The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.
A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.
“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “He wanted to kill n------.”
Violent racism isn’t a product of Trump. Trump is a product of violent racism.
👈 trump effect did this
The list of violent right-wing extremist violence is is growing very long.
All this fanned by right-wing media and foreign agents like Russia.
“This was, quite frankly, a maniac who decided he wanted to take lives,”
Copycat shooter with a manifesto, armed with the usual kit: A plate carrier, an AR-15, and a Glock.
While I can see this is a racially motivated shooting, I think this pattern indicates some deeper… suicidal, martyrdom ideology. The intent includes the suicide. It’s suicidally motivated, too. These plans include the repetitive messaging of a newsfeed marching down the list of mass shootings by scared whitr supremacists. Racial killing, suicide, manifesto, and the date makes it a copycat killing. Is he truly a maniac, if so many are falling into this same set of cowardly cries for help?
I feel no sympathy for the dead shooter. But I stare into the abyss, feeling I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.
Killing three random dudes in a Dollar General isn’t going to “save the white race”. This guy’s plan is either evidence he was so dumb we’re better off without him in the gene pool, or was intended to kick-start the race war they want so badly. I refuse to feel sorry for him in either case. I’m not taking the high road. Fuck this guy.
Yeah my best guess here is the possibility of someone being suicidal anyway and deciding to commit a hate crime to go out as some sort of half-assed martyr, or as some idiot that spent too long on the message boards and decided to “defend America” by committing a hate crime. Either way, an idiot that has signed a receipt for “I won’t be missed”
I just hate that he took three innocent lives with him. Fuck that guy. This kind of hate is a blight on our country.
I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.
Really?! What the fuck?
Conservatives do no empathize with you. They see empathy as a weakness to exploit. Do not empathize with them unless you’d like to become their next victim.
Empathy is not agreement or defense, it’s understanding. Refusing to empathize is refusing to find a solution. Stop being part of the problem.
You can empathize with someone without being exploited by them. I empathize with prisoners suffering in solitary confinement because I consider it inhumane. That doesn’t mean I’m going to allow myself to be attacked by a murderous psychopath without defending myself.
Refusing to empathize is refusing to find a solution. Stop being part of the problem.
The only possible way to try to prevent it is to try and talk them down before hand.
I mean, aside from the obvious gun legislation that won’t happen
Or you stop spying how many times people go to toilet and start using the NSA resources to track down and put in prison those people posting in kiwifarms and other terrorist organisations’ forums.
I don’t think ‘random guy from lemmy’ has the power to accomplish that.
You’ve just accidentally said you see empathy as a weakness too
Fuck em. Let them all suicide their way out. As long as they stop taking innocent people with them, they can die in agony in a ditch as far as I’m concerned. The time for sympathy is over.
he was out of his mind with FEAR… nothing else…
Not sure why the downvotes, I think you’re right, fear is at the source of this muderous behaviour. This is the meaning carried by the “phobia” in “negrophobia”, " homophobia", etc. These people feel their very existence is threatened by their victims : they’ve been indoctrinated into thinking their “race” or “culture” are driven to extinction by other people. So yes, it’s absolutely fear.
The sheriff just casually dropped the N word in this press conference?
Yes, he’s Black, and he said that it was the only time he was going to say it. I feel like it’s his prerogative to decide when he can say that in response to an attack on his community.
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Well, this isn’t what I expected him to look like.
https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2022-11-22/sheriff-t-k-waters-sets-new-agenda-for-jso
Props.
Just another Trumper with a gun.
Veritable pack of lone wolves, amirite?
Florida is full of Nazis. Pretty much every biker bar in Florida is home to white supremacists. You couldn’t get me to visit Florida for anything.
OH BOY ANOTHER LONE WOLF! CAN’T FUCKING MOVE FOR LONE WOLVES AROUND HERE!
If you ever wondered what you would do in Germany in the 30s, you’re doing it right now.
Which is head-in-the-sand, “I can’t do anything about it because the other side is the problem.”
Fascism takes over gradually, like frogs in a pot of water slowly heating.
White supremes are gross.
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A gun is unlikely to make you much safer in public. It will significantly increase your risk for gun related injury or death in your own home. A concealed weapon in public opens you up to liability, as well as an easy excuse for any police to murder you if they discover your gun before you can completely submit and follow their often confusing and conflicting orders. An unconcealed gun just makes you a higher profile target for an armed maniac like in the article and also the police. The statistics just don’t support the idea in general that getting a gun ever makes anyone any safer from gun violence.
I understand your motivation to protect yourself and I support your right to do so through responsible and informed gun ownership. Go take the prerequisite gun safety classes first. Go find a range that will let you shoot with their equipment. Start the process of getting a gun with as much education and experience as you can. Read the about the statistics of gun violence, paying attention to where the funding for each paper comes from. Read up on your rights, but also train yourself on how to deal with police encounters, now that you’re going to be the thing most police are pants passingly afraid of. This will help in dealing with police even when your not armed. If you’re not already going to therapy, make it a regular part of your gun maintenance. If you and the gun will be living with anyone old enough to grasp objects and understand language, make sure they go to gun safety classes also. If you have children that will have friends over know that a lock is not enough to keep kids safe (gun locks are notoriously easy to bypass), they all need age appropriate gun safety education.
@Maajmaaj I think you’re right. Stay sober though. check out reddit r/liberalgunowners there is a huge amount of information for those thinking about becoming armed.
Angry white men should not be the only ones in our society with guns. If you can own and carry one safely, you should at least seriously consider it.
Just save time and give him a urinal instead of a gravestone.
Rest in hell
I think there’s an argument to be .ade for it being a positive feedback loop
3 fatalities doesn’t even qualify as a mass killing.
How sad is that?
The mass killing in Ohio on the 24th qualifies though.
