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In reply to the discussion: White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills in order to feel powerful [View all]gollygee
(22,336 posts)22. And nationality, and use of a weapon
because it's talking about killings done for a specific reason, and noting similarities between those killings.
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White American male with a weapon who believes in his own superiority kills in order to feel powerful [View all]
gollygee
Jul 2015
OP
The other common factor in the vast majority, almost every one of these and thousands more, is The Gun.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#2
The GUN turns HATE, intolerance, and prejudice into empowered HATE, intolerance, and prejudice. (nt)
stone space
Jul 2015
#7
Just like carrying a knife or any other weapon.. I suppose the intolerant or prejudiced would feel e
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#10
The GUN turns the hate, prejudice, mental instability, etc., into murder and maiming. The GUN makes it all so easy...and final.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#13
The NRA salutes you for yet another illogical and fact-free attempt at deflecting. We see you!
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#19
Another typical NRA lover response..."you hate women, because you do not think women should defend
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#30
As a rape victim/survivor, I appreciate the fact that I can protect myself.
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#35
Walk like an NRA lover, quack like an NRA lover, advance NRA talking points exactly like this one.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#50
NRA posters are often not truthful about who they are, but did you read about the poster suggesting
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#175
First you admit you are! It is not nice to fabricate lies about any poster, and then attempt to, unsuccessfully,
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#254
When one fails to understand false equivalency and logic, it is I that wish you good luck!
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#259
LOL... Sure. Be sure to polish your righteous indignation while you're at it. ;) nt
Adrahil
Aug 2015
#261
NRA supporters, I should add, also often distort the words of others in order to pretend they
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#194
Thanks for repeating for malicious purpose a false accusation from a NRA gun lover poster, new poser.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#173
If its a false accusation feel free to prove it by stating women have the right to defend themselves
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#181
advocating protecting yourself with a gun is mean and hateful...and it's hurts feelings.
ileus
Jul 2015
#65
Agreed. Calling a liberal an "NRA supporter" here on DU should be hideworthy.
Lizzie Poppet
Jul 2015
#171
He's telling a rape survivor that her only motive for carrying is to support the NRA.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#76
How justified is it to tell a survivor the only reason they carry is to be a propaganda tool?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#180
Doesn't read like the opinion of a 12 year old to me, not that he needs me to defend him.
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2015
#216
Please note: One side in Guns Discussions can call names w/out condemnation.nt
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#217
I'm worried this thread is going to get locked as a gun thread when it specifically says "weapon"
gollygee
Jul 2015
#18
It's a bigoted and exploitative thread you have running here, you and Fred.
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2015
#238
The OP cites 4 incidences: A shooting, a stabbing and vehicular homicide
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#11
I totally agree with your OP and suggest that it should contain one more example - the killing of
jwirr
Jul 2015
#160
Precisely....320 million designed to kill GUNS is a huge problem, especially for minorities and those guns have to go....first and now.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#80
Keep in mind that the 2A - like the rest of the "Bill of Rights" are ALL about guaranteeing
jonno99
Jul 2015
#99
If you feel better labeling the NRA as evil - go for it. I'm not a member. But it's obvious
jonno99
Jul 2015
#123
Your belief is not a requirement to make it a fact. Just take a few minutes and
jonno99
Jul 2015
#124
Well, then you are aware then that the BOR is not about collective (even corporate) rights, they
jonno99
Jul 2015
#168
That's the number of people in the US, not the number of guns -- Only about a third of us own guns
whathehell
Jul 2015
#140
In your response you could substitute the word "gun" with "car", "motorcycle", or "knife";
jonno99
Jul 2015
#58
Only one is designed as a weapon right from the factory and is preferred by armies....can you guess which one?
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#70
The NRA salutes you for pulling the "inaminate object" logical fail out of the NRA bag of lies!
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#104
Well of course. But what is the primary purpose of the rapist? For many the only
jonno99
Jul 2015
#119
So, what is the point about "designed to kill?" Not all guns are, but conceding the argument...
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#221
Deflection from the fact that too many guns in hands of too many people that should not have them.
-none
Jul 2015
#231
Deflection? My goodness, I didn't broach the pointless subject of "designed to kill."
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#235
Gun lovers never see a problem with guns. More and more guns are the solution to all the many guns.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#239
Dude, of the three expamples cited, one is a car, one is a knife and another a gun.
