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busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:23 PM Jul 2015

Well...I might as well say this...

Although our prayers go out to everyone effected by this fucked up event in Tenn.

If it turns out that another American turned Isis( sicko) shot the 4 Marines Today?

The Right Wing will go absolutely fucking crazy... The republican Clown machine will begin their process of blaming Obama and all his dominions of allowing Isis to have its way in the U.S.

Hope to God this is not the case.. but...

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Well...I might as well say this... (Original Post) busterbrown Jul 2015 OP
They're already rabid and insane. haikugal Jul 2015 #1
I know nothing about this other than it happened, where, and the number of dead. SheilaT Jul 2015 #2
I know this question has been asked before but ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2015 #3
Exactly! I asked that exact same question! peacebird Jul 2015 #5
good point 1SBM irisblue Jul 2015 #7
Yup. eom uppityperson Jul 2015 #9
Personal hate vs a global jihad filled with nothing but hate seveneyes Jul 2015 #11
Exactly! Little Star Jul 2015 #12
Shooter was identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez MohRokTah Jul 2015 #4
I suppose the right wing Shankapotomus Jul 2015 #6
When I skimmed the headline on the way to finding out the local weather Warpy Jul 2015 #16
The good news is this perp does not invite a million subject lines in GD seveneyes Jul 2015 #8
Maybe a background check to purchase the gun would have helped.... Motown_Johnny Jul 2015 #10
Why do you think there was no background check? nt hack89 Jul 2015 #13
I could easily be wrong... Motown_Johnny Jul 2015 #14
No reason to apologize hack89 Jul 2015 #15
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
2. I know nothing about this other than it happened, where, and the number of dead.
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:36 PM
Jul 2015

The real underlying question everyone should be asking (aside from the usual ones about the ready availability of guns) is: Why do so many people in this country think that shooting up a lot of people is somehow the solution to a problem?

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
3. I know this question has been asked before but ...
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:37 PM
Jul 2015

how is a man killingup 4 marines, in America, in the name of Jihad, an act of domestic terrorism; but, a man shooting up a Black church in America, killing 9 Black people, in the name of white supremacy, NOT an act of domestic terrorism.

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
5. Exactly! I asked that exact same question!
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:41 PM
Jul 2015

I guess if it's a white guy pulling the trigger it can't be terrorism, right?

Or maybe it was Southern Heritage, not some foreign thing...

I do not understand.

 

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
11. Personal hate vs a global jihad filled with nothing but hate
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:52 PM
Jul 2015

Either way, there will be hell to pay ...

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
4. Shooter was identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:38 PM
Jul 2015

They're already going even more insane than they were before the incident.

Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)
6. I suppose the right wing
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:42 PM
Jul 2015

will clamor for the deportation of all Muslims now, just as some bad apples among Mexicans means they all must go.

Warpy

(111,305 posts)
16. When I skimmed the headline on the way to finding out the local weather
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 05:05 PM
Jul 2015

I just knew that was going to be the case, that it was another man who spent too much of his time online and went crazy for god. There is no crazy like god crazy, something I learned when I was a teenager working in a mental hospital.

Eventually all that crazy on the far right is going to start destroying them from the inside out.

 

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
8. The good news is this perp does not invite a million subject lines in GD
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:49 PM
Jul 2015

But the fear never dissipates ...

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
10. Maybe a background check to purchase the gun would have helped....
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:52 PM
Jul 2015

assuming the FBI actually deals with it correctly.



It is inevitable that lone wolf terrorists will get a hold of firearms and use them for attacks.

It will end up being blamed on mental illness. Not the availability of guns.


 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
14. I could easily be wrong...
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 04:58 PM
Jul 2015

I am making an unfounded assumption based on the availably of guns in this country along with the fact that this was a southern state.


I believe Tenn. only requires background checks from gun dealers and pawn shops. There are plenty of other ways to obtain a gun.


If I am wrong I will apologize and/or self delete.


hack89

(39,171 posts)
15. No reason to apologize
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 05:02 PM
Jul 2015

while I suspect they will discover that the gun was legally purchased, you are right that there certainly are plenty of ways to purchase a gun that don't involve a back ground check.

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