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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know what you call a troubled, confused, sex-addicted man who kills people?
A murderer.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)True Dough
(17,330 posts)Somehow that clear message is lost when right-wingers try to communicate.
Jirel
(2,025 posts)The gender and race of those he murdered is important. This was a hate crime, not random killings.
n/t
sarge43
(28,945 posts)Grins
(7,231 posts)MineralMan
(146,331 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)n/t
hlthe2b
(102,376 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)But Georgia is a death-penalty state. It's up to the prosecutor.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,343 posts)It costs more money to put someone to death.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)oldsoftie
(12,604 posts)Of that there is NO doubt. The type case that the DP should be reserved for. NEVER a chance of executing an innocent. Dylan Roof. Etc.
Other cases, not so much.
renate
(13,776 posts)Or what if hes white?
Aristus
(66,462 posts)It works for rape. It could work for murder...
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Solomon
(12,319 posts)calimary
(81,500 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)At I-285 exit 51 is a truck stop. There are lot lizards at that truck stop. (Trust me on this.)
Theres also Tinder, Craigslist, the wrong side of town...there is no shortage of places for even the worst creep to find meaningless sex.
NewHendoLib
(60,021 posts)over half a million of them during his 4 years of disaster
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)n/t
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Hugin
(33,207 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)cilla4progress
(24,772 posts)churchgoer? 🤢
Solomon
(12,319 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,343 posts)... a product of their environment will not be allowed.
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)That mental health is so stigmatized that getting help isnt normal. But he wasnt having a psychotic break so he knew right from wrong.
AverageOldGuy
(1,544 posts)Better yet, he was a WHITE GUY having a bad day.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)On the other hand, it is fairly uncommon for one person to kill 8 others on the same day, which is why there is an attempt to characterize the perpetrator as something more than an unremarkable, garden variety murderer.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Insurrectionists.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Cult members.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Marcuse
(7,508 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Martin68
(22,890 posts)A racist murderer.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)n/t
So I hope he gets a hate-crimes count added to the docket...
mgardener
(1,819 posts)That is exactly what he should be called.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Long has wandered into the very shallow end of the ecclesiastical pool. Carrying a Bible, having a preacher for a father, etc, doesn't make you a good Christian.
Mopar151
(9,999 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)narcissistic sociopath like the EX-potus he more than likely reveres?
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Yavin4
(35,446 posts)mass murderer when there's more than just one or even two people killed.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)I think the legal line of demarcation is four or more, but I could be mistaken.
Initech
(100,104 posts)Cinnamonspice
(163 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,861 posts)AND those Asian ladies just annoyed him.... ... such FUCKING BULLSHIT. Put his sorry ass away for life!
plimsoll
(1,670 posts)But the press led with the prostitution angle. Even if true, it's a hate crime directed at women. It does give the right a reason to excuse this yet again. So much of the reporting seems slanted, it sure looks like their trying to find a way minimize the crime.
I particularly like the way theres a strong sense of "good Christian boy led astray by pornography" in the reportage.
Yeah, he's a murderer, but he's getting pretty favorable treatment in a lot of media. We can ignore Fox, OANN, and NewsMax because, we'll he's white and the victims weren't. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)Donald Trump.
also a murderer imo.
but of course this 21-year-old white guy is, obviously. premeditated with malice aforethought.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,567 posts)Kyle Rittenhouse. Their motives and victimology may be different, but a lot of the treatment they get in the media is sure similar.
OMGWTF
(3,976 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,921 posts)gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)argyl
(3,064 posts)I've heard nothing about this so it's just a hunch. But he brings a firearm into a place where he's supposedly looking for pleasure and kills every woman there he could.
At his age he probably wasn't fully impotent but I'd bet he had some real performance issues as well. And instead of acting out of religious zealotry he could have had a flop of a night and murdered these women.
This is just me thinking this but if there's anything to this at all it will come out. Law Enforcement will go over his sorry life with a fine toothed comb.
He's one thing for sure: a mass murderer.
dlk
(11,578 posts)If he were a person of color... Does anyone think for a moment the AAPI community isnt terrorized?
live love laugh
(13,137 posts)dflprincess
(28,082 posts)How is that any kind of explanation for his actions?
Aristus
(66,462 posts)When I was twenty-one, I wanted to jump everything in sight. I didn't, of course, because I'm not an asshole.
BTW, when I was this dickhead murderer's age, I was a tank crewman in the Army, channeling any post-adolescent aggression into acceptable and useful actions. I'm not saying military service would have done this loser any good, but it couldn't have hurt.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,567 posts)We're all troubled, at one time or another. We all get confused. We've all had bad days. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I have never felt the need to track down a gun and shoot up a business and a bunch of people.
I'll leave the "sex-addicted" part without comment. May not be addicted, but I'm a very enthusiastic casual user.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)what about religion ? seems to me that "guilt" and "sin" combine with "those 'bad' girls tempting, etc" and all that crap tied up with sex is part of the toxic recipe in this case
BobTheSubgenius
(11,567 posts)It is all entangled with the extremely unfortunate PuritanCalvinist bent that coloured a lot of the early history of the nation. When it was just colonies, even.
I certainly don't discount that in my thinking, and I am as staunch an advocate of the wall of separation as you are likely to meet. In this case, I was addressing just the points raised in the post to which I was responding, though.
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)Lock him up.
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)Jail isn't going to be a picnic for him. I'm surprised he didn't kill himself (yet).
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)But I suspect he will be called sweetie soon.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)Apparently 3 of the victims of the Atlanta shooter were over 60 (one was in her 70s), another was in her 50s.
Don't give me any BS about this asshole's "sex addiction" and seeing women as "temptation". I'm pretty sure it's been a long, long, time since I or very many women in my age group have represented "temptation" to any male in their early 20s.
This was strictly racism and misogyny. One thing I've noticed in these attacks on Asians is that these big, brave, bigots seem to be targeting older women and men, nothing to do with sex and "temptation".
librechik
(30,676 posts)dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,460 posts)MFM008
(19,820 posts)45 to be exact..........
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Master_Monstruwacan
(71 posts)n/t