[Robert A Cook PE]

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.

[Sopater]

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.

[Gaffer]

...21-year-old sandy blonde-haired white man

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.

[gdani]

Current S.C. state law prohibits permitted individuals from carrying a weapon in a church (S.C. Code Ann § 21-31-215).

Unless the church allows it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“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.

[DoodleDawg]

Because when I go to church the first thing I grab on my way out the door is my pistol. </sarcasm>

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.

[Sopater]

So the reverend who was killed, Clementa Pinckney, was a state senator who voted against allowing good, law abiding citizens from carrying guns in churches for defense from evil killers. Care to re-vote on that one, Senator?

[VerySadAmerican]

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.

[Sooth2222]

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).

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?)

[silverleaf]

Sorry governor, we will “understand” the motive

We just won’t be politically incorrect enough to acknowledge it. Insanity. Mental disorder. Just don’t fit the meme of widespread white racism

[zeugma]

One single person with a gun could have stopped this. I know for a fact that there are at least 3 CCWs at my church who always carry. This kind of crap won't happen there. He might get one or two shots off, but he sure as hell wouldn't be able to reload.

[archy]

When will we see the press accounts asking What the people in the church did to provoke the shooter into killing them?

[DoodleDawg]

In South Carolina it is illegal for a convicted felon or a person awaiting trial for a felony to own a firearm. The killings in the church could have been prevented if only the killer’s father had followed the law and not bought his son the gun.