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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell...I might as well say this...
Although our prayers go out to everyone effected by this fucked up event in Tenn.
If it turns out that another American turned Isis( sicko) shot the 4 Marines Today?
The Right Wing will go absolutely fucking crazy... The republican Clown machine will begin their process of blaming Obama and all his dominions of allowing Isis to have its way in the U.S.
Hope to God this is not the case.. but...
haikugal
(6,476 posts)It's more likely it's some RWNJ.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)The real underlying question everyone should be asking (aside from the usual ones about the ready availability of guns) is: Why do so many people in this country think that shooting up a lot of people is somehow the solution to a problem?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)how is a man killingup 4 marines, in America, in the name of Jihad, an act of domestic terrorism; but, a man shooting up a Black church in America, killing 9 Black people, in the name of white supremacy, NOT an act of domestic terrorism.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)I guess if it's a white guy pulling the trigger it can't be terrorism, right?
Or maybe it was Southern Heritage, not some foreign thing...
I do not understand.
irisblue
(33,059 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Either way, there will be hell to pay ...
Little Star
(17,055 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)They're already going even more insane than they were before the incident.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)will clamor for the deportation of all Muslims now, just as some bad apples among Mexicans means they all must go.
Warpy
(111,467 posts)I just knew that was going to be the case, that it was another man who spent too much of his time online and went crazy for god. There is no crazy like god crazy, something I learned when I was a teenager working in a mental hospital.
Eventually all that crazy on the far right is going to start destroying them from the inside out.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)But the fear never dissipates ...
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)assuming the FBI actually deals with it correctly.
It is inevitable that lone wolf terrorists will get a hold of firearms and use them for attacks.
It will end up being blamed on mental illness. Not the availability of guns.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)I am making an unfounded assumption based on the availably of guns in this country along with the fact that this was a southern state.
I believe Tenn. only requires background checks from gun dealers and pawn shops. There are plenty of other ways to obtain a gun.
If I am wrong I will apologize and/or self delete.
hack89
(39,171 posts)while I suspect they will discover that the gun was legally purchased, you are right that there certainly are plenty of ways to purchase a gun that don't involve a back ground check.