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Forget apple pie — mass shootings are the new ‘all-American’ distinction
The Hill ^ | 01/24/2023 | RAUL REYES

Posted on 01/24/2023 6:38:58 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

This weekend, I watched the breaking news reports from Southern California with a mixture of shock, disbelief and anger. On Saturday night, what had been a gathering to celebrate the Lunar New Year in a Los Angeles suburb became the scene of a massacre. By Sunday, President Biden had issued a statement, noting: “While there is still much we don’t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved one will recover from their wounds.”

I am from Monterey Park, Calif. I am struggling to process a reality that has become familiar to many Americans: The horror of a mass shooting has come to my hometown. And this diverse, vibrant community will never be the same.

I know the area surrounding the Star Ballroom Dance Studio — the site of the attacks — very well. The church where I made my First Communion is down the street, and the public park where I learned to swim is around the corner.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: american; applepie; banglist; blogkarennotsane; blognotnews; california; mass; raulreyes; shootings; theshill; theswill
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1 posted on 01/24/2023 6:38:58 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who’s driving these “mass shootings”? The RATS and their “media” toadies. When a six year old can bring a gun to school, pull it out and shoot his teacher, GUNS AREN’T THE PROBLEM. Anyone who says otherwise is doing way too many recreational drugs.


2 posted on 01/24/2023 6:42:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Spay and neuter your "migrants" and liberals.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I am from Monterey Park, Calif. I am struggling to process a reality that has become familiar to many Americans: The horror of a mass shooting has come to my hometown. And this diverse, vibrant community will never be the same. I know the area surrounding the Star Ballroom Dance Studio — the site of the attacks — very well. The church where I made my First Communion is down the street, and the public park where I learned to swim is around the corner.

I...I...I... This mass shooting is all about me.

3 posted on 01/24/2023 6:44:22 AM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Two older Asian men used guns to kill, because they could get guns.

In Asia, in the last few years, men have committed mass murder with knives, fire, poison, and guns.

It’s not an American thing only.


4 posted on 01/24/2023 6:46:08 AM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The Rats are destroyed all morals in society and then they wonder why society is crumbling.

The RATS caused it it! Take God out of schools, push homo-sex on children everywhere anywhere, encourage abortion up to the day of birth, encourage mamajuana drug use. They created the rot. This is the result.


5 posted on 01/24/2023 6:46:21 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In 98% of defensive gun uses (DGUs), a shot is not fired.

Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.

Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 21.

Fact: A victim may have a strong reluctance to talk to a government agent about a firearm brandishing incident (which are 98% of DGUs) because they may not know the act was 100% legal.

Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 83.

In other words, the 98% number is probably low.

6 posted on 01/24/2023 6:46:23 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This country has lost its soul.


7 posted on 01/24/2023 6:46:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Three paragraphs and the authur uses the word “I” six times.


8 posted on 01/24/2023 6:47:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Three paragraphs and the authur uses the word “I” six times.


9 posted on 01/24/2023 6:47:58 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s with angry old Asian guys in California this week?!


10 posted on 01/24/2023 6:48:04 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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Forget apple pie — mass shootings are the new ‘all-American’ distinction

Funny, I thought it was rampant presstitution and FAKE NEWS
11 posted on 01/24/2023 6:48:08 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

I agree.


12 posted on 01/24/2023 6:50:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Spay and neuter your "migrants" and liberals.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

They mean mass shootings by asian and black people.


13 posted on 01/24/2023 6:50:55 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More dem policies will fix that right up. Hey, raul, how about a nice hot steaming cup of STFU! Oh, would that infringe on your rights? Sorry pal, apparently they’re not absolute. Right branDUHn.


14 posted on 01/24/2023 6:52:31 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: dfwgator

The USA is the only country premised on the notion that people should look after themselves.

Countries like the UK, Japan, Saudi, and Canada have much lower homicide rates. The people in those nations are subjects and the system is built on the notion that the state should make the important decisions for them.

Our freedom has been eroded, but it is real. It also comes at a cost. Sometimes free people will do things we don’t want them to.


15 posted on 01/24/2023 6:55:24 AM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: Renfrew

A society that has no morals, can never really be free.


16 posted on 01/24/2023 6:56:59 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You forgot to tag it “BARF ALERT!”


17 posted on 01/24/2023 6:58:21 AM PST by Pythion.net
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To: al_c
What’s with angry old Asian guys in California this week?!

Too many rice jokes?


18 posted on 01/24/2023 6:58:27 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Oh please...the UK has all kinds of crazy things going on. Look at the annual burning of the cars...the new protections for the Eiffel Town and the Main Drag in the UK.

We are not alone. And the problem is "nutty people" that own guns....not the 99.9% who use them properly.

19 posted on 01/24/2023 6:59:54 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: heartwood

The media ignores the fact that TWO mass shootings were elderly Asian men. Doesn’t fit the narrative of angry MAGA voters with AR-15s.


20 posted on 01/24/2023 7:05:23 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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