Now Tulsa, OK. WTF?

[Peregrinator]

http://www.necn.com/04/07/12/Police...n.html?&apID=ef568042797346cf9452a4e7bbf160ae

Residents of Tulsa's predominantly black north side said Saturday they're afraid a shooter is still roaming their neighborhoods looking for victims after five people were shot — and three killed — a day earlier.


What is with the shootings lately? Are there always this many and I'm just noticing them more right now?

 

[eyer]

Why am I sensing a white guy is already implicated somewhere in this random choice of yours?

 

[koalabear]

http://www.necn.com/04/07/12/Police...n.html?&apID=ef568042797346cf9452a4e7bbf160ae

Residents of Tulsa's predominantly black north side said Saturday they're afraid a shooter is still roaming their neighborhoods looking for victims after five people were shot — and three killed — a day earlier.


What is with the shootings lately? Are there always this many and I'm just noticing them more right now?

Nothing new, gang related shootings happen every day.

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

http://www.necn.com/04/07/12/Police...n.html?&apID=ef568042797346cf9452a4e7bbf160ae

Residents of Tulsa's predominantly black north side said Saturday they're afraid a shooter is still roaming their neighborhoods looking for victims after five people were shot — and three killed — a day earlier.


What is with the shootings lately? Are there always this many and I'm just noticing them more right now?

Shit happens all the time you just never hear about it except on election years.

 

[koalabear]

http://chicagood.com/blog/2012/03/temperatures-soaring-so-are-the-gang-violence/

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Why am I sensing a white guy is already implicated somewhere in this random choice of yours?

Because if you thought it had anything to do with a black-on-black murder spree, you wouldn't have bothered posting in this thread?

 

[semen4her]

Old white guys in America are retaliating for being accused of killing trayvon.

In their minds it's fair, the more dense ones claim these killings are gang related.

 

[Drixxx]

Every indication this is a White on Black hate crime.

Tulsa police launch manhunt after shootings kill three

Authorities in Tulsa, in the US state of Oklahoma, have launched a manhunt after a series of shootings which police say may have been hate crimes.

Five attacks took place within hours of each other on Friday, killing three and critically wounding two others, within a three-mile (5km) radius.

All the victims were black and police say there are searching for a white male in connection to the attacks.

Community leaders have tried to calm fears of further attacks.

The police said they were searching for a white man driving a white pick-up truck, who was seen in the area of three of the shootings.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17648620

 

[eyer]

Every indication this is a White on Black hate crime.

Wow...

...who've ever imagined that just from the thread starter's disingenuous stab.

BTW:

Since you seem to be so adept at keeping the race card up-to-date..

...what's the score now?

 

[renard_ruse]

Every indication this is a White on Black "hate" crime.

There's no such thing as a "hate" crime. The beginning of the end of our Constitutional system and the very concept of justice itself died the sad and shameful day the Supreme Court handed down the Constitutionally wrong and outrageous decision purporting to uphold this idiotic and demonic perversion of the law. A crime is a crime, treat it that way.

 

[Drixxx]

There's no such thing as a "hate" crime. The beginning of the end of our Constitutional system and the very concept of justice itself died the sad and shameful day the Supreme Court handed down the Constitutionally wrong and outrageous decision purporting to uphold this idiotic and demonic perversion of the law. A crime is a crime, treat it that way.

The FBI disagrees.

Crimes of hatred and prejudice—from lynchings to cross burnings to vandalism of synagogues—are a sad fact of American history, but the term “hate crime” did not enter the nation’s vocabulary until the 1980s, when emerging hate groups like the Skinheads launched a wave of bias-related crime. The FBI began investigating what we now call hate crimes as far back as World War I, when the Ku Klux Klan first attracted our attention. Today, we remain dedicated to working with state and local partners to prevent these crimes and to bring to justice those who commit them.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/civilrights/hate_crimes

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Looks like somebody done spooked all the Niggaz, and the FBI jumped in the Mau Mau Clustrefuck.

 

[Peregrinator]

I wasn't really thinking about the racial aspect so much as that another multiple murder had taken place. It seems like there are more of these kinds of events lately. The guy in Afghanistan, the guy at the college, and now this. Am I wrong, or are these mass killings a little more frequent now?

