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(11,304 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)If you're white, it's an "isolated incident" which shouldn't be addressed by any sort of legislation.
(Except, possibly, legislation REQUIRING EVERYBODY to own guns. Yes, the right wing gun nuts have actually proposed, and ENACTED that one in certain small towns here and there. You can just hear all the crackpots already whining that "if several people in that theatre were ARMED that guy would have been shot dead on the spot, and not had the chance to kill so many people. Uh...forgetting the fact that this asshole was dressed from head to foot in kevlar body armor, which you can also buy at any "sporting goods" store.)
JAbuchan08
(3,046 posts)Kevlar protects against the penetration of the bullet, not the force of the impact. Really the greater danger of hhaving a bunch of armed yahoos "defending" themselves is that of crossfire.
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Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I hope you enjoy your stay!
TBF
(31,919 posts)I'm expecting 2nd amendment rights next ...
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I would like to share
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Much better to just pretend there's no racism at all - it keeps white liberals comfortable to pretend.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)But you are in some lousy company.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)the news will tell you repeatedly that he's a brilliant science student...
Forgot username
(15 posts)If your name is Holmes, and you use shotguns rifles and 100 round magazines, how could it be terrorism? Every Real American must have a 100 round magazine for your AR 15, for hunting prairie dogs.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,580 posts)There was the Asian kid at Virginia Tech, but time after time, when there's a senseless mass killing with semi-automatic rifles there seems to be a white guy on the trigger. Very seldom do we read of a black person or a Hispanic going on a random shooting spree.
I considered that it may be an economic issue, where some minorities can't afford an expensive assault rifle, but even a couple cheap 9mm pistols with extra mags could give the same result.
African American gang members have been known for killing innocent bystanders during drive-by shootings, but it isn't the kind of non-personal murders like when someone just walks into a building and starts shooting people they don't know. There very seldom seems to be even a political point in these murders, they just want to kill people. Then usually themelves.
progress2k12nbynd
(221 posts)...i.e. somone that probably shouldn't have still been on the streets. Does he have one?
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)dogknob
(2,431 posts)Pat Riot
(446 posts)He looks even more "mental" in the picture I saw today. His hair was jail orange.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)tomp
(9,512 posts)kellytore
(180 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)amerciti001
(158 posts)by the fact that James Eagan Holmes, is White- makes this less of a terrorism motive, or the fact that he was not Black, less thuggish, gives comfort to the mental illness scenario, which now makes it as an easy way to explain away the real motives of this senseless rampage. What I find most distressing is that this guy was studying- nueroscience? Really! I guess as a researcher of this field he could start with himself?
BklnDem75
(2,918 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)the truth will set us free, one day, i hope. nah, forget it. never happen.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)The asian guy who went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Astrad
(466 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)His research deals with hate crimes and has been interviewed by the media a number of times.
Duval
(4,280 posts)Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)An intelligent young man with a bright future in front of him, and basically a free ride, suddenly decides to throw it all away and commit one of the worst crimes in American history. Yeah, that seems sane.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)some Asians too but you'll have to note it depends on the exact nationality