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In reply to the discussion: Nailed it!! A Tweet from "Atlanta's Mayor" going around FB. [View all]billh58
(6,635 posts)16. You totally missed the
point Bubba (I assume you missed the point, but maybe not). It is NOT the actual differences between mass murderers that the tweet is calling out, but the way the differences are portrayed by the fucking press. Get it?
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Do black men actually go on spree killings? I'm open, just haven't heard of any.
DesertDiamond
Dec 2012
#24
I take that back, there was one in the 1990s in Washington D.C. But seems comparatively rare.
DesertDiamond
Dec 2012
#25
Not that I recall; the DC snipers were serial killers, as was Wayne Williams (Atlanta) who was a
Nay
Dec 2012
#31
I don't know about that - I hear McVie & Terry Nicholas' names coming up alot lately as examples
jillan
Dec 2012
#7
The VA Tech shooter, Asian. The DC snipers, African American. Fort Hood's Hasan is Palestinian-Ameri
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#20
The difference between DC snipers and Hasan/VA Tech shooter is that the DC snipers would be
Nay
Dec 2012
#33
Plus, those two were NOT spree killers -- they were serial killers. There HAVE been a few Black
Nay
Dec 2012
#35
I agree that that case is a bit different. I don't remember how the FBI categorizes something like
Nay
Dec 2012
#47
That makes sense to call them all 'mass shootings' and them break them down into other
Nay
Dec 2012
#50
What is even more troubling than that is that the majority of these mass murders has been by
jillan
Dec 2012
#27