" Looks like the both of you couldn't wait to go on FR threads and trumpet your own righteousness -- while misconstruing the comments of other FReepers. Do you actually believe that FReepers are condoning "Driving around randomly shooting Black people just because they are Black " ... just because we are discovering and commenting on a possible revenge motive for Mr. England?
Looks like you are talking to me. If I thought for one minute that FReepers were racist , I wouldn't still be on this site for about 8 years now. I merely stated my opinion that I agree with another poster's thought. And something similar on another thread. And i stand by my words. I never once implied in any way that i thought FReepers condoned people driving around shooting people just because they were black. Never said it , never thought it. Don't put words in my mouth. And if you think I was being righteous by stating my opinion, I'm sorry for you feeling that way. Just wondering if you think it was righteous of you for stating your opinion about mine? I don't. Opine away.
But I will still feel that possible revenge as a motive by anyone committing a crime on anyone that had nothing to do with the original motive is unacceptable and is no defense. If someone down the street from me shot some guy's father, I sure as hell wouldn't think it was mitigating in any matter for that aggrieved person to shoot ME or my other neighbors whom had nothing to do with it. And THAT is all I was saying. But you sure as hell have the right to discover and comment on the fact that revenge was somehow a motive. Have at it. And Happy Easter to you.
This is another "who knew" statement. As in "Gosh, who knew that murder is 'unacceptable'?"
Do you really think any FReeper, in posting that England may have had a revenge motive --in England's own mind-- was somehow calling a murderous shooting spree "acceptable"?
I did not see anyone here say such a thing, nor even suggest that such an act might have "mitigating" factors.
What's additionally galling --and ironic-- is that you as well as the original poster seem to imply that murder in "revenge," if wreaked upon the "right" person, might have been ok.
That's kind of a mirror image of the cock-eyed idea that Spike Lee, had he only got the Zimmerman parents' address correct, would've been ok in posting their address.
My point is, nobody here was justifying England's shooting spree, on any grounds, "revenge" included.
FReepers were only posting an informative piece of the story that we feared the MSM might ignore -- as they ignored so many of the facts in the Zimmerman case.