by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
It has been a bloody weekend in the United States of America - and the weekend isn't over.
Yesterday there was a massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a shooting spree by an apparently racially-motivated 21-year-old white man who stepped into the store with an AK-47 Russian assault rifle and then opened fire on the Saturday shoppers. Twenty were killed at the scene, and at least 26 more were injured in the hail of bullets.
And then last night around 1:00 a.m. another young white man stepped into a bar in a nightclub district of Dayton, Ohio, and also opened fire with a rifle equipped with an oversize ammo magazine. He managed to kill nine and injure at least 26 others.
The motives of the Ohio shooter have yet to be revealed, but the Walmart shooter in El Paso was conducting his own private war on individuals from Mexico. He was angry about America's acceptance of immigrants and felt that political "elites" were betraying his country. He traveled nearly seven hundred miles from his home in Allen, Texas (near Dallas and Ft. Worth) to the Texas border city of El Paso, a community known for its accepting attitudes toward its Mexican neighbors. And once in El Paso, what better place to look for a concentration of brown people than the local Walmart on a Saturday morning.
Apparently the Texas shooter was a student of the "manifesto" writings of other mass shooters, and he prepared his own written remarks regarding the shooting he planned, remarks which indicated his desire not to be taken alive. The local police in El Paso thwarted those plans, however, when they subdued the assailant without having to fire a shot.
Donald Trump, who for his entire tenure in the White House has been nothing less than a poster boy for white supremacy, expressed shock at the incidents on Twitter, and assured America that he and Melania were sending "thoughts and prayers."
That ought to take care of it.
Citizen Journalist
It has been a bloody weekend in the United States of America - and the weekend isn't over.
Yesterday there was a massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a shooting spree by an apparently racially-motivated 21-year-old white man who stepped into the store with an AK-47 Russian assault rifle and then opened fire on the Saturday shoppers. Twenty were killed at the scene, and at least 26 more were injured in the hail of bullets.
And then last night around 1:00 a.m. another young white man stepped into a bar in a nightclub district of Dayton, Ohio, and also opened fire with a rifle equipped with an oversize ammo magazine. He managed to kill nine and injure at least 26 others.
The motives of the Ohio shooter have yet to be revealed, but the Walmart shooter in El Paso was conducting his own private war on individuals from Mexico. He was angry about America's acceptance of immigrants and felt that political "elites" were betraying his country. He traveled nearly seven hundred miles from his home in Allen, Texas (near Dallas and Ft. Worth) to the Texas border city of El Paso, a community known for its accepting attitudes toward its Mexican neighbors. And once in El Paso, what better place to look for a concentration of brown people than the local Walmart on a Saturday morning.
Apparently the Texas shooter was a student of the "manifesto" writings of other mass shooters, and he prepared his own written remarks regarding the shooting he planned, remarks which indicated his desire not to be taken alive. The local police in El Paso thwarted those plans, however, when they subdued the assailant without having to fire a shot.
Donald Trump, who for his entire tenure in the White House has been nothing less than a poster boy for white supremacy, expressed shock at the incidents on Twitter, and assured America that he and Melania were sending "thoughts and prayers."
That ought to take care of it.
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