Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead

3 years ago by TheJims to c/news

The suspect was later found and shot dead by San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies, officials said.
kromem 270 points 3 years ago

The bio of the victim from her store's website:

Lauri Carleton's career in fashion began early in her teens, working in the family business at Fred Segal Feet in Los Angeles while attending Art Center School of Design. From there she ran “the” top fashion shoe floor in the US at Joseph Magnin Century City. Eventually she joined Kenneth Cole almost from its inception and remained there for over fifteen years as an executive, building highly successful businesses, working with factories and design teams in Italy and Spain, and traveling 200 plus days a year.

With a penchant for longevity, she has been married to the same man for 28 years and is the mother of a blended family of nine children, the youngest being identical twin girls. She and her husband have traveled the greater part of the US, Europe and South America. From these travels they have nourished a passion for architecture, design, fine art, food, fashion, and have consequently learned to drink in and appreciate the beauty, style and brilliance of life. Their home of thirty years in Studio City is a reflection of this passion, as well as their getaway- a restored 1920's Fisherman's Cabin in Lake Arrowhead. Coveting the simpler lifestyle with family, friends and animals at the lake is enhanced greatly by their 1946 all mahogany Chris-Craft; the ultimate in cultivating a well appreciated and honed lifestyle.

Mag.Pi for Lauri is all about tackling everyday life with grace and ease and continuing to dream…

What a waste. A tragedy for that whole family for literally nothing. No reason at all other than small minded assholes.

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pinkdrunkenelephants 65 points 3 years ago
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nutsack 54 points 3 years ago

there aren't enough psychopaths to have a civil war over lgbt flags

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pinkdrunkenelephants 46 points 3 years ago
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afraid_of_zombies 39 points 3 years ago

Bring it on fate. You useless fucking concept developed by village shamans

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FlashMobOfOne 38 points 3 years ago

These same people couldn't go three weeks without a haircut in 2020. There are some who'll shoot someone over a pride flag, but not enough to fight a war. They'd be begging to surrender the first time their grocery order doesn't arrive.

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nutsack 16 points 3 years ago

if there's a civil war that stupid, then the country deserves to end

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ininewcrow 2 points 3 years ago

They said the same things in Germany in the 1930s

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30mag 3 points 3 years ago
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asg101 16 points 3 years ago

Yeah, it’s the second civil war starting

The first civil war never REALLY ended, just went a bit cold.

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figaro 8 points 3 years ago

I'm curious, do you actually think there is going to be another civil war?

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pinkdrunkenelephants 14 points 3 years ago
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bamfic 16 points 3 years ago

The first civil war never ended. It entered a cold phasw for 150 years or so. That's heating up now.

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afraid_of_zombies 7 points 3 years ago

A viewpoint like that is very subject to confirmation bias. Literally any crime is held up as evidence that it is correct. Look at the terms you are using "cold" "about a decade". It isn't a who, what, where, why, and how. It is vague.

Reverse it for a moment. Treat it like a claim in science. What evidence would you use to try to prove your hypothesis wrong?

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catchy_name 11 points 3 years ago

Here’s a podcast where the first handful of episodes lays out what it’d look like if a civil war were to happen and why the author thinks there’s a reasonable chance that it could happen.

https://podcasts.apple.com/...

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slumlordthanatos 34 points 3 years ago

I do really like Robert Evans, but this is something I wholeheartedly disagree with. Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo could definitely happen, but I think it's far more likely that we'll see an American version of The Troubles. I don't think there are enough people who would truly be willing to fight and die over this; but there's plenty of people willing to commit terrorist bombings or acts of sabotage if they think they can get away with it.

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prole 3 points 3 years ago

I haven't listened to the podcast, so maybe I'm wrong... but isn't the "it" in "it could happen here" referring to fascism, not a second civil war?

Pretty important distinction imo

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afraid_of_zombies -5 points 3 years ago

The bar for starting a podcast is a 10 dollar headset.

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Granite 131 points 3 years ago

Stochastic terrorism.

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MrMamiya 147 points 3 years ago

If you just call it terrorism more people will understand you. I understand you’re trying to draw a distinction and I’m here to tell you as someone who grew up in a rural town of 1200 people…just call it terrorism. These people aren’t backtracking on language because they thought of an exception. It’s part of why they hate us.

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JustZ 99 points 3 years ago

Only the left has to use language accurately. The right does not care about language.

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Kolanaki 64 points 3 years ago

Or facts.

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Kalkaline 28 points 3 years ago
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Uranium3006 19 points 3 years ago

The systemic favoritism the right gets is insane, even from left wing people. We need to atop biasing in their favor, they don't deserve it

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MrMamiya -1 points 3 years ago
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Catoblepas 6 points 3 years ago

This thread is about someone who was murdered over a rainbow flag and you’re talking about people being too rude online?? Please get some perspective.

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flipht 19 points 3 years ago

Good points. And anyway, once the trigger was pulled it became normal terrorism.

All the regressive media bullshit that poisons these peoples' minds is the stochastic terrorism.

