Posted on 03/24/2021 5:25:17 PM PDT by RC one
Why did he choose that particular King Soopers supermarket? Let's look at some facts.
and check out this article from the New York Post. pay careful attention to the picture of the home. In fact, let me make it easy.
Now that we have this knowledge, we can do a google search for grocery stores that are closer to the shooters home and we see that there were plenty of other targets that were closer. There was, in fact, a King Soopers that was located only 5 minutes away from him. Why drive 20 minutes away when there's a similar store 5 minutes away?
It sure does seem like he chose that target for a reason. Hmmm, I wonder what that could be:
It sure does look like this was a terrorist attack against the Jewish community carried out by a radical Islamic terrorist.
As I’ve said before...the people spreading this story are either really dumb or intellectually dishonest.
Of course King Sooper sells kosher items at Passover, all major supermarket chains do.
Of course there are Jewish shoppers who live near King Sooper and frequent the store, none of that is in dispute.
That does NOT mean that King Sooper is a “Kosher market” or a “Jewish market”, anymore than Safeway or Albertson who sell the same kosher Passover items are.
Likewise, while there is at least 5 Jewish congregations in the greater Boulder area, none of them are in the same neighborhood or even the nearby vicinity of the shooting location.
IOW NOTHING ties that location to the Jewish community at large, other than mo rons like you spreading rat poison.
I think you have a reading comprehension problem. Look at the picture real close. Read the highlighted words out loud if it helps.
A neighborhood with more primary Yiddish speakers than in 98.8% of all other American neighborhoods. That is most definitely a Jewish neighborhood and that grocery store is most definitely located in the middle of it and it is most definitely accommodating to the local community's culinary needs iow, it carries Kosher goods..
That does NOT mean that King Sooper is a “Kosher market”
It's the 4th best Kosher Market in the Boulder area according to Yelp. Safeway is #2 and a spice shop in #1. Are they all purely Kosher markets? No. They simply accommodate their Jewish demographic. You'd have to be pretty stupid to think I was suggesting that King Soopers was a dedicated Kosher market.
I can only imagine how dumb/kooky you have to be to follow your “logic” and then conclude that the shooters intention was to attack Jews.
There are literally hundreds of more obvious targets in the greater Denver area than the ...checks notes...4th best kosher supermarket in Boulder.
Also, no idea where those screen grabs you’re posting come from, but I guarantee they’re not anything the shooter either looked at or posted online.
If you had an ounce of decency, you’d stop spreading malicious rumors you can’t begin to substantiate.
I agree. Our son shops at this store and lives within a mile of it. I'd never thought of it as a Jewish store - just a nice, big grocery that stocks plenty of fresh and healthy food to appeal to its customer base. I'm sure they have a selection of Kosher foods, along with lots of vegan options and bulk trail mix. There are many grad students living in the area - sharing sky-high rent among several people to live in mid-century ranch-style houses. The prevailing politics are of the college town left, with gun control a priority. Between gun restrictions and anti-gun sentiment, he was unlikely to encounter an armed citizen in this community.
Each dot represents 50 Jewish households.
The red indicator is roughly the location of the King Soopers. So within that grey bounded area indicated by "Table Mesa", no less than 1,000 Jewish households.
It's almost as if al-Issa chose that location deliberately.
You were adamant that this wasn't a a Jewish neighborhood but, yet, here we see that, indeed it was. That argument is over. You lost. He irrefutably targeted a Jewish neighborhood.
There are literally hundreds of more obvious targets in the greater Denver area than the ...checks notes...4th best kosher supermarket in Boulder
A.) Attacking Jewish grocery stores is not unprecedented, even here in America. There was a similar attack in jersey City just 2 years ago. There were literally hundreds of other targets in New Jersey that would have made better targets but they picked a Kosher supermarket in Jersey City. They went in with an AR15 and a shotgun and started shooting Jews. It's very similar to what we have here actually except there were two of them and they managed to kill three Jews.
B) I never claimed that this guy was a tactical genius. I would agree that he isn't. I think his mission was a failure in fact. He killed no Jews that day but I think he meant to.
I researched the table mesa area where this particular King Soopers was located and found this:
In the entire world it is estimated that there are only 600,000 people left that speak Yiddish. About 107 of them live in the Table Mesa neighborhood (population 3,360). That's 31.8 per 1,000 inhabitants. About 250,000 of them live in the United States (population 328.2 million) so that's 0.76 per 1,000 inhabitants. It is estimated that in Israel (population 9.3 million) there are 250,000 Yiddish speakers left. That's 26.8 per 1,000. So it looks like there's a higher concentration of Yiddish speakers in Table Mesa than in Israel. That seems significant.
It seems pretty clear to me that this was a very Jewish neighborhood that this guy went out of his way to attack. The composition of the neighborhood would have been common knowledge to him.
I think the guy ultimately failed in his mission to kill Jews however.
This business of attacking Kosher supermarkets is not unprecedented either. There was a similar attack in Jersey City back in 2019. 2 gunmen entered the store that day and 3 Jews were killed in the attack.
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