It's always the ones you most suspect.
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When news of the shooting broke I was with my dad who said "the shooter was probably radical Democrat since they are the violent ones". FoxRot is real and dangerous.
Back in the old days of Fark, I remember there used to be a flowchart of people's reactions to mass shootings:
- Mass shooting happens
- initial reaction: guy is a terrorist Muslim and we need to bomb some country in the middle east.
- news shows it's a white guy
- "Oh my...how sad. He must have been really struggling."
I feel like the right has replaced the second step with whatever out group they are trying to target.
Following the Oklahoma City Bombing, EVERYBODY jumped on the Muslim Terrorist bandwagon, but it didn't sit right with me. Why would a Muslim bomb a building in OKC? Most Muslims wouldnt even know what Oklahoma is. Why wouldnt they pick a more iconic target? It's all about making a statement, after all. It just smelled like a homegrown terrorist to me, and those around me derided me for being a "Muslim-lover."
Then it turned out to be a standard issue American white guy, with blurry motivations beyond being generally pissy about the government for some incomprehensible reason.
Critical Thinking Skills are the most important skills you can learn in life. They keep you from being stupid and falling for propaganda.
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Wow, i haven't heard anyone mention Fark in ages! I spent a lot of time there before Digg...
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Magats are lost causes and they’ll never be functioning members of society in any meaningful way again. They are class traitors who want to watch the world burn
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No terrorism charge? That's crazy. /s
It’s not like he shot a CEO or something…
Or spray painted a cybertruck...
Or wasn't white.
Just another day in America
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Turning Point USA a designated terrorist group? Yes please.
The terrorism charge only takes place when the victims exceed a certain income level.
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I notice they didn’t charge him with terrorism and the death penalty.
Because he didn't hit a Tesla.
Or a CEO
this isn’t a crime that would have been prevented by the gun control measures advocated by the Democrats, since none of the proposals involve disarming the police
Just had to get that in there, you fucking donkeys.
I saw some of these guys at the protest on Saturday. Someone had a microphone and spent, no lie, about 2/3rds of the time they had the mic aiming vicious criticism at the Democrats. Not "both sides," not the whole system (that was the remaining 1/3rd), but the Democrats specifically. I thought about making a bigger post about it but I'm not even sure what to say about it. I think there was 0 criticism at all leveled at the Trump administration or anything that they were doing.
Great job guys
Disarming the police does sound like an excellent idea. Police cause more problems than they solve with firearms.
As the saying goes, if you have a problem and you call the police you now have 2 problems.
I work in 911 dispatch, a lot of my coworkers are predictably bootlickers.
I can't even tell you how many calls we get all day everyday where we're all just left scratching our head going "Why did you call 911,about this? This isn't a police issue." But since usually the only tool we have in our toolbox is police, that's what we end up having to send.
But they'll balk at any suggestion that maybe our police don't need a new armored truck and a new police station, and whatever other stupid shit they're spending tax dollars on, and instead maybe we should spend that money to beef up our mental health services, public works, homeless outreach, animal control, code enforcement, and other services that we could be providing instead of just sending police out to deal with non-police issues.
Luckily, my local police are pretty good as far as police go, not too trigger happy, generally make a decent effort to handle mental health issues carefully, they usually manage to not make things significantly worse, though they often don't do much to improve the situation either.
they usually manage to not make things significantly worse, though they often don’t do much to improve the situation either.
I think even with the best of intentions, if two people with guns show up to some sort of crisis, it's easy to see how that might not be, like, the right vibe at the moment.
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as always, "no way to prevent this" says only country that this happens.
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I hate how the narrative now is:
Yeah the republicans are bad, but the democrats didn't stop them from doing the bad in the most perfect way so who's the real bad guy?
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He was at the center of a custody battle since he was a toddler, with his father alleging his mother neglected and abused him.
Kind of have to wonder which parent was actually abusing or neglecting the kid, seeing as all this happened under his father's roof.
TBH that sucks for the kid.
Yup. Kids always pay the price for their parent's fuck-ups.
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The mom is still with the sheriff office after her kid used her issued weapon to murder people? That seems like an immediate resignation type of event, with potential for criminal negligence charges down the road.
Cops are so fucking careless with guns it’s unbelievable. Any time you hear of an accidental discharge, it was the cops negligence and they’re lying about it because Glocks do not misfire without user error
They leave them unattended in public bathrooms so often that my hospital has a protocol for what to do if we find one
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I'm from Tallahassee and small correction. It was her former service weapon that she purchased from the department after it was decommissioned. It was her personal firearm.
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This one of the home grown terrorists I hear about? Or does this not qualify?
/s just in case
He doesn’t qualify, he is one of the good ones.
... but I repeat myself.
Ikner cited this “tragic event” in 2015 when he went to court to change his name from Christian Gunnar Eriksen.
Changing your name is so woke!
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Is he short?
He looks rather short.
I wonder if that got to him. Seems to be a weirdly touchy thing to some.
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There was another article that said the shooter used the step parent's service gun.
It used to be her service weapon. It was purchased from the department when they updated equipment.
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Another MAGAt Nazi. Living their death cult dreams.
Unsurprising.
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