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Over twenty people? (Original Post) Tab Dec 2015 OP
Reports of 12 dead, 3 shooters wearing body armor. eom MohRokTah Dec 2015 #1
Yes, initial reports make them sound professional Tab Dec 2015 #2
But why attack people with disabilities? Renew Deal Dec 2015 #3
Not necessarily Tab Dec 2015 #4
Everything I'm seen on the TV is saying it was that building. Renew Deal Dec 2015 #8
Apparently it's a complex of offices related to human services Tab Dec 2015 #9
Got me. ananda Dec 2015 #5
Disabled people = welfare leeches Matrosov Dec 2015 #10
"good ol Muricans" quickesst Dec 2015 #11
It will stop the day the gunz are confiscated. hifiguy Dec 2015 #6
Yes. Tab Dec 2015 #7

Tab

(11,093 posts)
4. Not necessarily
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 04:27 PM
Dec 2015

the building is about 300 yards from the State center for disabilities. I think they gave that for reference; I haven't heard that it was related to the center itself.

Tab

(11,093 posts)
9. Apparently it's a complex of offices related to human services
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 04:49 PM
Dec 2015

who, lord knows, always have people p.o.'d for child custody or whatever, but that would better explain a lone individual than apparently three well-prepped shooters.

But who knows. The basic facts will be out quicker than we can speculate our way to them.

(sigh)

ananda

(28,879 posts)
5. Got me.
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 04:27 PM
Dec 2015

Is it a government funded facility?

Did Trump or Cruz say something about the disabled recently?

Maybe it serves immigrants and people of color?

Or just because they can?

 

Matrosov

(1,098 posts)
10. Disabled people = welfare leeches
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 04:51 PM
Dec 2015

My uncle Billy Bob Jethro Ray Earl Duke was born without arms, legs, or a head, and raised by a family of wild hogs in Alabama. Despite all this, my uncle earned his MBA by the time he was 12 and started his own Fortune 500 company a year later.

So if good ol Billy Bob Jethro Ray Earl Duke could do this despite all his disabilities - him being born without a head could be really tough on him at times - then disabled people who'd rather receive government money than have the intestinal fortitude to pull themselves up by their boot straps are nothing but dirty welfare leeches.

..and yeah, that post was completely sarcastic, and though the shooting is no laughing matter, it's also not funny that there's no shortage of 'good ol Muricans' who have an irrational hatred of anyone receiving government money, even disabled people who are on Medicare or Medicaid or other programs.

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