Active shooter at Garlic Festival

[WriteThinking]

www.nybooks.com/daily/2012/12/15/our-moloch/

This is a good read. The only part I really completely agree with, though, is this:

3. It has the power to distort our constitutional thinking. It says that the right to “bear arms,” a military term, gives anyone, anywhere in our country, the power to mow down civilians with military weapons. Even the Supreme Court has been cowed, reversing its own long history of recognizing that the Second Amendment applied to militias. Now the court feels bound to guarantee that any every madman can indulge his “religion” of slaughter. Moloch brooks no dissent, even from the highest court in the land.

This is where the problem, and the solution, lies. Seriously, it is time for change.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

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[CD Boogie]

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man, **** that guy

 

[Azrael]

where was the shooter radicalized?

 

[cyclingwriter2]

White guy with supremacist leanings...but also identified as Italian-Iranian with the last Iranian in his family coming over 100 years ago. Any guesses on what the far right is focused on?

 

[typefitter]

where was the shooter radicalized?

I sure hope white Christian congresspeople condemn him every time they speak publicly.

 

[poindexter]

Was he home schooled?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I sure hope white Christian congresspeople condemn him every time they speak publicly.

Why assume he was a Christian? Based on his reading recommendation, I wouldn't classify him as one.

He's probably going to fall under the white nationalist/incel banner.

 

[qtlaw]

Key question that is on everyone's mind, "was he on the no-fly list"?? Once again, our failure to make our home grown citizens feel an inclusive society comes back to haunt us, and has nothing to do with any foreign nation or religion.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Why assume he was a Christian? Based on his reading recommendation, I wouldn't classify him as one.

He's probably going to fall under the white nationalist/incel banner.

Did he celebrate Christmas?

Close enough.

 

[HanSenSE]

Two other victims ID'ed.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Heartbreaking

 

[heyabbott]

Why assume he was a Christian? Based on his reading recommendation, I wouldn't classify him as one.

He's probably going to fall under the white nationalist/incel banner.

Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior, that makes him a Christian. No denouncements yet from the Christians

 

[HanSenSE]

And the shooter was only 19. Legally bought an AK-47 in Nevada earlier this month. (And who knew the Daily Mail did non-Poin stories?)

Hateful final Instagram posts by Gilroy Garlic shooter | Daily Mail Online

 

[poindexter]

The shooting is the 246th mass shooting in the US this year.

 

[typefitter]

Why assume he was a Christian? Based on his reading recommendation, I wouldn't classify him as one.

He's probably going to fall under the white nationalist/incel banner.

I have no idea what he was, except he wasn't Muslim.

Americans are terrified of the wrong people. Angry white guys with bad haircuts, armed with automatic weapons. They're the ones who are gonna get you.

 

[Della9250]

The shooting is the 246th mass shooting in the US this year.

Which happened on Day 209 of the year

 

[tapintoamerica]

Which happened on Day 209 of the year

Trumpists are going to have so many high holidays that they'll lose count of them all.

 

[melock]

Two other victims ID'ed.

 

[Spartan Squad]

The three killed have been identified including one man visiting from New York.



Story linked in the tweet says the gun was bought legally at a gun show in Nevada. This shocks me none. If you come to Gilroy on July 4 you will see all sorts of ordnance from Nevada and elsewhere.