Mass shooting, North Carolina: 3 dead, 8 injured

[kreemi_pi]

That is the first time I have EVER heard of that happening here.

Well you know us black folk can't be trusted

 

[Lazaran]

Well you know us black folk can't be trusted

I would PM Manu or Laurel.

Something is not right.

I don’t doubt you.

It’s just odd.

Really.

 

[kreemi_pi]

I would PM Manu or Laurel.

Something is not right.

I don’t doubt you.

It’s just odd.

Really.

I think I'll just STFU. I see how it works around here. Nobody's gonna do anything about it and if I keep complaining it's gonna come back at me.

 

[kreemi_pi]

I would PM Manu or Laurel.

Something is not right.

I don’t doubt you.

It’s just odd.

Really.

I sent a pm to Manu. Hope I don't regret it.

 

[butters]

I wonder if the fact that kirk's alleged assassin was raised a devout Mormon had any bearing on the Mormon church killer's reasoning.

more on the shooter: most people seemed to think he was a 'nice guy'.

he was a trump supporter, as shown by former social media evidence and the blue vote-for-trump sign he had on his shed. He wasn't listed as either republican or democrat, but was anti-abortion and his views conformed with most of the trump/maga ones.

a family photo posted on Facebook shows Sanford posing alongside his wife and 10-year-old son wearing a Re-elect Trump 2020 T-shirt. The shirt from when the first of Trump’s two presidencies ended in defeat to Joe Biden carries the logo “Make Liberals Cry Again”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/mormon-church-shooting-trump-sign

he had a history of service in the armed forces as a marine and also a history of struggling with drug addiction after his return to the US
https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...-michigan-church-shooter-101759164723083.html

he dated a woman from a Mormon family for a while, and in a 20-minute chat with a municipal candidate seeking election he began friendly enough but things devolved when he got angry about the Mormon religion, calling Mormons 'the anti-christ'. This was just days before the attack on the church.

The council candidate, who has subsequently communicated with the FBI and Michigan State Police, claimed that Sanford barraged him with inquiries concerning the foundational principles of Mormonism, the significance of Jesus in the faith, the church's history, and its founder, Joseph Smith.

so... a stick-it-to-the-libs, mentally disturbed, drug addicted, entitled & (probably) dumped by a Mormon woman (how dare she!) ex-soldier with plenty of expertise with guns. It's only surprising this wasn't a whole lot worse.