The go to solution for far too many…
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Sometimes only working with someone once is enough. Sometimes being around someone for 10 seconds is enough.
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Watch our “storm front” colleagues decry this event as a symptom of hateful black on white violence that must be stopped immediately … by returning to a Plessey v. Ferguson world.
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…and a need for moar guns to protect themselves from “them.”
Everybody loses, except the NRA and makers of the killing weapons.
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Careful, I caused a mini firestorm on another thread suggesting the shooter’s light skinned blur was Caucasian, but I was thinking the murder was spurred by Trump/FOX/GOP nonsense other than their absurd positions on firearms.
He was hovering while the camera was pointed away from the interview, then fired the moment the camera went back on Parker. It looks like he was waiting for the camera to be on her so he could shoot her on air. Completely sick.
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Gross generalizations don’t help. This type of shooting is almost always committed by someone who was pushed over the edge. Loosing ones job is one of the most stressful things that can happen to a person, especially if it’s perceived as an unfair termination. I know. I lost my job a year after buying my first house after I stood up for a man who was terminated. I reported his supervisor said to me “Niggers don’t like to work”, and I was fired within 3 months. It was the most stressful thing that’s ever happened to me, and I’ve been through a lot of shit. Despite the fact that I’m a veteran, no help was available to help me cope mentally.
You’re preaching to the choir if you talk to me about gun control, but we all know how slow things change in regards to that. An issue we could make progress in is the lack of mental health. Saying you don’t have to be crazy to do something like this is entirely unhelpful, and counter productive. Better mental health care is probably the most effective way to counter this type of crime, short of outlawing hand guns.
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Because they don’t want to give a platform to murdering psychopaths?
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Secondary cause: organized efforts to promote and portray guns as the solution to your problem if bitching about it doesn’t resolve it to your satisfaction
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Too soon for snark?
Moneta is definitely “Real Virginia” so what I want to know is why a CCP vigilante wasn’t there to immediately mow down the suspect and save those people.
I concur, but I can’t bring myself to click the <3 button. I was kind of shocked that none of them caught him in their peripheral vision waving the gun around before he started firing. The cameraman I get, but the reporter and interviewee…ugh.
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I think you’re mischaracterizing what I’ve said. My point is to argue against the NRA response that it’s not guns, guns are just objects, we don’t need more gun control, the problem is mental illness. I certainly didn’t suggest that we shouldn’t improve our mental health services, which are appallingly lacking even for fully insured people. But do people who nurse their own anger until it becomes a murderous rage typically recognize they have a problem? No, they project it out on other people, it’s their fault. That’s why they murder them. How many people get sent to anger management classes by judges they’re standing in front of? I’ve dealt with stress in my own life and I can empathize with yours. And all of us have dealt with anger. But I don’t see how it’s somehow counterproductive to say that anger contributes to murder and the NRA’s attributing all murder to diagnosable mental illness is a red herring.
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Unfortunately I think a lot of the people most likely to do this are fighting an internal battle in their own mind and a large part of that battle is keeping what they are thinking about doing hidden. Hindsight for the rest of us also sometimes makes us think we should have know it all along but to paraphrase an old saying hindsight is a lot better than 20/20.
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I closed the video after seeing the first frame: a POV shot of the shooter aiming his gun at the reporter, who was just a few feet away.
Against my better judgement, I watched the live footage from the station cameraman, but I’m not watching this video. No way.
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Good.
Wow…it’s just…what’s there to say to that…how do you respond to such blatant, deliberate fucking crazy? I would have thought that something like that might be just slightly beyond where Breitbart would go, but I guess not.
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NPR is saying he’s alive with “life threatening injuries”. Hope he can be brought to trial…
I offer to buy you a stiff drink for even going there…
…but you need a long bath first.
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If Sandy Hook didn’t move the country to action, this little double homicide wont even be a bump in the road for the NRA and it’s ammosexual zombies.
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