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TexasBushwhacker

(20,190 posts)
15. Everyone doesn't tan
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 02:58 PM
Nov 2017

For some folks, either you're white as a ghost or you're sunburned, with no in between. We also don't know what time of year the picture was taken.

Bluepinky

(2,271 posts)
4. Trump was speaking about himself when he said...
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 11:16 AM
Nov 2017

“This is a mental health problem at the highest level”.
So what is he going to do about it?

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
5. Personally, I think we (as society), should not speak the killers name or show his picture
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 11:20 AM
Nov 2017

As this is what they want - infamy in death

billh58

(6,635 posts)
11. The only mental illness in play
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 01:21 PM
Nov 2017

here is allowing the right-wing gun lobby and the Orange Anus-Mouth to dictate gun policy in the USA. We need to replace all bought-and-paid for NRA politicians at all levels of our government, and implement sensible and sane gun control policy.

brooklynite

(94,581 posts)
16. Sorry, disagree
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 03:00 PM
Nov 2017

The purpose of terrorism is to spread terror beyond the people you kill. There's no indication that this was his motive. The number of victims and the fact that it took place in a church is irrelevant.

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
17. that's not the standard that's been applied in the past
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 03:07 PM
Nov 2017

...and it makes no sense to assume this person didn't intend to impose fear.

I guess the automatic rifle that was his facebook profile picture was actually a cry for help.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
18. Terrorist operatives often don't have personal
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 03:20 PM
Nov 2017

agendas. In this, and other gun violence incidents, the terrorist organization that promotes the use of guns for "personal protection" and uses fear to sell more and more guns with which to spread more fear, is the source of the terrorism. That organization is the right-wing gun manufacturer's gun lobby and their political terrorist front group the NRA.

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