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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    As an example I went back and looked in this thread to see if there was a single comment on the mass shooting by the transgender kid in Colorado last May.

    To my surprise nobody mentioned it
    If gun violence was really an issue there would be tens of posts daily in this thread.

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    They made sure they said "white" male.

    But neglect when two to five people killed in Chicago by black males daily but even more weekly since two are more considered a mass shooting.

    Blacks rarely commit atrocities like this unless gang or drug related.

    They are not mentally effed up like those that are not white.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AerchAngel View Post
    They made sure they said "white" male.

    But neglect when two to five people killed in Chicago by black males daily but even more weekly since two are more considered a mass shooting.

    Blacks rarely commit atrocities like this unless gang or drug related.

    They are not mentally effed up like those that are not white.
    I dont want to give white people an excuse of "mental illness". This **** is bad and it needs to stop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    I dont want to give white people an excuse of "mental illness". This **** is bad and it needs to stop.

    It is mental illness. They turn on the tv and every channel has some guys name and photo all over and they think they’ll
    Be popular if they do it.



    The Media should never publish a photo or name the person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krgrecw View Post
    It is mental illness. They turn on the tv and every channel has some guys name and photo all over and they think they’ll
    Be popular if they do it.



    The Media should never publish a photo or name the person.
    This guy was radicalized online. 8chan may be a problem that should be looked into.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    As an example I went back and looked in this thread to see if there was a single comment on the mass shooting by the transgender kid in Colorado last May.

    To my surprise nobody mentioned it
    I think that’s more likely a function of the fact that such shootings are common enough that we’re fairly desensitized to their occurrence, so unless it’s a high-profile place or a high fatality count, it tends to get lost in the news cycle. This is certainly a sad commentary. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but I’d stick with my original statement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    I think that’s more likely a function of the fact that such shootings are common enough that we’re fairly desensitized to their occurrence, so unless it’s a high-profile place or a high fatality count, it tends to get lost in the news cycle. This is certainly a sad commentary. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but I’d stick with my original statement.
    You're actually going to pretend that the profile of the shooter doesn't impact the attention it gets?
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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    You're actually going to pretend that the profile of the shooter doesn't impact the attention it gets?
    No, just that it’s a chicken**** evasion of a number of salient issues.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    No, just that it’s a chicken**** evasion of a number of salient issues.
    One of those issues is the amount of hate that is directed towards white males. If youre serious about figuring out whats happening you wont avoid this truth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    One of those issues is the amount of hate that is directed towards white males. If youre serious about figuring out whats happening you wont avoid this truth.
    I really can’t believe you guys are going with this.

    I mean, if you squint at that I’m sure it could be considered kind of shorthand for some real reasons for radicalization, but what it really sounds to me like you’re saying is that some young white men are becoming toxic extremism-polluted mass murderers because they feel threatened by some social critiques, most of which have no ability to impact their lives in a meaningful way.

    In addition to being some real snowflake ****, it’s victim-blaming of epic proportions. So, in the same way that accelerated racism was Obama’s fault, the ultimate expression of toxic masculinity is the fault of people who criticize toxic masculinity. That’s some classic abuser stuff—“look what you made me do.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    I really can’t believe you guys are going with this.

    I mean, if you squint at that I’m sure it could be considered kind of shorthand for some real reasons for radicalization, but what it really sounds to me like you’re saying is that some young white men are becoming toxic extremism-polluted mass murderers because they feel threatened by some social critiques, most of which have no ability to impact their lives in a meaningful way.

    In addition to being some real snowflake ****, it’s victim-blaming of epic proportions. So, in the same way that accelerated racism was Obama’s fault, the ultimate expression of toxic masculinity is the fault of people who criticize toxic masculinity. That’s some classic abuser stuff—“look what you made me do.”
    You are attacking the comment as if it is being presented as the sole cause.

    Its this type of response that leads the conversation nowhere.
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    except they didnt have assault weapons
    just sayin'
    The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.

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    i will bet the farm they have mentally ill in Japan too
    England, Denmark, Germany
    or anywhere else in the world for that matter.

    What is different here ?


    This isn't ****in complicated
    The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    except they didnt have assault weapons
    just sayin'
    Made up term.

    We have already seen what America looks like with semi-automatic AND automatic rifles prior to the internet and radical social changes.

    Consider the results of that world when trying to pin this on 'guns'.
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    you can talk and talk and talk but the reality is there is one thread running through all of these shootings.
    They are shootings

    with guns --- going out on a limb here but thinking a person that shoots mass numbers of people be it in a suburban mall or a bar room in South Side Chicago is suffering

    Lets suppose for one second ...
    you know what I am going to say.
    I have been saying it for years and nothing changes.

    But know what ?
    I am going to keep saying it
    The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post

    Focus will be that it was a person with in all likelihood an illness that had access to weapons of war to ease his frustrations.
    The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 57Brave View Post
    you can talk and talk and talk but the reality is there is one thread running through all of these shootings.
    They are shootings

    with guns --- going out on a limb here but thinking a person that shoots mass numbers of people be it in a suburban mall or a bar room in South Side Chicago is suffering

    Lets suppose for one second ...
    you know what I am going to say.
    I have been saying it for years and nothing changes.

    But know what ?
    I am going to keep saying it
    Why didn't shootings like this happen 30 years ago when weapons were more easily accessible?

    You are focusing on the wrong things because of your partisan politics.
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