Those shootings

Going Retail.

If you populate a continent with religious extremists, transported criminals, and men fleeing their wives, the magistrates or the bailiffs, wotcha expect? I suspect the slaves they brought in were the African equivalent of the sweepings of the jails and loonie bins too.

Given all that it’s more to be remarked how well the place has done than that they evidently dislike each other violently.

These are prime examples of why it’s important to wait for the facts to come out. Every time there is a “person of color” shot by a police officer, there is no more thought given by the general public. The logic goes, “The dead guy is black, the guy who shot him isn’t, you do the math.” Once in a while, that narrative is true. For instance, Ahmaud Arbery, regardless of whatever his criminal history was or whether he’d visited the neighborhood before, wasn’t doing anything suspicious on the day he was shot. And there’s video footage of the entire incident. And there was much more suspicious behavior coming from the three white defendants. That’s why they all got pretty extreme prison sentences at the end of the day. There are also instances of people who are just plain racist and went hunting for minorities, as in the case of the Buffalo shooting over the summer.

However, the vast majority of the time, it’s either a justified shooting in self-defense, or a result of gang activity (i.e., black-on-black crime). There are so many cases where these so-called victims were literally pointing a gun at a police officer, or reaching for his gun, or charging with a knife, and a bunch of protest groups still riot, that I’ve lost count. There was an incident in Ohio where a police officer arrived on the scene and fatally shot a girl because she was about to stab another girl. She was clearly holding a knife, and it was all on video. LeBron James, of all people, posted a picture of the cop and tweeted “You’re next.” At least ten years ago, there was a 14-year-old gang member in NYC who pointed his gun at a cop and was shot to death. Although he was a minor, I’m pretty sure most of us knew not to do that at his age. Still didn’t keep the leftists from marching for him. All because these people’s first priority is skin color and genitalia, not character or behavior.

So it’s great when the media narrative about “assault rifles” and AR-15s is debunked. It’s true that handguns are far more prevalent in cases of gun violence. It’s also true that many of the shooting death stats spread by anti-gun groups include suicides to bolster up these numbers. If racism and gun violence were such an epidemic, there would be no reason to lie to the public in this way. The more likely answer is that it’s an issue of behavior and culture that needs to be fixed, but few people are willing to go near that subject.

That said, I highly doubt the gay club shooter even considers himself non-binary. I think he’s likely using it as an appeal for sympathy, and he’s not even the first bloke to do so. We recently had a murderer in New Jersey who told the state he’s a trans woman so he could be housed with real women. I think Tim even posted this story on here:

https://nypost.com/2022/08/05/trans-prisoner-who-impregnated-two-women-is-psychopath/

Murderers aren’t the most honest people in the world. The club shooter is simply the product of fucked up parents and he showed plenty of red flags before last week.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/aaron-brink-pornstar-dad-of-colorado-club-q-shooting-suspect-anderson-lee-aldrich-spews-homophobia

Guns aren’t the problem. It’s a cultural breakdown, and a corrupt government in which the FBI prioritizes conservative protesters and concerned parents at school board meetings. This kid threatened to blow up his mother’s house a year ago, and he wasn’t even charged. Just a bunch of absent fathers and soft-on-crime policies in much of the U.S. But the Establishment will keep jumping on white people/capitalism/masculinity/conservatism/climate change and then move on to the next trending topic once they feel sufficiently better than everyone else. NBC’s Ben Collins certainly jumped on that bandwagon. Takes much less effort than looking for a solution to a problem.

An unworthy thought. I expect many foremen, managers and people who have to try to get their team to do some actual work will have a wistful tear in their eye tonight. “Perhaps tomorrow they’ll jump to it when I say go.”

Tucker Carlson does a fair job of scoping the reactions to the Colorado strip mall club shooting

https://youtu.be/5lwRCI0HeWQ

What if Western Materialism is spiritallly bankrupt?

“Can I blame capitalism?”

Only if you are intellectually bankrupt.

Yeah Mohave Greenie. I wouldn’t convict him either.

Why do some people ignore reality to push agendas? Is it correlated to their politics?

Well Duh Andrew

… so well correlated with capitalism?

There’s a much better correlation with ‘diversity’.

@Mohave Greenie

In a civilised country, the police would have no need to search for the father as he would have stayed with his daughter and called the police himself. The most plausible reasons for being unavailable are that either the story is distorted (e.g. that the shooting was unnecessary and therefore not in legitimate defence) or it’s not a civilised country and he has reason to fear the authorities for conducting a legitimate defence. Well, it is America.