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captainlezbian 12 points 3 years ago

Yeah they’re no different from people calling a fatwa on a journalist.

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ArugulaZ 31 points 3 years ago

Kill-billies.

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Drusas 12 points 3 years ago

It absolutely is. We need laws, and police forces which aren't overrun by these same criminals, to handle these terrorists.

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jaschen 120 points 3 years ago

I blame the gop for radicalizing the shooter.

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NumbersCanBeFun 107 points 3 years ago
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Fredselfish 68 points 3 years ago

I threw one of those blue lives matter flags in the trash. It blew in from my neighbors house fuck hate the traitorous fucks.

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Deceptichum 40 points 3 years ago
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Sharkwellington 17 points 3 years ago

They outright kill someone over a flag and you’re fantasising about politely ripping one down?

Really puts it into perspective huh? Unfortunately we can't afford to be polite with savages.

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FuglyDuck 17 points 3 years ago

gotta rip it down before shoving it up their ass.

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iHUNTcriminals 6 points 3 years ago

Blat blat. Fire power's something no american has bragging rights over `cause we all can get it. Legal or illegal. We're in a slow motion civil war so don't go bragging about shit everyone has access to if you're a soft handed new age patriot.

People should be building up rations of medicine.

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Maeve 7 points 3 years ago

And participating in mutual aid.

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chilburn06 20 points 3 years ago

I smuggled home a confederate flag I found in a drawer at my grandmother's house. Disposed of it with a bag of cat shit.

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Bytemeister 5 points 3 years ago

Bruh, you just stole G-Ma's emergency TP reserve left over from the early days of covid. Nothing else attracts shit like the stars and bars.

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Aderyna 13 points 3 years ago

There's a guy in my rural northern NY town with TWO confederate flags in the back of his big ass truck 🙄

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NumbersCanBeFun 4 points 3 years ago
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Wirrvogel 105 points 3 years ago

I find it important to make clear it was a hate crime, but Lauri Carleton was NOT killed "over a rainbow flag outside her clothing store".

No one gets killed because of a rainbow flag. You get killed because an asshole who wants to rather die than adapt to the world changing wants to spread fear with his last action and needs desperately to find a "reason". Let's not pretend he had a reason any other than being a coward.

My heart goes out to her family, friends and the community impacted.

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Staccato 18 points 3 years ago

That headline is doing the murderer's work by literally propagating his anti-LGBT terrorism. Shame on that periodical.

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aidan 3 points 3 years ago

Why has calling murderers cowards become such a thing? I blame someone who acts out of fear less than someone who acts out of hate or greed. Fear is a normal emotion and often reasonable. I don't think this person acted out of fear though.

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Imotali 9 points 3 years ago

A lot of them are terrified of LGBTQ people and mask it as outrage. They honestly believe the shit they get told and it terrifies them what the world is becoming.

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Shortstack 91 points 3 years ago

The reality is that terrorists like this guy are armed and carrying all the time, but the second amendment is for all Americans including liberals, lefties, moderates and everyone in between.

Im not advocating for violence, in fact having a concealed carry permit nearly always means the exact opposite. Someone being aggressive? You walk away and let them win. Someone tailgating you? Let them pass.

Carrying is about situations like this, between a shop owner with a rainbow flag and someone out looking for an excuse to murder someone over rage bait.

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fosho 32 points 3 years ago

the problem I have with this is that you're basically saying more people should have guns. a significant part of the issue is that there already are too many guns around and accessible and that is statistically going to result in more alterations resulting in shooting. you can talk about how much respect guns should be given all you want. but if more people have guns then there will be more gun violence.

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Shortstack 23 points 3 years ago

You're not wrong and I mainly don't disagree with you.

But look at it from another perspective.

Those millions of guns in households are largely in the hands of conservatives since gun ownership skews heavily towards white people, males, and those living in rural areas which we already know also skews conservative, within which is a subset that fantasize about having a reason to murder their neighbors over dumb shit like colorful flags or opinions.

Liberals are much more diverse of a population than conservatives which means that when it comes to liberals, women or poc the odds of them having a fighting chance are not great in a life or death situation they didnt create, vs who is most likely to be the aggressors, conservative white men.

My take on it is that the cat is already out of the bag. In a perfect world I would prefer not having easy to operate life-ending tools spread freely throughout the country, but that's not the reality we live in. The best shot we have is to even the playing field so to speak even with the downsides it presents. The current status quo is letting terrorists gun us down with impunity and that doesn't sit well with me.

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RecursiveParadox 17 points 3 years ago

I disagree and think the core problem of too many guns could be solved the same way other Anglophone nations did it.

However, your argument was very well written, and I appreciate both its intention and its focus on the human.

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tacosplease 10 points 3 years ago

I'm open to a solution, but it's unrealistic to expect Americans to give/sell back enough of their guns for it to work like it did in Australia.

We have A LOT more guns here, and each one lasts 100 years or more. We could give up 99% of them (we wouldn't though) and there would still be like 6 million guns here.

