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SunSeeker

(51,523 posts)
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 04:24 PM Nov 2017

The Colorado Walmart shooting sure looks like a hate crime to me.

The killer was a middle-aged white man. All of his victims had Latino surnames:

Two men were killed at the scene, while a woman later died at the hospital, police said. They were identified by the Adams County coroner as Carlos Moreno, 66, of Thornton; Victor Vasquez, 26, of Denver; and Pamela Marques, 52, of Denver.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-kills-3-walmart-thornton-colorado-n816746

And of course, no condemnation of the shooter from Twittler. Indeed, the whole attack has gotten relatively little coverage.
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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. The alleged shooter didn't seem to think it was any big deal
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 04:31 PM
Nov 2017

According to the story, Scott Ostrem seemed pretty cool about getting away after he'd squeezed off a few rounds into the Wal-Mart. Didn't go very far, didn't bother changing his clothes, and was taken into custody with a minimum of fuss. Like he didn't think he'd done anything wrong.

But yeah, where is the President's outrage? Did he blow it all on Saikov, and he needs a little time now (he is 71 years old, after all).

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. America's NRA sponsored gun terrorism makes ISIS look like boy scouts. If domestic white
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 04:31 PM
Nov 2017

shooters, the daily routine, did not look so much like your neighbor...

 

Marengo

(3,477 posts)
7. When has the NRA burned people alive, drown them cages, blown off their heads with det cord,
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 05:19 PM
Nov 2017

Crushed them with tanks, etc.?

maxrandb

(15,299 posts)
10. Maybe not the NRA
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 06:08 PM
Nov 2017

But you ever seen what a 500lb bomb does to kids.

Nice Alt-Right Wingnut distraction though.

Your "whataboutism" doesn't change the fact that Donnie Short Fingers doesn't seem to fart with such force when it's a white terrorist.

ISIS is deplorable...so is a white guy that shoots up a Walmart, or a concert.

 

Marengo

(3,477 posts)
11. If you are arguing the NRA as an organization is as bad as ISIS, the question of who exactly is...
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 08:24 PM
Nov 2017

A wing nut is begged I’d say.

DavidDvorkin

(19,469 posts)
6. Maybe, but not necessarily
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 04:55 PM
Nov 2017

Thornton is mostly white (around 3/4, I think), but that doesn't tell us what the majority of the customers at that Walmart generally are. It could be that he fired into a crowd, and that most of the crowd were Latino.

It's too soon to know.

uponit7771

(90,304 posts)
8. lol !!! If the person was brown skinned and the victims all white this would
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 05:21 PM
Nov 2017

... not be the reply from the White House.

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