Man arrested for threatening to commit 'mass violence' in South Texas

[ZX9RCAM]

He could have always used "arsenal"...

 

[deemus]

Those two guys look alike, but have different names.

So the REAL question is......

Which one of yall is this story about?

 

[deemus]

Boatload.

Crapton.

 

[Lead Belly]

Heaping pile

 

[ScottDLS]

So what happens with his guns?

I get them.

 

[General Zod]

So he should have said "a bunch", or "a lot" of guns, and that would have been better?

"Arsenal" is the usual and preferred sensationalistic term with the media. "A large number" would be a less pretentious way to say it. Or "multiple". "Several"?

Or maybe...wait for it..."nearly 100"...as used in the last paragraph. But not "almost 100" as used in the little one-sentence summary at the top, because that's just awkward.

 

[oldag]

"insouciant" I had to look that one up.

"Mr. Mac, what does unprepossessing mean?"
"I was called that once, Lem. Looked it up in the dictionary. It's best you don't know what it means."
"Uh-huh. Thank you."

"

 

[Moonpie]

I’m kinda partial to “a metric sh*t ton”.

 

[General Zod]

I’m kinda partial to “a metric sh*t ton”.

Seems an appropriate number of guns to have.

 

[vmax]

Gonzales man apprehended after making multiple threats against hospital, staff - The Gonzales Inquirer

A Gonzales man who made headlines when he drove through a hotel lobby in Oklahoma nine years ago was arrested Friday, Sept. 13, after making terroristic threats against Gonzales Healthcare Systems …

gonzalesinquirer.com

You got that right

I beg to differ...Gonzales had multiple nut jobs..lol

 

[Lead Belly]

gargantuan hill

 

[Shady]

"A follow-up investigation unveiled Carville allegedly had access to a plethora of firearms...."


A...plethora?

Plethora was used in an attempt to make it seem like the guys 3 guns were a shit ton of them. If it really was in excess of 30 guns they would have used the number. No need to exaggerate the figure

 

[General Zod]

Plethora was used in an attempt to make it seem like the guys 3 guns were a shit ton of them. If it really was in excess of 30 guns they would have used the number. No need to exaggerate the figure

They did use the number, before and after they just had to drop "plethora" in a glorious fit of pomposity.

 

[TipBledsoe]

Y’all be quite the wordsmiths.

 

[Eastexasrick]

 

[General Zod]

Y’all be quite the wordsmiths.

Indubitably.

 

[DoubleDuty]

Seems an appropriate number of guns to have.

That's not even close to enough

 

[General Zod]

That's not even close to enough

Let's call it a decent start, then.

 

[kbaxter60]

I would consider use of the word "plethora" to be a sign of a news writer trying to sound smarter than they are. Got a feeling that person also uses words like "behooves" and "insouciant" whenever they can shoehorn them into a sentence, too. Seems a bit pretentious to me, and it leapt out of the sentence when I read it.

Yeah! And aren't they bound by the Commie Style Guide to say "virtual arsenal", anyway?

 

[Lead Belly]

"Enough guns to start an army"