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Are you somehow getting even dumber? According to the police chief, he was never even a suspect, he was a person of interest.
ANYONE can be blown away ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, by ANY ANGRY NUT!! We MUST have SANE GUN LAWS!!!
Two curious, local points to add to this argument. First point, concerning the "misreading" argument over the "well-regulated militia" argument: did you know that Washington State has a standing militia, created in our territorial agreement and included in our State Constitution? It's called the "Washington State Guard" and the State Governor is its Commander-in-Chief. Anyone between the age of 18-and-64, without a felony can join and is all unpaid, volunteer - and are based within the Washington State Military Department. By law, the feds have nothing to do with them.
If you want a direct and literal interpretation of the second amendment to limit gun ownership, that wouldn't work in our state. Washington State's Guard has fewer limitations for membership than simply buying a firearm in our state (which requires an FBI background check). Their training is minimal, even though they are what any person would consider "well-regulated." Are you implying that every gun owner in our state would be required to apply to our state's militia?
Secondly, I don't know why you're trying to blame Texas republicans for misrule concerning open carry, when Washington State is also an open carry state, and democrats are the majority . . .
And I'm saying this as a card carrying, Bernie voting democrat from Ballard - I believe such shortsighted political attacks towards the right are misplaced, especially when you see that your arguments completely fall apart when they're applied to our local laws and governance.
Show me a time when a white dude was carrying a gun at the site of a mass shooting and not treated that way.
Joe Zamudio, gun nut who ran into the Gabby Giffords assassination attempt and had his gun ready to fire at an innocent man who had already subdued the actual gunman. I think he was lauded as a great hero by other gun nuts for not actually doing anything.
There is ample precedent for this; many cities in the wild old west had you check your firearms at the sheriff's office on entering the city (one link). Seattle could conceivably be a city to one day send such a sane policy onto what would certainly be an impressive supreme court fightm (oh that i might live so long to see it tried). yes yes... there would still be bad guys who would have guns in city limits, but just imagine the distinction to the early scenes in Dallas horror where one didn't have to spend time to sort out the idiots with immediate lethal intents from the mere idiots.
We cannot live in a world where there is one standard for white people and another for black people. It is stupid for anyone to show up to a public place openly carrying a weapon. It is stupid for this to be legal in the first place. Yet, so long as it is legal and white people can do it without being shot, black men and women should have the same right. Showing up to a protest under such circumstances, a protest that you assumed would be completely peaceful, in an effort to show defiance is understandable if unwise.
Besides, from a completely cynical and political perspective these stupid ammosexuals are almost all entirely white. We also know that armed black people scare the shit out of them. We know in the past one of the ways gun control laws have gotten past is when groups like the Black Panthers started marching with them and encouraging black folks to arm themselves. I'm willing to bet if that type of shit started going down in Texas, those whitey ammosexuals would start falling all over themselves to ban assault weapons and create reasonable gun reform laws. Nothing terrifies racist white people more than armed black people, and there is a significant overlap between racist white people and ammosexuals--the Venn Diagram is practically overlapped into one giant circle.
Didn't think so.
But either way, take out the word "coordinated" if you wish to, the point is the same.
This them and us mentality, it feeds into trumps's narrative and The terrorists must be creaming their jeans, or whatever they wear, seeing this internal madness erupting in America.
Of course Black Lives Matter. If it is a peaceful group, then voices against using violence must be heard. The police, have got to confront and prosecute racist murderers in their ranks, and police with racist views expelled from the force.
A critical point in your story, here now. Kim's fat arse can not deflect the country from this any longer.
There is absolutely no evidence connecting the killer to BLM, therefore judging BLM based on the actions of someone with no connection to the movement is not only disingenuous, but a sloppy analogy; whereas the killer does share at least one quality in common with all gun owners.
Whereas the killer does share at least one quality in common with all black people.
But I agree. He should not be held out as an example of what black people, BLM, or gun owners are like in any way.
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