Posted by bruceleefan on 8/28/2022 11:25:00 AM (view original):
Every mass murder with assault weapons are by right wingers.
Patently false. I won't spend a bunch of time listing ALL of the lefty shooters but here are a few I found on politifact.
James Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old man, asked a passing congressman—South Carolina’s Jeff Duncan—whether Republicans or Democrats were on the field practicing. Once he received confirmation that the Republican representatives were the ones playing ball, Hodgkinson fired off 60 rounds into the unsuspecting elected officials.
Omar Mateen, the shooter who killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016, was registered as a Democrat in 2006. He voted in the Florida primary in 2016, according to reporting from Politico.
A friend of Aaron Alexis, who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard in 2013, said in a CNN interview that the shooter was "more of a liberal type and he supported Obama"
"Mass shooters are rarely motivated by a political agenda, experts told us".
"Mass shootings are often perpetrated by young men who are socially isolated or have a mental illness, experience a trauma or conflict that sends them reeling emotionally, and have easy access to guns".
"Other experts reacted similarly to the assertion that shooters tend to have common political beliefs".
"The idea of associating politics with these mass murders is absurd. It has absolutely nothing to do with it."
I must have been stoned when I wrote that.
It is stupid to say all; but a form of gun politics is a major motivation.
The Orlando shooting was Islamic terrorism and maniacal hatred of gay people.
The Nevada shooter left no clue as to motivation but he disliked Obama and was happy Trump won and was a gun enthusiast and second amendment supporter.
Hodgkinson was political and after Republicans.
I don’t think that many of these shootings are about party politics per say.
I do think that most of these shootings have a lot to do with gun politics in that they go for assault weapons which they should not be able to get and most if not all of these shooters support the right to bear assault weapons.
It is not about political policies but it does have a lot to do with these guys being in love with assault weapons and most if not all agreeing that they are entitled to have them.
After that the racism or mental breakdown
or becoming famous etc becomes their personal motivation and they must be a lot braver with assault weapons.
About party registration ALL3 May he Rest In Peace was as staunch a conservative as any one in these forums. He even believed that a business owner should be allowed to keep people out of his store for reasons of race or gender or sexual orientation and I guess politics as well.
I don’t think that was his practice. It was his philosophy that people should have that right.
Despite all that he never changed his registration of democrat from when he was young. He mentioned that a lot.
He never responded when I said that he was waiting for a new George Wallace.
But so be it.
8/28/2022 12:51 PM (edited)