Lets break it down... (mostly for the non-americans who aren't used to guns)

• Gun was loaded. You shouldn't be storing a loaded weapon. So he either loaded it there or is an irresponsible gun owner.
• Gun was pointed at a person. Never point a gun (loaded or not) at anything you don't intend to shoot.
• His finger was on the trigger. No trigger discipline at all. Index finger should be planted on the frame while doing literally ANYTHING other than meaning to pull the trigger.

This is the basics... Anyone who's taken any gun safety course would know, any responsible gun owner would know and religiously follow...

1. Treat every gun like it's loaded
2. Keep your finger off the trigger
3. Don't point at anything you don't plan to shoot
4. Be aware of what's behind your target

If I remember from reading about this when it happened, he's also the only witness. The only other person that could confirm this was an accident is fucking dead. So they just believe him? The fuck?

So, fun fact: Alexander Hamilton may have killed himself.

He supplied the dueling pistols for the duel with Burr, and a few things about them.

• He had them custom made with a larger, more deadly bore.

• He had modified the trigger to require a much lighter pull than most pistols would have required.

• The musical (of incredibly dubious historical value) even makes note of this, he was seen fiddling with the trigger prior to the duel, and selected his pistol first.

Accounts on Hamilton firing in to the air differ, but what is consistent are accounts of Burr seeming pretty shocked when his gun went off. Accounts also pretty universally indicate that he tried to rush to Hamilton after he'd been shot to lend aid before being escorted away.

Anyway, that's not at all meant to refute your claim. Guns generally don't just "go off".

They don't see sharia law as evil or unjust, they see it as competition to their own authoritarianism. Right idea, wrong religion (barely lol)

"Unlawfully killed"

"Shot dead"

"Possible manslaughter"

It's MURDER.

Honor killing is not part of Sharia. It belongs to tribalistic culture and societies.

That’s because MAGA people are rabid dogs

Back during his first term there was a story on the Risk podcast where an Asian guy told the story of going home after some time away at college and visiting the family that adopted him when he was a baby; and how, when he said he didn't support Trump, that family almost beat him to death right there in the living room. It was one of the most heartbreaking stories I've ever heard in my entire life. I think about that shit a lot.

Grand juries exist to make sure the norms of law enforcement and prosecution don't stray too far from the common populace.

It's why the guy who threw the sandwich at the CPB guy about a year ago did not end up with a felony.

However, it cuts both ways. I don't know if I believe TX is really about to flip purple because shit like this is common. Ask the protesters sentanced to life as terrorists for moving a box or leaving an ICE protest early.

Tribalism has always been a thing in human societies. We're at the phase we're finding out how it operates within a democracy.

Surprisingly, or not, it's even easier than before.

Human psychology and propaganda. It works on smart people too.

Decades of lies and crumbling control over their material lives and social status.

Imagine you were abused by most of your adults in your life. They would hit you, demean you, restrict what you ate, who you could love, what you could say, and also expect that you must, at risk of your own life, become "a man" too. You must work your life away to achieve something great, you must provide for your family, you must create a legacy or you actually deserved that abuse you suffered from. Now every year you get poorer no matter how much you work. You see your family less day after day as they get sucked into a life of constant work. You can't be sad though that's unmanly. It can't be someone who is "succesfuls" fault because you are "the man" the master of the universe, just like the rich and powerful or else you are a loser that deserves abuse and ridicule.

So you watch the news, your civic duty, and they tell you that people out there want to make you less then nothing. They want to strip being man of prestige (and with that do you really have anything). They want to strip hard work of its value (and if everyone just got what they needed what was those decades of abuse for?)! But you know you wouldnt just be nothing then, youd be less then that. You would be a loser, a life spent as a joke, and worthless.

Trump, like you, is a strong successful man. You and him can fight together to stop the woke feminazis from destroying your family. Stop the immigrants from invading your home and making you poor and insignificant. He's not perfect sure, but he's fighting for you, the only part of you that matters, the only part you know you still have left.

Even better your new allies give you something else, a miracle tonic for the parts of you you ignore and ache. Enemies and the constant reassurance that everything, and I mean everything is their fault. You, like a man ought to, can fight a tangible threat and be a warrior. You just have to tell your self "they are lying to manipulating everyone else". When your wife threatens your leadership role as the man? Thats the enemies' lies. When HR threaten your lively hood? The enemy. When you children avoid you? The enemy.

You don't have to reccon with anything. You're not abuse. They're soft. Your parents were harder on you, and look at you. Not just a man. A warrior. Willing to sacrifice everything, for not just your family, or country, but for civilization maybe even part of holy war on the side of supreme good!

It's thought terminating. Decades of lies and abuse to justify decades of being and commiting abuse. Yes they need therapy. They need to have a space to actually learn to see themselves as humans worthy of love and a part of a great web of connections with people that both can love them and they themselves deserve love as well. They also need real tangible material improvement. You might be able to therapy people out of status demands like big house, boat, big truck, and those are huge costs on the average American household, but so is healthcare, food, and training to stay employable (which we call education in the states).

Sorry for the rant.

Lead pipes, sub-par educational system, peee pressure, propaganda machine, social media bubble, being a shitty human being to begin with

Weak persons, get with the program.