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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScanner reports say a witness to the shooting told law enforcement the shooter was a white male,
with a heavy build, bald head and wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, and had two handguns
http://oakcreek.patch.com/articles/several-people-reported-shot-at-sikh-temple
Skittles
(153,193 posts)WillowTree
(5,325 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)were described as Saudis.
The mass murderers in Rwanda were white males?
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)I'm positive those offset the numbers killed by angry white males.......
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)The majority of them with machetes.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Virginia Tech assassin was asian.
Your brush is too broad.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)They were serial killers. There's a difference. Look it up.
Secondly, I didn't say it was unheardof for a mass murderer to be other than a white male, I said it's historically unusual. Another difference you can look up if you like.
Have a nice day.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Binghamton was Chinese.
One possibiility people were considering here was whether the shooter was part of the congregation, which sometimes is the case. The eyewitness accounts seem to suggest otherwise in this case.
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)awaiting the NRA announcement that all church/temple goers should carry concealed or unconcealed...in this case that would mean Sikh, Muslim-looking brown folk (legal or illegal) carrying weapons into their places of worship for protection?
Not thinking they will say too much on this one.
The old saying about "if we have gun control only criminals will have guns", anyone noticed lately that these abhorrent attacks are not by previously identified criminals? They are by mentally deranged folk usually having stores of legally-purchased weapons and ammo who no one would have a clue about mass murder intent.
davepc
(3,936 posts)cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)Ian David
(69,059 posts)monmouth
(21,078 posts)vinny9698
(1,016 posts)I worked for MHRM suicide hot line and was told to be very careful, that most suicidal people are also homicidal. They are going out and do not care who they take with them. If it is some perceive enemy, then why not.
Also most single car accidents are suicides. They know that if they commit suicide the insurance company will not pay and they leave a big stigma on their family.