Discussion: Reports: TN Shooting Suspect Said He Was 'Sovereign Citizen' Before WH Arrest

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Will the father be charged with murder for committing a crime by giving his son guns which were then used for a mass murder?

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The father deserves to be jailed asap. He is an accessory to these murders . Search daddy’s home for weapons and put him in the slammer. political grannie

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and if he isn’t charged for accessory by the local prosecutor the families of the victims should file a civil suit.

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Nothing says White Privilege like violating White House Security and then getting your guns back just in time to gun down a restaurant full of Black Americans.

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“TN Shooting Suspect Said He Was ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Before WH Arrest.”

“Make no mistake – the federal government is coming to take our pants!!!”

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Sovereign citizens, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “believe that they — not judges, juries, law enforcement or elected officials — get to decide which laws to obey and which to ignore.”

Hardly surprising he wanted to talk to Drumpf – they have so much in common. It woulda been like with NK, the leader of one great nation talking to the leader of another, both comfortably above the law.
And of course, like any nation, they are empowered to defend themselves when attacked by the functionaries of another country.

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After being instructed to lock up the guns and keep them secure from Travis, the father returned the guns to his son knowing that he had delusions and hallucinations. This cries out for the father to be held accountable -both criminally and civilly.

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I’d like to think someone displaying so many signs of mental illness would merit the special attention of law enforement and mental health professionals. But if that was true we’d need to invest the same efforts in almost 63,000,000 other people.

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Okay, the good guy with a gun WAS there but he was confined to the toilet after having the Early Bird special (sausage $1.00 extra)

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The father wasn’t doing anything that the organizers of several hundred guns shows across the nation do every week of the year.

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White Privilege also means no news outlets (including TPM) will use the word “terrorism”. They will instead refer to “shooting suspect” and “gunman”.

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C’mon, you all know that if there is anywhere in this entire country where a good guy with a gun existed, it would be in an Awful House in Tennessee.

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The news that Daddy had given his clearly mentally unbalanced son gave the same feeling of disgust and nausea as finding out that Adam Lanza’s mother was the one who decided guns were a cool hobby for a boy who had social and mental health issues.

Nancy Lanza was “spared” the knowledge that she’d helped create a mass murder; this guy’s father must live with the knowledge that he enabled the deaths of four human beings. And I sincerely hope that he will have to pay for his sins along with his sons.

Dog, I am so sick of this.

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Not only that, Cliven Bundy’s cows are “Sovereign Cows”–they get to decide where they graze and whether or not they pay for it.

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Just a thought, TPM, but when your subject has just shot up a Waffle House, perhaps using the WH abbreviation for White House is not the most clear choice.

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JJ McNabb is an expert on the sovereign citizen movement. I followed her during the Bundy fiasco in Oregon. J.J’s thread is helpful
https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/984860528244764673

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TFW NRA is frantically trying to come up with a way to make the only guy with a gun in this whole story the “good guy” since all the others were POC and unarmed.

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So at the WH, this Sovereign Citizen was told he can’t enter, so he took off his tie, balled it in his fist and approached. (did he have his AR-15 at the time)? If he was black/brown, I strongly suspect he would be a dead citizen.

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