Showing posts with label Charleston Shooter. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

"It Was Government Incompetence, Not A Loophole"

"It Was Government Incompetence, Not A Loophole"

July 11, 2015 Charleston Shooter , Loophole 0 Comments

No, The Charleston Shooter Didn’t Get His Gun Because Of A ‘Loophole’ 

By Sean Davis, July, 10, 2015, The Federalist

The New York Times published a blockbuster report this afternoon claiming that a legal ‘loophole’ in firearm background check laws allowed the Charleston shooter to purchase a gun he wasn’t legally allowed to have. There’s only one problem with the story: it was government incompetence, not a loophole, that rendered the background check ineffective. Here’s how the NYT described what happened:

WASHINGTON — The man accused of killing nine people in an historically black South Carolina church last month should not have been able to buy a gun, the F.B.I. said Friday in what was the latest acknowledgment of flaws in the national background check system.

A loophole in the check system allowed the man, Dylann Roof, to buy the .45-caliber handgun despite his having previously admitted to drug possession, the bureau said. Those conducting the background check did not have access to that police report.

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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Another "news" angle

June 28, 2015 Anti-Poverty Spending , Charleston Shooter 0 Comments
CNN Inserts Plan for Anti-Poverty Spending into Discussion of Charleston Massacre 

By Brad Wilmouth, Jun. 27, 2015, Newsbusters

On Friday's New Day, during a discussion of the then-upcoming funeral for South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney, CNN host Alisyn Camerota brought up issues of high poverty in South Carolina's black population and invited Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn to use the recent church massacre as a springboard to push for diverting more federal money into high-poverty areas.

After Charleston's Democratic mayor, Joseph Riley, spoke of the accomplishments of his tenure, Camerota posed:

And you have accomplished that. Yet, there's so much more work to be done. We have some statistics about what South Carolina looks like. South Carolina poverty rate for whites, 13 percent. For blacks, 30 percent. South Carolina per capita income: $28,000 for whites, $15,000 for blacks. Congressman, after this funeral, what will you go back to Congress and do? What can you change now?

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Friday, June 26, New Day on CNN, from the 8:00 a.m. hour:


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Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Meaning Of Charleston By Larry Elder

June 25, 2015 Articles by Larry Elder , Charleston Shooter 0 Comments
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By Larry Elder, Jun. 25, 2015, Townhall.com

Almost immediately after a white killer gunned down nine black worshippers at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, out came the politics.

On the Capitol grounds in Columbia flies the battlefield flag of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, often erroneously called the "Confederate flag." Right after the shooting, calls came for the flag's removal. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, until now, had defended the compromise that moved the flag in 2000 from the Capitol dome, where it had flown since 1962, to a nearby Confederate soldier memorial on the statehouse grounds.

The killer did not pull out a Confederate flag and use it to kill people. He used a .45. Also, he had flags of apartheid South Africa and separatist Rhodesia. Ban them, too?

President Barack Obama took the opportunity to make the case for additional gun control legislation. "We don't have all the facts," he said, "but we do know that once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun."

OK, now that Obama mentions it, suppose one or more of the churchgoers had been armed? South Carolina is one of 40 states that allow citizens to carry a concealed weapon on a "shall issue" basis, meaning that as long as you pass that state's basic qualification requirements -- things like age, training, no criminal history, etc. -- the state will not deny you a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Permit holders, however, cannot bring a firearm to a "house of worship." Whether the confessed Charleston killer, Dylann Roof, knew this, we don't know. We do know that one of Roof's friends said Roof wanted to attack a local college. But, according to the friend, Roof switched targets because of the security around the school. If the school security deterred the killer, might allowing concealed carry in a "house of worship" have a similar effect?

How about we spend a little time on whether someone could have and should have said something to someone? Roof apparently told people of his intentions to start a "race war" -- and at least some friends knew he possessed a .45.

Obama said the tragedy reminds us "we've got a lot of work to do." He spoke of the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, where four black girls were killed and nearly two dozen people wounded.

