Massacre at historic African American Church in Charleston

[Caliga]

Actually this would be a good excuse to stage a Bronycaust.

[Lettow77]

 All jokes about his brony affiliation or hipster taste in supremacist flags aside, this really is sad. What surprises me is it that it isn't more common- People who look and talk like Dylann Roof are a dime a dozen. In fact, you can at this  very moment find him the man of the hour amongst his former demographic of lonely losers who hang out in their weeaboo white supremacist echo-chambers.

Nobody wants to hear about sympathy for murderers (especially racist ones, as this proves somehow a greater anathema still than mere murder, but I feel like I can understand this person. It bothers me people are already talking about mental illness- it's no such thing; just a murderous racist who acted on the stuff a lot of them talk about all the time. His actions shouldn't be explained away as those of the mentally ill, or anyway any more mentally ill than other fringe extremists whose ideology drives them to violence.

  I don't really see how this is supposed to be solved. It seems like the South is just a rough deal for all parties involved, and the best solution is to not be anywhere near- and that's a very sad thought.

[The Brain]

All jokes about his brony affiliation or hipster taste in supremacist flags aside, this really is sad. What surprises me is it that it isn't more common- People who look and talk like Dylann Roof are a dime a dozen. In fact, you can at this  very moment find him the man of the hour amongst his former demographic of lonely losers who hang out in their weeaboo white supremacist echo-chambers.

Nobody wants to hear about sympathy for murderers (especially racist ones, as this proves somehow a greater anathema still than mere murder, but I feel like I can understand this person. It bothers me people are already talking about mental illness- it's no such thing; just a murderous racist who acted on the stuff a lot of them talk about all the time. His actions shouldn't be explained away as those of the mentally ill, or anyway any more mentally ill than other fringe extremists whose ideology drives them to violence.

  I don't really see how this is supposed to be solved. It seems like the South is just a rough deal for all parties involved, and the best solution is to not be anywhere near- and that's a very sad thought.

Space is probably safest.

[Tonitrus]

Nah, then they come back and attack Earth with an invasion fleet.

[Lettow77]

No, once the Confederacy reconstitutes itself in space it is the United Earth Directorate that attacks them.

[Eddie Teach]

In space, no one can hear you whistle "Dixie".

[jimmy olsen]

Whoops

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/18/one-photo-perfectly-captures-the-insanity-of-americas-relationship-with-guns/

[viper37]

Yeah, I read that and I was like

"My son is a crazy racist loner?  I know what he needs for his birthday then!"

I read today that he received money for his birthday, not a gun.  He decided by himself to buy a gun.  His best friend hid the gun from him because he felt he would do something stupid, but he was convinced by his fiancee to give it back because it would get him in trouble.

[Caliga]

Oh...

[derspiess]

That's weird, I read his father gave him the gun and could face a possible 10 year sentence if he was aware of his son's drug charges. 

[Admiral Yi]

Maybe his dad gave him cash and told him to go buy himself a gun.

[derspiess]

Maybe his dad gave him cash and told him to go buy himself a gun.

He wouldn't have passed a background check.

[Admiral Yi]

Gun show?

[Queequeg]

[viper37]

That's weird, I read his father gave him the gun and could face a possible 10 year sentence if he was aware of his son's drug charges. 

maybe my info was wrong, I took it from a local newspaper, I didn't check the US papers on this.