Virginia TV journalists killed in on-air shooting; suspect shoots self

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

A Black man committing a hate crime has really thrown off your narrative

It's no more a hate crime than the 'gentleman' who shot someone for texting in a movie was. The man had a beef, real or imagined, with specific people, for ridiculous things, and shot someone. In both cases. The psychological profile of the shooter in this case has repeatedly been stated to be a very typical profile of a workplace shooter.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's no more a hate crime than the 'gentleman' who shot someone for texting in a movie was. The man had a beef, real or imagined, with specific people, for ridiculous things, and shot someone. In both cases. The psychological profile of the shooter in this case has repeatedly been stated to be a very typical profile of a workplace shooter.

What you said.

Ban flags!

[Expat1 971]

Unless homosexuality, there is an Amendment in the Constitution that explicitly gives us the Right to bear arms.

There is no such Amendment about homosexuality.

You do know about that whole "equal protection" thing right?

[TENBILLIONDOLLARS 216]

You do know about that whole "equal protection" thing right?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

It's no more a hate crime than the 'gentleman' who shot someone for texting in a movie was. The man had a beef, real or imagined, with specific people, for ridiculous things, and shot someone. In both cases. The psychological profile of the shooter in this case has repeatedly been stated to be a very typical profile of a workplace shooter.

The very same thing was stated several times about Nidal Hasan. But not everyone drinks from the same jug of koolaid.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

The very same thing was stated several times about Nidal Hasan. But not everyone drinks from the same jug of koolaid.

are you trying to claim that this shooting was a super secret case of 'jihad', then?

Banning the rainbow flag would result in more deaths than all the mass shootings in the US this year. Easily.

[GandD 5,966]

Oh AJ. Never leave again.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

A Black man committing a hate crime has really thrown off your narrative

Your signature block getting too long. We. can't see your posts anymore.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

1) are you trying to claim that this shooting was a super secret case of 'jihad', then?

2) Banning the rainbow flag would result in more deaths than all the mass shootings in the US this year. Easily.

1) A quote of me saying that would erase your confusion, if you don't mind. (what I was actually pointing out was that it was claimed to be a "simple case of workplace violence")

2) How so?

[lostinblue 1,989]

It's no more a hate crime than the 'gentleman' who shot someone for texting in a movie was. The man had a beef, real or imagined, with specific people, for ridiculous things, and shot someone. In both cases. The psychological profile of the shooter in this case has repeatedly been stated to be a very typical profile of a workplace shooter.

You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!"

http://www.10news.com/news/u-s-world/after-shooting-alleged-gunman-details-grievances-in-suicide-notes?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mastertwtr

No hate crime here.

[Operator 1,927]

Banning the rainbow flag would result in more deaths than all the mass shootings in the US this year. Easily.

Huh?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

1) A quote of me saying that would erase your confusion, if you don't mind. (what I was actually pointing out was that it was claimed to be a "simple case of workplace violence")

2) How so?

1) I didn't say you were, I asked because I was unsure. Note that it was a question, not a statement. I don't know much about the case you were discussing other than the name.

2) Simply put, taking away the symbols that unify our community would skyrocket the suicide rate. Kids are starting to have hope for a future and banning our flag would terrify those kids and take their hope. We'd have a massive spike in suicides and that's before the extreme homophobes killed a whole bunch more kids.

You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!"

http://www.10news.com/news/u-s-world/after-shooting-alleged-gunman-details-grievances-in-suicide-notes?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=mastertwtr

No hate crime here.

Where's your psych degree?

[Expat1 971]

1) I didn't say you were, I asked because I was unsure. Note that it was a question, not a statement. I don't know much about the case you were discussing other than the name.

2) Simply put, taking away the symbols that unify our community would skyrocket the suicide rate. Kids are starting to have hope for a future and banning our flag would terrify those kids and take their hope. We'd have a massive spike in suicides and that's before the extreme homophobes killed a whole bunch more kids.

Where's your psych degree?

Are you implying somehow that the LGBT community is less than mentally balanced as a group? Why would the suicide rate skyrocket over a flag?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Are you implying somehow that the LGBT community is less than mentally balanced as a group? Why would the suicide rate skyrocket over a flag?

So you DO realize that a flag is a symbol?

In the case of the rainbow flag, the symbol is community. Humans are social creatures who do not do well when isolated. Unfortunately, in many parts of the US, GLBT youth find themselves isolated from the main part of their community if they dare to come out of the closet and even straight youth accused of being gay find themselves isolated. That isolation has contributed to the elevated levels of suicide that the GLBT community experiences. Depression and self loathing over imposed isolation is actually a natural psychological response to isolation.

The flag, to many of these kids, can represent the promise of future community. Hope is something that sustains people through incredibly dark times. As long as one can hope that things will become better, one can endure a great deal more than they otherwise would.

Now ban the flag. Ban the banner that represents a unified community to GLBT people. In so doing, you have managed to put forth the message that the GLBT community is so dangerous that allowing them a symbol is wrong. In so doing, you have told all of these isolated kids in extremist right wing communities that there is no hope for the future. Ban the symbols that belong to a community, that people can look at and say 'this is a community' and you imply, nay, even say directly, that the community is a problem and should be broken up and should no longer be able to unite.

So you take away that hope. It's not that the GLBT community is 'mentally unbalanced.' It's that it's made up of human beings. Human beings are social. Isolated human beings can sustain on hope. Take away hope and the natural consequence is death.

And keep in mind, this is also just the death toll we'd be talking about before all the jerk off homophobes that would love to go out and beat them some gays looked at the banning of the rainbow flag and said 'oh look, they don't have a community anymore' or 'look, we've declared gays illegal' and went out and murdered gay people.

For a great example of all this, look at Russia. You cannot 'promote' homosexuality without going to jail. This means Russia already effectively banned the rainbow flag, along with other symbols, from public spaces. The suicide rates amongst GLBT people skyrocketed and the police began turning a blind eye as homosexuals and suspected homosexuals are now hunted in the streets like animals, kidnapped and held against their will and beaten and pissed on and burnt and if they dare to speak up about their treatment, dare to complain to the police, nothing being done is the best scenario. The worst is that they're imprisoned.

Do you want to live in Putin's Russia?

[decocker 7,198]

this is exactly why i say all the flag nonsense is nothing but distraction. as of this morning, both the rainbow flag and confederate flag are alive and well flapping freely all over the country.