Charleston Shooting Leaves 9 Dead at AME Church, Gunman Remains at Large

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Cities vs. states. There may be differences between the two...

[Boiler 45,499]

District not City.

I have a feeling Dems will win all the City stats.

[Teddy B 17,252]

And the winner is by far way out in Front, Washington DC!

Go Dems.

Actually Washington D.C. isn't a state, but that's ok. Did you notice that 17 out of the 20 on that list were red states, yanno those god n gun lovin states? Who woulda thunk God n guns would equal death?

Edited June 19, 2015 by Teddy B

[Boiler 45,499]

You might want to raise that with the author of the article.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

District not City.

I have a feeling Dems will win all the City stats.

I see. Now D.C. is not a city.

[Teddy B 17,252]

You might want to raise that with the author of the article.

According to the gun nuts, states that allow ccw experience less crime and gun deaths because more people have guns. How do you explain the state with the highest percentage of ccw per capita cracking the top 20 list of most gun deaths? If what the gun nuts claim is true, Florida should be #50, not #20.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

To hear that this guy almost didn't go through with it because everyone was being so nice to him at the church ... ugh. If you can honestly look at this story and think of anything other than blatant racism, then you're the one who is mentally ill.

Jon Stewart crushed it talking about this last night.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

To hear that this guy almost didn't go through with it because everyone was being so nice to him at the church ... ugh. If you can honestly look at this story and think of anything other than blatant racism, then you're the one who is mentally ill.

Jon Stewart crushed it talking about this last night.

Indeed.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Do you miss the point purposely or do you really not get it? I'd like to think it's the former since it would be hard to believe that someone can be that stupid and still post on a message board.

You get by with it daily

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

You get by with it daily

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

To hear that this guy almost didn't go through with it because everyone was being so nice to him at the church ... ugh. If you can honestly look at this story and think of anything other than blatant racism, then you're the one who is mentally ill.

Jon Stewart crushed it talking about this last night.

He was obvisoluy a racist. No one is denying that . Surely when someone guns down. A church full of people we can have other thought without being crazy. Sad comes to mine, shock, grief, coward.

One of my coworker buddies, who is black and very vocal made a good point. The guys he gunned down were certainly not the demographic he was talking about. He said why didn't he go to the hood . Because he was a coward

[Penny Lane 8,159]

He was obvisoluy a racist. No one is denying that . Surely when someone guns down. A church full of people we can have other thought without being crazy. Sad comes to mine, shock, grief, coward.

One of my coworker buddies, who is black and very vocal made a good point. The guys he gunned down were certainly not the demographic he was talking about. He said why didn't he go to the hood . Because he was a coward

There are plenty of people denying that.

There are plenty of people who want to ignore the fact that RACISM caused this tragedy because people prefer to pretend that this isn't still a very, very large problem in this country. There are people who genuinely believe that for the most part, racism is a thing of the past.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

He was obvisoluy a racist. No one is denying that . Surely when someone guns down. A church full of people we can have other thought without being crazy. Sad comes to mine, shock, grief, coward.

One of my coworker buddies, who is black and very vocal made a good point. The guys he gunned down were certainly not the demographic he was talking about. He said why didn't he go to the hood . Because he was a coward

It's been called a war on Christians, or just some crazy guy with a gun. Not to mention another incident almost took place within 24 hours of this one:

http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/article_8764390a-079c-530a-9ee0-11c58084ec5f.html

I'm just grateful that those churchgoers didn't shoot or attack that guy, turned out he was unarmed. Had they been allowed to be armed and shot out of fear based on what just happened, imagine what the fallout would have been..

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I mean, come on, there's someone in this very small group of regular posters in this section of the forums who believes that the REAL issue behind this is black men raping white women.

[yuna628 9,676]

He was obvisoluy a racist. No one is denying that . Surely when someone guns down. A church full of people we can have other thought without being crazy. Sad comes to mine, shock, grief, coward.

One of my coworker buddies, who is black and very vocal made a good point. The guys he gunned down were certainly not the demographic he was talking about. He said why didn't he go to the hood . Because he was a coward

All racist neo-Nazis are cowards at heart. This one was just a weakling and chose, in his mind, an effective and meaningful target. It wasn't about just killing some black guys. It was about killing the most emotion stirring black guys (kids, old people, ministers, women etc). It's all about doing the most damage to the collective soul of a nation.. to a people. His goal was to ''start a race war'', so just like any terrorist, he has to pick the most effective and most ''innocent'' of targets to reach (in his criminally insane psychosis) his goal.

When ISIS beheads a target in their dramatic and psychotic little theater they are doing it for the same reasons, this little punk did. Two different motivations, coming from the same brand of hatred.