Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute

[Axtremus]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-shooting/supermarket-cashier-killed-in-u-s-state-of-georgia-in-mask-wearing-dispute-idUSKCN2DR00Q

A supermarket cashier in the U.S. state of Georgia was shot and killed by a customer on Monday in a dispute over the wearing of a face mask before the gunman was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with the store’s security guard, the local sheriff said.

The guard was also wounded in the incident which occurred at a little after 1 p.m. at the Big Bear Supermarket in DeKalb County, DeKalb County Sheriff Melody Maddox told a news conference.
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[Copper]

So we don't know if the gunman liked masks or didn't like masks.

[Mik]

Seems excessive.

[Copper]

It's hard to say for sure if it was the right thing to do.

[Jolly]

If only they had been vaccinated...

[Loki]

Around much of the country people wore masks and now don’t and don’t think much of it. Like a coat in the winter and now it is isn’t needed. Shame people oriented their day and life around mask umbrage. Is there really not enough to do?

[Doctor Phibes]

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

[Jolly]

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

Read the article. It is against Georgia law for a supermarket to require customers to wear a mask. They can request, but that's it.

I see some folks in the town stores still wearing masks. I see almost nobody out here on the rural route wearing one.

After vaccination, I don't understand why one would want to...

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

Read the article. It is against Georgia law for a supermarket to require customers to wear a mask. They can request, but that's it.

I see some folks in the town stores still wearing masks. I see almost nobody out here on the rural route wearing one.

After vaccination, I don't understand why one would want to...

So, maybe it was some idiot with a gun arguing that everybody should be wearing a mask.

Either way, it was an idiot with a gun.

[Doctor Phibes]

My son works in Kohl's. He chooses to wear a mask.

Yesterday, a woman walked up to him and yelled in his face 'COVID HASN'T CHANGED ANYTHING, YOU KNOW!!!'

[Jolly]

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@jolly said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

Read the article. It is against Georgia law for a supermarket to require customers to wear a mask. They can request, but that's it.

I see some folks in the town stores still wearing masks. I see almost nobody out here on the rural route wearing one.

After vaccination, I don't understand why one would want to...

So, maybe it was some idiot with a gun arguing that everybody should be wearing a mask.

Either way, it was an idiot with a gun.

Yep. Stupid thing to shoot somebody over.

Which is why I always assume everybody is armed.

[Loki]

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

Maybe this is why people don’t want to work for low wages. They have to deal with obnoxious as hell people all day long. I wouldn’t do it.

Some idiot is going to come in spewing all kinds of hate and tell me about the constitution and his rights and how fucked up things are getting and I’m like I barely am going to have any money at the end of this diatribe. Fuck it.

[Jolly]

You work those jobs until you can do better. I've worked them, I suspect several of us have.

[Doctor Phibes]

@loki said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

Maybe this is why people don’t want to work for low wages. They have to deal with obnoxious as hell people all day long. I wouldn’t do it.

Some idiot is going to come in spewing all kinds of hate and tell me about the constitution and his rights and how fucked up things are getting and I’m like I barely am going to have any money at the end of this diatribe. Fuck it.

My dad told me to never work in retail. It was about the only career advice he ever gave me. He was a very smart man.

[jon-nyc]

I worked in retail for a few years as a kid/young man.

It builds character, I’ll say that much.

[Axtremus]

@jolly said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@jolly said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

Read the article. It is against Georgia law for a supermarket to require customers to wear a mask. They can request, but that's it.

I see some folks in the town stores still wearing masks. I see almost nobody out here on the rural route wearing one.

After vaccination, I don't understand why one would want to...

So, maybe it was some idiot with a gun arguing that everybody should be wearing a mask.

Either way, it was an idiot with a gun.

Yep. Stupid thing to shoot somebody over.

Should guns be taken away from such idiots?
Should such idiots be barred from possessing any gun to begin with?
What tests and/or procedures would you use to identify such idiots?

[Jolly]

@axtremus said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@jolly said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@jolly said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

Read the article. It is against Georgia law for a supermarket to require customers to wear a mask. They can request, but that's it.

I see some folks in the town stores still wearing masks. I see almost nobody out here on the rural route wearing one.

After vaccination, I don't understand why one would want to...

So, maybe it was some idiot with a gun arguing that everybody should be wearing a mask.

Either way, it was an idiot with a gun.

Yep. Stupid thing to shoot somebody over.

Should guns be taken away from such idiots?
Should such idiots be barred from possessing any gun to begin with?
What tests and/or procedures would you use to identify such idiots?

You tell us. You're the one that likes to examine people under the microscope...

[Copper]

If we can't keep them in jail that limits the options.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

I worked in retail for a few years as a kid/young man.

It builds character, I’ll say that much.

Yeah, but what kind of character?

[taiwan_girl]

@jolly said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@jolly said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

@doctor-phibes said in Shot and killed over mask-wearing dispute:

Presumably he felt that his freedom was being taken away by being told he needed to wear a mask.

Now he's in jail, where he'll learn what it's like to actually have his freedom taken away. And his virginity if he's really lucky.

Read the article. It is against Georgia law for a supermarket to require customers to wear a mask. They can request, but that's it.

I see some folks in the town stores still wearing masks. I see almost nobody out here on the rural route wearing one.

After vaccination, I don't understand why one would want to...

So, maybe it was some idiot with a gun arguing that everybody should be wearing a mask.

Either way, it was an idiot with a gun.

Yep. Stupid thing to shoot somebody over.

Which is why I always assume everybody is armed.

“We don’t arm ourselves because we fear each other. We fear each other because we arm ourselves”

(I think the quote is from President Reagan)