Buffalo Mass Shooting

[Anonymous]

I will admit that I always feel a small tang of sorrow for the shooter. At 18, especially after being brainwashed and bought into an ideology, you don't realize how your life will now be over. You don't have the benefit of 40-yo you saying, hey dude, this isn't worth it. No one wants to be in prison for 70 years.

He totally understood his actions that day. Not excusing that. But just think back to the dumb stuff I did at 18 and not realizing the potentially long-term consequences of those things.

It's OK to have these feelings for the perps. As long as your feelings for the victims are 100x stronger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will admit that I always feel a small tang of sorrow for the shooter. At 18, especially after being brainwashed and bought into an ideology, you don't realize how your life will now be over. You don't have the benefit of 40-yo you saying, hey dude, this isn't worth it. No one wants to be in prison for 70 years.

He totally understood his actions that day. Not excusing that. But just think back to the dumb stuff I did at 18 and not realizing the potentially long-term consequences of those things.

It's OK to have these feelings for the perps. As long as your feelings for the victims are 100x stronger.

I swear, people like you make me sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

He reveled in his radicalization.

Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tucker Carlson should be charged.

Fox News is a sticking sewer.

+1

They have blood on their hands.

Charge them with hate crimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be this teenager’s parents. I won’t make any assumptions about their parenting but just always feel some sympathy when these stories break for the parents siblings and other close relatives of the shooter, what a horror it must also be to grapple with these events from that side of things.

Why? Save your sympathy for the real victims.

Exactly. What in the actual hell?! Why not try imagining what the victims' families must be feeling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tucker Carlson should be charged.

Fox News is a sticking sewer.

+1

They have blood on their hands.

Charge them with hate crimes.

How about your charge the parents who bought him the weapon? Seems simpler, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be this teenager’s parents. I won’t make any assumptions about their parenting but just always feel some sympathy when these stories break for the parents siblings and other close relatives of the shooter, what a horror it must also be to grapple with these events from that side of things.

Why? Save your sympathy for the real victims.

Thank you. Super weird that your instinct is to sympathize with the people who created this monster, instead of the innocent people he mowed down. Perhaps you (Prior PP) should examine your biases. Why do you find it easier to empathize with the family of a white supremacist mass shooter than with his black victims?

Yep, that comment tells me everything I need to know about the pp. Sometimes we tell on ourselves without knowing it, lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tucker Carlson should be charged.

Fox News is a sticking sewer.

+1

They have blood on their hands.

Charge them with hate crimes.

How about your charge the parents who bought him the weapon? Seems simpler, no?

Yes, charge them too.

Accountability all around. This kid did not act alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be this teenager’s parents. I won’t make any assumptions about their parenting but just always feel some sympathy when these stories break for the parents siblings and other close relatives of the shooter, what a horror it must also be to grapple with these events from that side of things.

Why? Save your sympathy for the real victims.

Exactly. What in the actual hell?! Why not try imagining what the victims' families must be feeling?

+1

WTH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be this teenager’s parents. I won’t make any assumptions about their parenting but just always feel some sympathy when these stories break for the parents siblings and other close relatives of the shooter, what a horror it must also be to grapple with these events from that side of things.

Why? Save your sympathy for the real victims.

Exactly. What in the actual hell?! Why not try imagining what the victims' families must be feeling?

+1

WTH?

You know it's possible to hold two thoughts at the same time. It's not either/or. You can feel immense sorrow for the victims and their families and also have some sympathy for the shooter's family, especially younger siblings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will admit that I always feel a small tang of sorrow for the shooter. At 18, especially after being brainwashed and bought into an ideology, you don't realize how your life will now be over. You don't have the benefit of 40-yo you saying, hey dude, this isn't worth it. No one wants to be in prison for 70 years.

He totally understood his actions that day. Not excusing that. But just think back to the dumb stuff I did at 18 and not realizing the potentially long-term consequences of those things.

It's OK to have these feelings for the perps. As long as your feelings for the victims are 100x stronger.

I think it's pretty odd you have these feelings. He literally murdered people. We all did dumb stuff at 18 but for 99.9% of us they don't involve MURDERING people in cold blood for literally no reason. I don't feel any sorrow for ANY teenager that commits a violent act on purpose. There is a line that's crossed when you commit a violent act that cannot be explained away by being a dumb teenager.

It's really weird you seem to identify more with the shooter than the victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tucker Carlson should be charged.

Fox News is a sticking sewer.

+1

They have blood on their hands.

Charge them with hate crimes.

How about your charge the parents who bought him the weapon? Seems simpler, no?

Yes, charge them too.

Accountability all around. This kid did not act alone.

People around him had to know. He posted his plan online. Why wasn’t anything flagged or done to report it before it happened? Disgusting

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An 18-year-old suspect with access to an assault rifle. He shot and killed 10 people including a retired police officer who returned fire. His parents need to be charged. I'm tired of this.

No. We need to start voting.

We've been voting for years. What has that done?

NY is a very blue state.He was reported in NY. Nothing was done.

Upstate NW is a very different area. And by upstate I’m referring to everything outside of the NYC area (Buffalo, Albany, Troy, Syracuse). I lived in Upstate and am from the West Coast, the “liberalism” I saw was not a liberalism I am used to at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be this teenager’s parents. I won’t make any assumptions about their parenting but just always feel some sympathy when these stories break for the parents siblings and other close relatives of the shooter, what a horror it must also be to grapple with these events from that side of things.

Why? Save your sympathy for the real victims.

Exactly. What in the actual hell?! Why not try imagining what the victims' families must be feeling?

+1

WTH?

You know it's possible to hold two thoughts at the same time. It's not either/or. You can feel immense sorrow for the victims and their families and also have some sympathy for the shooter's family, especially younger siblings.

But *choosing* to express thoughts about the shooter’s family right now? At least wait until the bodies are cold FFS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will admit that I always feel a small tang of sorrow for the shooter. At 18, especially after being brainwashed and bought into an ideology, you don't realize how your life will now be over. You don't have the benefit of 40-yo you saying, hey dude, this isn't worth it. No one wants to be in prison for 70 years.

He totally understood his actions that day. Not excusing that. But just think back to the dumb stuff I did at 18 and not realizing the potentially long-term consequences of those things.

It's OK to have these feelings for the perps. As long as your feelings for the victims are 100x stronger.

I think it's pretty odd you have these feelings. He literally murdered people. We all did dumb stuff at 18 but for 99.9% of us they don't involve MURDERING people in cold blood for literally no reason. I don't feel any sorrow for ANY teenager that commits a violent act on purpose. There is a line that's crossed when you commit a violent act that cannot be explained away by being a dumb teenager.

It's really weird you seem to identify more with the shooter than the victims.

+1

You have a child who committed a terrible crime?