Posted on 12/13/2021 4:05:02 AM PST by Kaslin
In early October, an 18-year-old Arlington, Texas student named Timothy George Simpkins was given a $75,000 bond and released from jail after allegedly shooting and injuring three students and a teacher at Timberview High School. His lawyer, a civil rights attorney named Kim T. Cole, claims the case isn’t a “standard-issue school shooting.” Why? Mainly because, apparently, bullying drove him to it.
Here’s the New York Post’s description of how things went down:
The fight [between Simpkins and a 15-year-old fellow student] was broken up and the two students calmed down, but then Simpkins pulled out a firearm from his orange backpack and fired several shots that struck three people … Calvin Pettitt, a 25-year-old English teacher who jumped in to break up the fight, was shot in the back, suffering broken ribs and a collapsed lung, according to police and his family.The other victims were identified as Zacchaeus Selby, Eyimofe Olawepo and Pariesa Altma … Police have said a 15-year-old boy was in critical condition, while a teenage girl who was grazed by a bullet had been discharged from the hospital. The fourth victim, a pregnant woman, was injured in a fall during the shooting ...
According to the Post, a Simpkins family spokeswoman claimed the alleged shooter was being targeted and robbed by bullies and acted in … wait for it … self-defense.
“There are numerous school shootings that have occurred across this country which are tragic. All school shootings are tragic,” Cole told the media. “However, in this situation, this was not someone who was just out to go and shoot a school and had made up their mind [and said,] ‘You know hey I’m upset and I’m just going to shoot anyone I see.' That was not the situation here. So I request the media correct their narrative with regard to what happened, and that you all respect the family’s privacy.”
“Narrative.” Hmm. I’m not entirely sure what other “narrative” the media is supposed to take when a deranged shooter opens fire on classmates, bullying or not. Even notwithstanding the seeming difficulty of proving a 15-year-old was actually “bullying” this 18-year-old, the “self-defense” defense seems suspect, though they certainly will give it their best shot in court.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m as pro-self-defense as they come. However, even if the bullying claims are even remotely true, bringing a loaded gun to one of the few places in the country where guns (in the hands of students) are not and should not be allowed and firing it at multiple people, including a teacher - AFTER the fight that apparently sparked it had already ended - sounds like not just an absurdly disproportionate response, but outright attempted murder.
So yeah, if the gist of the above turns out to be even remotely true as the eventual trial unfolds, the defense is almost certainly going to have problems. Yet, it seems that prosecutors are already giving Simpkins a light touch. Instead of multiple counts of attempted murder, this 18-year-old MAN is being charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. And he gets to sit at home while awaiting trial. Because, clearly, an adult who brings a weapon and opens fire in a school isn’t a danger to himself or anyone else.
Now, contrast the above with the most recent tragic school shooting. Ethan Crumbley, 15, stands accused of killing four and injuring seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan. You may have heard about Timothy George Simpkins for all of half a day, at most, but I’ll wager you’ve likely heard something about the Crumbley case every day since it happened.
Indeed, from bashing Trump supporters to the usual anti-white rhetoric and calls for gun control, the left has used THIS particular shooting to bolster every possible narrative favorable to their cause. Crumbley, obviously, deserves everything coming to him and more. But neither the media nor the leftists eager to spice a narrative will even broach the topic of bullying here, though there seems to be evidence it existed and played a role in the teenager’s mental condition. There are also no calls to grant bail, nor are there protests against the 15-year-old’s move to an adult prison.
In fact, in an unprecedented prosecutorial move, Crumbley’s parents are also behind bars and facing serious prison time themselves. Whatever you think of the parents’ actions before the shooting, gun control advocates have been waiting for decades for an excuse to cast a prosecutorial net beyond the actual killers, and this case has given it to them in spades. (I believe you can harshly criticize the parents in this case and even believe they should face consequences while still acknowledging potential prosecutorial overreach.)
Granted, Crumbley’s gunfire actually killed his victims, whereas thankfully Simpkins’ did not. That is a legal difference that obviously will play a role in charges and sentencing. However, there is another key difference in the two school shooters that most media will fail to acknowledge, but only because it doesn’t fit the preferred narrative - race.
Do you think Ethan Crumbley and his parents would be treated differently in the media had none of his victims died, or would they have kept on bolstering their narrative? Conversely, had Simpkins managed to kill his victims, would we still be hearing about that shooting today? If you think the answer is yes, ask yourself how much coverage mainstream media sources have given the Waukesha parade horror just two weeks ago.
