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[USA Ultimate @USAUltimate]

Contender for photo of the year. 🥶

📸 by @sam_hotaling & @UltiPhotos

#USAUCollegeChamps | #USAUltimate

[Western Ultimate League @WULeague]

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[Premier Ultimate League @PremierUltimate]

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[Western Ultimate League @WULeague]

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Code valid Dec 4-8

[Ultiworld @Ultiworld]

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[Ultimate Frisbee Association 🥏 UFA @watchUFAtv]

.@FrictionGloves returns as the official glove of the Ultimate Frisbee Association

Full announcement: https://t.co/TATtXmDslB

[USA Ultimate @USAUltimate]

Your 2024 Men’s Division National Champions, Portland @RhinoUltimate 🦏🏆

For the first time in program history, Portland wins it all in San Diego with the biggest margin in a men’s division Final since 1995!

#USAUltimate | #USAUNats

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[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

My thoughts on the Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia:

We have covered so many of these shootings that it is just becoming harder and harder to think of something new to say.

This story is familiar: A young man or a teenager is troubled. He has a semiautomatic rifle. There were warning signs. Young, innocent people were killed. Family and friends could have done more. Law enforcement could have done more. Ineffective laws have left loopholes open that made it easier for this to happen. An unhealthy gun culture promotes guns like they are toys. Repeated headline news coverage gives these twisted plots a reality to copy. And then there were the usual media failures (this time, the Associated Press misleadingly quoting JD Vance).

We are broken.

Our country is a great big beautiful place that is better than most other places in the world at everything from economic growth to press freedom to track and field. But, when it comes to gun violence, we are very, very broken. And with each event like this that goes by, we seem to be losing the will to do anything — besides add more guns and “security” to the equation.

All the normal caveats apply: Gun deaths are the leading cause of adolescent death, but suicide is the #1 gun violence killer in our country. Mass shootings usually involve semiautomatic rifles, but handguns are involved in more violence than any other kind of weapon. School shootings represent a small sliver of the number of gun deaths, but they comprise a huge share of the psychological toll gun violence takes on us, especially younger Americans. We now have a society where kids have to learn what to do in "active shooter" drills and many of their schools are looking more and more like prisons, with armed security guards, metal detectors, and doors that lock automatically.

Apalachee High was one such school. Armed police were on the premises to stop shootings like this and a system was in place inside the school to lock classroom doors. Those safety measures may have saved lives, but they didn’t prevent a 14-year-old from being able to easily access a gun, walk into his school, and kill two of his teachers and two of his classmates before surrendering. They may have mitigated the damage, if you measure that damage only in lives lost, but they didn't prevent this from happening in the only country where it happens regularly.

I've written before about the lack of friction to buy guns and the failure of our gun culture. This story touches on both of those points: In Georgia, there is no friction for a teenager to own a rifle or shotgun. It is perfectly legal, without age restrictions or background checks. It should not be easier for a 14-year-old to carry a rifle than it is for him to get his driver's permit. Period.

We don't just have a failure of law — of course, most people would agree that a 14-year-old who threatens a school shooting when he's 13 shouldn't legally be able to access a gun — but we have a failure of culture. The latitude provided to a teenager to own a rifle in Georgia is a holdover from an era with a more responsible gun culture — one built on guns being tools for sport or self-protection — one that is no longer modeled by our most visible gun owners.

The gun culture promoted by our political and cultural leaders today undervalues the seriousness of owning firearms, promotes the notion that guns make you tough or patriotic, and plants seeds in the minds of our youth that solving your issues with a gun is always an option. When I was a teenager and learned to shoot a gun I was taught to fear it and recognize its seriousness; I was made to feel the weight of the responsibility of what I had in my hands, and made to understand that this wasn't an activity I was ever allowed to participate in without specific adults present. I am immeasurably grateful that this is how I was introduced to firearms. I know that many law-abiding gun owners across America still approach guns in this fashion.

Unfortunately, we also have legislators posing with semiautomatic rifles in front of Christmas trees, blowing stuff up in campaign ads, or saying it's "embarrassing" if their state is no longer the #1 gun state in the country. We have celebrities who throw temper tantrums by shooting things. These things matter on the margins, and they are insidious markers of a corrupted and failed culture.

And now we are fighting against gun violence on a whole new front: Prosecuting parents. Jennifer and James Crumbley were the first parents in the U.S. to ever be found criminally responsible for their child carrying out a mass killing. Now the shooter's father in this case is being charged. As I said after Jennifer Crumbley was convicted, I was initially supportive of this pursuit — I think holding parents responsible for their role in securing firearms could increase gun safety and increase the urgency with which parents react to warning signs. But I also got cold feet once I saw the prosecution go down.

Crumbley's guilt seemed obvious at first, but the more I learned about the case, the more I understood how we were all benefitting from hindsight. I became far more skeptical of this approach, and especially if it means throwing parents in prison for decades.

We cannot solve gun violence with a single change. This will require a holistic societal fix. We need to better enforce the laws we have on the books. We need to support new laws that allow family and friends to easily flag warning signs to law enforcement. We need more robust mental health treatment (for teenagers, especially young men). We need gun ownership and training to be more like using a car and less like shopping at Wal-Mart. We need our politicians and celebrities and cultural leaders to treat gun ownership as a grave, monumental responsibility, not one to be flaunted or flexed.

We need all of this together in the long run and each of these as individual victories as soon as possible, and we need to work together to get there. Unfortunately, this means we need a world we don’t currently seem to have — unless we are willing to make it happen as a collective.

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[Ultimate Frisbee Association 🥏 UFA @watchUFAtv]

What's new for 2024?

🥏 Name (UFA)
🥏 Logo (layouts!!!)
🥏 Website (https://t.co/dbQtzDTjeP)
🥏 Streaming site (https://t.co/bEici73slX)
🥏 Disc (ARIA Uno)
🥏 Super Series (all games FREE on YouTube!)

and much more to come! #UFA2024

[Ultimate Frisbee Association 🥏 UFA @watchUFAtv]

Welcome to the Ultimate Frisbee Association!

New name
New look
Same great game

📱https://t.co/SBVkOejkN0
📺 https://t.co/7XlUMNZhdy

#UFA2024

[Ultimate Frisbee Association 🥏 UFA @watchUFAtv]

Coming this season

🥏 8-game Super Series
🥏 Championship-level matchups
🥏 FREE on YouTube
🥏 First matchup: DC at Salt Lake

#UFA2024

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ICYMI: PAUC 2023 is a wrap! Full highlights from Saturday's finals are UP: https://t.co/KTVcP4nhHf
...with more full coverage to come!

Photos by @jeffbellphoto, @WilliamBrotman, Jon Hayduk, @sandycanetti

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