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Shortstack 1 point 3 years ago

I have no faith that what has worked in europe would work here given the political and cultural landscape before us. If it was feasible for america I'm not sure we would be in this situation now.

I wish it was, you and me both, but until that changes I'm simply accepting the lay of the land for what it is and reacting accordingly. We can work towards a better solution in the meantime; these actions and thoughts are not mutually exclusive.

However, your argument was very well written, and I appreciate both its intention and its focus on the human.

Thanks for the kind words. It is rather annoying being the change I want to see in the world though.

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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime 4 points 3 years ago

I mean.. I kind of get where you're coming from but "with impunity"? The shooter is now dead. If they weren't dead they'd be either executed eventually or in prison for 50+ years, or more likely, life.

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Shortstack 2 points 3 years ago

The trouble with this is that like @Liz@midwest.social pointed out in her comment about individual rights vs societal safety, from the perspective of the individual being shot, it is with impunity.

That woman had a right to life and safety and some stupid asshole came along and ended that no matter what justice the shooter rightfully faces after the fact.

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Liz 6 points 3 years ago

It's a balance between individual rights and societal safety. You have a right to defend yourself from threats to your life and safety by using deadly force. To say otherwise removes the ability for a good chunk of the population to adequately defend themselves. I'm related to plenty of people who cannot defend their life against the average male aggressor without a gun, and you are too. At a certain point size and strength are insurmountable.

But yes, encouraging people to responsibility engage with firearms for self defense use means that there will be more guns floating around, which means more accidents, suicides, and murders. Just as with any other choice for the rules of society, it's a trade-off. How much do we value keeping the right to adequate self-defense as a universal right? How much do we value preventing accidental injury and death?

The classic comparison is cars, simply because the annual death numbers are similar, and pretty much no other reason. But even so, we can draw parallels. Cars have mandatory features that reduce the likelihood of injury without impacting the usefulness or general experience of using a car. So too do guns, with nearly all guns having to meet industry requirements for safety, like being able to handle an overpressure event, and being drop-safe.

Cars have a licensing procedure (though it's essentially a joke here in the US) and a licensing procedure would be fine for guns, so long as it can't be used to restrict access (racist approvals and denials would become a problem in a hurry). My ideal licensing program would be a free handling skills course where failure would require some sort gross negligence, and even then you'd still get racist denials.

And really, this is the fundamental problem with guns: I (and many others) view them as a necessary tool to accessing a highly valuable right. The chances you'll need a gun are very low, but the cost of not having it can be very high. You don't have full control over whether someone else will attempt to take your life, and I don't want to say to a large chunk of the population "we're going to take away your ability to defend yourself in order to save other people who would still have that option either way."

And I want to be clear, I completely agree with the other person. If you're going to bring guns into your life, you had better learn medical skills, social skills, and you had better train with your firearm in somewhat realistic conditions. You should carry pepper spray, you should practice learning how to actually effectively calm people down, you need to learn how to safely store your guns and ammo, etc. Etc.

I get the desire ban guns in order to save lives, but you'd also be endangering others. Compare that with the car analogy, and banning cars would have a similar trade-off. Some people would live thanks to not getting in a car accident, others would die thanks to not having the same level of mobility (which has about a billion knock-on effects for quality of life).

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MyEdgyAlt 2 points 3 years ago

Without regard to the rest of your comment, somehow the lack of guns works ok in Europe and they aren’t all exactly equally sized.

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Liz 1 point 3 years ago

So, two things:

  1. If you read that comment and didn't realize I knew perfectly well that an increase in access to guns results in an increase in gun violence, I don't know what to tell you. That whole comment was about balancing the needs to the individual against the needs of society.

  2. By your own data, the rape rate in the US was seven times higher than in Europe. Surely we would be talking about how common rape at gunpoint was in the US if that crime was increased by access to guns. The study you cited makes it very clear that direct, unqualified comparisons of crime rates between nation is a bad idea, since there's a million factors that influence crime.
    One of those factors is access to guns, but so are things like poverty, population density, education level, pollution, social services, community engagement, access to green space, noise pollution, after school programs, etc. And the thing is, I want to fix and improve all of those things, something which seems to be lacking among hardcore gun nuts. I also want to fix and improve our relationship to guns, I'm just unwilling to restrict access in a way that can become a civil rights issue on a hurry.

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fosho 1 point 3 years ago

I think your argument sounds good until you look at other countries. I don't know for sure but I'm guessing there aren't more violent attacks on vulnerable people in countries that have gun bans. I think it's possible you're exaggerating the fear of attack without factoring in the overall safety benefits of removing so much gun violence. I'm convinced that if it could be done the benefits would fast out weigh the draw backs.

obviously the reality is that actually accomplishing this task in a country whose identity is so pathetically attached to guns is the impossible task. there's already just too many gun nuts so that ship had long sailed.

regardless, to me there's no question whether it would be better or worse for there to be more people with guns.

