@snood,
snood wrote:
I've read this thread with interest. What strikes me about the coverage of the racist murderer Roof is the seeming tendency to attribute motivations other than those that are obvious and even confessed to by the racist murderer. Why all the hand-wringing angst about whether he's crazy or sane? Why can't he just be a racist murderer with no more profound 'reason' than that he's just an evil person? Those exist, you know.
He is an evil person, and he's an evil person who never cracked a book because all that book learning might have lifted him out of his sickness. He found it easier to believe that he couldn't get ahead because black people were going to enslave white people. How big a pile of bullshit do you have to swallow to convince yourself you need a race war so you can acquire the status you deserve (even though he's as dumb as a rock).
OK, if the confederate flag can be abandoned thats great, it belongs in a small museum that displays traitorous symbols and the white supremacists who think they worship those symbols because the only trait they have is a caucasian background. But lets not forget what really happened. A young white supremist visited a bible study group in a historic Black Christian Church, with a plan to murder the faithful. Even he said that the group was very nice and good to him, he briefly thought he should abandon his plan, then decided if he didn't do it, someone else would have to.
My local paper printed a letter to the editor I wrote after President Obamas eulogy for Rev. Pinkney was aired, and then I read a local yokels column urging everyone not to confiscate guns because after all the family of the Charleston church forgave the shooter, we should calm down. I guess he saw the massacre of elementary school students as not requiring any action that needed to be addressed. President Obama has addressed our country 14 time about horrific mass murders, when will we learn that some due diligence must be done to make sure criminals, mental patients, gang members can be refused a gun license.
Just to be clear, I used to own guns, but when I had guns and heard frightening noises. my first thought was where's he ammo and the gun. That struck me as unnatural, so we got rid of everything except mr. G'bags dad's shotgun, and we have no ammo. Id rather call 911, and hope for the best.
But I don't think the American people worry about loss of life in normally safe areas, they are more worried about unfettered access to automatic weapons, grenade launchers, after all, the NRA has told them that their right to guns trumps lose of life by unarmed children who don't know how to outgun a maniac.
Snood is right, this boy set out to murder 9 people, despite the fact that he felt welcome, he still was compelled to finish his mission. Although he may have been forgiven by the relatives of butchered church members, I feel no need to forgive this assault on humanity.
