shooting in sc

[Danzig]

http://news.yahoo.com/shooting-erupt...021744448.html


nine killed,just awful.

[OldDog]

Sick bastard ID'd

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2015/06/...g-bible-study/

http://www.live5news.com/story/29347...eston-shooting

[OldDog]

Arrested

http://www.live5news.com/story/29347...mpaign=meganav

[dellinger63]

Thankfully SC has the death penalty.

RIH douche bag

[Kasept]

Last week Charlie Pierce delivered one of the best and most glowing appreciations of the Crown success.. Now he has to go back to the most consistent, disgusting behavior in this increasingly embarrassing country..

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...1456_195657991

[GenuineRisk]

Dear Fox & Friends: No, this was not an attack on religion. It's never been. These white folk singers from Queens understood that 50 years ago. why don't you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyDJFMojIoA

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Last week Charlie Pierce delivered one of the best and most glowing appreciations of the Crown success.. Now he has to go back to the most consistent, disgusting behavior in this increasingly embarrassing country..

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...1456_195657991

he's right. i knew they'd said the church was historic, but i'd not yet looked at what made it so. that sob chose this church on purpose i would think, because of who first built it.
and history is alive, it's a continual flow. the civil war wasn't an end to slavery and all the accompanying wrongs. look at the kkk, lynchings, jim crow...that we even had to have a civil rights act. and then a senator decided to make it even less palatable to the voters in congress, he added women as yet another reason to knock it down. ooops, lucky for many of us, that ploy didn't work.
everyone has to continue to fight, because a few still feel they are 'superior' because their ancestors moved out of subsarahan africa and away from the equator earlier than the people around them. they look at people 'different' from them and assign stereotypes to them, they are no better than a virus attacking another. no thought, no reasoning, just lash out.
i'm sick of it.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

When we see incidents like this I know the attacker never got the following:

Playing the role of victim, or using past events to build excuses guarantees you no progress, no healing, and no victory.


I find it important to remind myself that:

Angry words that point to blame may accurately identify the original source of a problem.
However, all too often blame and demonstrations of outrage ---->
leads to more intense hostility, greater division between others, and alienation.

May those we've lost rest in peace and their loved ones ultimately heal.

Also, let us ALL vividly remember how much we needed each other to deal with life's tragedies
before, during, and well beyond the inevitable discussion our proposed solutions.

I find its impossible to use rational thought to explain the irrational. Those poor people, my heart goes out to their families and friends.

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by Danzig

I find its impossible to use rational thought to explain the irrational.

I think that a lot of people feel exactly the same, which is why I find it odd that Pierce calls out people who refer to this incident as "unspeakable" or "unthinkable." Rational, good people find it difficult if not impossible to comprehend what this guy did, on several levels, and without foresight to consult a thesaurus before they speak from their hearts.

Pierce: "The country must resist the temptation present in anesthetic innocence. It must reject the false comfort of learned disbelief and the narcotic embrace of concocted surprise."

So we shouldn't be surprised. We're guilty of allowing this to happen. This display is after all, as Pierce says, "the dark heart of America."

Well okay then.