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Liz 1 point 3 years ago

Oh, no, it's just that I don't weigh all violence as equal. I have a different value system then you do when it comes to interpersonal violence and that's okay that we disagree there.

To me, removing a potential victim's ability to protect themselves isn't worth removing a potential victim from being attacked at all. To me, they're not a 1:1 trade. You probably disagree, and that's okay, but I place a high value on an individual's agency, to the point where I'm willing to let them live in a slightly more dangerous society to get it.

This trade-off exists in all areas of life, and I don't necessarily side with personal freedom in all of them (I would ban cars if I could), but I do in this area.

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Vlyn 24 points 3 years ago

Carrying doesn't do crap for self defense. The moment a crazy asshole pulls their gun at you and shoots you won't even be able to comprehend the situation quick enough and get your own piece out of the holster.

The crazy asshole always wins as they shoot first (they are usually cowards on top, so you might just get shot in the back).

More guns just leads to more crazy assholes with guns, I feel much safer in European countries.

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DLSchichtl 1 point 3 years ago
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Vlyn 1 point 3 years ago

You mean start arming black people. Fastest way to get gun regulation in the US.

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Shortstack 1 point 3 years ago

In the situation you outline, yeah you'd have no real chance at protecting yourself. And those situations do happen in cases like the Las Vegas hotel shooting or any of the various school shootings we're seeing all over these days.

In many other cases even the most craven assholes need to work themselves up to shoot another human being.

That means arguments, harassment and threats.

These are helpful advance warning signs that tell you that you're entering dangerous waters and de-escalation tactics take priority. Many of our lady friends can already tell from a mile away if someone is dangerous even before they start flapping their mouthholes as a matter of everyday survival.

If all of that fails and I hope to god that it doesn't, that's when having a concealed weapon gives you a fighting chance at defending your right to live. Especially for women, guns are the great equalizer.

More guns just leads to more crazy assholes with guns

You're right, this is true.

Unfortunately the cost of encountering a rather persistent strapped terrorist is extremely high even if the chance of it happening to you is low.

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Vlyn 1 point 3 years ago

Well, I rather live in a country where pretty much no one is strapped (except police and military and even then not all of them).

Even the whole hero fantasy a lot of Americans have, it doesn't work out. There is a famous video of someone shooting up a mall. A random guy carrying tried to sneak up on him. Then the girlfriend of the shooter popped him right in the head from behind (as he didn't notice her following at a distance).

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ThrowawayPermanente 14 points 3 years ago

We need more people who think like you

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Shortstack 17 points 3 years ago

There's more than you realize.

You likely don't hear much about it because liberal gun owners don't fetishize guns or base their personality around them like the chuds on the other side of the fence do. Guns are tools, not an identity.

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Smacks 89 points 3 years ago

It's odd, I don't think I've ever heard of a lefty or a gay person outright killing someone over a Dixie or Trump flag. I keep reading about far-righties killing people over the scary rainbow flag though

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sturmblast 2 points 3 years ago

Closest I've come is punching a skinhead for his jacket patches.

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mihor -53 points 3 years ago
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mrpants 64 points 3 years ago

lol the only one in 26 years holy shit. feels like every other day with far right weirdos going on shooting sprees

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mihor -64 points 3 years ago
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mihor -51 points 3 years ago
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rusticus 26 points 3 years ago

I can think of another example of a Trump supporter murdered for their allegiance. Jeffrey Epstein lol.

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Bakkoda 11 points 3 years ago

"Can't say they haven't been."

Actually I can. And I provided as much evidence as you did.

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scrubbles 2 points 3 years ago

Lol this reads like the white Christians who say they're the most persecuted group in the country

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Smacks 19 points 3 years ago

President Donald Trump commended the U.S. Marshals for shooting Reinoehl, describing it as "retribution", and claiming to have personally "sent in" the U.S. Marshals to "get" Reinoehl during the first presidential debate with Joe Biden.

That's really the icing on top isn't it

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thathoe 5 points 3 years ago

That's especially disturbing considering that it seems more like a political hit job on a left-wing activist. Dude killed somebody allegedly in self-defense, then he was gunned down - why was a fugitive task for necessary when the dude was just chilling at home?

He was executed my a shady task force, probably without ever firing his gun, and then the president boasted about revenge. https://archive.ph/OFvJi

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RIPandTERROR 4 points 3 years ago

Damn, reading the wiki link is disturbing when you read the shooter's info. Dude's house was shot at. Not surprised he was on edge

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Nacktmull 76 points 3 years ago
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telllos 32 points 3 years ago

The need for the 2nd amendment is fundamental if you want the people, able to form a tyranny.. oh wait..

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GladiusB 21 points 3 years ago

The problem is they don't see the hypocrisy. They think tyranny only applies to the government.

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aidan 1 point 3 years ago

Generally yeah most tyranny definitions refer to government. It's hard to exert tyrannical rule without being a de facto government.

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Isthisreddit 2 points 3 years ago

Turns out they have always been pro tyranny as long it's their guy hurting the "correct" people...