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2015
#237
No, it's 100% racist. It fixates on race and sees nothing but race. It seeks no remedy. It's only
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#14
I would hazard a guess that all murderers have a sense of superiority. But the racist agitprop
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#21
Okay, so -- according to you -- white people are the worst thing ever. Now what?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#45
Please tell me what element of white societal dominance facilitated stabbings and vehicular
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#82
Which has absolutely nothing to do with race. Superiority over the victim motivates all crimes.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#100
why don't you take a quick checky there of who are killing all the fucking elephants
snooper2
Jul 2015
#126
I looked up the term "racism" in several dictionaries and I did not find it
totodeinhere
Jul 2015
#243
A sociologist is someone who gets paid to tell us all what normal people think and then
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#257
Whatever. Ginning up racist hatred is all your OP does. It seeks not remedy only hate and fear.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#37
Dismantle our system of racism and white supremacy, which includes discussion of white supremacy.
gollygee
Jul 2015
#43
Dismantle is a bullshit proposition without any defined meaning. Dismantle how?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#47
So you don't think there have been a number of cases of violent crimes by white people
gollygee
Jul 2015
#49
I think all racially motivated crimes should be dealt with regardless of who is perpetrating them.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#69
It's fixated on white American men who feel a sense of superiority and need to feel power.
gollygee
Jul 2015
#93
It's fixated on crime specifically that comes from a place of a feeling of superiority and a need for power
gollygee
Jul 2015
#210
Actually, this does not detract from the OP, but technically, Encinias who arrested
JDPriestly
Jul 2015
#166
I'd wager the badge on his shirt was more of a factor than the skin under anybody's shirt.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#179
Your OP discriminates , and like another poster said, fixates only on one race ( and I might add,
darkangel218
Jul 2015
#20
You're right - it's about killings for a specific reason whether they're mass killings or not
gollygee
Jul 2015
#29
No, it most certainly is NOT. Most of the examples in the article are single-victim killings.
Lizzie Poppet
Jul 2015
#155
No. Not even close. But that's not the important thing (for some reason????). nt
Romulox
Jul 2015
#72
George Bush et al reinstated torture, Abu Graib, water boarding and the use of
Lodestar
Jul 2015
#32
Recognizing racism and privilege and discussing it is a big part of the answer
gollygee
Jul 2015
#61
Yes, agreed. White privilege also exists in the entirely white man owned mass media. It is not surprising the
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#51
That is not true, the OP makes an excellent point, just not a complete one.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#73
White men aren't even *close* to the most violent demographic in America. Truth isn't the point. nt
Romulox
Jul 2015
#75
Truth is always the point. White men, with guns. Too many white men with guns and no brains, but lots of anger, is my point.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#77
Stats are racist and only racists cite stats. If we're ever going to have social justice we need
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#182
NP, sorry for coming off that way. Was just imagining this beast made of a rare metal and
Rex
Jul 2015
#203
I'm afraid I've been the volatile one in the past. He's never even raised his voice to me.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#209
Sounds wonderful, I am glad for the both of you. I think I've seen you type Lover Boy before.
Rex
Jul 2015
#218
Actually, she also REALLY would like to downplay her own *class based privilege*. nt
Romulox
Jul 2015
#84
You need to deal with your OWN privilege for a second, before castigating others. nt
Romulox
Jul 2015
#92
OK. But maybe you, as a well-to-do white woman, need to ask why you feel so free to critique
Romulox
Jul 2015
#98
Right. You just *happened* to forget your own White Wealthy Female privilege. Just plumb *forgot*.
Romulox
Jul 2015
#106
Oh. I guess that gives you the right to downplay your own privilege. Still not seeing any links,
Romulox
Jul 2015
#136
Then our society is absolutely mundane in the scope of the entire world.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#220
I like to pretend I have absolute knowledge of other people's genuflecting too.
LanternWaste
Jul 2015
#211
That is one hell of a thing to read out of a person who is exploiting attacks on gay men with knives
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2015
#242
I just love how you lecture that economic inequality doesn't matter (from your home in Ann Arbor!).
Romulox
Jul 2015
#89
LOL. Washtenaw County, then. Either way, it's an awkward perch from which to lecture the poor. nt
Romulox
Jul 2015
#96
Kent County is no better. The point stands, you like to castigate those poorer than yourself.
Romulox
Jul 2015
#111
And you're wrong. This is a conversation I very much would like to have here. nt
Romulox
Jul 2015
#149
And "you trying to find out where I live thing" is silly. We only know about you what you yourself
Romulox
Jul 2015
#143
It certainly seems to have put at least one DUer very much on the defensive.
Nye Bevan
Jul 2015
#215
Go to most any right wing "political" site and read the threats against Y.O.U
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2015
#187
Ooh, those terrible white guys. They killed almost as many people as black guys did.
Comrade Grumpy
Jul 2015
#199
At least the white race is coming around to accepting they are a race, then maybe we can move on
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#200
Let's talk about male privilege and those who feel they're entitled to tell rape survivors
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#225
Maybe you can blacksplain why black guys are three times more likely to kill somebody?
Comrade Grumpy
Jul 2015
#233
They are more likely to be POOR. The less money you have the more likely you are to do your own
bravenak
Jul 2015
#247
No kidding. Suddenly discovering that "white" is also a race, the dominate race, which is the race that needs to explain everything is causing mass confusion.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#240
White American man isn't any more responsible for the actions of other white american man,
Kurska
Jul 2015
#232
Look how mad!! The very same folks that castigated black protesters(racistly) are now calling YOU racist.
bravenak
Jul 2015
#234
Hey straight people. If you are going to use language like this about anti gay attacks by straights
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2015
#236