone, will there be anyone left to shame you? Therefore, it wouldn't be dumb to kill people then.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Because they don't have same color skin.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We get in a fight at a tripple crossroads. He dies. Then I go back to his kingdom and marry his wife. Little did I know she was my mother and he was my father...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Mistaken identity. "Sorry, my bad."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

To maximize shareholders' profits.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Hold on.

There's reasons to kill someoneβ€½

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"If someone tries to kill you, you kill 'em right back." - Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

We didn't exactly stop the Nazis through polite conversation

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Because you were not paying attention while behind the wheel.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

For ringing your doorbell

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Well, the dumbest reason I've seen people get murder-y for is typically fighting over inheritance.

It's like... now there's even more inheritance to fight over. Then also you just paid for one funeral, and now you want to pay for another?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

because they were unable to speak

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because in your impaired judgement you were 'good to drive home' after a few drinks.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Because you want to know what it's like to kill someone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

A frozen yogurt (no joke, almost happened at my high school)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Politics.

Followers stake the moral upper ground and turn otherwise awful douchebags into martyrs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

For whistling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because you had to eat without a table.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There will never be a dumbest reason to kill somebody. Humankind will always be inventing the next dumbest reason.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Looked at me funny

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I feel like you were going for silly answers and got depressingly true answers. :(

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