Posted on 04/30/2023 9:59:34 PM PDT by CFW
Steve Bridges had just parked his pickup truck at the Texas Boot Factory when he saw a man — White, maybe 55 or 60 — step out of the car beside him and slip a gun under his belt.
It was a Friday afternoon, three days after two cheerleaders opened the wrong car door in a supermarket parking lot nearby and were shot. Bridges, a 63-year-old contractor, had tried to picture how that could happen in Elgin, Tex., where eruptions of violence are rare.
“It all goes back to the fear,” he said. “Why are cheerleaders getting shot for opening the wrong door? Why is a grown man scared to go into a boot store without carrying his weapon? Why are these people so afraid?”
Across the country this month, at least four men have opened fire on someone who’d stumbled upon their space, resulting in one death, two injuries and a car pocked with bullet holes. The apparent acts of snap-aggression have reinvigorated the debate around the prevalence of “stand your ground” laws in the United States and a pressing question: Why are people so quick to pull the trigger on strangers?
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See the conservative media have convinced the white people (all without evidence) that protesters and immigrants are a risk to their safety. That's why white supremacists are going around shooting everyone thus causing an increase in crime rates in all the democrat-controlled cities. Or something along those lines.
Does “feral negros” ring a bell with these liberal writers?
TV watchers have seen them running amok and “knockout games” They do not want to let them get the upper hand and be a victim.
The problem is mentally ill people among us, of illegal aliens, many criminal and also mentally ill. And white progressives who think it best to disarm everyone while these people are loose.
Antifa and BLM terrorized American cities for two years. Democrat mayors encourage crime.
So yeah, people are keeping their heads on a swivel.
With Soros’ DAs turning psychopaths back on the streets every day, and Biden’s immigration policies inviting drug gangs to spread throughout the nation, it’s gonna take a hell of a lot of liberal gaslighting to convince us it’s our fault.
Individuals who shoot others without good cause are criminals. Fear, paranoia or not, they’re part of the problem.
Traditional norms are being destroyed. It is no longer acceptable to disapprove of deviant behavior.
Disapproval used to keep the freaks and perverts in check - but now it’s considered a hate crime to shame even the most vile and destructive tendencies.
When abnormality is the new norm, what could possibly go wrong? /S
As President Trump pointed out, it's not him they're after; it's us. He's just in their way.
Strange headline!
Like asking, "Why are Americans drinking water - but also NON-water?"
Also: "Because of fear?!" Really?! I had thought maybe that it was because they were simply bored, or felt that they needed more practice, shooting actual people in real-life situations, because mere "range time" wasn't enough! /sarcasm
Idiot writers!
Regards,
“when he saw a man -—White”
Can’t find anything down the article where: ...”he saw a man B_ack”??
or other...
Into the garbage bin
It’s not fear. It’s feral behavior and gang activity.
For everyone else the violence is directed at, it’s self-defense.
“Traditional norms are being destroyed. It is no longer acceptable to disapprove of deviant behavior.
Disapproval used to keep the freaks and perverts in check - but now it’s considered a hate crime to shame even the most vile and destructive tendencies.
When abnormality is the new norm, what could possibly go wrong? /S”
You are spot on. No value system. No punishment for wrong-doing by the Godless. Only hatred for the righteous. Many of us don’t “slip it on”, we keep it on always in Texas.
Well, if you have a law that makes it legal to shoot Jehovah’s Witnesses and Avon ladies perhaps that law should be amended. If it is as the journalist says, a matter of misunderstanding the law, then it is a matter of public safety to make sure these “misunderstandings” don’t happen. Maybe a manditory gun safety course that covers the relevant law.
4 people. Out of 350 million. Meanwhile a Mexican illegal shot four Hinduran illegals on US soil? Meanwhile, 20 teens are ahot in a day. Why are young black thugs so afraid...
I guess they published before the man...Mexican national...shot his neighbors....Hondurans....over a noise complaint.
Because those specific neighbors and strangers are democrats?
The ones doing the shooting are Godless whateveryouwanttocallthems.
“Why are people so quick to pull the trigger on strangers?”
Because 95% ruined it for the other 5%.
More than HALF of all homicides in the US occur within 15% of the US population, but for some reason they try to sell the idea that they can fix the problem by attacking the other 85%.
Sometimes a man bites a dog and that generates headlines, but 85% of Americans are NOT shooting strangers and neighbors.
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