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Nacktmull 1 point 3 years ago
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ph00p -13 points 3 years ago

You can just print that shit now.

Imagine if these crazy fucks didn't already have guns and they just discovered printable ones, I think that would have been a worse outcome.

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Margrave 9 points 3 years ago

Please elaborate as to how that would be worse. At least half these nutters wouldn't be able to figure out how to use a printer, let alone a 3d printer.

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Intralexical 6 points 3 years ago

This thread has, predictably, devolved into a hugely disrespectful exchange given the linked post.

But as an aside, I shudder to think of trying to design an additively manufactured part that would reliably contain a propellant blast using anything less than an industrial $100k-$1m DMLS or at least really really good SLS machine. If the goal is to harm somebody using a 3D printer, you'd probably be better off bashing them over the head with it.

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aidan 4 points 3 years ago

Full plastic guns generally don't last very long- but they have been proven to somewhat work since 2013. Now there are more stable designs that use off-the-shelf plumbing parts with plastic components. There are also designs that can be CNC'd with a cheap machine

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Tenthrow 5 points 3 years ago

Why does everyone thing 3D printing is magic? You're not going to be 3D printing weapons that can kill scores of poeple. Any firearm printed on an FDM printer is lucky to fire once without injuring the dipshit wielder.

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N0_Varak 2 points 3 years ago

This comment betrays a lack of understanding around 3d printed firearms.

Of course there are your (nearly) fully plastic single shots like the Harlot that fire small calibers and dont always last long.

On the other hand, there's plastic lowers (the only part considered a firearm and thus the onlynpart that needs to be bought through an FFL) for AR15s that use off the shelf plumbing supplies for the pressure bearing components.

The files are readily available and able to be printed on low end FDM printers with little adjustment and troubleshooting completely bypassing the need to purchase a firearm from a dealer.

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NikkiDimes 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, it'd be so terrible having crazy fucks blowing their own hands off /s

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Everlastingspud 71 points 3 years ago

How much of a pussy do you have to be to go shoot somebody over a rainbow flag. What a fucking fairy. People are so sensitive these days and don't know how to act. We can blame the internet all we want, but at the end of the day, people need to learn to have some social skills. How to talk disagreements out and let people have an opinion, even if it may be wrong or stupid in their eyes. It absolutely infuriates me that people gotta die over stupid shit.

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foggy 38 points 3 years ago

In like 2021 when the truckers were protesting g the vaccine at the border I made a man snap in public over what was legitimately a luke-warm shot at the protest.

I said something like "these dipshits are acting like they didn't get their mandated MMR shots already." And a guy next to me, not in the conversation, dramatically stood up, and loudly announced "You know what?! All you fuckin idiots think the situation is simple, but it's a lot more fucking complex that the corporate media is making it out to be!" He stormed out. Didn't pay his tab.

The whole bar just sat there in awe. Like "damn I guess some of us really got hit with that isolation crazy"

Truly, a year alone for some was just too much.

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Tenthrow 18 points 3 years ago

You say that like any of those people actually quarantined.

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scrubbles 7 points 3 years ago

Talk about an easily triggered snowflake. Ahh they have a flag presented! I need my gun to protect my fragility!

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lennybird 67 points 3 years ago

Just another example of far-right extremist violence.

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Burn_The_Right 37 points 3 years ago

It's just regular conservative violence at this point.

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lennybird 13 points 3 years ago

Two sides of the same coin, since all "regular" conservatives are also "far-right" extremists. Any "moderate conservative" is just a centrist Democrat at this point.

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NewNewAccount 3 points 3 years ago

Except no. The majority of "moderate conservatives" would still vote for the Republican candidate. 74 million Americans voted for Trump in 2020.

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lennybird 12 points 3 years ago

And those 74 million people are far-right extremists and in no way "Moderate."

That's the point. That's the Overton Window.

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Mockrenocks 1 point 3 years ago

You're not a moderate if you support overthrowing the government. They can delude themselves, but they should absolutely be denied that label.

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foo 9 points 3 years ago

Domestic terrorism

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Burn_The_Right 7 points 3 years ago

Regular conservative domestic terrorism.

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FordBeeblebrox 4 points 3 years ago

Good old homegrown god fearing terrorists.

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MonkderZweite 2 points 3 years ago

US-perspective.

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Hobbes 58 points 3 years ago

Ever notice how there's no such thing as a liberal hate crime?

"We are all domestic terrorists".

How much more do we have to put up with before we do something about this? Sadly I'm guessing it's a lot more.

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WtfEvenIsExistence 57 points 3 years ago
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iHUNTcriminals -24 points 3 years ago
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catsarebadpeople 12 points 3 years ago

Did you have a stroke while writing this? Hope you're ok

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captainlezbian 7 points 3 years ago

Brown shirts aren’t inherently bigoted, but they can be a reference to the colloquial name for the SA, the brownshirts, called that because their uniforms included brown shirts and also to differentiate them from other fascist militias of the era that wore different colored shirts. The SA used similar styles of military imagery, threats of violence, and acts of violence to modern right wing militias.

