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Crazy gun nut threatened to shoot me using his alt account and somehow I got banned for figuring out who he was (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works to c/byereddit@lemmy.world

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The Heritage Foundation spinoff SPN holds a yearly event where all their policy think tanks across 50 states get together and discuss strategy. This year it was in my city. I had the absolute gall to publicly share their list of speakers and donors that they sent out via a mailing list that literally anybody could join.

Apparently some rich asshole that loves guns got very angry bc somebody they care about was on the list of like 100+ speakers, and surprise of the century, the people getting rich destroying our country, don't want it publicly known they're associated with the people and policies destroying our country.

They started repeatedly threatening to hunt me down and shoot me and my family.

I posted to a local subreddit asking if anybody knew who he was to please get him help because I am literally afraid to go to law enforcement about this. I'm about 99% sure I know who this guy is. I don't want to call him out, I don't want anything but for him to just leave me and my family the fuck alone.

The city and state where I live has always been corrupt as fuck, and I'm pretty sure the lawyer that is threatening me is tight with local law enforcement based on his social media. I spent the majority of my life living in corrupt towns in the deep south. I was taught by my own mom at a very early age, if something happens, don't trust the local police, go to the FBI.

Unfortunately, the U.S. is corrupt as fuck right now and the people that held the conference in my city also currently "run" the federal government. This exact scenario has been something I've worried about happening since Jan 20th, 2025.

Honestly don't know wtf to do at this point. Mainly just posting this to document all this. I guess if this dude fucking kills me, somebody please start a gofundme to help get my family to Canada safely.

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When somebody threatens to murder you and your family and then a bunch of spam accounts tell you to just get over it:

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How are you 99% sure? I cant see the post you got banned for but if you tried to call out alts and link accounts to people in real life (essentially doxing with guesswork), I can understand the ban.

The guy isnprobably not a lawyer.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If he's not then I'm 99% sure he's impersonating a lawyer that is so guns obsessed he uses them in his advertising. Like guns and crazy are his entire personality.

Again, I do not want to call this guy out, or antagonize him further, I just want to pretend this never happened. But if anything should happen to me or my family in the immediate future, I do want to make sure these threats are documented somewhere, and I don't trust U.S. law enforcement to do that right now.

Also, no I did not call this person out by name on Reddit and I did not link his accounts. I did essentially the same thing I am doing here because I just want this shit documented somewhere.

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

To be fair though, saying you found a psycho on the internet is like saying you found a frog in a swamp. Engaging just encourages them. For all you know and the most likely case is that this is some permanent basement dweller 1000 miles away that just gets off on threatening people. Those kinds of people are everywhere online. The best thing is to just block, report, move on, and not encourage them.

Obviously you also need to look out for yourself. If you believe this is a credible threat then be sure you scrub as much personally identifying info from your profile as possible (this is a good idea regardless) and report it to the local authorities. You may not trust the local authorities but anyone above that won't care at all about some online rando threatening you unless you are rich or something. Even the local authorities probably won't do anything unless they are making specific threats, this is someone they are already watching, they are especially bored, or you are rich. But you will want it on record so the person is on someones radar. Plus then if something does happen and they don't do anything then maybe someone might possibly be held accountable.