This can't be real...
edit: its real. Jesus Christ.
This can't be real...
Translation: I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A RACIST.Mod Edit: Removed shooter's writings.
lollllollllllllllll yeah this aint gonna work idiot.
He's currently retweeting his agenda BS as I type this..this is INSANE.
in this case, it is necessary. he is directly parroting trump showing he is directly complicit. his rhetoric and demonization of hispanics plays a direct part in this.And yet here you were just reposting it with no context. What do you think that accomplishes?
There's no great mystery as to what motivates these racist murderers. Maybe don't spread their bullshit.
Edit - Same goes for that person posting their manifesto. Fuck that.
Actually no, posting screenshots of their Twitter is not necessary to get that information conveyed.
Or, it's translated into: "I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A RACIST, BUT NOW RACISM IS IN FASHION. I'M NOT HIDING IN THE SHADOWS WITH MY RACISM, BUT FREE TO BE ROTTEN, PIECE-OF-SHIT SELF OUT IN THE OPEN BECAUSE TRUMP GAVE ALL OF US SAY TO DO SO!!!"
well then we disagree, that's all there it is too it. you're not changing my mind. good dayActually no, posting screenshots of their Twitter is not necessary to get that information conveyed.
I like this stance.Folks, don't post the shooter's manifesto here. They did this to get attention for their views and we're not going to give it to them.
45 is currently retweeting his agenda BS as I type this..this is INSANE.
I agree with you too. I'm just saying nothing is going to change until it's something that affects " everyone's" everyday life.I get that. I'm just noting that, by the numbers, we might as well be in a civil war. It's never going to be two sides digging trenches anymore. That sort of war is extinct (at least until we're in some post-apocalyptic hellscape).
For context, fewer than 5,000 Americans have died in Iraq and Afghanistan combined in the 18 years we've been doing that (and yes, I know that 100,000s of Iraqis and Afghanis have been killed). War is planes and bombs now.
But gun violence in America is something pretty close to, for example, the drug war in Mexico. In terms of body count. And it's fucking sad.
The thing is the types of guns youd really want off the streets and out of peoples hands largely dont get turned in in buy backs in the states or people turn them in knowing they can get more. Californias and Floridas they had a few years back pretty much consisted 95% of the types of guns you are referring to, old wood furnished hunting rifles and shotguns. Typically guns that people handed over from deceased relatives and have an extremely and statistically unlikely probablility in being used a crime. With those you also had a bunch people gaming the system with home made zip guns and slam fire shotguns that people made in their garage for $30 then turned in for $200 a pop. Because its also so easy and cheap to get guns in general you have people turning in their $100 saturday night specials for $400 and then going and buying a glock or turning in $400 cheap AR's for double the price and going and buying a colt AR. Same with magazines. When Baltimore had their buy back you had a tonk of people buying up 30round magazines online for $7-10 and selling them back at $25 a piece.I own a gun, revolver, sitting in a safe that I haven't touched in years. If there was a buy back program, I'd get rid of mine. I imagine millions of guns would be turned in. People want money more than guns they don't need or maybe bought years ago and no longer want.
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I agree with you but it's not going to happen with the Alt right and GOP in power.Huh?
Substantial regulation could happen without a civil war. For example, manufacturing standards and regulations. Registrations. Limitations on ammunition and gun types. Licencing. Etc.
A constitutional amendment would require massive political and cultural shift. Hence no civil war.
Saying we cant do anything because of a civil war is dishonest, inflammatory, defeatist, made up crap.
The walmart footage of the guy underneath a table?
"I'm worried about the kids more than myself."
Better than a good amount of ERA posters.
Damn Hero"I'm worried about the kids more than myself."
Better than a good amount of ERA posters.
So...the right is already running with the "gang related" shooting narrative. That is zero percent confirmed, correct?
My condolences to the victims.
Is it yet another far-right terrorist?
Was asking myself the same thing.