A 6-Year-Old Boy Dies Because Some White Supremacist Was Really Angry
This is the price of the 2nd Amendment: A 19-year-old kid in California got ahold of a military-style rifle, cut a fence to elude security and shot 15 people before he was shot dead by police. Among the three people killed was 6-year-old boy whose mother was also shot, but survived.
After the shooting started, someone claimed to have heard someone shout, “Why are you doing this?” and that the gunman answered, “Because I’m really angry.” An Instagram account in the gunman’s name, created four days ago, posted two messages shortly before the attack began.
One included a photograph of people walking around the Garlic Festival with the words “Ayyy garlic festival time Come get wasted on overpriced sh**.”
The other, which included a photo of Smokey the Bear holding a sign saying “Fire Danger High Today,” stated: “Read Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white tw**s?”
“Right is Might,” first published in the late 1800’s, has been described as a white supremacist text that promotes anarchy while vilifying Christianity. The book calls Jesus the “true Prince of Evil” and says that the natural order is a world at war in which the strong must vanquish the weak and white men must rule over those of color.
The story has already been knocked out of lead-story status because — sit down before reading this — it turns out Donald Trump is a racist.
“Firearms related” is the second leading cause of death for American children (after motor vehicle crash). For adults, the total gun death rate surpassed the car crash death rate in 2017.
People ask me about Mexico whenever I vacation there wondering about the danger. Mexico has 12.9 guns per every 100 people. The U.S. has 120.5 guns for every 100 people.
Another fond memory of going to the festival for many years, now ruined by the death of 6 year old who wanted nothing more than to have some garlic ice cream. I’d offer thoughts and prayers, but I’m not a Republican.
If people don’t care about this. I don’t know that they care about anything.
When will they ever learn? The answers blowing in the wind.
“…just like a restless piece of paper it’s got to come down some … But the only trouble is that no one picks up the answer when it comes down so not too many people get to see and know … and then it flies away.”
@Dave: Nice reference. But don’t forget what he said next.
“I still say that some of the biggest criminals are those that turn their heads away when they see wrong and know it’s wrong.”
Another day, another gun slaughter in America, can anyone be surprised at this point?
Is there no end to this madness? I have asked myself that question for more years than I care to remember. There seems to be no progress on reducing gun deaths…just an acceptance that they happen.
The terrible part, in terms of the acceptance you mention, is how quickly this dropped from the news cycle. “Only” three deaths and almost no mention of the white-supremacy literature they found, and it can’t break the news media’s insistence that we all talk about whatever lunacy Trump tweeted today.