Cypress (04-19-2021), Guno צְבִי (04-19-2021)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Cypress (04-19-2021), Guno צְבִי (04-19-2021)
Guno צְבִי (04-19-2021)
RB 60 (04-19-2021)
They aren't. The vast majority of mass killings are not the sensationalized white guy, instead they are most often drive by shootings and gang violence, we as a nation tend to ignore violence if we believe it is "bad guys killing bad guys" regardless of the collateral damage and they simply are not covered as heavily in national news cycles nor treated as if they are the tragedy that I believe that they are.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Matt Dillon (04-21-2021), RB 60 (04-20-2021), Underdog (04-20-2021)
Brandon Hole, 19, was well known to be mentally ill well before he committed mass murder and suicide. Why didn't Indiana give him the treatment he needed before he harmed others and himself?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mul...ng-2021-04-16/
The 19-year-old gunman who killed eight workers and himself at an Indianapolis FedEx center was a former employee who was placed under psychiatric detention last year after his mother reported concerns he might commit “suicide by cop,” police and FBI said....
...It lasted only a couple of minutes and was over by the time police responded to the scene, Craig McCartt, the Indianapolis police department's deputy chief, told a news briefing on Friday.
Witnesses described a chaotic attack, as the gunman opened fire with a rifle in the parking lot before entering the facility and continuing to shoot, leaving victims both inside and outside the building. Officers found the suspect dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A FedEx spokeswoman and police identified the gunman as Brandon Hole, a former employee at the facility. McCartt told reporters the suspect was believed to have last worked at the plant in the fall of 2020.
Asked what brought him back to the facility on Thursday night, McCartt replied: "I wish I could answer that."
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Why are you such a lying, dishonest, moronic race hustling worthless piece of human filth? We need hip waders to get through the bullshit you post.
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"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
I guess you can count any time anyone shoots more than one bullet at the shooting range as a "mass shooting", but the technical definition that most counters of mass shootings use is multiple people being shot and killed. A mass shooting where no one is shot is not considered a shooting, because in this definition, there must be someone shot for it to be a shooting.
You may not think any of this is fair, but it is a standard way to count mass shootings that has been completely clear and transparently done.
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