docachna wrote:M-Quigley wrote:After I heard the initial news story I thought here it comes, more calls for gun control, particularly against rifles, and how CC is somehow useless for anyone because there was an ex cop/guard there who could see the guy was wearing body and yet still fired 2 rounds center mass, and I am hearing some calls for gun control but most of what I'm hearing on Monday mn on the news are calls for restrictions on social media instead.
In addition, on the CBS mn news, they interviewed a black civil rights attorney who is saying that this and other white on black mass shootings shows that "anti black hate crime legislation" needs to be passed. He didn't mention gun control at all.
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Oh I knew it was coming, I was just surprised that the MSM didn't lead with it, and certain politicians are willing to misuse this tragedy to attack the 1st amendment along with the 2nd.
Someone said to me yesterday that this mass shooting proves the need for government oversight and control, maybe even shutting down certain sites completely. Of course she also mentioned guns, she always does. I didn't argue with her, I instead agreed with her. She was surprised and I said the reason was a while back I had heard about an organization and was curious to just check out their website. I read vile hate filled messages and people freely talking about how some innocent people should be killed simply on the basis of a certain color, and how that talk disgusted me. I was concerned that someone reading this would be radicalized enough to actually carry out this garbage, and if the government shuts downs sites then this site and others like it should be the first site shut down, IMO.
She seemed very happy that I had come over to her way of thinking, and asked me what the name of the site was. I told her it was Black Lives Matter. She didn't believe me that this stuff was on their site and said I was exaggerating. I told her that I had screenshots saved of comments like "Pigs in a blanket" , "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now!" There was a comment posted at the time about turning all the boys in blue red (as in blood)
It's not just anti cops either, there was a post about a white civilian who shot someone trying to commit a crime against him, and someone called for revenge against "vigilantes" All of the "vigilante" examples mentioned were black people getting shot by non black people. I guess if you're black and shoot another black person you're good in their eyes.
She said that even if some people did post this stuff on the website, it doesn't mean the organization and all the other people that belong to it support murder of innocent people merely because of posts of a few people, that the other people have legitimate grievances and their right to free speech should be protected.
She also said it was wrong to condemn a whole group of people because of the bad actions or words of a mere few.