For someone that has such a vivid imagination and the ability to translate that into some really scary and/or creepy books to be so brain dead on real life matters is bizarre.
Mass/Active Shooters, Part **FIVE**
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And I think it's worth pointing out that the quality of his work took a hard hit when he gave up cocaine. Maybe all those years of using left a mark.
Agreed - we homeschooled all our chirruns in large part due to the deplorable (and unsafe) public schools in the Memphis area. We also paid the taxes for our kids to attend said schools despite our choosing not to utilize them.
It's a tricky discussion, I can see both sides.
If you live in the South then the cricket and cicadas are non-stop, morning to night, starting in June and running through September. That being said I don't see any more attention paid to this latest shooter than was paid to the CDC shooter. They both got their 15 minutes. The only difference is the CDC shooter was a right-wing nut job and the Annunciation shooter was a trans (often associated with the left) nut job.
It wouldn't be a blip on the radar unless the shooter was trans (or insert trendy "DEI"/"WOKE" identification).
Everyone focusing on the trans and not the gun.
Because the gun didn't do this on it's own.
The motivation is what matters, not just here, but every time a mentally ill person shoots people.
Which is why my posts in these threads are across the board. I don't care what their sexuality, political beliefs, etc are. I care about the motivation and what was known before it happened.
In this case, the motivation is incredibly obvious yet the mayor wants to act like it's some mystery, hence the attention.
Not sure what you want? Me to condemn the insane person who shot up the CDC? Of course I 100% condemn it and hope we find out what exactly broke in his mind. I've not seen anything about that story in a couple of weeks so no idea if they figured out what his metal illness is.
This whole exchange seems weird. You're fishing for something that isn't there.
Again, the national consciousness has moved on from the CDC shooter to the Annunciation shooter. Give it a few days or weeks and another shooter will steal all the attention away from that one too. The American attention span is extremely short. Just because the national attention has moved on from talking non-stop about the CDC nutjob to talking non-stop about the Annunciation nutjob does not mean one type of mass shooter is better than another. It is simply timing.
Seems like kids who have a job aren't as prone to do crazy stuff as much.
Employment has a way of providing stability.
Seems like this would be a useful topic for discussion as it relates to mass shootings/mental health/violent crimes.
Much more so than "guns" being "the problem".
Vance: When I see far left politicians say how dare you offer thoughts and prayers, you need action. I don't care about your prayers, I care about what you are going to do to prevent this from happening. Why does it have to be one or the other?
Newsom: Do both, then.
Okay, you pay taxes, but what extra security does that get you at your private residence? A city, county cop to drive by now and then? I bet the school got that as well.
You have to pay for a security system, and your HOA fees (if you have them) help to pay a third-party security company to man gates, patrol the area, and install cameras. Extra security is not typically covered by the state or the feds in private situations. I mean, even public events and things like sporting events have to pay the cops to be there; no one's taxes cover this stuff.
Whining that state-funded schools get state money for extra security is ridiculous IMO. There are plenty of options out there for a private school to pay for additional security if they choose; it is not up to the state to cover the bill.
It's completely fair because it is our choice to pull out of government-funded education and go to a private school. No one forced us to make this choice. We don't "have to pay twice", we chose "to pay twice."
I don't know why so much time is wasted on "motive." What's really meant is that the PTB are searching for a "motive" which makes sense to a normal brain. Of course, it can never be found. Usually, something can be identified which allows the general public to draw a deep breath and feel better - "He was bullied as a kid, etc." The human brain is predisposed to search for patterns. It's what underlies all religions (superstitions also). This is no different. He was psychotic and trans and had weapons. Plenty of people who fit those parameters don't commit mass murder. The trans symptom is just an indication he was messed up about a number of things. It doesn't matter. Folk who want to find that pattern will latch onto that...
On News Nation they bring in former FBI agents as guest commentators and the two they had on the other night both agreed the investigators would be focusing on how the shooter was "radicalized".
To my way of thinking - this is more valuable than "motive", just as you mentioned in your post.
It's like the difference between a feature and a benefit when a consumer is making a purchase.
It's OK to know what a product's features are - but what does that mean to the consumer? IOW...what is the benefit?
You’re exactly right.
South Carolina did not remove the confederate flag because Dylan Roof did not go into a black church and kill people as a white supremacist.
You’re about “this close†from saying that if the 9/11 attacks had been Christians rather than Muslims, it wouldn’t have even made the news.
The ancient Israelites had the Golden Calf.
A few millennium later, we have the 2nd Amendment.
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