A white student who shoots people is national news.
A black student shooter is hushed up.
I see you’ve reduced the fraction to its common denominator.
The fight [between Simpkins and a 15-year-old fellow student] was broken up and the two students calmed down, but then Simpkins pulled out a firearm from his orange backpack and fired several shots
Elsie is correct, you have boiled it down.
Regardless of what has been reported, multiple shootings in this country are mostly done by black and Hispanic gangs. Most school shootings are gang related and unreported.
Regardless of what has been reported, multiple shootings in this country are mostly done by black and Hispanic gangs. Most school shootings are gang related and unreported.
The real question is WHY negro-ism is being jammed down our throats, 24/7.
And QUEERism
and LIBERALism
and SOCIALism
and SINism
and...
You are correct in a traditional sense, and that traditional sense is codified into the firearm laws in most if not all states.
I took a class on my state’s gun laws a couple of years ago, and it was interesting, informative, and a little anxiety-inducing (possibly in a good to understand the dynamic of the use of firearms in a personal defense mode.
The flexibility of how a designated (by the circumstances) aggressor can fluidly transition to a defender, and how the reverse (defender to aggressor) can also occur.
The downside (or upside, in actually knowing it and being watchful to remember to keep this in mind) of that for me was the real risk, if I am ever in an emotional, confused, and frightening combat situation of unintendedly making that negatively life-changing transition from legal defender to criminal aggressor.
The most disturbing thing for me, though, was realizing just how eager that government and legal institutions (that in today’s day and age are innately hostile to gun rights and the concept of self-defense) are to pin the blame for a deadly encounter not on the aggressor who may initiate a crime and hostilities, but on a person who has to defend themselves and ends up killing the aggressor.
Because of that now existing bias against those who don’t wish to be slaughtered like compliant sheep, Kyle Rittenhouse was incredibly fortunate that we live in an age of nearly ubiquitous video coverage. If that incident had been tried on the basis of testimony from lying, Marxist, anti-American scumbags like those who were UNIFORMLY the ones who saw the shooting on that evening in August 2020, he would have gone to jail. No doubt in my mind.
“The other victims were identified as Zacchaeus Selby, Eyimofe Olawepo and Pariesa Altma”
Shooter probably frustrated just trying to pronounce their names, let alone remember their pronouns.
The other victims were identified as Zacchaeus Selby, Eyimofe Olawepo and Pariesa Altma
Hmmmmmmm. . .
I wonder the same thing all the time. It is the elephant in the room. Thirteen percent of the population is black, yet 80% of current tv commercials are black and most are dancing, (which if I was black would offend me deeply). Blonde white women and children have been erased. What is their purpose and goal?
That is not even a question. The answer is known: Leftism.
Their politics is all identity and division. It is the life-blood of their ideology.
Without it, they cannot function. They have cowed many craven corporations, government, and media to cater to this divisiveness in exactly the same way Jesse Jackson’s race-baiting Rainbow Coalition did.
So, if you watch television now, you would think the United States is populated by 80% blacks or Asians, homosexuals, and mostly female people.
And you would also think white men, besides being the minority, are unintelligent, goofy incompetents when they aren’t simply effeminate balding Soy Boys.
Yes...I didn’t see your response, but that is true. I don’t watch television, but when I pass one by, I look at it, and that is what I see.
It's more the case that if you kill a member of a POLITICALLY FAVORED class in the jurisdiction, then prosecutors will be pressured to go after you.
If a Trump supporter attacked an Antifa in Portland, and the Antifa shot him in the back as he was retreating, I'm pretty sure the prosecutor would "no bill" the Antifa.
Marxism originally focused on class, which was more rigid in Europe a hundred years ago.
It didn't work in the modern US. Working class people don't hate the rich, they dream of BECOMING rich. Every apprentice auto mechanic dreams of some day owning his own service station, or string of shops.
So the Marxists had to focus on more immutable characteristics, like race and sex.
STUDENTS carrying weapons is quite common today.
we carried a folding knife back when I was in school but never for fighting.
Exactly. They forklifted Sex and Race into the class component of Marxism, because...we have a prosperous and generally happy middle class here.
Or at least had one.
Which explains a lot about their worship of Saul Alinsky, who didn’t believe problems should be solved, he believed they should be poked, prodded, scabs ripped off, and otherwise exacerbated to whip people into a frenzy of anger.
Where...they can be more easily directed and controlled.
Scum.
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