Posted on 02/15/2023 8:27:51 AM PST by BenLurkin
Gendron was sitting at the defense table listening to his victims' relatives give impassioned impact statements.
On May 14, 2022, Gendron shot and killed ten people in a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo.
The man who charged at Gendron has not yet been identified but he is understood to be a relative of Kat Massey, a 110-lb, 72-year-old woman who was murdered by Gendron.
He was listening to Barbara Massey Mapps, Kat's sister, when he launched his attack.
The man was stopped by guards before he could get to the defendant, then was taken out of the courtroom.
Gendron was ushered out in a hurry. He was brought back into the courtroom after several minutes.
Gendron cried as he listened to his victims' relatives.
He carried out the attack aged 18, wearing a bullet-resistant armor and a helmet equipped with a livestreaming camera as he fired his bullets.
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I see this all the time in GA courts - an outgrowth of the concept of Justice as a team sport. I wish the defendant good luck during his incarceration; he’s going to need it.
Couldn’t care less about the race of the shooter or the victims.He killed 10 people who didn’t deserve to be killed. He should be executed...for what he did...*NOT* why he did it.
Why does this happen mainly in the USA - and no, it's not the easy accessibility of firearms
Switzerland has the same number of arms per 100K population but has far fewer such incidents. I don't know why - I'd say culture, but no more than that
I'd like to hear from more knowledgeable people why
They should have let him kill him. Good savings of taxpayer dollars.
I think the WHY is important. There are too many in the USA and to prevent people from going the other way and banning everything we need to know the WHY and prevent it.
Switzerland has one or many in each house yet very few such mass attacks.
In America we’re not allowed to answer questions like that. We are supposed to blame all of the violence on the guns themselves.
We have a problem race in this country.
That’s why.
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This headline is worth at least one thousand one panel cartoons.
Diversity is not strength and tribalism always leads to violence.
Rawanda only had the hutus and the tutsis and look how that worked out.
Switzerland has French, German, and Italian ethnicities, but they all see themselves as Swiss. The US used to be the same and see themselves as American, now we are just dozens of tribes who happen to live within US borders, competing with each other for political power just so they can screw the other guy.
It’s ironic to say so in the context of this case, but the 15 % or so of the US population that is black has been committing 50% or more of the homicides, 64% in the most recent data year. If you look at murders in Illinois outside of Chicago, the rate isn’t far from Switzerland.
So looking at the non-black population only would roughly halve the homicide rate. Which still isn’t great.
The only Replacement Theory Gendron needs to concern himself with is that he may be replaced in prison in a manner similar to the way Jeffrey Dahmer was replaced in prison.
Only if by ‘ironic’ you mean crass.
If you take out blacks and Hispanics from gun crime rates, the USA’s gun crime rate is about the same as Germany.
Probably has to do with a certain subset of the population, of whom it’s verboten to notice. Take their contribution out and American numbers are rather average.
Segregate black and white murderers into their own separate categories.
I dare you.
A miniscule percentage of blacks, less than 1%, is responsible for nearly half the murders in America. Factor in Mexican gangs and you have nearly all the murders.
The bare fact is that ten minority dominated and lead metro areas around the nation, ruled as one party democrat fiefdoms are responsible for almost 80% of the murders in America.
So it isn’t useful to talk about the American murder rate. We would need to know which America you are referring to.
Yep.
It’s ironic to say so in the context of this case, but the 15 % or so of the US population that is black has been committing 50% or more of the homicides,
It’s worse than that. They are 13.6%. Cut that roughly in half to 6.8 because black men the problem. But not all black men are, boys under 12 and over 40 are rarely seen out murdering. Really 15-25 or so is the prime time. Factor out almost all of the guys who do not live in urban hell holes. Then factor out the commissioned officers I knew, a banker I know, my physics teacher, guys like Thomas Sowell and Ben Carson... the educated. Skip over the ones who attend church regularly and the rare ones who head their own families.
My back of the envelope takes me down to an even more shocking number. Way less than 1% of America is responsible for half the homicides. It is not inherent because it was not the case before the family was destroyed and drugs were flooded in by Mexican gangs and our monied class.
Eventually, this will have to be faced up to.
A. Complete absence of hyperviolent urban minority sub-population, maybe?
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