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Kolanaki 54 points 3 years ago

If I am ever killed over my rainbow stuff, I'm haunting the son of a bitch who killed me as a rainbow.

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Jaded 19 points 3 years ago

I'd tend to trust someone haunted by a rainbow personally, I don't think it's the best plan

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Scrawny 18 points 3 years ago

Leprechauns are starting to make sense.

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VanillaGorilla 11 points 3 years ago

I would love to have my personal rainbow, could you haunt me a little as well? Maybe Tuesdays?

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duviobaz 45 points 3 years ago

They want you dead. It's time to return this sentiment.

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charonn0 7 points 3 years ago

Normalizing political violence will inevitably, and possibly literally, blow up in your face.

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duviobaz 6 points 3 years ago

We are not going to sit here and watch people get killed for no reason just for nothing to happen to the terrorists in return. As terrorists, they deserve to be treated as terrorists. A hundred years ago killing Nazis after the liberation of Germany was the right thing to do, but now it's supposed to be wrong?

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jimbo 8 points 3 years ago
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duviobaz 5 points 3 years ago

There are more like him

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aidan -7 points 3 years ago

Who is they?

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Prethoryn 1 point 3 years ago

If we acted the same way it would reinforce their agenda. My comment blew up.

Update/Edit: if you think killing people is the answer to solving the world's problems then you are a fucking premtitive shitty human being and are a part of the problem.

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acutfjg 40 points 3 years ago

No action will also reinforce their agenda

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lennybird -1 points 3 years ago

There's a gap a mile wide between doing nothing and stooping to the same level of violence. Come on...

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darthfabulous42069 4 points 3 years ago

I question this idea that violence should only be viewed through a lens of who is superior to the other. Morality is not about being better. It's about reducing suffering in the world. And your opponents think nonviolence simply doesn't accomplish that, and in this case I don't blame them.

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baked_tea -5 points 3 years ago

Quite a bit of space between 0 and 100

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gmtom 36 points 3 years ago

Yeah hence why when the Nazis invaded Europe we never invaded them back, because that would have just reinforced the Nazi agenda.

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Prethoryn -1 points 3 years ago

Not sure if you are aware but the Nazi agenda is still around.

One could make the argument war didn't get rid of them and had just reinforced their way of thinking even moreso for the ones who still supported nazism.

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gmtom 1 point 3 years ago

One could also make the argument that the best way to deal with hitler was to send him chocolates and ask him to leave France very nicely. Doesn't mean its a good argument.

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pinkdrunkenelephants 25 points 3 years ago
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masterspace 8 points 3 years ago

You're not allowed to get strapped up like a larping moron in every western country in the world that isn't the US.

The US would be doing a lot better if they stopped pretending like they were the only country in the world that's ever tried to solve a problem. Owning guns just increases the chance that you or a family member will commit suicide or a murder suicide.

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pinkdrunkenelephants 7 points 3 years ago
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crimroy -18 points 3 years ago

I love how tough and secure you are! So impressive!

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pinkdrunkenelephants 5 points 3 years ago
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Burn_The_Right 16 points 3 years ago

History has shown time and time again that pacifism cannot defeat conservatism. Conservatives see pacifism as an invitation to attack.

They do no rely on our actions to advance their agenda of hate. Conservatives will advance their agenda of hate with or without our input. They can only be stopped by force.

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some_guy 11 points 3 years ago

I dunno. I've thought, for quite some time, that we'll lose because the only way to combat the far-right is to stoop to their levels and we, naturally, are to ethical to do so. I'm increasingly on the side of see-a-nazi-punch-a-nazi, although I'm horrified by violence and probably wouldn't have the courage to do so.

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Burn_The_Right 9 points 3 years ago

If you are unable to fight, then prepare yourself in other ways. Teach your family how to help fighters who are injured, how to evac people who need help and how to escape/survive a conservative attack (such as an active shooter).

Even if you are not a fighter, there is a ton you can do to help those who will fight.

At minimum, teach your children why we don't do business with or engage in personal relationships with conservatives. Together we can maginalize hate by marginalizing haters.

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lennybird -15 points 3 years ago

I hope you realize that you're falling right into the far-right playbook. This right here is their goal. Not sure if you're familiar with ProPublica's research but they seek to muddy the waters. The whole punch a nazi thing actually helps their recruitment. They turn around and go, "See? They're no better. They claim to preach these beliefs about a civil society and freedom of speech and not preemptively striking, yet here we are."

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brognak 19 points 3 years ago

Either way they lie and recruit the same. I'd much rather just punch the Nazis and anyone who sides with them.

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GladiusB 3 points 3 years ago

So, they act like children?

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girlfriend 3 points 3 years ago

It seems unlikely that this would have any political effect, let alone a negative one. Perpetual gun violence is an unremarkable feature of life in the United States.

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ph00p -3 points 3 years ago

All the downvotes you're getting on this one... YIKES I don't think this is a very good community.