But the differences between Birmingham in 1963 and Charleston in 2015 are staggering.

In 1963, Birmingham was home to one of the most virulent chapters of the KKK. Bombings of black properties were so frequent people referred to the city as "Bombingham." In fact, this church bombing was the third bombing to take place in that city since its public schools were forcibly desegregated just 11 days earlier.

Bull Connor, the commissioner of public safety, infamously sicced dogs and turned water hoses on civil rights workers. The governor, George Wallace, once stood in front of the state Capitol and shouted, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever." The FBI was led by J. Edgar Hoover, who believed the civil rights movement was communist-inspired. Reportedly, the FBI knew fairly soon who had committed the bombing but sat on the information. It took decades before all of those involved were brought to justice. That was 1963.

Today the U.S. attorney general is a black woman, the second consecutive black person to hold the position. She called for a federal investigation of the Charleston shooting. South Carolina's governor is Nikki Haley, a woman of Indian descent. One of the state's U.S. senators is a black man, Tim Scott, the first black person from the South to serve in the Senate since four years after Reconstruction. Charleston's popular mayor has held the job for four decades and is respected by both black and white communities.

Does the racist Charleston killer represent a growing, threatening underbelly of American racism?

In 1969, Charles Manson, like the Charleston killer, wanted to start a "race war." Over the course of two nights, he ordered the murder of seven people. And Manson had a "family" of followers. The Charleston killer complained that he could recruit no help. Did we launch into a national soul search over whether Manson represented white racism? No, we placed him in the category of murderous, evil deviant -- the same place to put the Charleston killer.

In 1960, 60 percent of Americans said they would "never" vote for a black president. In 2008, America elected a black man as president of the United States. A 2006 Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll found that only 4 percent of Democratic voters and 3 percent of Republican voters would not vote for a black president. Obama got a greater share of the "white vote" than even John Kerry did in 2004. Was Kerry a victim of racial discrimination?

This is not your grandfather's America.

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Monday, June 22, 2015

Hollywood's Biggest Idiot? If Not, He's Close

June 22, 2015 Bill Maher , Charleston Shooter 0 Comments
Bill Maher Says Matt Drudge, Fox News And Conservative Media Inspired Dylann Roof [VIDEO]

 By Chuck Ross, Jun. 20, 2015, Daily Caller

 Comedian Bill Maher said conservative media — including the Drudge Report, Fox News and The Daily Caller — may have had a hand in inspiring Dylann Roof to shoot up a black church in Charleston, S.C. this week.
What do you think?

Maher was discussing the massacre with a panel on his HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” that included Daily Caller senior contributor Matt Lewis.
What do you think?

“We can never know why someone snaps, but I bet you I know where he got his news,” Maher said, referring to Roof, who killed nine people in the attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church.
What do you think?

“I looked at your website the last week,” Maher continued, referring to The Daily Caller. “There were a lot of stories about black people. A lot of stories.”

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

And what did YOU do about it?

June 21, 2015 Charleston Shooter , Christon Scriven 0 Comments
Charleston Killer's Black Drinking Buddy: 'He Planned To Shoot Up A School' 

Christon Scriven
Source:  Facebook/Daily Mail
By Kieran Corcoran, Jun. 20, 2015, Daily Mail

Charleston race killer Dylann Roof originally planned to shoot up a college before changing his mind and massacring worshipers in church, according to a shocked black drinking buddy who counted Roof as a 'homeboy'.

Christon Scriven, 22, said that Roof drunkenly described a scheme to massacre students on the College of Charleston campus just a week ago.

But Roof seemingly modified his plan when he sat in on a Bible study class at the city's AME Emanuel Church for almost an hour, then opened fire on his nine victims.

Scriven said he didn't believe Roof would actually carry out his plans for a mass shooting - but was still scared he could turn violent, so hid his gun when he wasn't looking.

He and another friend - Roof's high school pal Joey Meek - stashed his .45-caliber handgun, a birthday present, in an air condition vent, but gave it back once they had all sobered up. 

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