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Mass Shooting Allen, TX Outlet Mall - May 6, 2023

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by murphree_hall, May 6, 2023.

  1. demosthenes

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    No, they don’t “want” more, they just find the losses acceptable.
     
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  2. antny1

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    Lol. Cite the violence of prohibition but ignore the violence post sunsetting the AR ban.....clown
     
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  3. WC53

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    I think it is difficult to look at effectiveness of AWB for a few reasons
    The popularity and few crimes committed with them when enacted.
    Huge marketing and political pushes during and post bans that inflated the sales exponentially.
    Number of individuals that served and were familiar with the platform (plus the wannabe’s that, well you know)
    And well, BSC ammosexuals who are under constant death threats and need to prep and carry to go to the grocery store and by small/slim products ;)
     
  4. Swamplizard

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  5. citygator

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    Already answered by @demosthenes . I’ll admit my specific call out of COD was too narrow but my point is video games are a worldwide phenomenon and gun murder isn’t.
     
  6. mrhansduck

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    I think they’re basing that at least in part on a “RWDS” patch that he was purportedly wearing. I couldn’t see it on the pictures of him I saw and never heard of that patch before.

    I did see what appeared to be a tattoo on his hand, and some have been speculating he was a gang member or illegal immigrant, but that’d be hard to square with him being a licensed security guard.
     
  7. PITBOSS

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    For much of maga it could be they just don’t want to work with rino’s or dems to even to discuss ideas, regardless the issue - even mass shootings.
     
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  8. G8tas

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  9. tampagtr

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    Enrique Tarrio is a Latino white supremacist.
     
  10. l_boy

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    Ok. So I hope my fellow Texans and MAGA enthusiasts are happy. Now we have right wing nuts shooting up malls. Freedom!!
     
  11. Swamplizard

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    do you understand that makes no sense? I get what you are saying but it still makes no sense
     
  12. l_boy

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    Also, how stupid do you have to be to be a Hispanic white supremacist?
     
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  13. l_boy

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    Exactly.
     
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  14. tampagtr

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    Believe me I know. But it doesn't surprise me that much. I'm related to a lot of people whose last name ends in z or a vowel, like me, with similar beliefs. I've talked about it before.

    I can only be sanguine about it because the Rays came back to beat the Yankees after being down six runs against Gerrit Cole
     
  15. mrhansduck

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    Not saying this guy was motivated by racism or even politics. I don’t know. But we’ve had discussions about Nick Fuentes and George Zimmerman, too.
     
  16. l_boy

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    I think some Hispanics view themselves as white. It was common among some Cubans I used to hang around in Miami decades ago. They don’t get the irony that white racists typically don’t view them as white.

    Maybe they “identify” as white and the racists respect that. o_O
     
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    Former police chief of Miami I knew always said Miami Cubans were very often prejudiced against other races and identified as white.
     
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  19. Swamplizard

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    Hispanics are very prejudice against other Hispanics
     
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  20. swampbabe

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    Actually, it does. I grew up in Miami and a lot/most of the Cubans I knew considered themselves to be white.

    Edit to add: it appears I’m late to the party here.
     
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