I see what you are saying. I think you are saying just because a terrorist is Muslim and claim they carry out their deeds in the name of Islam, islam itself is not bad. I get that and it is thought provoking. And many in here do not agree. I find them wrong.

I also find it a false equivalence to an extent. I find Islam to be a legitimate religion that grew out of Christianity and Judaism and find that the terrorists pervert it. And I do expect true Muslims to denounce it and try to save the good name of their religion.

I find the white nationalists situation to be near the opposite. Rather than perverting some legitimate movement or religion it’s the other way around. They didn’t grow out of something legitimate and their rhetoric is being co opted rather than vice versa.

teedubbya wrote:

So here is my quandary. What legitamizes mass murder in these peoples minds?

Speyside wrote:

if I had to guess? It's a fairly poor area from what I understand and probably not as many armed patrons as would be normal in other areas of texas...
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opelmanta1900 wrote:

Would it be terrible to allow these people to spew their ignorance on Facebook and Twitter where everyone could see it for what it's worth?

opelmanta1900 wrote:

And, speycifically, what legitimizes it in this guy's mind?

He's not stupid. While there's some real problems with consistency, message and facts....the writing is mostly coherent and passable English. So, I sort of get a feel for what's going on in the guy's head...but I can't help but think that there's a pretty big disconnect between the thoughts and the action. I might look at it a little different if he were to join in some coalition or nationalist group with a strategic vision. But, he's smart enough to have known that killing some Mexicans was not likely to get this country on the track that he wants. So, while he might have meant much of what he wrote, I don't think its necessarily so directly connected to his actions Saturday.
Not only that, I don't believe that even a supremacist would be confident enough to shoot up a crowded Walmart confident that he'd only kill Hispanics.
And, didn't he surrender pretty easily?....even though he wrote about how that could not be considered a potential outcome....changed his mind? not going to overanalyze any more ....I just want to keep in my mind the disconnects before citing any of it for any reason

dstieger wrote:

It will keep illegals from buying guns... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

But I heard Biden wants to give them all shotguns.. 😟

DrafterX wrote:

we shouldn't read the written crap that these loons write, nor should we publish it...it taps into their need for attention, and copycats will see that their writings have been published to millions of people in various media, further validating this MO as a way to gain notoriety by blasting a large number of innocent people so their self-important written thoughts could be exposed to the world....

delta1 wrote: