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Beer said:
1. Group of people chasing the 17 year old. No shots have been fired yet.
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Slight correction. The guy with the gun had just shot and killed someone. Shot him in the head. Called someone, said “I just killed somebody”. (Maybe his mom, she drove him there, not sure who he called), ran away, and then the chase was on. The guy with the skateboard was more a hero, foolish maybe, don’t think I’d mess with someone carrying a semiautomatic, but a hero just the same. I never got past this one point of yours, since you start right off with “no shots fired yet”.
 
Red said:
www.theguardian.com

White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Ive been saying it for quite some time on here, white supremacist terrorism is a far greater threat to our democracy than BLM or ANTIFA. It’s funny how some posters on here insist that they’re not racist yet have never criticized The protests of White supremacists and always find fault with BLM. Even during Charlottesville some here blamed Heather Heyer.

It’s just funny how some on here still fall for the crap that Andy Ngo, Ben Shapiro, and Tucker Carlson crap.

Turn off Fox News and Facebook. Fascism and white supremacy are right here in front of us.

The threat of a few dorky kids looting stuff in a poorly organized protest pales in comparison to the threat that we’ll organized and well funded White supremacist groups in America today. From the 3 percenters to the Bundys to Neo nazis to the Republican Party. Scary stuff.
 
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Avery said:
As a white man myself, the scariest thing you can find is a young white male brandishing a gun.
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Really? It does make me physically uncomfortable whenever I see anyone carrying a gun visibly. Why would you put a white person over a mexican or black or jewish or middle eastern or whatever?
 
Beer said:
Not sure I agree with that based on Detroit, Chicago, NYC, etc but in suburbia, yeah that is probably true.
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Many Red states have higher gun violence and suicides per capita than the places you just described. A large part has to do with how white men have been conditioned with guns. There’s some history behind this too. Repubs didn’t start enacting gun control until Black groups began carrying around weapons in the 1960s and 1970s. In fact, the Black Panthers had whites so scared that the NRA actually supported gun control a few decades ago (link here)!

The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.
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There’s a reason why minorities aren’t brandishing weapons in the same way you see whites, they know their chances of being shot will rise exponentially. The bias isn’t even exclusive in whites. Even blacks have been conditioned to view their fellow members of their race as being greater threats than whites. Our entire social and media structure is built around bias against minorities.

Anyway, the link below is interesting. New York State in particular is in the bottom 10 states for gun related Homicides and suicides

www.americanprogress.org

Gun Violence in America: A State-by-State Analysis

While gun violence is a uniquely American problem, the specific impact varies widely from state to state.
www.americanprogress.org www.americanprogress.org

And although we’ve seen an uptick in gun violence recently, it’s still much lower per capita than several decades ago. It should be noted that both crime and gun violence has been trending down since the 1960s. Facts matter

www.pewresearch.org

What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.

While the number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the second consecutive year in 2023, it remained among the highest annual totals on record.
www.pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org
 
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I don't have a great public copy of this... but here it is:

Using a simple videogame, the effect of ethnicity on shoot/don't shoot decisions was examined. African American or White targets, holding guns or other objects, appeared in complex backgrounds. Participants were told to "shoot" armed targets and to "not shoot" unarmed targets. In Study 1, White participants made the correct decision to shoot an armed target more quickly if the target was African American than if he was White, but decided to "not shoot" an unarmed target more quickly if he was White. Study 2 used a shorter time window, forcing this effect into error rates. Study 3 replicated Study 1's effects and showed that the magnitude of bias varied with perceptions of the cultural stereotype and with levels of contact, but not with personal racial prejudice. Study 4 revealed equivalent levels of bias among both African American and White participants in a community sample. Implications and potential underlying mechanisms are discussed.
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Here's the link to the study.

The effects of this bias clearly show that there is conditioning happening in America where blacks with guns are perceived as being more dangerous than whites with guns. It even has an effect on blacks as well. I think this explains one of the reasons why we never see minorities "open carrying" in a Starbucks. They know that it could be a death sentence.
 
Gameface said:
Murder fetish POS should walk, eh franklin?

whatever.

I'd like for us to be cool. If you feel the same way I'd like to challenge you to a fight. Headgear, gloves, etc. I'm an old fat man. But if you care about us being cool you'll fight me.

Not a joke.
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I'd pay to see this.
 
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