Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

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Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby desertrat » Tue Jul 30, 2019 7:22 am

Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting
Although the perpetrator appears to be Hispanic, the media is portraying him as white and insisting that he posted racist material on Instagram shortly before the shooting. The problem is that he merely referred to materials popular with some white nationalists and it is unclear if he was supportive of the assertions made in those materials or if he was critical of those messages. It seems that many assumptions are being made.
The suspected perpetrator of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in Gilroy, California that killed two children and one young man and injured 15 more, was influenced by the book. On his Instagram account, he mentioned it by name when making racist remarks about congesting the countryside for "hordes" of mestizos and Silicon Valley white "twats."

Furthermore, he seems to be critical of "white twats" in addition to "mestizos" and so it's probably inaccurate to say that he was a white supremacist or white nationalist.

It's amazing how quickly wikipedia gets updated following an incident such as this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_Is_Right
BOOK: https://archive.org/details/MightIsRight_966
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby mrfish » Tue Jul 30, 2019 7:36 am

Might Is Right
If you don't want to read it for yourself and make up your own mind instead of regurgitating media news bull crap, then you also have the option of listening to it!
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby shadylady » Tue Jul 30, 2019 7:57 am

Gilroy gunman promoted white supremacist treatise on Instagram
Apparently, mass shooters are also avid readers!
March’s killing spree at mosques in New Zealand, which claimed 51 lives, followed the telltale pattern, he said. In that event, the shooter’s gun contained a mark referencing the supremacist book “The Turner Diaries.”

LINK: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Alleged-Gilroy-gunman-promoted-white-supremacist-14200776.php
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby shadylady » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:02 am

The Turner Diaries: A Call to Action
It would appear that mass shooters may have extensive libraries. Maybe instead of outlawing guns, we should outlaw books!
The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, published under the pseudonym "Andrew Macdonald". The Turner Diaries depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the federal government, nuclear war, and, ultimately, a race war leading to the systematic extermination of non-whites.

LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby sandman » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:16 am

The Turner Diaries :prof:
THE BOOK: https://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/133469/The_Turner_Diaries.pdf
COMMENTARY (probably biased and unfair):
https://icct.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ICCT-Berger-The-Turner-Legacy-September2016-2.pdf
Personally, I have no intention of reading either of these, but I'm not accepting any conclusions regarding anything being pushed by the media. They have an agenda and they force square pegs into round holes in order to push their ideology and agenda. So, here it is if you really care to investigate for yourself.
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby drdesert » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:25 am

Orlando nightclub shooting
Definitely not a white supremacist.
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Orlando Police Department officers shot and killed him after a three-hour standoff.

Here's the motivation:
In the hours before the shooting, Mateen used several Facebook accounts to write posts vowing vengeance for American airstrikes in Iraq and Syria and to search for content related to terrorism. These posts, since deleted, were recovered and included in an open letter by Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking further information about Mateen's use of the site. During the shooting, Mateen made a 9-1-1 call claiming it was an act of retaliation for the airstrike killing of, among others, ISIL militant Abu Waheeb in the previous month. He told the negotiator to tell America to stop the bombing.

If there's a book involved here, then it must be The Koran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting#Motive
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby MojaveMike » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:32 am

Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Another non-white perpetrator: Nikolas Jacob Cruz. It sounds like he most likely was not a big fan of books. In fact, it sounds like he hated school. However, he did like posting to Instagram and that seems to be another common thread between at least some of these mass shooters.
LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby MojaveMike » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:34 am

2015 San Bernardino attack
Definitely not white. It appears that the news media's "white perpetrator" myth is not supported by the facts.
On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in a terrorist attack consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. The perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik.

Motive:
The investigation found that the perpetrators were inspired by Islamic terrorists and terrorist organizations.

Possibly the holy Koran was the book at the center of this mass shooting.
LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby MojaveMike » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:43 am

Wah Mee massacre
No white perpetrators here either....
The Wah Mee massacre was a multiple homicide that occurred during the night of February 18–19, 1983, in which Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai-Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Benjamin Ng (no relation) bound, robbed, and shot fourteen people in the Wah Mee gambling club in Seattle.

No books involved either....
LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah_Mee_massacre
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Re: Mass Shootings

Postby MojaveMike » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:47 am

Virginia Tech shooting
Another non-white perpetrator. Definitely not a "Whites Only" kind of thing.
The Virginia Tech shooting was a school shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, at West Ambler Johnston Hall and Norris Hall at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university and a U.S. resident of South Korean origin, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols.

Doesn't seem to be a book involved here either.
THEREFORE I conclude that both whites and books are exonerated!!!
LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting#Perpetrator
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