So I guess we all wait with bated breath on the question of the religious/ethnic identity of the shooters. If theyâre Muslim/brown, it becomes a huge story of terror amplified by the president. If theyâre white, like almost all of these mass shooters, the story disappears in a cloud of sympathetic investigations into their unfortunate childhoods.
No, we will all wait for thoughts and prayers if they are white. Then we will move on.
Just a guess, but this comment
âThey never stop killing each other,â he said, shaking his head as he spoke.
suggests that the perpetrators and the victims were both black and that Mr. Russo is white.
In any case, this doesnât sound like your typical mass shooting. Much more focused.
Given the neighborhood, itâs pretty likely both the shooters and victims were black. New Orleans is a treasure of a city, but with existential problems: lack of opportunity, incessant violence and climate change.
That sounded to me like âtheyâ were gang related. They (âgangsâ) never stop killing each other. I donât expect weâll hear anything about this from the Dotard. If we do, it will only be to strengthen his claim that brown people are universal problems. Sans rational thought or fact, of course. Heâll just use it to strengthen his support from his base.
Looks like weâve pretty well covered our bases. Any additional comments will be superfluous.
thanks. didnât read the piece carefully enough. Iâm guilty of the thoughtless response Iâm complaining about!
âThey never stop killing each other.â
Who is they? White men in gambling casinos, movie theaters, and churches? White teenagers in schools?
Are those the âtheyâ you mean?
Ignorant moron.
What do we need here?
A wall?
A tax cut?
Looser gun laws?
Prayers in school and after innocents have already been shot?
Severe traumatization of immigrant children and families?
Appointment of Federal judges who devalue the rights of women, minorities, and biological persons?
Appointment of Federal judges who want to elevate evangelical Christian bigotry to a Constitutional right that outranks basic civil rights?
More disdain for knowledge and expertise and the practice of science?
A cruder version of foreign relations?
I live in New Orleans and ride by this place on my commute to work. I donât get why this storyâs drawing national attention. (I wasnât there, but per local news reports it sounds like this happened in front of the âChicken and Watermelonâ shop across the street from the strip mall.)
Itâs sad, of course. But this kind of stuff happens here all the time. The alleged fact that ICEâs making immigrant children drink toilet water should be getting at least as much attention.
Really, these comments are superfluous.
Actually, all that the article said was that Lawrence Russo heard the gunshots while in a nearby drugstore. If he did see the shooters and his statement based on being a visual witness, this article do not say so. In fact, the article goes to great length not to speculate on anything about the shooters beyond reporting the fact that they were âwearing hoodiesâ.
Are the guns okay? Thoughts and prayers to the NRA lackeys in Congress.
Mass shootings ,for whatever reason,continue to be so frequent they hardly garner attention anymoreâŚanother one in TX todayâŚthe gun thing is so obviously blood money in search of abstract rationalizationâŚ
What?
No one has offered âthoughts and prayersâ for the victims and the poor disturbed shooters?
But, but⌠the talk radio told me that gun massacres only happen in gun-free zones! This kind of attack is so common that it barely makes the news anymore, all enabled by Americaâs unholy brew of irresponsible gun culture and toxic masculinity.
There are many people in NO suffering a pain like no other tonight - someone you love being wrenched out of your life in a moment of common casual violence. What in the world are we becoming? The logical endpoints all look like dystopian nightmares.
I can promise you one thing: If Dotard wants to offer a solution, he will select the worst one possible. Itâs what he does best, next to lying.
The futility displayed by those who live life without any hope, opportunity or joy has been evident for decades in inner cities and rural areas around this nation. But Republicans will not lift a finger to help them. They do quite the opposite every chance they get.
Jesus didnât buy into any Prosperity Gospel and neither should people who say they follow Him. They need to vote their faith not some sick philosophy that creates situations like this. We have to clean house in Washington before the white supremacists destroy our democracy and the rule of law. Republicans do not care what happens as long as they are âwinning.â