Perspectives

[Belsnickel]

(07-08-2016, 12:32 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: If they researched bad cops and that is who they took down, then I can see that perspective.

However, I suspect that merely took the softest targets to make a statement.

They would have made a larger statement, were they to travel to Minnesota and target that cop.

Regardless, it is terrorism/hate crime, considering only white cops were shot. (still terrorism though, being only cops)

Were it less discriminate, I would be able to look more at the freedom fighter angle.
 

(07-08-2016, 12:35 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Not his take, he was reporting some garbage being spewed to justify last night's incident.  They, and you, sound exactly like the people after the Charlie Hedbo attacks who condemned the violence but excused it because it was a response to the magazine mocking the prophet.



Pretty much this.  Every time there's a potential bad shoot the total number of blacks killed by police is brought up.  The total number doesn't mean a damn thing in this context, the number of potentially bad shoots does.  If 500 black people are killed by police in a year and five of them were bad shoots why would anyone logically bring up the other 495 when discussing them?  Point being, this is not a concerted effort by the any government as evidenced by the huge geographic spread of the incidents.

In terms of 2nd amendment rights, would the same apologists in the OP maintain that opinion is people attacked the lawmakers and the governor in CA that just turned millions of previously law abiding citizens into criminals?

I like playing devil's advocate, so this conversation interests me. But some of this is coming from people I know. It is concerning to me because this language is, and should be, disturbing. The mindset of some people is that the police, overall, not just the ones that have been involved, are the enemy of their people and that any cop is an armed combatant and should be treated as such.

I wish I were joking about this mindset, but people I have known for years have said things like this recently. They believe the police are acting out what the state wants because of the lack of punishment. The hyperbole coming from politicians and media plays the largest role in this, I have no doubt about this. But this type of justification is what some people are using, albeit a very small minority at this time.

In all seriousness, though, this is what an armed insurrection looks like in the beginning stages. And that concerns me because violence only begets violence. I want us to find a solution to calm the waters instead of churning them, which is what is happening.