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In the name of religion.
But my god is more peaceful than yours. You'll accept this or I'll have to kill you. /s
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?
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.
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 .
That guy is a fuckin menace, and a liar to boot. If he really thought he was justified he'd have turned himself in to the police, but he knew what he did was wrong even if he will never admit it to anyone including himself.
Pol Pot mass murdered anyone wearing glasses.
Because they don't have same color skin.
because they're mad at the person for being gay, trans, or a different race or religion than you.
Revenge. How should killing a person make it better?
And war, some rich people profit, normal people die
Mistaken identity. "Sorry, my bad."
Racism
To maximize shareholders' profits.
Well if you kill everyone, will there be anyone left to shame you? Therefore, it wouldn't be dumb to kill people then.
Because you were not paying attention while behind the wheel.
Hold on.
There's reasons to kill someoneβ½
"If someone tries to kill you, you kill 'em right back." - Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
We didn't exactly stop the Nazis through polite conversation
A frozen yogurt (no joke, almost happened at my high school)
For ringing your doorbell
Because you want to know what it's like to kill someone.
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?
For whistling.
Because in your impaired judgement you were 'good to drive home' after a few drinks.
Looked at me funny
There will never be a dumbest reason to kill somebody. Humankind will always be inventing the next dumbest reason.
Politics.
Followers stake the moral upper ground and turn otherwise awful douchebags into martyrs.
In what circumstances would you consider murder a smart choice?
When someone is about to testify about Boeingβs safety violations.
Someone trying to kill me or my kids. Maybe I'd still die but I'm taking that person with me.
They diss your mom in a COD lobby. (Happened IRL)