Just heard convervative commentator Ben Fergusen refer to Dallas attacks as terrorist attacks

[mnmoderatedem]

forcefully, emphatically and without hesitation.

Still no word from any conservative as to whether Eric Rudolph or Dylan Roof perpetrated terrorist attacks.

[reflection]

1. Ferguson

Is one of the more insipid Limbaugh clones to flare up in recent years. How he still has a job is beyond me. He has such little skill that his radio show consists of dead air pauses for "emphasis," him repeating himself 2 or 3 times, also supposedly for emphasis, and incessantly playing a pertinent audio clip every 15 minutes for the listeners "who may have just tuned in." The reality is that he just doesn't have much to say, and overtalks or hangs up on any intelligent caller that gets through to disagree with him. I listen to him every day on the way home so I can fend off the RW mouthbreathers around here.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. What is needed right now is RESTRAINT until we know the motives of the shooters...

[jberryhill]

6. And then even when we know their motives

Their motives don't really matter.

There are people who will latch onto any "cause" - and it doesn't matter what cause - to unleash whatever demons drive them.

A small number of armed people intent on violence can cause havoc anywhere, anytime, for any reason.

The reason doesn't really matter. These people are not representatives or proxies for any group. They are people who want to kill other people because that's what they want to do.

[Cooley Hurd]

8. On the morning of 9/11/01, I was watching MSNBC, and Chris Jansing was interviewing Mario Cuomo

...and he said that you cannot stop anger in the face of injustice. Instead, you MUST address the injustice to stop the anger.

[malaise]

3. Do they know the ethnicity of the shooter(s) in Dallas? n/t

[Odin2005]

5. At least one of the shooters was Black.

[Ilsa]

4. The authorities haven't ruled out terrorism, yet.

I wouldn't put it past Daesh to try and start a race war.

[heaven05]

7. no word yet except

the same old, "they are mentally ill" bullshit that has always been applied to those type of mass killers.