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Charleston Church Shooter says he was triggered by the Trayvon Martin Case
Gun Watch ^ | 21 June, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 06/21/2015 7:20:18 AM PDT by marktwain

Edited on 06/21/2015 7:28:57 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: G Larry
>>"Could the Charleston Church shooting have been prevented if the old media had been truthful about the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case?"<<

I think the premise of the article is that sensationalism and misrepresentation by the media could have triggered the shootings. How many people thought tawana brawley was raped? How many people bought into "hands up dont shoot"?
In any event an evil psychotic would have little trouble rationalizing their deeds.
41 posted on 06/21/2015 9:38:21 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Sherman Logan
Wiki says that after dropping out he split his time between playing video games and doing drugs.

And posting to white supremacists sites, one suspects. My eldest son learned to write coherently by posting to gamer and other fan sites; I would guess that white supremacist sites would have at least the same number of Grammar Nazis.

Although maybe assuming people who see themselves as superior will hold themselves to higher standards is carrying logic too far.

42 posted on 06/21/2015 9:39:12 AM PDT by Amity
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To: Sherman Logan

What information do you have that makes you believe he is highly intelligent and dropped out because he was bored out of his gourd?

None?

Surprise, that’s why I didn’t think I needed to explain my reasoning to anyone.


43 posted on 06/21/2015 9:46:59 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Amity

I sea what you did there.


44 posted on 06/21/2015 9:56:46 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: IMR 4350; Sherman Logan

There is a link on Drudge to a Charleston newspaper that reports his step-mother saying almost exactly that (he was wicked smart and found school too boring).


45 posted on 06/21/2015 10:01:27 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: marktwain

I said what you said, on yesterday’s thread.

Everyone here on FR, good people, also saw the hypocrisy in the media’s coverage of the Trayvon case. All media glorified this “innocent little boy” who was a huge, muscled, drug popping, fighting thug in real life. Not a criminal, but on his way, with truly ugly attitude. Clearly he responded with a dangerous aggression to Zimmerman’s Pretend Cop attitude.

Yet the media never dared say the truth. Many here also came to the conclusion, same as this church killer, that the media were sooooo racist that they didn’t dare tell the truth that this punk acted in a way that begged for him to be shot. He acted murderously when civility was called for. ( A decent “I’m just going to my dads house at 23 Main St” would have prevented his death; what about young black thug culture might be contributing to black families losing their “babies” to murder??)

The killer was warped enough to go all Hitler on this problem when his acts were so much worse than the racism of low expectations in our media.

But the racism we see in all these recent dishonest portrayals of thugs who do what it takes to be killed sits poorly with anyone who is not racist. Ironically. It takes looking only at the actions of the Trayvon types to see that their deaths were due to their behavior. Especially the one who stole the sweet cigars and wrestled with the cop in his patrol car for the gun. Forget color: look only at behavior.

Not one media discussion about how to behave when confronted by all authority, even just a neighborhood watch guy. We won’t dare to correct the behavior of these kids who need to learn civilization.

This media omission could lead to more deaths. From cop shootings as well as from sickos who see the truth and want to fix it in a racist way.


46 posted on 06/21/2015 10:08:35 AM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way...")
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To: sargon

Of course the solution sought by this evil idiot was dubious. Though I suggest “dubious” is putting it too calmly.

My point is that whether the issue he was exercised about is true is a relevant point.


47 posted on 06/21/2015 10:16:01 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: The Right wing Infidel

Weird that such sites seem to be totally banned here, while there are plenty of posts from Salon and Slate telling us that conservatives are garbage.


48 posted on 06/21/2015 10:21:40 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: sargon

The rate of rape in this country dropped by over 85% from 1979 to 2005. And I believe has dropped further since.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800610.html

Rape, of course, is probably under-reported, but it certainly seems unlikely that there was less stigma in 1979 than today.


49 posted on 06/21/2015 10:23:30 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: The Right wing Infidel

Reminds me of all the breathless scare stories from the ‘70’s finding hidden drug references in rock songs.


50 posted on 06/21/2015 10:23:40 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: The Right wing Infidel
"odd why did my post appear two times ?"

It usually happens when there's a delay in the processing of your original post, so you think something went wrong and hit "post" again, and end up with a double posting.
51 posted on 06/21/2015 10:46:10 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: marktwain; All

Doesn’t even pass the giggle test. An evil man doing evil deeds will say anything....including a three year old incident leading to his current psycopathy


52 posted on 06/21/2015 11:55:41 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: marktwain

I think he said he was forever changed by GOOGLE


53 posted on 06/21/2015 11:58:53 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: Sherman Logan

Were not Republicans
Thanks;
Oh Dear. I should have attributed that source which was from one of the many talk shows I monitor but forgotten who. They might have had a subsitute for that day but I think it was Ingraham. Incidentally I did not hear that repeated from other regular talk hosts; Limbaugh, Ingraham, and Levin and wondered why . Your correction explains why.

Anybody remember this?


54 posted on 06/21/2015 12:00:53 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: marktwain

When you’re a loon old Road Runner episodes could be a trigger.


55 posted on 06/21/2015 12:04:38 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Sherman Logan; IMR 4350

Howard Hughes didn’t graduate from high school. Granted, he was schizophrenic, but brilliant.


56 posted on 07/11/2015 6:46:56 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: Demiurge2

It’s actually not that weird when you think about it. The meme being put forth by the media is that all conservatives are Nazis.

Given that the vast majority of people who follow the media just buy into it, and we are already unfairly saddled with those mental midgets. Of course, it isn’t true, and we know that, but the vast majority of the steeple out there do Buy into it, Hook, line, and sinker.

We don’t want to make the job of the scumbags easier. Of course, there’s no fear of us being lumped in with either Salon, make the job of the scumbags easier. Of course, there’s no fear of us being lumped in with either salon, slate, or any other number of liberal organizations.


57 posted on 07/11/2015 6:56:32 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
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To: rlmorel

I believe Mark Steyn dropped out of high school.

Nobody has ever accused him of being unable to write articular English.

Of course, if we go back a while, Lincoln, Washington and others never had much formal education.


58 posted on 07/11/2015 6:56:42 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
Nobody has ever accused him of being unable to write articular English.

What do joints have to do with formal education.

59 posted on 07/11/2015 7:02:16 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: Stentor

Classic typo!

Sorry ‘bout that. I actually did know what I was trying to say!


60 posted on 07/11/2015 7:10:43 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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