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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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 Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:02 pm Post subject: Mass killings, domestic terrorism and Trump |
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49226573
Trump's continued racist anti-immigrant attacks have served to encourage white nationalist domestic terrorism. Gun rights proponents argue that military-style attack weapons are needed in the hands of civilians to protect against government tyranny, but now there's a real tyrant with autocratic tendencies in the White House, and heavily armed white nationalist militias strongly support - and are supported by him, and individual mass killers - whether "mentally sick" or not - are inspired and encouraged by his hateful words and deeds against people of color - especially poor immigrants but even former President Obama was subjected to his "birtherism" attacks... |
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CentralCali
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| Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| For the mass murder in Texas, there was a "good guy with a (concealed carry) gun" who happens to be in the military, yet he was unable to stop the killer. |
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Rteacher
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| Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Authorities claim no evidence of "racial motive" in Dayton mass killing although early on it was reported that (white) killer's sister - who was among those shot and killed - was there with some black friends. Later reports don't include that for some reason. It's fortunate that police responded so quickly - reportedly 32 seconds - to minimize the carnage ... https://time.com/5643405/what-to-know-shooting-dayton-ohio/ |
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