This year is the deadliest year ever in terms of mass shootings. In a political climate of polarization, it becomes harder to suss out legitimate information from the misinformation propagated by those with political agendas. Complicating this more is the continual resistance of 2nd amendment advocates to allow for political talk surrounding these massacres. This will involve political discussion to see if there are ways we can all agree might be good ways to prevent mass shootings.
This discussion should involve the details of any current, or future mass shooting, and how they compare to past mass shootings. How are they the same? How are they different? Do gun laws have an impact? Does the race of the shooter affect how we treat them? What makes one a hate crime and one an act or terrorism? Are these shootings the price of freedom?
Farscry wrote:Guns don't kill people!
...Toddlers do!
I just want to know where all the good toddlers with guns were.
They would have been there to save the day, but their mothers had an abortion.
So in a sense the Republicans ARE doing something about the problem.
/s
I just finished up doing an AM jam session with some friends and didn't want to leave my bass in a hot car, so I took it with me to a Starbucks to have a cup of coffee. Since it is in a black gig bag, it looks suspiciously like a rifle soft case. I could feel everyone staring at me.
The story remains the same.
White shooter. Hated black people. AR-15. Three dead.
Jacksonville sheriff TK Waters told a news conference the shooter “hated Black people,” adding, “there is absolutely no evidence the shooter is part of any larger group”.
Waters said the shooter, who was in his 20s, used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with at least one of the firearms painted with a swastika. He said the shooter left behind “several manifestos” for media, his parents and law enforcement detailing his hatred for Black people. The writings led investigators to believe that he committed the shooting because it was the fifth anniversary of another Jacksonville shooting.
“The hate that motivated the shooter’s killing spree adds an additional layer of heartbreak,” Waters said.
The shooter had driven there from neighboring Clay County. Shortly before the attack, the shooter had sent his father a text message telling him to check his computer. The father found writings and the family notified 911, but the shooting had already begun, Waters said.
The sheriff said the shooter had been seen at a nearby historically Black college, Edward Waters University, where he put on his tactical vest and a mask before going to the Dollar General, a discount chain with stores across the United States.
i spent years beating this drum. there's not a major news outlet in this country I didn't give this speech to. it doesn't matter. none of them will ever report on this as what it is: a decentralized right wing insurgent campaign
The entire point is that there is no "organized larger group," it's just a never-ending list of functionally identical shooters.
Jacksonville sheriff TK Waters told a news conference the shooter “hated Black people,” adding, “there is absolutely no evidence the shooter is part of any larger group”.
Yes there is.
White shooter. Hated black people. AR-15. Three dead.
That's the group. And it has a lot of members.
I bet if you listed everyone who met those criteria together and started comparing things, you'd find a lot more things that they have in common, too.
Here is a picture from the most recent Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC:
Found the “larger group!”
Here is a picture from the most recent Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC:
Found the “larger group!”
I thought/hoped that it was a picture from an Onion article.... I was wrong
"We Are All Domestic Terrorists" was also the title of a panel discussion, it should be noted. Present on that panel was Julie Pickren, a Texas State Board of Education candidate who claimed the title was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, the Houston Chronicle reported. "Nobody in this room is a domestic terrorist," she reportedly told the crowd of attendees.
Among other digital banners spotted during the conference was one bearing the slogan, "You're Next: The Rise of the Democrat Gulag." It's unclear if that one was tongue-in-cheek as well.
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