Federal authorities open civil rights investigation as Jacksonville sheriff says Dollar General shooter ‘hated Black people’ and left manifestos

    • @Clent
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      421 year ago

      This is what the pro gun movement has given us.

      More guns, more gun deaths.

      I hold the entire movement responsible.

      There is no body count high enough to change their minds.

      • @ChocoboRocket
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        171 year ago

        Self fulfilling prophecy, it’s getting to the point where the high body count is the reason to always have a gun.

        It doesn’t have to make sense if it feels good

      • Franzia
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        41 year ago

        Why not put blame in the hands of pundits who spread the White Supremacist theories that grip these shooters? Why not at the hands of the forums that platform this radicalization? The TV networks that promote it? The gun manufacturers that are willing to profit off of our fears?

        • @Clent
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          -11 year ago

          Those pundits only existed because people listen to them.

          • Franzia
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            21 year ago

            Sorta… tucker carlson was more wealthy and platformed by the wealthy, and has now for years perfected his fascist brainrotting rhetoric. If no one listened to him, he would just try new tactics until they did.

      • @surewhynotlem
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        91 year ago

        What politics?

        Conservatives say black people riot and cause problems for everyone. People do things in reaction to that. That’s not politics, that’s cause and effect.

      • GladiusB
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        71 year ago

        What the fuck is wrong with you? People die and you decided to defend those that did the shooting rather than the victims. Even if you are a troll there is something deeply wrong with you.

          • GladiusB
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            11 year ago

            Your mom needs to go back in time and have an abortion. Moron.

  • BOMBS
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    181 year ago

    I grew up in Miami. The first rime I saw a confederate flag outside of a textbook was driving up to DC when we stopped to get food in Jacksonville. This was in the mid 90s.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Eh, I don’t see it driving around Orlando.

        There is that fuckoff huge one flying in Tampa though.

        • @flucksy_bango
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          41 year ago

          I meant more in the late 90s/early 00s.

          Also, get outside the suburbs. There’s hatred out there.

      • BOMBS
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        41 year ago

        Nopers. We took I-95 all the way up. However, when I was in middle school, I had a friend move from Miami to Orlando, and she had shared that there was a lot of racism there.

  • Franzia
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    91 year ago

    hopefully the FBI can figure out what insane online groups this guy might have been a part of & whether he was a copycat shooter.