So many people today are somewhat upset that NBC's Chuck Todd decided to show a video about gun murderers in the wake of a repeatedly admitted White Racist Terrorist killing 9 people in a historic black church, and yet somehow, some way, 100% of his example gun murderers - are black.
A lot of people don't think this passes the smell test for extreme bullcrap and I do think they have a point, however I do think that a good reason why this video has in it the people it has.
This was a set of guys who volunteered to talk about how they were personally seduced and suckered into a dangerous self-aggrandizing cult of gun worship.
That's Not the kind of poignant open admission that you're likely to hear from a similar group of white gun murderers and gun enthusiast. Maybe it's possible, but I think less likely. Most importantly the third person to speak in the Todd video wasn't some Gang-banger or crazed guy, he was someone who was out at night in public when someone else pulled on gun on him and his friends.
He only brought out a weapon in Self-Defense, and it's only because he hit and wounded a completely innocent third party in that melee that he himself sits in prison right now. He was the NRA's "Good Guy with a Gun Trying to Stop A Bad Guy With a Gun".
Look where he is now.
Here's how the New York Times reported this in 1990.
A Queens teen-ager has been charged with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon in the shootout at a Christmas Day showing of "The Godfather Part III" that left one moviegoer fatally wounded and three others injured.
But a Nassau County homicide detective said yesterday that murder charges were not likely to be filed against anyone in the two groups of teen-agers believed to have opened fire in the sold-out theater on Long Island.
The detective, Sgt. William Cocks, said investigators had not been able to determine which shot killed the victim, Tremain Hall, 15 years old. The bullet went through him, and the police cannot determine which of 25 bullets found in the theater it was -- and so will not be able to use ballistic tests to tie it to a gun and a suspect, Sergeant Cocks said. 'Some Difficulty' Conceded.
"You got five guys doing the shooting," Sergeant Cocks said. "Which bullet did the killing? We're going to have some difficulty proving that."
Later on in 1991, Police actually shot and wounded one other suspect, even though he himself was unarmed at the time.
MINEOLA, L.I., Dec. 31— An 18-year-old Queens man with a fondness for weapons and the nickname Homicide has been charged in the shootout at a showing of "The Godfather Part III" that left one moviegoer dead and three wounded.
The suspect, Norman W. Williamson, of 118-56 231st Street in Cambria Heights, is the second teen-ager charged in the shooting last week at the Sunrise Cinema complex in Valley Stream, L.I., in which Tremain Hall, 15, was killed.
The Nassau County police said Mr. Williamson was shot in the left hip during a struggle with the police as he was arrested on Sunday night outside Laces, a roller-skating rink in New Hyde Park, L.I. Mr. Williamson was shot after detectives escorted him to a parking lot and he broke free and appeared to be reaching for a weapon, the police said. They said that he was carrying three packets of what they believe was cocaine, but that he was unarmed.
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Ed Grilli, a spokesman for District Attorney Denis Dillon of Nassau County, said prosecutors had insufficient evidence to charge either Mr. Williamson or a youth arrested on Thursday, Lawrence Bartley, 17, of 130-48 222d Street in Laurelton, with murder. But he said that a homicide charge against Mr. Williamson had been "seriously considered."
"This is a very violent guy," Sergeant Cocks said. "The word on the street is that he is always armed."
So police shoot somebody, whose in fact unarmed, in pursuit of this suspect who was actually trying to defend himself and his friends after someone else fired shots at them. Hitting Tremain Hall was
an accident - not like a Rick Perry "
accident" - a REAL accident.
He's still in jail. Twenty Five Years Later.
For an accident.
So the question is, if you talked to a bunch of white guys about their relationship with guns would you get that? Or would you get this?
On April 18 and 19, I attended gun shows in Antioch, California, and Reno, Nevada, to probe the culture of gun enthusiasts at the onset of the Obama era. I came away from these events with a portrait of a heavily armed, tightly organized movement incited by right-wing radio to a fever-pitched resentment of President Obama and his allies in Congress. Even as the economy suffers, gun dealers and their Washington lobbyists are leveraging renewed anti-government sentiment into unprecedented sales figures and fattened membership rolls. “We’ve been swamped today,” an NRA representative from Antioch boasted. “We’ve practically ran out of our materials that we give away at sign-up.”
Fueled by the screeds of radio hosts Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, and the lesser-known but increasingly influential online conspiracist Alex Jones, many gun-show attendees I spoke to were convinced Obama planned to usher in a Marxist dictatorship. They warned that the president’s power grab would only begin with mass gun seizures. “If Obama takes away our guns,” a young, .45 pistol-toting man from Reno told me, “it’s just a step into trying to take away everything else.”
Indeed, in their minds, average Americans opposed to the Obama agenda would be herded into FEMA-run concentration camps by a volunteer army of glassy-eyed liberal college graduates. “When they start imprisoning Americans, and people start seeing that we’re the enemy, then that’ll make it hot,” predicted one Antioch-based young man sporting a button for former Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul. “People talk about a revolution,” the young man continued, “an armed revolution. I think police crackdowns on individuals will tip the scales.”
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Revolution?"
Revolution!
That's exactly what Dylann Roof was trying to spark. That's what Jerad and Amanda Miller were trying to do when they killed to Las Vegas police officers and drapped them in the Gadsen "Tea Party" Flag.
Two Las Vegas police officers, both fathers, sat down to lunch at a pizza restaurant on Sunday morning when Jerad Miller walked in, looked around and went back outside where his wife, Amanda, joined him and entered the eatery.They walked past the two officers, Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31, and Jerad Miller yelled, “This is a revolution!” Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill told reporters at a Monday news conference. Miller then pulled out a handgun and shot officer Saldo once in the back of the head, killing him, the start of a bloody rampage that would leave five people dead, including the shooters.
That's what Timothy McVeigh was attempting when he bombed the Murrah Federal Building.
These people have no remorse for their actions. They're not about to break down and cry over innocent bystanders left dead from their bullets or bombs. These people believe They. Are. The. Heroes. And further there are those who look at these events and deny the reality of them. They deny that McVeigh did act, largely, alone. They say that the government has covered up a larger conspiracy.
I've even in recent days heard similar claims about Dylann Roof, that he was really some government "plant" or "false flag".
All of that belies are very simple reality in this country. We have an addiction to guns. They're like China White and Chrystal Meth to some of us, who simply can't keep things in proportion and Can't get enough The GOP and the NRA are the pushers for these gun junkies.
These three brave and repentant men describe how they were entanced by that addiction, and how they allowed it to trap them now in prison.
The fact that the three of them are all black, and perhaps not ensorcered by nightmarish dreams of FEMA CAMPS AND JADE HELM 15, shouldn't distract you from the true power of the message they present.
Vyan