Posted on 06/18/2015 9:40:48 AM PDT by Sopater
Every time an American community suffers a tragedy involving a firearm, the anti-gun crowd unveils itself in full tribal dress.
Wednesday night, a 21-year-old sandy blonde-haired white man with blue jeans and Timberland boots walked into a historically black church in Charleston, S.C. and killed 9 people. That’s a horrible, murderous act, made worse by the fact that the man is still at large.
The New York Times reported S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley’s statement about the tragedy.
“While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we’ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another,” the governor said. “Please join us in lifting up the victims and their families with our love and prayers.”
The Rev. Clementa Pinckney was among those killed. Pinckney was a S.C. state senator, a Democrat who served since 1998, was on the Corrections and Penology and Education committees, among others.
His voting record indicates that he was not a supporter of expanding gun rights for S.C. citizens.
In 2014, he voted against S.308, which Haley signed in law, allowing a Concealed Weapons Permit holder to carry firearms into restaurants that serve alcohol, while preserving the restaurant owner’s right to ban individuals carrying firearms in their establishment.
Current S.C. state law prohibits permitted individuals from carrying a weapon in a church (S.C. Code Ann § 21-31-215).
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Gee. The gunman broke the law.
He carried a gun into a church.
(Must have been black - Else this writer would have emphasized “racial hate-crimes” rather than gun violence in the propaganda.
Didn’t the shooter know it was illegal to bring a gun into a church?
Evidently we have a literacy problem in America, and a problem where the people obviously don’t know the laws.
There should be a law that requires that everybody know the laws.
The biased incorrect narrative continues even in the face of countered evidence.
It isn't facts, or circumstances. It is all about political motivation and supposition, even if it isn't true.
Unless the church allows it.
“Current S.C. state law prohibits permitted individuals from carrying a weapon in a church (S.C. Code Ann § 21-31-215).”
You mean that the law didn’t stop him? He just must have been unaware that it was illegal to take a gun into a church.
Arguments like this are just as stupid and just as pointless as the guy who argued this is all Nikki Haley's fault because she didn't oppose flying the Confederate flag.
Nope. He’s white.
They need to make that “no carrying a gun in church” law a little bit stronger. Maybe change the wording and use capital letters a lot.
Who said that?
They’re going to get “white man” in the article as many times as possible. And that is the kind of stuff SOME white people are getting sick and tired of seeing.
Yes. It’s no problem to identify “white” as the potential culprit although they don’t even go through the usual “alleged” whatever. Straight up “whitey did it - all you crackers owe us reparations.”
Some former Obama administration HUD undersecretary I think it was. Apparently Tweeted that earlier this morning.
“They need to make that “no carrying a gun in church” law a little bit stronger. Maybe change the wording and use capital letters a lot.”
And, pictures...lots of pictures.
Current S.C. state law prohibits permitted individuals from carrying a weapon in a church (S.C. Code Ann § 21-31-215).
Is it too much to wonder if a South Carolinian can carry in a restaurant that serves alcohol but not in a church if that might be at the insistence of those same Black ministers? (If Roof needed to change mags frequently for a 1911, couldn't a congregation member with a high-capacity firearm have stopped his rampage?)
As I understand it, like Pope Sharpton I this guy was a “reverend” at 13.
While the shooting is horrible and indefensible, can we stop pretending that this was a “church”? The “reverend” was an elected official!
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