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May 29 4 tweets 1 min read
Since 2018, more American children have been murdered in school shootings than American service members have been KIA. #MemorialDay
This includes 2020 when kids weren’t even in school.
Every year, more than twice as many Americans die by gun violence than American service members died in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Again: That’s every year in America versus two wars that last a total of 30 years.

And no, that statistic doesn’t include gun-related suicide.
When you include gun-related suicide, more American civilians die at the end of a gun barrel every 18 months than the 58K that were killed in Vietnam.

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More from @dyllyp

May 29
I have more hours training with firearms than you had votes in your little election, big fella. @Kocen4Congress
Do I ever get tired of dunking on these dorks?

The answer is no. Absolutely not.
Read 4 tweets
May 29
When I was 19, I bought into all the patriotic bullshit. An AF recruiter showed me a 5-minute video of dudes blowing shit up and jumping outta helicopters, and I was sold. For the next 6 years, I carried and fired every type of firearm known to man. I became proficient in them.
And the truth is, I quickly learned to hate them too. I was terrified of the responsibility that comes with them. But I carried them, because it was my job.
Remember when the Vegas shooting happened? 600 people shot and it’s a complete afterthought because this happens so often. But when I happened I was watching it unfold live on the couch. And I knew exactly what the shooter was using. I called it.
Read 5 tweets
Feb 27
This website is incredible.
I gotta delete Twitter because this is the pinnacle. It will never get better than this.
HE CAME BACK FOR A SECOND SERVING LMAOOOOOOOOOO
Read 6 tweets
Feb 25
Things are so desperate in Ukraine that they’re asking foreigners with military experience to join them. Image
If this was 10 years ago, I wouldn’t have hesitated. When I was discharged from the military, I was lost. I had zero skills other than shooting things. So I went and looked up all the countries that allowed foreigners to fight for them. I narrowed it down to France and Australia. ImageImage
I guess that would’ve made me a mercenary. But I couldn’t fake my way through the physicals and basic training with ruptured discs and a bum knee anyway.
Read 4 tweets
Oct 1, 2021
Lmao I’ve had a dozen people DM me this tweet. And yes, this is the same show I worked on. You couldn’t write this story, that’s how crazy it is.
And since it’s been so long I think I can tell it in its entirety. Unedited and unfiltered. I might even tag the person because I’m feeling spicy.
Well now I’m gonna take a shower and eat dinner before I tell the story since y’all got attitude tonight
Read 66 tweets
Sep 4, 2021
So I’ve been doing some research about the murderous dictator, Francisco Franco, for a project. He often gets overlooked in history books because of other psychopaths like Hitler and Mussolini. That said, the similarities between Francoist Spain and the GOP is eerily similar. /TW
Some background: Like America, in the 1930s, Spain’s Republican Party was the party of the left. They were liberals. They reduced the size of the military, they took religion out of schools, land was taken away from the ultra rich conservatives, etc.
Francisco Franco was a lifelong soldier and worked his way to the top of the chain of command over several decades. He was also a far right nationalist and with half the military behind him he oversaw in insurrection that would turn into the Spanish Civil War.
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