 

[koalabear]

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn233/koalabear_photo/ththcaz-cant-resist-choco-bunny.gif

 

[Peregrinator]

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn233/koalabear_photo/ththcaz-cant-resist-choco-bunny.gif

My chocolate Cthulhu didn't show up today. This saddens me, as it means it will not be the centerpiece for dinner tomorrow.

 

[KRCummings]

I wasn't really thinking about the racial aspect so much as that another multiple murder had taken place. It seems like there are more of these kinds of events lately. The guy in Afghanistan, the guy at the college, and now this. Am I wrong, or are these mass killings a little more frequent now?

No, it's not more frequent. This always comes up when these things happen. We simply hear about it faster now than we used to. Tulsa might not have even made the network evening news in the 70's or 80's depending on what else was going on that day. Now they have more time, more resources and a bigger audience.

 

[Dream59]

I wasn't really thinking about the racial aspect so much as that another multiple murder had taken place. It seems like there are more of these kinds of events lately. The guy in Afghanistan, the guy at the college, and now this. Am I wrong, or are these mass killings a little more frequent now?

I think you are right. Though the 24 hour news cycle informs us better than in the past. I will probably get blasted by the far left but I think it is because it is so much more difficult to get people that are mentally ill or that have extreme emotional problems off the streets for any length of time. Especially if it is against their will.

 

[KRCummings]

I think you are right. Though the 24 hour news cycle informs us better than in the past. I will probably get blasted by the far left but I think it is because it is so much more difficult to get people that are mentally ill or that have extreme emotional problems off the streets for any length of time. Especially if it is against their will.

That's dumb.

 

[Dream59]

That's dumb.

I am trying to lower my intellegence to your level. A few more years of hard work or a government program, and I will be close.

 

[KRCummings]

I am trying to lower my intellegence to your level. A few more years of hard work or a government program, and I will be close.

If you're going to suggest that you're more intelligent than someone you might want to make sure you spell intelligence correctly.

 

[Dream59]

If you're going to suggest that you're more intelligent than someone you might want to make sure you spell intelligence correctly.

If you were as intelligent as you think you are, you would know that spelling or typing is not an indicator of intelligence. I guess for you to do that, you would have to be able to reason, for you that would be an epic fail. Good catch anyway, I will need to pay closer attention.

 

[Peregrinator]

No, it's not more frequent. This always comes up when these things happen. We simply hear about it faster now than we used to. Tulsa might not have even made the network evening news in the 70's or 80's depending on what else was going on that day. Now they have more time, more resources and a bigger audience.

I dunno. "Man Shoots Five, Kills Three" would have been a headline when I was a kid in the 70's, I think. Certainly the other two I mentioned would have as well.

I think you are right. Though the 24 hour news cycle informs us better than in the past. I will probably get blasted by the far left but I think it is because it is so much more difficult to get people that are mentally ill or that have extreme emotional problems off the streets for any length of time. Especially if it is against their will.

I think it's easier to get them services and attention. They're no longer ignored.

 

[CandiCame]

I wasn't really thinking about the racial aspect so much as that another multiple murder had taken place. It seems like there are more of these kinds of events lately. The guy in Afghanistan, the guy at the college, and now this. Am I wrong, or are these mass killings a little more frequent now?

Nah, they're not more frequent- shootings in the states have actually decreased. I don't know about internationally. And I don't know geography at all. My Hylian geography is better then my real world geography. But yeah, every so often the news like to make a big deal of it, when there's no big deal to be made. News outlets are dieing, they need something.

 

[KRCummings]

I dunno. "Man Shoots Five, Kills Three" would have been a headline when I was a kid in the 70's, I think. Certainly the other two I mentioned would have as well.


I think it's easier to get them services and attention. They're no longer ignored.

There were lots of headlines like that. Always have been. You just saw or heard them long after the fact in most cases.

 

[shoulderblade]

I wasn't really thinking about the racial aspect so much as that another multiple murder had taken place. It seems like there are more of these kinds of events lately. The guy in Afghanistan, the guy at the college, and now this. Am I wrong, or are these mass killings a little more frequent now?

I think they are myself. We may get faster and more extensive coverage of the news today than in times past but a multiple murder will always make the front page at some point.

Murders are (or maybe were at some point) generally aimed at a particular person by another individual not an individual striking down a whole cluster of people.

Fact is I have no idea where you would go to check out that sort of data.