News reporter and photographer shot and killed on live broadcast this morning

[jokesonm3]

Well that was an idea coming from a guy who has never seen a gun before.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Zimmerman thinks he's a badass because he shot an unarmed teenager during a fist fight.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Well that was an idea coming from a guy who has never seen a gun before.

It's not about the guns, it's about people passionate about gun rights.

Many of them worry about a tyrannical government invading their homes and taking their guns by force at some point.

 

[PyroChamber]

But anyway, back to the topic at hand. I read reports that Allison did indeed make racist remarks toward the shooter when he was working at the station. But that still doesn't excuse his actions..

I just read an article about that too, here's some excerpts from the article...

Parker made reference to “swinging” by a destination and also referred to heading out into the “field,” according to Flanagan’s 2013 complaint with the station, the New York Post reported.

“That’s how that guy’s mind worked,” Ryan Fuqua, a WDBJ video editor, told the New York Post of Flanagan’s racism claims. “Just crazy, left-field assumptions like that.”

“[Those words are] just common, everyday talk. [But] that was his MO — to start s**t,” Fuqua added. “He was unstable. One time, after one of our live shots failed, he threw all his stuff down and ran into the woods for like 20 minutes.”

WDBJ cameraman Trevor Fair recalled others using the term “field” around Flanagan: “We would say stuff like, ‘The reporter’s out in the field.’ And he would look at us and say, ‘What are you saying, ‘cotton fields’? That’s racist,’” he told the Post.

“We’d be like, ‘What?’” he added. “We all know what that means, but he took it as cotton fields, and therefore we’re all racists.”

“This guy was a nightmare,” Fair told the Post. “Management’s worst nightmare.”

 

[Matt Mortem]

I just read an article about that too, here's some excerpts from the article...

So essentially that guy is literally the worst kind of person?

 

[Webfoot Hero]

So essentially that guy is literally the worst kind of person?

Basically. The guy definitely had a serious emotional or mental issue that caused him to react the ways he did at the various stations and jobs he'd been at.

 

[PyroChamber]

I'm wondering how he was even able to get a job with the way he acted everywhere he went.

 

[Erzengel]

I wonder all this candid statements from the Station will make them liable to the families?

 

[Slushy]

 

[regwec]

Is there an African American flag that could be taken down?

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Basically. The guy definitely had a serious emotional or mental issue that caused him to react the ways he did at the various stations and jobs he'd been at.

The fact that someone like this was able to legally obtain a clock handgun shows how lax and in-antiquate the screening and background check process is in this country as far as buying guns. Yet people still don't see the problem and oppose any measure of fixing it because of the way the country was in 1776.

 

[Thundercrack85]

This is an idiotic analogy and you should know why.

Let's not pretend that the numerous incidents in which young black people are killed by white police are isolated incidents, and not indicative of a larger problem in our society.

 

[Mike_D202]

The fact that someone like this was able to legally obtain a clock handgun shows how lax and in-antiquate the screening and background check process is in this country as far as buying guns. Yet people still don't see the problem and oppose any measure of fixing it because of the way the country was in 1776.

exactly.

also, this video sums the subject matter up nicely. Warning: mature language.

 

[Parker Wayne]

... You know that's gonna get taken down, right?

 

[Sawyer]

This is only applicable when there's been incident after incident after incident (times 1000) of black cops gunning down white people and facing little to no repercussions for it, and then if this guy had done what he did and survived, only to be brought into custody with the utmost care and dignity.

Since neither of those things have happened, I'm just gonna have to lol at all the dumb in this post.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Um, have blacks rioted when a white murderer or cop is held accountable?

 

[Marvolo]

... You know that's gonna get taken down, right?

And earn him an infraction, probably.

Mike, videos with mature language isn't allowed to be posted at all on the Hype. Even if you post a warning saying there is cussing in the video it's still a violation of the forum rules and you will get in trouble for it. Take it down before the mods have to do it and you might get off with a warning.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

The biggest paranioa is that gun control will make screenings too tight or ban guns like other countries have.

I think if a democrat said "we don't want your gun, we want reasonable gun safety" it would go a long way.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

The paranoia is fueled by the NRA and politicians serving their interests. It doesn't matter how "reasonable" you try to make the policy or sell the policy to the public, there will always be that spin against it from people who want to maintain the current status quo instead of changing it.

The second amendment says a well regulated militia. There is nothing well regulated about what is going on right now and has been going on for decades.

 

[Marvolo]

The paranoia is fueled by the NRA and politicians serving their interests. It doesn't matter how "reasonable" you try to make the policy or sell the policy to the public, there will always be that spin against it from people who want to maintain the current status quo instead of changing it.

The second amendment says a well regulated militia. There is nothing well regulated about what is going on right now and has been going on for decades.

Like with the First Amendment, too many don't know what it actually says or the context within which it was created or intended for. They ignore or don't bother with the parts that don't help their argument and they warp both amendments to make them apply to things that they were never meant to apply to.

The second amendment was about having a militia to maintain freedom for the states. It was ratified in 1791. When we had no national army. The continental army was disbanded in 1786. And the U.S. army wasn't formed until 1796, and even then it was fledgling so a militia was necessary. That is why the second amendment was ratified, and at the time the U.S. was surrounded by wild native land and land belonging to the Spanish and the French. Today, however, with our massive advanced military that costs billions every year, and two natural borders and two artificial borders, a militia is no longer a necessity except in the situation of an invasion of a massive ground army which is next to impossible.

The second amendment as it is now is obsolete, and it needs to be rewritten. It's beyond time the government stopped letting every redneck or moron take the obsolete second amendment and use it as it was never meant to be used or interpreted as it was never meant to be interpreted. The only way to do that is to get rid of it and replace it with another one that better fits our times. Militias may be needed if down the line some country did manage to pull off a ground invasion, but if a militia is needed at some future time it needs to be regulated and under the command of the formal military. The arms that the militia is to bare should be kept on our military bases. Not in homes. And a new amendment should make this inescapably clear and obvious.

This isn't to say people shouldn't have a bolt action or lever action rifle or pump action shotgun for hunting or a semi-auto pistol for home self defense, but our second amendment had nothing to do with rifles for hunting or home self-defense from B&E's. It was about militias and national defense.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

No country with nukes has ever been invaded so we don't even need a massive military either.

But some of this is so obvious it's kind of ridiculous how behind the general mindset is.

 

[KevanG]

No country with nukes has ever been invaded so we don't even need a massive military either.

What about Iraq?

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

lmao, classic.

 

[regwec]

Oh, I wish I had said that.

Another benefit of a less armed society: policeman don't look like (fat) Starship Troopers.

 

[Spider-Who?]

If you think guns are really the reason police are being militarized, I have an acre of land on the moon I'd like to sell you.