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There’s a (to them) satisfyingly self-referential epistemology when anything that happens that contradicts your worldview can only be a conspiracy perpetrated by your critics.

But having the governor state this publicly is batnuts, and again shows the long arm of FOX News at breaking the country. Increasingly every shooting is seen through the lens of conspiracy - because were it not the reality causes a load too schizophrenic for the status quo to maintain.

[Edit: oh, wait, it’s our carpetbagging Lt. Governor AM radio host. Of course he traffics in conspiracies.)

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It’s a real puzzler.

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The obligatory blame video games:

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“Did he kill those people with a video game?” Scott asks, confused.

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Shooter used a Kalashnikov gun. People would be dead even had there been a so-called “good guy with a gun” standing nearby. In fact, right up until the time the guy started shooting innocents he was a “good guy with a gun.”

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It is fucking absurd that people can open carry automatic weapons in public. Fucking absurd. Bow down to your NRA overlord, GOP, you sniveling fucks.

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Playing video games drove him to hating “Hispanics invading our Great Country.”

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Videogames are the first place to go if the shooter is under 40 and white, because almost everyone under 40 and white plays them. They’d blame comic books or D&D if it were a different decade.

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I certainly do believe that outlawing open carry is a step in the right direction.

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Have they verified the manifesto is his? There were some reports of it being an 8chan hoax as well.

With regards to games, unless they are jumping around like a coked up rabbit and tea bagging folks I think games can be left off the list of causes.

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This is always the proper response to the horseshit “I tell yuh, them vid games made him do it!” argument:

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I waited to post it until it started getting reported on the national news (been out there for a while now.)

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This is great.

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Yes it is. We need a person with national stature to label this act for what it is – and do so in a manner that is at once not alienating and a call to action.

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Gee, wonder why. It’s a big ol’ mystery.

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Also

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Sobering.
If 8chan were an Isis terrorist cell, wouldn’t we be shutting them down?

Edit: Others already suggesting that.

Jesus Christ. This is going to get worse.

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If it’s legal to carry an AK47 does it have to be modified to be semi-automatic? Or are those guns semi automatic by default? Different varieties I suppose?

Universal open carry is madness, but we are an insane country so it’s apropos. Death cults gonna death cult. If as a people we want to see change, the solution is simple: destroy the GOP. Bonus: then our grandchildren get to breathe!