Racism played a part in preventing today's shooting?

[itsrobert]

Last edited Wed Jun 14, 2017, 03:24 PM - Edit history (1)

Guarentee if the shooter was not white, Congressman Duncan would be more proactive in reporting the suspicious person in YMCA parking lot before the shooting.

[HipChick]

1. You mean if it was a black person walking around with a gun?

[itsrobert]

2. He noticed a burlap bag and the man looking nervous

The shooter asked who was playing, republicans or democrats? Yes, even without a gun observed, it would have been reported if the shooter was black.

[jmg257]

3. I don't know the timeline, but ANYONE carrying an AR, in a YMCA parking lot, esp. next to a

ball park loaded with congress-people, or any people, sure would seem suspicious to me.

Why would color matter?!?

[itsrobert]

4. Exactly

The suspicious activity wasnt reported until after the shooting. The congressman gave the white guy the benefit of the doubt. He did not see a gun, only a burlap bag.

[jmg257]

5. Ah - thank you for the details.

[HipChick]

6. Exactly...I don't think a black person would have that option

benefit of the doubt

[mythology]

7. You have no proof of that

It's really silly to guarantee something you have no evidence for.

[Bucky]

9. welcome to the 21st century

where belief is stronger than fact

[Bucky]

8. Please stop trolling

Too many people seem too eager to twist this sick man's reprehensible behavior to fit their own political grudges. This guy was an unhinged lunatic, and an unhinged psyche can latch on to any ideology.

If anything, today's shooting was about the volume of intolerance in our politics, not the details of any ideologies.

In your desperation to make this tragedy fit your worldview, you're only adding to the kind of noise that eggs on marginal people like this shooter

[itsrobert]

10. You seem to not understand.

That's ok.