White man fatally shoots 3 Black people at Florida store, then kills himself

How does someone in Florida who was ‘involuntarily committed to a mental hospital’ get his hands on an AR-15?

Another Florida man.....

Another crime involved gun in that country, is there anything new?

Awful. RIP and condolences to the survivors and the community. There is too much hate in the US and we need to do more about it.

A Nazi, living at home with his parents in his 20s, who’s been involuntarily put on a psych hold.

Sure, let’s give that guy an AR.

A masked white man fatally shot three Black people inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store in a predominately African-American neighborhood on Saturday, in an attack where he used a gun painted with a swastika, officials said. The shooter, who had also posted racist writings, then killed himself.

The NAACP issued a travel advisory to the state. Of course the rhetoric of the Republican Presidential candidate and Florida governor railing against the "woke, far-left Marxist CRT, BLM agenda" had absolutely nothing to due with the atmosphere of hate in the state.

(also too many guns, of course)

Just another MAGA-idiot manipulated and incited by Trump, MAGA-Repubs, and the far-right hate machine media into acts of violence...

Maybe he saw Sarah Palin's latest interview....

Sarah Palin has called for people to “rise up” and potentially start a civil war over Donald Trump’s arrest in Georgia. Trump surrendered to authorities in the Peach State Thursday evening, marking the fourth time he has been indicted and arrested this year. Palin expressed her outraged (and outrageous) opinion during an interview with Newsmax Thursday night. “Those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tiered system of justice, and I want to ask them, ‘What the heck? Do you want us to be in civil war?’ Because that’s what’s going to happen. We’re not going to keep putting up with this,” Palin told host Eric Bolling.

“And Eric, I like that you suggested that we need to get angry. We do need to rise up and take our country back.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/175197/sarah-palin-warns-civil-war-happen-trump-arrest

And more MAGA/Neo-Nazi violence is coming to a neighborhood near you...

He said the shooter had once been involved in a 2016 domestic violence incident and was once involuntarily committed to a mental hospital for examination.

Violent and mental but allowed to own a firearm?

an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle 

No one should be allowed to own a gun designed to inflict maximum carnage in the shortest amount of time.

Especially racist psychos.

Why is that concept so objectionable to some in the US?

Well, more evidence of what one Florida resident said that Ron DeSantis has filled Florida with "misery and despair" and "turned it into one of the worst states in the US"....

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3963585-trump-throws-new-insults-at-the-state-of-florida-in-new-attack-on-desantis/

Guns for everyone - including former domestic abusers, those involuntarily committed, Neo-Nazis, and white supremacists...

The blood runs red in Red States...

Violent and mental but allowed to own a firearm?

In America, guns have more rights than people.

Wesley is 100% correct in this. The ONLY time that the race of the assailant is mentioned is...when they're "white". Other races do violence against people? It's "man" or "assailant" or "individual". Remember all those "assailants" attacking Asians during COVID? Did you hear that 95% of all attacks against Asians were NOT by "whites" but by..."assailants". Hmm...

You can pretend this is incorrect, but it's not. It's irrefutable. It's policy in the mainstream press. And you're led around by the nose to the conclusion that "whites" are the only ones doing hate crimes. That's also patently false, recently, exceedingly so.

Mark my words, the victims are black people, there will be no discussion. If it was Asian, they'll discuss it a little maybe, if it was White, they'll discuss it a bit at length, in the end nothing will be done.

How thoroughly do you have to be immersed in rightwing North American podcasts to have this as your first reaction to a Nazi killing innocent people?

How immersed does one have to be in the hate- and division-fueling corporate media not to notice that their first reaction to a horrible murder/suicide is to point out the racial aspects? The goal of this slanted reporting is to create more chaos and death.

How immersed does one have to be in the hate- and division-fueling corporate media not to notice that their first reaction to a horrible murder/suicide is to point out the racial aspects?

Some media is complicit, but you have to be willfully blinkered not to see the agenda of certain politicians using culture wars to distract from their corporate crony looting plays a major part.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/florida-desantis-walsh-diversity-equity-inclusion-initivatives-racist/

Yet again the true face of the USA, ingrained racism. This murderer knew what he was doing and who he was doing it to, that was his only reason. The local sheriff said....“I can't tell you what his mindset was while he was there, but he did go there," .....really, I mean really? ....He had only one mindset and that was to murder black people. And what is just as strange, this murderer shot himself so why did he bother wear full body armour, maybe he wanted to fell big and manly.

hat their first reaction to a horrible murder/suicide is to point out the racial aspects? 

Well when the suspect has a manifesto wherein they clearly state the attack is racially motivated, a discussion of race seems inevitable.

Jack ‘n Kill Florida. Search YouTube for it and see what comes up besides this.

Nazi supremacist. How can you hate anyone because of the color of their skin?

The few sane Repubs left in the party really need to look at this shooting - and the Walmart shooting last year, the FBI Cincinnati office being shot up, and the MAGA-hero taking a hammer to 82 year old Paul Pelosi....

This is your Repub base - an unemployed young male, arrested for domestic violence, living in his parents basement, collecting assault weapons, posting racial hatred online, and binge-watching Fox and Newsmaxx being filled with resentment, outrage, and fear....and being told that "you have to take your country back"....

These people are a ticking time bomb - ready to explode...

How does someone in Florida who was ‘involuntarily committed to a mental hospital’ get his hands on an AR-15?

Quite the head scratcher. Or is it?

opheliajadefeldtToday 01:25 pm JST

Yet again the true face of the USA, ingrained racism.

You have to live in a country with visible minorities to credibly comment on racism in the US.

Quite the head scratcher. Or is it?

Not really. But I was hoping some gun fans might ponder it a little.

I just checked CNN to see if they are headlining this incident. But they aren’t. And CNN usually likes to fan the flames when there’s a racial incident. But nothing at the moment. However, JT seems very interested in this, even if crimes in American cities are usually ignored by them.

I just checked CNN to see if they are headlining this incident. But they aren’t. 

Check again. It’s the leading story under ‘US News’

And CNN usually likes to fan the flames when there’s a racial incident. But nothing at the moment. 

The story is being reported on every major news outlet. What would you hope to accomplish by making such an easily disproved claim?