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sumofchemicals 1 point 3 years ago

There are times violence is necessary, with Nazi Germany being the classic example.

That said, most of the time, even for many times where violence might be "right" it's still a strategic error. It's much harder to build than destroy and any "successful" deployment of violence requires physical and institutional/relational rebuilding.

Violence can make it harder to attract supporters to your cause. It gives your opponents the feeling of moral justification in also exercising violence. In a full on conflict, it reduces the ability of key supporters (the young, elderly, disabled, many women) from contributing to the struggle compared with non violent action

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ByteWizard -1 points 3 years ago

Militant trans sentiment is growing.

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electrogamerman 37 points 3 years ago

Everyone talking about the victim, etc what happened to the murderer? Is they in prisión now?

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Lhianna 57 points 3 years ago

According to the article they were shot and killed by law enforcement

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Johanno 16 points 3 years ago

Murica

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TheBlue22 12 points 3 years ago

Good. Hopefully, they suffered before being thrown back into the hole they crawled out of

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ohlaph 4 points 3 years ago

Shot them back.

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IGuessThisIsForNSFW 54 points 3 years ago

"The suspect was found and shot dead by responding officers"

I don't think they made it to jail.

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WiildFiire 20 points 3 years ago

Extremely extremely uncommon police W

Unless the shooter was African American and they had no idea about the shop shooting which I wouldn't doubt

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FlyingSquid 37 points 3 years ago

I don't call it a win. That murderer deserved to be tried and convicted for their crime and serve decades behind bars. They gave him the easy way out.

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Wahots 19 points 3 years ago

From another article (The Sun is owned by Murdoch iirc), they suggested that the murderer did not want to get arrested and was aggressive. It's sad that people get so hateful that they would rather die hating people than just going about life.

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gmtom 5 points 3 years ago

My cognitive dissonance is thinking both you and the guy you replied to are correct.

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CoffeeJunkie -6 points 3 years ago
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Stoneykins 20 points 3 years ago

Yeah it is really easy to fall for the schadenfreude when a POS gets got by cops but don't forget cops are wrong about who did what all the fucking time...

I hope they weren't wrong here...

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Root 21 points 3 years ago

It's not their job to execute people. It's their job to arrest them and provide evidence in a court of law to get them jail time. Even if it's the perpetrator.

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electrogamerman 3 points 3 years ago

I am actually interested to know the race of the murderer. I know some people are against giving that information, but truth is, that provides a lot of information.

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electrogamerman 4 points 3 years ago

Good. Thank you.

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some_guy 11 points 3 years ago

If you can't be bothered to read TFA, please don't enter the discussion.

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IGuessThisIsForNSFW -1 points 3 years ago

Trying to make memes is a waste of time. Spend an hour trying to make something funny in photoshop, 4 upvotes. Literally just read the second line of an article and put it in the comments, 50 upvotes. Not that I care about internet points, but if I did I would never waste my time actually trying to make something insightful!

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someguy3 33 points 3 years ago

Is this the start of them hunting down libs? Party of law and order people.

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rivermonster 16 points 3 years ago
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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime 5 points 3 years ago

War is here? We have 350 million plus people. I don't see how you can call the occasional incident "war". If it was violence targeted at non-conservatives even once every few days I could see your point maybe. But as violent and awful as America is, I think the vast majority of our violence is not political in nature.

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Cubes 4 points 3 years ago

I will probably get downvoted for saying it, but this post and the response here reminds me a lot of things you'd see on r/conservative in that people take an isolated hateful incident and extrapolate to say that this is the start of a civil war and we need to mount an equally forceful response. Yes this is a tragedy, unhinged, and terroristic behavior, but, as someone from a deeply red state who has some ultra-conservative family, 0 of them are even remotely close to wanting to fight and die over pride flags.

I only say this because the sentiment that "there is no other way out of this but civil war" is not anywhere close to true, in my mind, and only serves to stop coherent discussion.

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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime 4 points 3 years ago

Perfectly said. I'm with you. I do think it's a distinct possibility at some point but this news story is not a part of some inevitably imminent civil war. If nothing else, 99.9% of people are way too comfortable and lazy currently to even attempt to create that sort of chaos. Something to still be watchful about but nothing like some of the comments in this thread are saying.

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Intralexical 1 point 3 years ago

I only say this because the sentiment that “there is no other way out of this but civil war” is not anywhere close to true, in my mind, and only serves to stop coherent discussion.

It is also not at all the appropriate response to hearing about an innocent person being killed. No sympathy or concern or even tact for the victim nor her community nor loved ones— Instead, fantasizing about even more of the same thing happening so you can mentally LARP as a hero. Even if you're right, this is not the place to scream your violence-fantasy slogans.

Interesting that as communities become more radical and more specialized— Not that that's always a bad thing; It's probably a natural part of the memetic processes by which communities evolve— But it's interesting that they also seem to become less and less empathetic at the same time.

