Investigators said they were able to stop the potential massacre at Park Valley Church in Haymarket thanks to someone who saw troubling posts on Instagram and called police
Authorities arrested a man who they say was minutes away from carrying out a mass shooting at a church in Northern Virginia on Sunday morning.
Rui Jiang, 35, was taken into custody with a loaded gun and extra ammo at Park Valley Church in Haymarket. Authorities said he was on a mission to kill.
“This was a thwarted diabolical plot to kill churchgoers in Haymarket, Virginia … and local law enforcement stopped it,” Chief Kevin Davis of the Fairfax County Police Department said.
“Minutes. Minutes. The congregation was making their way into the church. He was in the vestibule of the church about to enter,” Davis said. “So, minutes or seconds away.”
Another mass shooting narrowly averted and the only comments here are how stupid religious people are because they happened to thank their God.
Maybe take a moment to reflect on if this level of tribalism and callousness represents the sort of person you want to be.
What’s a tankie for cultists called?
Fundamentalist
A thankie?
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Nah religion is harmful i’ma shame them
Is it? The meta analysis I’ve seen is less clear.
Nobody’s talking about mental health, just their effect on society
How many wars have been fought because of someone’s god? How many people have been murdered because they worshiped the same god in a different way? How many children have been abused because the adults thought they were following their god’s will? Religion is harmful.
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You guys really harp on that one gold nugget found in a pile of shit. Wow you get slightly lower alcoholism rates if you believe in skydaddy. Big freaken deal. It doesn’t excuse or makeup for anything.
I have and it does. Now restore Roe v Wade
I fully support a woman’s right to choose without conditions because I believe it’s wrong to require that someone keep someone else alive with their own body. It removes that person’s agency and reduces them to less than a person. We can’t require that people donate organs after they die, so we obviously can’t require that they host another person against their will.
A person should have more rights and protections than a corpse. Obviously.
Don’t assume the poster’s position on that issue… I believe in God and I believe in the right to abortion too, everything is not black or white.
Lemmy stinks like shit lately. I never subbed to r/atheism for this reason. Then we got Hexbear pretending that pictures of pigs pooping on their balls is activism. This is like every other reddit alternative: after a few months, only the most unsavory people stick around. It’s miserable here.
Thank you. I’ll get hammered with downvotes but not everyone who believes in God is a moron, or a Republican, or a Trump supporter, or anti-science, or homophobic, or judgmental or any other shit like that. Some of us are pretty normal.
I never once ever called a person a moron for believing in skydaddy. I know it simply isn’t true because I have worked with plenty of wicked smart skydaddy followers. Also I was one and didn’t get any smarter when I left religion.
The rest of the stuff yeah sure you are all basically the same. Don’t really care that some of you pretend to be otherwise on the internet. I have seen how you vote and that is all the data I need. Sorry your Pope is having legal issues now.
Don’t cut yourself with that edge.
2005 wants their one-liner back.
no that pretty much sums up every openly religious person I know
I’ll stop saying that when theists stop thinking atheists eat babies or are in league with some sort of archfiend that only exists in their own religion.
Excuse me, I know many Atheists who have a pact with a Great Old One. Some of them enjoy the flavor and better spell selection. /s
It’s like a time machine back to 2014 with all these comments and overused insults.
If you go back even further you could see the Twin Towers before the faithful crashed planes into them.
I thought 9-11 was about America supporting Israel
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2014? Oh, my sweet summer child.