weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Aug 3, 2019 14:00:47 GMT -5
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Aug 3, 2019 14:08:48 GMT -5
'You don't think it could happen here'
At least three businesses are on lockdown in the area, about three miles south of El Paso International Airport.
Three Walmart employees took refuge at a nearby Landry's Seafood house, restaurant manager Oscar Collazo told CNN. The women appeared "shook up" but not injured.
Landry's had already gone on lockdown, he said, but opened its doors when the employees ran there.
"We never thought it would be so close to us this time," Collazo said. "You see on the news all the time, but you don't think it could happen here until it does."
Why not? It happens EVERYWHERE! Music concerts, schools, shopping malls, garlic festivals, churches, movie theaters, bars and clubs, workplaces....the list is endless.
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steff
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Post by steff on Aug 3, 2019 14:10:39 GMT -5
In Texas, where conceal carry/open carry is legal.
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kadee79
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S.W. Ga., zone 8b, out in the boonies!
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Post by kadee79 on Aug 3, 2019 15:39:09 GMT -5
Only 1 suspects...22 injured...no count yet on fatalities....
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 3, 2019 16:01:08 GMT -5
Thoughts and prayers.
What's everyone having for dinner tonight?
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steff
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Post by steff on Aug 3, 2019 16:26:13 GMT -5
19 dead, 40 injured, 22 being treated at hospitals.
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Gardening Grandma
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Aug 3, 2019 16:38:44 GMT -5
Cue the gun apologists "guns don't kill people..... yadayadayada.... thoughts and prayers"
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 3, 2019 16:42:07 GMT -5
Shooter has been identified. His social profile doesn't look good.
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steff
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Post by steff on Aug 3, 2019 16:55:10 GMT -5
Greg Abbott @gregabbott_TX
I'm EMBARRASSED: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @nra
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steff
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Post by steff on Aug 3, 2019 17:21:54 GMT -5
Shooter has been identified. His social profile doesn't look good. Let's be blunt, his social profile shows a white supremacist who went out to hunt brown people.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 3, 2019 17:26:56 GMT -5
Shooter has been identified. His social profile doesn't look good. Let's be blunt, his social profile shows a white supremacist who went out to hunt brown people. I was waiting for confirmation.
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Post by resolution on Aug 3, 2019 17:33:34 GMT -5
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 3, 2019 17:42:55 GMT -5
El Paso bristles at Trump’s claim that wall made city safeBy WILL WEISSERTFebruary 10, 2019 linkHow's that wall working out.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Aug 3, 2019 17:52:18 GMT -5
No need to worry about NK and Russian nuclear missiles. Americans are doing a bang-up job of annihilating each other.
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Post by busymom on Aug 3, 2019 17:54:10 GMT -5
Two questions:
1. What happened to all those "conceal & carry" folks that are supposed to protect us in mass shootings?
2. If they finish the wall, and keep out those immigrants, who's going to protect us from the white supremacists?
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Gardening Grandma
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Aug 3, 2019 18:21:29 GMT -5
Another mass shooting by a white American supremacist asshole
How inconvenient for the trumpist minority bashers
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Gardening Grandma
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steff
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Post by steff on Aug 3, 2019 18:31:58 GMT -5
Texas has open carry on semi-automatic rifles, they require NO background checks, NO age limit, & NO training.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 3, 2019 18:47:31 GMT -5
I put on facebook another killing inspired by trumps message.
My facebook post:
Another trump inspired white person, Patrick Crusius. He had a manifesto saying he backed the repub party. BREAKING: FBI investigating possible manifesto from the shooter which starts with the following two sentences: "In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto. This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas"
So here is another trump inspired killer, how many more will we have? You don't get people riled up like this, just horrible.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Aug 3, 2019 18:49:56 GMT -5
Texas has open carry on semi-automatic rifles, they require NO background checks, NO age limit, & NO training.
How convenient for the mass shooters
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Post by billisonboard on Aug 3, 2019 18:50:04 GMT -5
I had no hope that I would live long enough to see repeal of the Second Amendment, but now I am wondering if it won't be sooner than I thought possible.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Aug 3, 2019 19:03:40 GMT -5
Texas has open carry on semi-automatic rifles, they require NO background checks, NO age limit, & NO training.
Charming. Any whack job with a grudge, manifesto or vendetta has unlimited access to guns.
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Gardening Grandma
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Aug 3, 2019 19:09:58 GMT -5
Texas has open carry on semi-automatic rifles, they require NO background checks, NO age limit, & NO training.
Charming. Any whack job with a grudge, manifesto or vendetta has unlimited access to guns. Just how the NRA wants it
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 3, 2019 19:25:42 GMT -5
Reverend Pavlovitz is pissed off.
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kadee79
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Post by kadee79 on Aug 3, 2019 20:02:59 GMT -5
I don't know if there is an age limit here in Ga. or not, but we have the same thing as Tx. with open carry. You do have to have a permit to carry a gun though...so you get run thru the FBI files to get that. You can openly carry any place here including banks & churches...unless they have signs posted that guns aren't allowed on their premises.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Aug 3, 2019 20:26:14 GMT -5
The document was shared on 4Chan, an online forum where users can post anonymously. Within it, the suspect denounces Hispanic people in Texas, cites concerns about losing American jobs to automation and criticizes both political parties. The text includes a reference to the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, which left 51 people dead.
where do you think this stuff is coming from? Who is feeding it?
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Post by mollyanna58 on Aug 3, 2019 21:53:43 GMT -5
I don't know how to post pictures.
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Post by laterbloomer on Aug 3, 2019 22:00:30 GMT -5
Trump's base strikes again.
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Post by grumpyhermit on Aug 3, 2019 22:03:29 GMT -5
I don't know how to post pictures.
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Post by OldCoyote on Aug 3, 2019 22:19:20 GMT -5
Texas has open carry on semi-automatic rifles, they require NO background checks, NO age limit, & NO training.
You care to back that up?? Are you saying Texas has no Background checks or age requirements??
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