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In reply to the discussion: How long before RW extremists shoot people in your city? Or, is "now not the time" to discuss this.. [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)3. Rightwingers chum the water we're all
swimming in, then shrug when the sharks show up, eyes rolling, to feed.
Violence would be the expected response if the things they keep saying we're true. If taxation was theft. If extremist foreign powers were infiltrating the government. If health reform was a Stalinist plot to euthanize your elderly relatives. If straight white Christians were being marginalized and oppressed for loving hamburgers and Jesus.
Then someone takes them at their word and sets up a rat-poisoned anti-personnel bomb on a parade route. Shoots another doctor. Slashes a gay person.
It's not their fault. It has nothing to do with either the ease of obtaining firearms or the constant drumbeat about how everyone needs to "stock up" on ammo before liberals disarm the real Americans.
And hey, look, someone spray-painted a funny sign on a chicken restaurant run by a proud bigot, so it all washes out.
Can't blame them. Who could predict all that bloody chum would attract a monster?
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How long before RW extremists shoot people in your city? Or, is "now not the time" to discuss this.. [View all]
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
OP
I just want to remind people that every 2 or 3 weeks 7 people are shot dead in Chicago.
mucifer
Aug 2012
#8
Everyone in a gang needs social services and so do their families. And the victims, but are ignored.
freshwest
Aug 2012
#12
Rightwingers today should be called out for what they are, "Domestic Terrorists." n/t
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#65
Then why did they choose this particular time and place to do so? A political gathering?
Ikonoklast
Aug 2012
#14
Citizens can no longer excercise their 1st and 2nd ammendment rights simultaneously?
OneTenthofOnePercent
Aug 2012
#48
2 separate things: it's legal to carry, but you're in denial if you don't see the threat.
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#55
this is complete BS -- their intent is clearly to intimidate Obama and Obama supporters with threat
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#15
i'm actually amazed that the Florida American Front nazis were taken in before they could
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#24
a not-so thinly veiled threat at that. it's actually quite blunt, and the poster's denial
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#37
"What is it with people carrying guns that makes DU members go apoplectic?"
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2012
#36
Not just 'thought about' but experienced in some degree. To wit, during
coalition_unwilling
Aug 2012
#76
i have a theory about why this is the case: tickling rage nuts (email spam)
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#54
this approach started in the 80s in evangelical circles -- worship turned to warfare
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#74
It's time to make some noise. Write, call, fax your Senators & Congresspeople - especially if
jillan
Aug 2012
#35
California has the most active hate groups in the country according to SPLC
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#50
Detroit has a homicide rate of about 43. Very little of that, if any, is politically motivated
Kaleva
Aug 2012
#57
Discussing your OP would have little to no impact on the vast majority of homicides.
Kaleva
Aug 2012
#68
you don't have to discuss this particular OP if it's not a concern of yours.
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#69
It interests me but I'm under no illusion that discussing guns here will actually do anything
Kaleva
Aug 2012
#80
First they shot up abortion clinics, and no one cared because it's a "women's issue,"
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#70
In 2009 someone shot at my Democratic Rep's office 4 times. DU yawned, did not care
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2012
#63
I notice the same reaction whenever these things happen...they are no longer "black swans"
nashville_brook
Aug 2012
#66