Buffalo Mass Shooting

[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 swear, people like you make me sick.

I think PP is likely mistaken to see the shooter as someone caught up in an ideology who would otherwise be fine. but if we do not try to understand the roots of this pathology and how to prevent it, we can’t stop it.

[Anonymous]

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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

And yet I’m a very anti racist person who has numerous actual friends of different races, unlike most of the virtue signalers on DCUM.

I would remind you all, self righteous egomaniacs that you are, that the fellow parishioners and family members of the victims of the white supremacist Charleston church massacre immediately expressed their forgiveness for the shooter and for his family. THAT is Christian charity. What you all are expressing is simply more hate that feeds into the hate machine that makes someone act the way this young man did.

Of course my sympathies are with the victims and the loved ones left behind. But my heart is big enough to also feel sympathy for this young man’s family which I’m sure includes people who are blameless for his monstrous actions, like his younger siblings.

It’s not unlike how I can feel deep compassion for the people of Ukraine - so much that I cry daily over the news of Putin’s atrocities- and also feel compassion for the people of Russia, many of whom are either brainwashed by propaganda or realize what is happening and don’t support it and are victims of the violent regime themselves.

I’m sorry for you that your reserves of compassion are so limited. If you are a practitioner of faith, you might want to examine this shortcoming and work to improve.

[Anonymous]

I would like to see the government go after the websites where he was radicalized. We have a national security emergency on our hands where many white nationalist shooters are inspiring each other. This is no different than when we shut down websites where Al Queda was radicalizing young men all over the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like to see the government go after the websites where he was radicalized. We have a national security emergency on our hands where many white nationalist shooters are inspiring each other. This is no different than when we shut down websites where Al Queda was radicalizing young men all over the world.

Exactly. Where is Homeland Security? FBI?

These homegrown terrorists need to be identified and locked up.

[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’ll bet this loser would be saying the same things if the perp had turned out to be an 18-year old Islamic radical.

[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’ll bet this loser would be saying the same things if the perp had turned out to be an 18-year old Islamic radical.

^Exactly.

PP is full of sh!t! We see you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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’ll bet this loser would be saying the same things if the perp had turned out to be an 18-year old Islamic radical.

^Exactly.

PP is full of sh!t! We see you.

+1

[Anonymous]

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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

And yet I’m a very anti racist person who has numerous actual friends of different races, unlike most of the virtue signalers on DCUM.

I would remind you all, self righteous egomaniacs that you are, that the fellow parishioners and family members of the victims of the white supremacist Charleston church massacre immediately expressed their forgiveness for the shooter and for his family. THAT is Christian charity. What you all are expressing is simply more hate that feeds into the hate machine that makes someone act the way this young man did.

Of course my sympathies are with the victims and the loved ones left behind. But my heart is big enough to also feel sympathy for this young man’s family which I’m sure includes people who are blameless for his monstrous actions, like his younger siblings.

It’s not unlike how I can feel deep compassion for the people of Ukraine - so much that I cry daily over the news of Putin’s atrocities- and also feel compassion for the people of Russia, many of whom are either brainwashed by propaganda or realize what is happening and don’t support it and are victims of the violent regime themselves.

I’m sorry for you that your reserves of compassion are so limited. If you are a practitioner of faith, you might want to examine this shortcoming and work to improve.

You are disgusting. If this was an 18 year old black man you’d be calling him a thug, possibly an animal.

[Anonymous]

I have no words for this continued horror. To the African American community in Buffalo and across this country, I am so heartbroken for you all. This cannot continue. We must do better. My thoughts are with the families of the victims

[Anonymous]

If the shooter didn’t have access to a firearm, it wouldn’t have mattered what he was reading or listening to.

[Anonymous]

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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

And yet I’m a very anti racist person who has numerous actual friends of different races, unlike most of the virtue signalers on DCUM.

I would remind you all, self righteous egomaniacs that you are, that the fellow parishioners and family members of the victims of the white supremacist Charleston church massacre immediately expressed their forgiveness for the shooter and for his family. THAT is Christian charity. What you all are expressing is simply more hate that feeds into the hate machine that makes someone act the way this young man did.

