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American Tinderbox (Black "Flash Mobs" and the Coming Backlash)
The American Interest ^ | 8/7/2011 | Walter Russell Mead

Posted on 08/08/2011 3:14:44 PM PDT by mojito

For some time now, residents of some US cities have noted occasional incidents of seemingly random, racially motivated violence in which young Black males are involved. The hot weather and bad economy seem to be combining to generate a small but possibly significant uptick this year. The national media are doing their best to avoid looking too closely at this disturbing phenomenon, and perhaps for good reason. What the United States doesn’t need is a media firestorm that triggers copycat violence.

Nevertheless some attention should be paid.

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To: ChildOfThe60s
I agree with your general assessment. Mead doesn't want to draw some obvious, but harsh conclusions.

However, I differ slightly in that I think that Mead knows that if this violence continues that whites will lash back and that they will be justified in doing so; only that it will be regrettable if it comes to that.

For a more brutally honest take, and one that is closer to my own view, is this article in the American Thinker: The Taboo on Mentioning Black Mob Violence

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/the_taboo_on_mentioning_black_mob_violence.html

141 posted on 08/08/2011 10:18:45 PM PDT by mojito
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To: M-cubed

LOL! Too true.


142 posted on 08/09/2011 5:29:18 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Terry Mross

“...How many can you shoot?...” a LOT, if they make the mistake of trying to violently invade my home...less, but still multiples if out in public armed with an EDC...


143 posted on 08/09/2011 6:14:26 AM PDT by awoodpd13
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To: TXnMA

Very interesting, thank you!


144 posted on 08/09/2011 6:29:42 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Dick Vomer
So, the only advise is to take as many as you can with you.
uh... a lot. because in a "mob" the key is getting the instigator and a couple of those nearest the leaders which tend to be the loud mouths.

If it comes down to that, shoot the guys who are waving their arms the most - they are usually the leaders.

145 posted on 08/09/2011 10:30:57 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Oatka

you are correct sir...


146 posted on 08/09/2011 10:31:54 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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To: shield
For a woman mace in hand is a good choice...

I'm kind of thinking that a Glock in hand is a better choice, but then I'm from Texas...

149 posted on 08/09/2011 1:25:37 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Little Ray; BwanaNdege

The only time I’ve pulled a gun, it was a 6-shot .22 revolver. I had returned from a hike in the desert and found 8 guys drinking whiskey on my car. As they started to fan out around me, I pulled my 22...they stopped fanning out around me.

No one shouted, “8-6=2!”

No one laughed that it was “Just a .22!”

I got in my car and left.

That doesn’t make a 22 a good self-defense weapon, unless it is all you have. It doesn’t mean 6 shots (or the 5 I normally carry in my J-frame) is ideal for mobs.

But if you have the nerve, shoot the closest guy threatening you in the face. I’m guessing it will make a difference.

If not, then against 10 or 100 doesn’t make a lot of difference. Most folks when rushed wouldn’t have time to get off more than5-10 shots. But against rioting ‘yutes’? I suspect a single shot would do...


150 posted on 08/09/2011 1:34:18 PM PDT by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: Mr Rogers

Yep, no one really thinks it’s a “good time” to get shot.


151 posted on 08/09/2011 1:37:41 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: shield
Do you have any experience carrying a concealed pistol?

It's not as hard to do as you seem to think, even in heat and humidity. Glock would be an excellent choice in such an environment, as well.

152 posted on 08/09/2011 1:43:16 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ironwill

Happiness is a belt fed weapon!


153 posted on 08/09/2011 1:46:48 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Allegra

I live in NW Harris Cty, Texas. Where I live has NONE of these kinds of problems. That’s why if I should take a stroll...all I’d need is mace. Now if it was in another part of Harris Cty...yes, I’d carry my gun.


154 posted on 08/09/2011 2:09:53 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: TXnMA

I just googled recoil pads to come up with the Kickeeze pad. I do not have a recoil pad on my 30.06. Seems that the Kickeeze and Limbsaver pads are the two top ranked pads currently available. I need to pick a pad up, but seems every time I have the money to do it, something else more important comes up.


155 posted on 08/09/2011 5:05:10 PM PDT by Necrovore
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To: Mr Rogers

That is what I was thinking. Mobs are not troops. There is a reason for all that training. Shoot at a mob, they start running. Shoot at troops and head towards you, shooting back.


156 posted on 08/09/2011 5:31:52 PM PDT by Little Ray (Best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“the media will electronically lynch him/her or at least try to.”

the fun will really begin when they start attacking the buildings where the media works, or start attacking the reporters that are covering the attacks. Remember what happened to that blonde reporter in Egypt? Reporters are not immune from being attacked by loonies on the march. If something substnatial happens, it will not be restricted to the ghettos, but will come out into the nicer areas. These flash mobs have been as of late small tests to kind of tear down the inhibitions that these thugs have had about going into more affluent areas.


157 posted on 08/13/2011 1:27:14 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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