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Juneteenth Shooting In S.C. Upstate Leads To Hospitalizations, Death
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More culture failure…..
Sad to have to Point this Out,, BUT, Look at the Source! Martin Luther King Led and was about Peace! However these Days it is Led By THUGS that carry Guns! Probably some were Felons with Guns!!
Let’s put the longstanding observation about corporate media to the test. Zero mention of the age, sex, and race of the shooter. If it was a white male shooting up a Juneteenth gathering, it would be headlining national news. Therefore, the shooter was 95% likely a black male between the ages of 15 and 35. Who wants to bet otherwise?
There’s no gloating or satisfaction in this observation – it’s just the sad reality of our time and culture. In terms of violence and crime, there is nothing more dangerous to the life, limb, and property of a black person, of any age or either sex, than a young black, fatherless male. So says 50+ years of FBI crime statistics.
You do realize if Democrats stop shooting people, gun violence would drop by 90%.
If only we had a hate crime law…
Maybe while we are obsessing about the color of the skin of the “likely” shooter we could also talk about how easy it is for young and immature, untrained and unaccountable folks to get guns. Maybe we could also point out that the “culture failure” seems to always involve a man and not a woman. I also wonder if the gun used was stolen from the car/truck of someone too lazy or dumb to lock the gun up properly. So much more to these kinds of stories than skin color.
Nice attempt at deflection, Laurie.
Asian and European-Americans have an equal access to guns. I don’t see their pictures on the news EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. Interesting that you’re blaming the person who’s vehicle was broken into by a criminal for the rise in shootings in your scenario. Why not blame the person breaking into the vehicle? Why don’t you look at the family structure of the shooters? How many come from a home where the mother or grandparents are raising the shooter and likely a handful of brothers and sisters from as many different fathers. How about the education level of these shooters? How many are high school dropouts? The community of generational dropouts and single parent households can cry as much as they want, but they just can’t figure out why these things keep happening to them.
Laurie, I commend you for all you are doing against gun violence. I wanted to March on the Statehouse against gun violence when Governor McMaster signed the open carry law into effect with no training in the summer of 2021 on the heels of my son, Whit Oliver, being gunned down (shot 22 times) on May 9, 2021, just 2 blocks from Mayor Knox White’s home. MY QUESTION TO ALL: Why would the Law Enforcement and especially Chief Thompson allow a man who had been reported numerous times for harassing Hollingsworth Park parkgoers (one person reported that he was carrying some kind of weapon) for a year while walking all around my son’s and the Mayor’s house, and DO NOTHING ABOUT HIM. My son called 911 twice the week he was murdered. Fist call was made 5 days before he was murdered and law enforcement told my son if he saw this man again to call back. My son did just as he was told on Mother’s Day and was murdered while on the 911 call. Several others had also called Law Enforcement on the shooter within several months before he murdered my only son on Mother’s Day. Maybe the Mayor needs to look into his Law Enforcement’s responses to disturbances and suspicious persons reported. By the way, the shooter had enough ammo in his car to kill all the families in Hollingsworth Park that Mother’s Day. Their was no confrontation by my son. As many people responded to the Chief’s public remarks, Whit Oliver had the temperament of a Buddhist Monk.
Whit Oliver was a well educated, diplomatic person, and an avid cyclist. Everyone loved him from the time he was old enough to make friends. He was the Finance Director for D.J.Rama, one of Mayor Knox White’s big developers in Greenville.