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If this were a Muslim shooting in a church or synagogue, it would be recognized as a terrorist attack.
The same should happen here.
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Sadly there was no Pink Person with a Good Gun in the neighborhood.
Too early to draw any conclusion other than it’s really sad. More to come we can be certain.
But I scratch my head and try to remember the last time a black male did himself a mass shooting. Why is this increasingly common little fun fest usually the act of a pink kid?
Are we having fun yet Mr LaPierre? How would we f’ing know??
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goddammit to hell
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It’s time to tell the truth.
This IS a terrorist attack.
PERIOD!
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Awash in gun and expecting no violence…as a people we are following the stupid…this is so very tragic.
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as a people we are following the stupid…this is so very tragic
[/quote] So, are we going to arm ourselves to protect liberty or sit back while they take away our Koss’tutional rahts?
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Wow! That picture.
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A few more details, but not much:
Top news story on BBC
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We’ve all heard the practical definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The same thing in this case is the unchecked proliferation of guns leading to tragic bloodshed. If we do nothing as a society, we have no right to expect it to stop.
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Being as SC is a death penalty state, I assume the perpetrator will receive the ultimate justice when caught?
Anything less from the state AG will be quite suspicious indeed.
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I honestly cannot imagine it stopping. Can you? How would it stop? 28 white people died at Sandy Hook Elem. School, mostly adorable children, and that had no effect. Certainly 9 or a dozen black people dying will have no effect. If 50 people were killed or 100, would that stop it? I cannot imagine that it would. Not when Koss’tutional rahts are at stake.
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Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, please stay away. Your both tainted by your histories and just a distraction for the media and right-wingers.
The right-wing would still blame them if they did not show in Charleston.
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who flies the Confederate Flag in her office, said details of the shooting were still unclear,
but “we do know that we’ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another”.
Yep. A real mystery.
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Pretty sure SC is also, so your comment is applicable. I am opposed to the death penalty, but I agree that if it’s available, this is exactly the kind of crime for which it would be most appropriately invoked, assuming the perpetrator isn’t clinically insane. (I know, there’s no such thing, but it would take a volume to define the acute mental illnesses that would fill the bill of what I’m describing, and I think y’all have at least the general idea [forget legally insane, which is a fatuous construct].)
But as I say, better not here—or anywhere at all.
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Catch that phucker and lay bare his sources of inspiration and, if any, support.
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I despair of RWNJs and their supporters caring, but that is nonetheless exactly what should be done. Expose the poison.
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When four young girls were killed at a Birmingham church in 1963, it shocked the nation. But I’m sad to say this mass shooting will probably wash over us and be quickly forgotten.
Damn racism. Damn the gun culture.
Even in the Birmingham horror, it was only the bombing and its victims that stuck in memory. How many remember (I didn’t) that those four girls weren’t the only victims that day? From a UPI report of 16 September 1963:
City police shot a 16-year-old Negro to death when he refused to heed their commands to halt after they caught him stoning cars. A 13-year-old Negro boy was shot and killed as he rode his bicycle in a suburban area north of the city.
Racists and guns. A horrifying, lethal combination. And the country is full of them both.
I am not religious, and as a secular Jew I seldom dwell on passages from the New Testament. But there’s a short, powerful one that comes to mind right now:
Jesus wept.
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This happening was only a matter of time. This is what happens when you have a racist, bigoted governor and a legislature to match. A constituency that thinks it is still in the eighteenth century. May they all burn in hell.
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