Of course my sympathies are with the victims and the loved ones left behind. But my heart is big enough to also feel sympathy for this young man’s family which I’m sure includes people who are blameless for his monstrous actions, like his younger siblings.

It’s not unlike how I can feel deep compassion for the people of Ukraine - so much that I cry daily over the news of Putin’s atrocities- and also feel compassion for the people of Russia, many of whom are either brainwashed by propaganda or realize what is happening and don’t support it and are victims of the violent regime themselves.

I’m sorry for you that your reserves of compassion are so limited. If you are a practitioner of faith, you might want to examine this shortcoming and work to improve.

You are disgusting. If this was an 18 year old black man you’d be calling him a thug, possibly an animal.

No, I wouldn’t. I guess the real racist here is revealing herself. Or himself. I’m sure you’ve married one, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

And yet I’m a very anti racist person who has numerous actual friends of different races, unlike most of the virtue signalers on DCUM.

I would remind you all, self righteous egomaniacs that you are, that the fellow parishioners and family members of the victims of the white supremacist Charleston church massacre immediately expressed their forgiveness for the shooter and for his family. THAT is Christian charity. What you all are expressing is simply more hate that feeds into the hate machine that makes someone act the way this young man did.

Of course my sympathies are with the victims and the loved ones left behind. But my heart is big enough to also feel sympathy for this young man’s family which I’m sure includes people who are blameless for his monstrous actions, like his younger siblings.

It’s not unlike how I can feel deep compassion for the people of Ukraine - so much that I cry daily over the news of Putin’s atrocities- and also feel compassion for the people of Russia, many of whom are either brainwashed by propaganda or realize what is happening and don’t support it and are victims of the violent regime themselves.

I’m sorry for you that your reserves of compassion are so limited. If you are a practitioner of faith, you might want to examine this shortcoming and work to improve.

You are disgusting. If this was an 18 year old black man you’d be calling him a thug, possibly an animal.

No, I wouldn’t. I guess the real racist here is revealing herself. Or himself. I’m sure you’ve married one, too.

Funny we didn't see this sympathy in any of the Black-crime threads that have been posted.

Maybe you were just busy….

[another PP; Black woman who is over you people]

[Anonymous]

And for the record, the first time I remember feeling compelled to compassion for a shooter’s family was for the Cho family after their son massacred students and faculty at Virginia Tech. I feel this compassion for all the families of serial killers and mass shooters and other particularly heinous criminals because they are victims too, of another kind. I am sure there is profound pain involved in that experience. Some - very few, no doubt because of the kind of vilification being enjoyed by so many in this thread - have shared their painful experiences in books and interviews, Peter Lanza and Susan Klebold come to mind.

It’s actually adding a whole other level to the anguish I feel over this Buffalo massacre to see how little compassion and how much knee jerk HATE some of the posters are directing at me in this thread, simply because I exhibited compassion for ALL the victims of this terrible heinous RACIST criminal act of terrorism.

So much hate in our country, including right here on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

This poor boy was a victim the way he was raised, the neighborhood he grew up in, and our failing schools. May god help him turn his life around as he serves his time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And for the record, the first time I remember feeling compelled to compassion for a shooter’s family was for the Cho family after their son massacred students and faculty at Virginia Tech. I feel this compassion for all the families of serial killers and mass shooters and other particularly heinous criminals because they are victims too, of another kind. I am sure there is profound pain involved in that experience. Some - very few, no doubt because of the kind of vilification being enjoyed by so many in this thread - have shared their painful experiences in books and interviews, Peter Lanza and Susan Klebold come to mind.

It’s actually adding a whole other level to the anguish I feel over this Buffalo massacre to see how little compassion and how much knee jerk HATE some of the posters are directing at me in this thread, simply because I exhibited compassion for ALL the victims of this terrible heinous RACIST criminal act of terrorism.

So much hate in our country, including right here on DCUM.

We didn’t see you say sh!t about the 10 people who were massacred! You came in hot crying for that killer’s lost youth.

GTFOH.