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NewNewAccount 2 points 3 years ago

I think the vast majority of our violence is not political in nature. Of course, but the rate that it's rising is very concerning. The rhetoric is also getting more heated.

Wouldn't be surprised if things did indeed boil over.

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rivermonster 0 points 3 years ago
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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime 0 points 3 years ago

Your tone in no way helps the conversation. Bye.

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CaptainAniki 28 points 3 years ago
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AngryCommieKender 8 points 3 years ago

California has entered the chat with a bit more money at over double the economic productivity of Texas (#2) and New York (#3)

California is where the money is at, New York/ New England just has a higher proportion of rich people living there.

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CaptainAniki -4 points 3 years ago
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Alobarap 24 points 3 years ago

Tragic and unacceptable.

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ByteWizard -9 points 3 years ago
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carbonated 3 points 3 years ago

Why are you associating that with this?

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isthismanas_droid 16 points 3 years ago

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Coskii 15 points 3 years ago

I'm hoping they never release the killers identity to the public. Spreading around that hateful persons likeness and beliefs all over media and articles only empowers others to do the same thing. Leave them as a nameless pictureless murderer with no agenda or beliefs, just some bigoted murderer.

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Mockrenocks 1 point 3 years ago

Others are empowered and emboldened to do the same thing regardless of whether this person's name makes it out. The right knows that they have a near monopoly on political violence so their agenda is to feed poison to the unstable so that they'll commit violence to make people fear to be themselves and supportive of others. I've heard about a shit-ton of abortion clinic bombings and murders, can't think of a single "crisis pregnancy center" issue.

Hell, when the Supreme Court got concerned about protesters they were absolutely fine with there being special guidelines for them. But for a person seeking an abortion? Nope, you'll get to have unstable "Christian" shitheads yelling in your face while they take pictures of you and your car to distribute to their network of terrorists.

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abigscaryhobo 2 points 3 years ago

I see what you're getting at, but the point of keeping this person anonymous is to lessen their ability to be used by people as a symbol or turn them into a martyr. It's far easier for bigots to say "remember Joe Johnson, we fight for him or whatever" and spin it their way than it is to say "remember that guy who shot the guy who hung up a flag? He's our man!"

Not tying a name to the criminal prevents them from being immortalized because they're not "Joe the defender" or whatever, they're "a murderer". There will still be bigots out there for sure, but leaving this person nameless gives them one less thing to latch on to.

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luciferofastora 3 points 3 years ago

Disturbed - Legion of Monsters

You made sure the world will remember the name
But didn't the thought even enter your mind?
You′d give a new legion of monsters
A reason to take your life

The song originally is about a school shooting, but the point is the same

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Coskii 1 point 3 years ago

You're absolutely not wrong. Sadly though, there's a world in which are both right and we're living in it. More than a few times school shooters have been copycats who likened themselves to the colombine shooters, or who literally wanted to be in the media and have people talking about them.

The amount of time and effort put into remembering the perpetrators of these heinous crimes is so much greater than the memories of those they killed. That's the part I'd like to change. I know it'll never happen, gotta get those views for the ad money, but I can hope.

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ArugulaZ 15 points 3 years ago

Kill-billies kill. It's all they know, it's all they can do.

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SCB -13 points 3 years ago

Yeah open warfare in the streets is not, in fact, the solution to this problem.

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theyoyomaster 13 points 3 years ago

When criminals have guns and are willing to use them being able to defend yourself is your final option. Making it known that your group isn’t a soft target makes them second guess trying it.

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SCB -2 points 3 years ago

That's absolutely not how criminals make choices, and you're parroting the same line of shit people spew when they say we should arm teachers.

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abraxas 8 points 3 years ago

No, I think it's pretty different.

Whether there is justification for gun ownership for "self-defense" or not, it is entirely different for someone who has a reasonable risk of being targeted for violence to have a gun than for teachers to have a gun in crowded schools with the expectation they might kill a school shooter.

To point specifically the biggest differences:

  1. Crowded school filled with terrified children vs someone's home or small business
  2. Self-defense against single-target hate crimes vs policing against a terrorist incident
  3. Voluntary self-defense which still allows for skill and responsibility requirements vs ~~mandating ~~arming people who might not even be comfortable armed (and might feel pressured)

EDIT: I have crossed out "mandating" because I was informed there are no current bills trying to mandate arming schools. I believe my point stands without it. If someone has a reference of a mandate, I will un-cross-out it if I see it.

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theyoyomaster -5 points 3 years ago

It absolutely is how criminals make choices, they prey on those that are weaker based on their assumed advantage. Arming teachers is also the best way to stop school shootings that are actively occurring. Armed minorities are harder to oppress and mass shooters select gun free zones for a reason.

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Spaceinv8er 3 points 3 years ago

Damn my hometown...

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HawlSera 2 points 3 years ago

This shit is why I just stay at home.

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nyar 1 point 3 years ago
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DLSchichtl 4 points 3 years ago
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jampacked 1 point 3 years ago

I didn't have anything to do with it.

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