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We have only begun to graze the tip of the iceberg when it comes to obscene, disgusting wingnut reactions to the Charleston mass murder that ended the lives of 9 black churchgoers, aged from 26 to 87, on Wednesday night. So we guess it’s time for NRA people to start saying words, and surprise, they are…
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state of Texas doesn’t have to make “Sons of Confederate Veterans” license plates available if it don’t wanna. The state didn’t wanna, the Sons Of Treason thought that was violating their free speech, and the Supremes said, no, dear, a license plate is the government’s speech, not yours,…
Larry Wilmore was horrified by conservative reactions to the killing of nine people in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday. And while the “Nightly Show” host said that he was initially reluctant to address the massacre on his comedy program because it didn’t seem like the proper forum for a tragedy of this volume, Wilmore couldn’t sit idly…
A former friend who had reconnected with the man accused of a shooting massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, said Dylann Storm Roof had become an avowed racist. Joey Meek reconnected with Roof a few weeks ago and said that while they got drunk together on vodka, Roof began complaining that…
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South Carolina Gun Violence South Carolina’s rates of gun crime are some of the worst in the nation. • South Carolina is the seventh-deadliest state for gun homicide: There were 5 gun murders for every 100,000 people in the state in 2010, 39 percent higher than the national average of 3.6 gun murders per 100,000…
Bravo Jon for keeping it real. @Kwam_E ▶ Jon Stewart on Charleston South Carolina Shooting. Daily Show 6/18/2015 – YouTube.
Updated June 18, 2015 1:08 p.m. ET CHARLESTON, S.C.—Dylann Roof—the white man suspected of killing nine people at a historic black church in an alleged hate crime here on Wednesday night—is in custody, authorities said. Mr. Roof was arrested during a traffic stop in Shelby, N.C. shortly after 11 a.m. local time Thursday following a…
President Obama spoke briefly about the church shooting in Charleston that left nine dead, in what the Department of Justice and other authorities are investigating as a hate crime. There’s no official word from the feds on what kind of hate crime, so per Fox News and other rightwing “news” outlets, it’s likely the alleged…
That was fast! It only took a few hours for Fox to toss up an editorial explaining that the best explanation of why six women and three men were shot to death in their church Wednesday night is that nobody in the church was packing heat like they should have been. Professional gunhumper and FoxNews.com columnist…