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Mass shooting with 5 dead in Raleigh

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by tampagtr, Oct 13, 2022.

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  1. Oct 13, 2022 #1
    tampagtr

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  2. Oct 13, 2022 #2
    sierragator

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    Too soon. Let's discuss hunter's laptop.
     
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  3. Oct 14, 2022 #3
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    Tragic, but the media feasts on these outliers. Like bad teachers, these horrible people constitute a small sample, right @ridgetop?
    (Sarcasm)
     
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  4. Oct 14, 2022 #4
    tampagtr

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    And in Connecticut (day old), although the linked NY Post article sure humanizes the killers with some soft family photos in a way they never would with a “darker” shooter.

    The world we have consciously created

     
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  5. Oct 14, 2022 #5
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    Good ol American gun violence, there’s nothing in the world like it
     
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    tampagtr

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    Literally
     
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    I typically reserve the Ts & Ps for double digit body counts but the shooter was a minor. So I’ll make an exception. Ts & Ps.
     
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  8. Oct 14, 2022 #8
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    Sorry but people see what they choose to see based on their politics. I'm not immune but I try to refrain from generalities. You really think they are humanizing this murderer because he's white? Maybe I have to read the article again but I don't think those pictures are flattering. I also see the same "humanizing" personal accounts for guys like Michale brown or Jacob Blake.

    I'm with you on the gun issue and the lack of any real solutions by the GOP. Fire away. Now i will note that there is a segment of people that see family gun pics that I find bizzare as wholesome but will quickly call out minorities who take pictures with guns as "thugs." Even then context matters for me to make an opinion.
     
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    These mass shooters don't even have to worry about a death sentence anymore. So why shoot themselves or let the cops do it? They can have free room and board for the rest of their lives.
     
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    15yoa, wtf is going on with kids
     
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    MAGA culture + Call of Duty culture = Mass shooter culture.
     
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    Come on. There’s no reason to tie it to maga
     
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    This is the world some wanted and are just fine living in.
     
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  14. Oct 14, 2022 #14
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    I wasn’t referring to this shooting specifically, as I quite literally know nothing about this perp. I was generally responding to “what is wrong with kids today”.
     
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    Squirrel!
     
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    duggers_dad

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    Remember Swampie ? Years ago, in response to the Columbine shootings, he went on a protracted screed about home-schooling. It was bizarre.
     
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  17. Oct 14, 2022 #17
    tampagtr

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    There have been long Twitter threads comparing the photos used of white arrestees and their black counterparts, even when black families give the media source pictures that make them look normal. Plus this was the NY Post.

    if I see one of those threads today, I will post it. But yes, I think those are the kind of photos that make them look less “other”.
     
  18. Oct 14, 2022 #18
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    Here’s one example I found from 2017. And I should mention that I’m not just talking about mass shooters. Actually, just the opposite. There’s a big trope on how whenever they show arrestees, they usually find the graduation photo of the white guy, or something with his family, whereas with the black Guy always use the mug shots, or something that makes him look threatening. But I’m really more talking about lower level crimes

     
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  19. Oct 14, 2022 #19
    tampagtr

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    Another

     
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  20. Oct 14, 2022 #20
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    Great. And I can counter with several minorities who were violent felons or committing violent acts that were painted as good people doing nothing wrong. I don't generally care how media frames things because I choose to look at the act and the situations individually irrespective of color unless color was a factor of course like the Ahmad Arbury case.
     
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