A California man was found guilty of murder in 2023 for killing three teenaged boys by ramming his car into them after they had rung his doorbell as a prank
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The only thing more American than killing kids over a prank is doing it with a car
Amerikkkan culture is just violence
That guy got life without parole, for what it's worth
https://rivcoda.org/news/corona-area-man-sentenced-crash-killed-three-teen-boys
Holy shit. He definitely had some screws loose to go to that length. Usually it’s a case of them shooting immediately after opening the door.
Crackers are savages.
Kind of shocking that he didn't get vehicular manslaughter, which is a significantly lighter sentence. It's a meme here that if you want to murder someone, use your car. I hope this sentence has ongoing ramifications in the rest of america to do away with that.
CW: Description of car violence: "Chandra ultimately upped his speed to 99 mph (159 km/h) as both cars approached Squaw Mountain Road, then purposefully crashed into the back of the Prius, sending it off the road and into a tree."
The number of people just slavering to have an excuse to shoot someone is pretty staggering.
I’ve come to believe it’s a colonial mindset. To view your home and even your person as a colonial outpost, to be defended violently. It’s the type of mindset people have probably adopted and discarded throughout periods of settlement and migration. Right now, our society still uses it, even though it should have been discarded because we no longer live in a frontier, because our society is racist and it must inherit that structural bigotry to inherit the rest. Or rather, so those at the top can continue to inherit the rest.
There must be more to it because we don't really see it here (au) and we're also supremely settler brained. But yeah it's gotta be a component.
During the last two decades of the 20th century, in response to several high-profile mass shootings, the federal government worked closely with state governments to implement more stringent firearms legislation. [..] Licence holders must demonstrate a "genuine reason" (which does not include self-defence) for holding a firearm licence[3] and must not be a "prohibited person".
Australia's response to their gun violence problem was to tighten gun laws. The US response is to blame the trans.
Mass shootings are a different beast, but yes part of the story is stricter gun laws for sure. But one of the other stories they refer to is a man killing three kids with his car, and we just don't see that kind of bloodlust to the same extent
Well if you’re looking for a reason for more bloodlust in general rather that just shootings I’d say you could take that example and extrapolate that it’s simply that your government cares more about maintaining a functional society than ours does. Society in decay breeds anger, and we have entire media industries built to direct that anger away from our ineffective government on to whatever scapegoat confirms your worst, most ignorant beliefs.
Slavering slavers
Ironically it's a big reason for my having guns
This^. People ask why I'm strapped and I'll point to shit like this and say "you do know we're surrounded by people who have murder fantasies, yeah?". This past spring my partner had two incidents where road raging freaks came after them.
"Unfortunately, sadly enough, one of the boys, who was 11 years old, was shot in the back," Detective Sergeant Michael Cass said.
He added that the shooting "does not look like any type of self-defence".
you don't fucking say
The police are working hard to find a new type of self-defence to protect the poor Texan homeowners 👍
Julian Guzman was playing the "ding dong ditch" prank game of ringing doorbells just before 23:00 local time (05:00 BST) on Saturday night in Houston, Texas, when he was shot, police said.
The man, identified as Gonzalo Leon Jr, was taken into custody on Tuesday and has been booked into Harris County Jail.
The mf was out for two days before he was arrested? After shooting a child?
lol no way this sticks with whatever satanic pro-murder nazi jury ends up on his case
I, too, suffer from the plague of children ringing my doorbell and then running away before I reach the door! 
They made me leave my La-Z-Boy for no reason!
Every time I've seen something related to this incident on Facebook the comments have been full of suburban psychos talking about how the parents should have kept their kids from being out late, or actually he kicked the door so the story is fake news, or just anything except disgust and outrage that a child has been murdered.
and I just 
Yeah, don't read Facebook comments. I know sometimes they're like a car crash that grabs your morbid curiosity but they truly drain your faith in humanity.
Fashbook is a mistake
According to Texas state law, the "stand your ground" defense only applies if he yelled "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!" before opening fire on the fleeing child.
Disgusting society and culture we have here! Truly the worst.
I don't know what else to say besides 
Fuck yeah! Freeeedom!!
I bet $20 that this guy is ex military or ex police or something of the sort.
guys named Gonzalo 🤝 killing children
a week ago I watched a video of a dad encouraging his kid to do dumb harmless pranks like these. makes me cry inside
harmless prank idea: dont pay rent for a month and then rig a shotgun up in your doorway to fire when someone opens it up
the landlord is gonna lose their mind!
Local mom discovers one neat black powder trick
pranks are obnoxious, but shooting at kids running away? 'Murica
tbh i wouldn’t even call being ding dong ditched obnoxious. getting 7 spam calls in a row is obnoxious. if someone rings your doorbell and runs away thats the end of the interaction. not like the kid kept coming back over and over and over
ding dong ditch at 11pm is obnoxious. but not get-murdered obnoxious.
Yeah like my kid is sleeping so I hate that you rang my bell, but holy shit how to you justify shooting them?? And since the whole point is to ring and then run, presumably he shot a kid in the back who was running away…
The sight of a child running away made him fear for his life
However insane Texas gun laws are, they pale in comparison to the common public understanding of Texas gun laws
lmao. Smart comments are smart 👍
Huh, figured he'd be older
Imagine the outrage if this kid suffered the same fate for calling someone a slur.
But sure, in this context somehow that loon is a badass and not a threat to society.
He will spend a year in prison, and get released on appeal.