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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVirginia man threatens black church one day after Charleston massacre: ‘I’m gonna kill all you’
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/virginia-man-menaces-black-church-charleston-shooting-article-1.2263534After the Richmond congregation locked the man out, a security officer drew her gun on him and held him until police arrived. Its unclear if he will face any charges, police said.
Those in the church believed the man was armed with a knife or machete, but police determined he had "a big piece of plastic that looked like a weapon," Gleason told the News.
IVoteDFL
(417 posts)in this case it might have been plastic, but next time someone might to buy one for real. They are pretty dull blades, but when sharpened it could potentially be a very dangerous weapon. At this point I don't think gun control is enough to stop this particular brand of hate.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)IVoteDFL
(417 posts)Secondly, I am not a sir.
What I actually said was that gun control isn't enough, not fuck gun control. Obviously guns are more dangerous, but you can still hurt people without one if you want to badly enough. Americans also need to be educated so that they aren't ignorant enough to want to hurt somebody in the first place. I support gun control, but it's not going to make racism magically disappear. Especially as long as the police still have weapons.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)America....it is not a benign sickness, it is aggressively malignant.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)If he had been black he would be toes up in the morgue right now.