An arrest citation said Bush’s parents were punched and choked, and they
told police they were “terrified of (his) unpredictable behavior.”
I wonder if the parents and the judicial system could have worked together to find a way to make this terrifying situation less terrifying. Like taking away the goddamn guns.
The police chief still saying that they don’t have any reason to believe it was racially motivated. If the gunman wanted to kill blacks he should have joined his local police department, he would have been been able to kill them with impunity and get vacation every time he did it.
I can tell you we Louisvillians are reeling over this. The first post I read on FB this morning was from my mother’s lifelong best friend, a black woman in her 60s. That’s her Kroger and the church is her church. She missed being at that Kroger by 15 minutes. The thing about Louisville is that while it’s not at all a small town, it used to be, and we are all so connected through a pretty robust busing program that forces us all to go to school together. We don’t stay ensconced in the little communities and neighborhoods we grow up in. Everybody knows somebody who is connected to this shooting. I listened to a friend just sob on the phone last night because she knew the shooter and his ex-wife and their son. By the way, the ex-wife is black. His son is biracial. My friend said that he is paranoid schizophrenic who had become immersed in all things Fox News. A sick man was radicalized by the hate on the right and now two pillars of the community are dead and we are all left to pick up the pieces.
The “KY Police?” Do they have that now?
Plucky, this horror and tragedy is so close to you and people you actually know. I’m heartbroken.
It’s so close to everybody here. The father of the mayors diversity director was one of the victims. The father of my friend who was sobbing on the phone was good friends with one of the victims.
And because of our permissive laws had easy access to guns.
Thanks for posting,it is always helpful to get an inside view of these types of incidents. KY history of electing some of the worst representatives to political office is catching up to them. it is difficult to protect the public from deranged misfits like this but the tone is set by the people being sent to Congress and the stooge occupying the governor’s office. The country is calling out for effective leadership on multiple issues and these people are failing to provide it on any level.
Rogers said it was too soon, however, to say whether the shooting was racially motivated.
No. No it’s not.
Stay plucky.
Deaths at the hands of a mentally ill person with violent tendencies is a tragedy.
Decades of political effort to give that man easy access to guns and a head full of hate is a hostile act against our country.
I share your community’s heartbreak and your outrage, dear friend. So much damage has flowed out into ordinary American lives since the dawn of this so-called presidency. Will it never end?
I am so sorry for you, your family, and your community. This is horrific.
Daily the violence that dotard toadstool pushes out and rethugs condone is visited on Americans…
International terrorism is down but here?
Despicable.
well obviously this was a false flag operation by Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, Cory Booker, George Soros, and Barack Obama. This very nice Conservative-American was framed, Alex Jones told me so.
Obviously. Gosh I hope the guns are OK.
Well, I gotta say I love this guy’s picture. Sorry but there you have it. Judging by that one protruding eye I’d say he spends a fair amount of time at the range.
How does this guy get a gun? He has a long standing history of mental illness and violent criminal behavior. If anybody should have flunked a background check it would have been him.
Direct this inquiry to Wayne La Pierre.
A man carrying a concealed weapon who happened to be in the parking lot challenged Bush, and police say the suspect then “began firing wildly” at him, putting other shoppers in the parking lot in danger. Neither man was hurt in that confrontation, Rogers said.
So the “good guy with a gun” damn near gets a bunch more people killed because he fancied himself as John Fucking McClean. Yippy ki yay, motherfuckers!
Ahhhh…he’s just an old mental white guy who happened to try and shoot up an AME church and succeeded in killing two black people but it may NOT be racially motivated. OK. Got it.