Charleston - shooting in church!

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I know that mainstream media TV, Print, Web will use this term as well, and to be honest I just don't fucking get it.

But as far as I'm concerned the right-wingjobs in general and FOX and the EIB and the WSJ use of the term "tragedy" in these situations is purposefully strategic in the effort to negate any attacks on the 2nd Amendment and on this country's democratized gun carnage.

And, that IS what is at the heart of it.

Then, we are told that these things are proof that what we need is MORE gun proliferation................ So, that we can protect ourselves from the "Bad Guys", that their will assuredly be ever more of as access to firearms remains, or in some states, becomes even more liberal.

How many more times are we going to try putting this fire out with gasoline?

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I saw this idiot Steve Doocy on Fox this morning saying that it's "...extraordinary that this shooting is being called a hate crime". And then I noticed the banner running at the bottom referring to it as a "tragedy."

Y'know...it's interesting that Fox News and others...maybe even some here...will refer to this thing as a "tragedy". This is not a tragedy. This is murder and mayhem...it's grisly slaughter. Sandy Hook was not a tragedy. 9/11 was not a tragedy.

A tragedy is when a back porch collapses and 13 people are killed. Or when a crowded bus goes down a ravine in China and 137 people are killed. Or when mom dies of an embolism.

The definition of asshole is anybody who calls this a tragedy.

As Fox News is saying it was just an "isolated" event Ike

[Tom Joad]

I notice that our right wing posters have been conspicuously absent since this shooting.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I notice that our right wing posters have been conspicuously absent since this shooting.

Hard to blame this on Obama.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I notice that our right wing posters have been conspicuously absent since this shooting.

They were absent before it too. Nothing since last week.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by catswiththum

They identified him - kid looks 12 f*&king years old - it's never going to end, 150 years not long enough; his Facebook shows him wearing a jacket with the former Rhodesian flag, for Christ's sake.

Most of humanity is a failure.

Yep. And a lot of people tend to get annoyed whenever I comment that in the end it's a barbarous world.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by catswiththum

his Facebook shows him wearing a jacket with the former Rhodesian flag, for Christ's sake.

Not a Confederate Flag?

Is this what they mean when they say "The New South"?

[Dondilion]

A ghost of Ian Smith.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Not a Confederate Flag?

Is this what they mean when they say "The New South"?

I heard one report say there was a pic of him posed by some Confederate emblem on his car--license plate frame or something.

BTW I was looking for streamable news, and Sky News struck me as way superior to the US networks I could get (CBS and ABC). CBS had execrable technical issues--files resetting and replaying, pic and sound being *minutes* out of synch, etc. Sky had a much more clearly enhanced pic of the surveillance pic than CBS had. The reporters for CBS and ABC were much dumber than the Sky people.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I heard one report say there was a pic of him posed by some Confederate emblem on his car--license plate frame or something.

I had a Confederate Flag License plate on the front of my car back in the 60's.

Not something I'm proud of.