Shooting in Charleston church

[TommyGunn]

My wife just texted me that the suspect is in custody.

Yup.  Someone saw suspicious activity involving a car matching the one Roof reportedly drove, called the police who stopped him, and arrested him.  It went without much incident and the report says Roof was armed when arrested.

[Boomhauer]

They caught him in Shelby, NC.

[Boomhauer]

My wife just texted me that the suspect is in custody.

Unfortunately not the morgue.

This is going to be a hell of a media circus

[Jamisjockey]

I stand by my facebook comments.  Race is his excuse.  He's a pillpopping basketcase. 

[Boomhauer]

I stand by my facebook comments.  Race is his excuse.  He's a pillpopping basketcase. 

Yep.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

That would be my guess also. I suspect he's been out there a while. If that is in fact the case you gotta wonder about daddy buying him a gun for his birthday


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[Ben]

Topics merged and moved to politics, since it seems there will likely be several political subjects coming out of this as the media covers the story.

[SADShooter]

That would be my guess also. I suspect he's been out there a while. If that is in fact the case you gotta wonder about daddy buying him a gun for his birthday


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Shades of parental pacification a la Newtown.

[French G.]

Patiently waiting to see how this will be a confederate flag loving NRA members fault. Apparently the confederate flag is quite popular on Twitter for being blamed. I'm no doctor but that dude is Nuts. Dead effed up eyes and an almost Adam Lanza haircut that says I know I don't belong in normal society and i hate you all.

And besides, I've known/know my share of occasionally semi-literate cracker racists. When exactly does Rhodesia and apartheid come up in their tiny world view?

[Boomhauer]

When exactly does Rhodesia and apartheid come up in their tiny world view?

Never.

[French G.]

but now i see a facebook picure of him with a front license tag featuring all 3 CS national flags. Latched onto racism to explain his pathetic life? As in a distinct lack of contact with the opposite sex?

[Perd Hapley]

"I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country..."[/i]

They're raping them in the church, then? Is that why you started there? Or do you have a stack of dead, black rapists somewhere?

[Jamisjockey]

Patiently waiting to see how this will be a confederate flag loving NRA members fault. Apparently the confederate flag is quite popular on Twitter for being blamed. I'm no doctor but that dude is Nuts. Dead effed up eyes and an almost Adam Lanza haircut that says I know I don't belong in normal society and i hate you all.

And besides, I've known/know my share of occasionally semi-literate cracker racists. When exactly does Rhodesia and apartheid come up in their tiny world view?

Nail on the head.  The fact that he has an inkling about anything past shouting *expletive deleted*it like the south shall rise again makes me think he probably secretly obsessed over stuff like Rhodesia.  Serial killer hipster.

but now i see a facebook picure of him with a front license tag featuring all 3 CS national flags. Latched onto racism to explain his pathetic life? As in a distinct lack of contact with the opposite sex?

Likely. 

[Perd Hapley]

Ya know, if you're a white guy that doesn't like black guys raping people; then shooting up a black church and going to jail seems like a really, really poor decision.

[SADShooter]

I went through a phase as a teen/twenty-something where I was fascinated by the post-colonial period in Africa, centered mainly on the mercenary culture and fed by related books and films (The Dogs of War. Dark of the Sun, etc. I never once made the connection that any people, black or white, were inherently inferior and/or evil, except those directly responsible for the associated barbarism. I can find no way to relate murder and mutilation decades ago to people today sitting in church pews thousands of miles away.

[MillCreek]

Is it wrong of me to wonder that if she was at that Bible study in the church, Rachel Dolezal would have suddenly identified as white?

[grampster]

Well, the poor victims blood hadn't been mopped up yet when Obama comes on the TV turning this obscenity into a political statement about how we need more gun control. 

Plus he lied again about some stats having to do with mass killings saying that these things happen more in America than anywhere else in the world.  Perhaps he conveniently forgets about the slaughter that is going on all over the globe each day in the name of Islam and other apparent efforts by some folks to eliminate other folks.

[Jocassee]

I'm no doctor but that dude is Nuts. Dead effed up eyes and an almost Adam Lanza haircut that says I know I don't belong in normal society and i hate you all.

All of this. Dude is obviously not right in the head.

And besides, I've known/know my share of occasionally semi-literate cracker racists. When exactly does Rhodesia and apartheid come up in their tiny world view?

Actually, occasionally it does.

I would bet a pretty good bit of money that we will eventually find out this kid spent a huge chunk of time at Stormfront. I bet he glommed information from that cesspool into his lack of real life.

It's not the first time that someone with little to no life experience ends up in an internet subculture that they embrace as though it were totally normal. Sometimes because they're just weird or screwed up, sometimes because they don't know any better.

For comparison, when I was 19 and on my way out of Fundyland I stumbled across THR, APS, and a couple of other gun culture sights that skewed my thinking on a lot of topics inordinately as a result of immersing myself as completely as possible in gun culture. Not that it was bad, necessarily, but it took time to get enough life experience to compare things.

[Scout26]

Please tell me that SC has the death penalty.

[Boomhauer]

Please tell me that SC has the death penalty.

*expletive deleted*ck yes we do. And unlike the hug a thug states, it gets used.

We even have the electric chair as an option. Lethal is the default.

[vaskidmark]

Well, the poor victims blood hadn't been mopped up yet when Obama comes on the TV turning this obscenity into a political statement about how we need more gun control. 

Plus he lied again about some stats having to do with mass killings saying that these things happen more in America than anywhere else in civilized the world.  Perhaps he conveniently forgets about the slaughter that is going on all over the globe each day in the name of Islam and other apparent efforts by some folks to eliminate other folks.

He did limit it to the civilized world - which by definition eliminates the USA as well as a number of other first-world countries.

stay safe.

[vaskidmark]

Seems the little git has confessed to wanting to start a race war.



stay safe.

[KD5NRH]

Seems the little git has confessed to wanting to start a race war.

Oh hell, haven't we got enough Presidential candidates already?

[lupinus]

Oh hell, haven't we got enough Presidential candidates already?

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[Angel Eyes]

As expected, aspects of the story are changing.  One source says that the killer bought the pistol himself:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Gunman-feared-blacks-were-taking-over-the-world-6337028.php#photo-8180032

Meek said Roof told him he used birthday money from his parents to buy a .45 Glock pistol before the attack.