You know what you call a troubled, confused, sex-addicted man who kills people?

[Aristus]

A murderer.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Yes!

[True Dough]

2. Seems so straightforward when you say it

Somehow that clear message is lost when right-wingers try to communicate.

[Jirel]

3. Also a racist and misogynist.

The gender and race of those he murdered is important. This was a hate crime, not random killings.

[Aristus]

4. I agree.

n/t

[TDale313]

14. Agreed.

[sarge43]

38. Terrorist. n/t

[Grins]

59. A Republican...?

[MineralMan]

5. Simple, isn't it?

[lagomorph777]

6. Gosh, when you put it that way, he sounds like a bad guy.

[Aristus]

7. I know, right?

n/t

[hlthe2b]

8. Imprisoned for the next many decades.

[Aristus]

9. That's what I want for him.

But Georgia is a death-penalty state. It's up to the prosecutor.

[Progressive Jones]

34. I don't want my tax dollars used to feed, house, or protect the life of the Atlanta killer. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

47. You would prefer spending even more of your tax dollars in court costs trying to kill him?

It costs more money to put someone to death.

[Progressive Jones]

50. Accidents can happen... nt

[oldsoftie]

77. Thats why endless meaningless appeals need to be stopped. He's GUILTY. Period.

Of that there is NO doubt. The type case that the DP should be reserved for. NEVER a chance of executing an innocent. Dylan Roof. Etc.
Other cases, not so much.

[renate]

10. But what if he's having a bad day?

Or what if he’s white?

[Aristus]

11. Or a good swimmer?

It works for rape. It could work for murder...

[Dream Girl]

12. Also, he might feel guilt and shame, so there's that.

[Solomon]

19. He only felt guilt and shame for wanting sex. Not for killing his victims.

[calimary]

45. For getting CAUGHT, I'd assume is more like it.

[jmowreader]

72. He didn't want it that badly

At I-285 exit 51 is a truck stop. There are lot lizards at that truck stop. (Trust me on this.)

There’s also Tinder, Craigslist, the wrong side of town...there is no shortage of places for even the worst creep to find meaningless sex.

[NewHendoLib]

13. T&#P

over half a million of them during his 4 years of disaster

[In_The_Wind]

16. +1

[Aristus]

17. True...

n/t

[mwooldri]

15. A former President? NT

[Hugin]

51. My first guess as well. n/t

[MoonlitKnight]

71. Beat me to it

[cilla4progress]

18. A

churchgoer? 🤢

[Solomon]

20. That's what I keep saying. It's not the sex that's his problem, it's religious brain rot.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

48. Careful now. The mob has their blood up and any hint of suggesting people like this are...

... a product of their environment will not be allowed.

[Blue_playwright]

21. It is sad...

That mental health is so stigmatized that getting help isn’t normal. But he wasn’t having a psychotic break so he knew right from wrong.

[AverageOldGuy]

22. He was just having a bad day.

Better yet, he was a WHITE GUY having a bad day.

[Klaralven]

23. Murders and murderers are too common to be newsworthy - probably over 20,000 last year

On the other hand, it is fairly uncommon for one person to kill 8 others on the same day, which is why there is an attempt to characterize the perpetrator as something more than an unremarkable, garden variety murderer.

[Ferrets are Cool]

24. In the same vein, what do you call "rioters" who invade and attack the U.S. Capital?

Insurrectionists.

[Aristus]

25. And traitors.

Cult members.

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. +1

[Marcuse]

29. Republicans

[bronxiteforever]

27. Kick and recommend.

[Martin68]

28. You know what you call a troubled, confused, sex-addicted man who kills Asian women?

A racist murderer.

[Aristus]

30. Exactly.

n/t

So I hope he gets a hate-crimes count added to the docket...

[mgardener]

31. Yes.

That is exactly what he should be called.

[Ilsa]

32. As Fugelsang said on Stephanie Miller last hour,

Long has wandered into the very shallow end of the ecclesiastical pool. Carrying a Bible, having a preacher for a father, etc, doesn't make you a good Christian.

[Mopar151]

76. Fucked up like a can of worms! nt

[Evolve Dammit]

33. Yep

[llashram]

35. A

narcissistic sociopath like the EX-potus he more than likely reveres?

[flibbitygiblets]

36. The 45th pResident of the United States!

[Yavin4]

37. Actually, you call them a...

mass murderer when there's more than just one or even two people killed.

[Aristus]

39. Very much so.

I think the legal line of demarcation is four or more, but I could be mistaken.

[Initech]

40. I'd also say terrorist.

[Cinnamonspice]

41. Yep. Tired of excuses.

[YoshidaYui]

42. BUT... But ...but he HAD A BAD DAY.....

AND those Asian ladies just annoyed him.... ... such FUCKING BULLSHIT. Put his sorry ass away for life!

[plimsoll]

43. I think malaise brought this up,

But the press led with the prostitution angle. Even if true, it's a hate crime directed at women. It does give the right a reason to excuse this yet again. So much of the reporting seems slanted, it sure looks like their trying to find a way minimize the crime.

I particularly like the way theres a strong sense of "good Christian boy led astray by pornography" in the reportage.

Yeah, he's a murderer, but he's getting pretty favorable treatment in a lot of media. We can ignore Fox, OANN, and NewsMax because, we'll he's white and the victims weren't. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

[barbtries]

44. my first thought?

Donald Trump.

also a murderer imo.

but of course this 21-year-old white guy is, obviously. premeditated with malice aforethought.

[BobTheSubgenius]

46. I can't believe I've not seen a single paragraph comparing this POS and

Kyle Rittenhouse. Their motives and victimology may be different, but a lot of the treatment they get in the media is sure similar.

[Roc2020]

49. yup.

[OMGWTF]

52. That description also fits Donald J. Trump

[Ford_Prefect]

56. My thoughts exactly! Book 'em Danno!

[gopiscrap]

53. I was going to say: a republican!!!

[NCjack]

54. My first thought was that he is a MAGAt.

[argyl]

55. I think he's a sex addict who has trouble getting it up.

I've heard nothing about this so it's just a hunch. But he brings a firearm into a place where he's supposedly looking for pleasure and kills every woman there he could.
At his age he probably wasn't fully impotent but I'd bet he had some real performance issues as well. And instead of acting out of religious zealotry he could have had a flop of a night and murdered these women.

This is just me thinking this but if there's anything to this at all it will come out. Law Enforcement will go over his sorry life with a fine toothed comb.

He's one thing for sure: a mass murderer.

[dlk]

57. He's a domestic terrorist

If he were a person of color... Does anyone think for a moment the AAPI community isn’t terrorized?

[live love laugh]

58. Trump. nt

[dflprincess]

60. Are there many 21 year old males who aren't "sex addicted"?

How is that any kind of explanation for his actions?

[Aristus]

61. Yeah, I thought that was pure BS.

When I was twenty-one, I wanted to jump everything in sight. I didn't, of course, because I'm not an asshole.

BTW, when I was this dickhead murderer's age, I was a tank crewman in the Army, channeling any post-adolescent aggression into acceptable and useful actions. I'm not saying military service would have done this loser any good, but it couldn't have hurt.

[BobTheSubgenius]

62. You bet!

We're all troubled, at one time or another. We all get confused. We've all had bad days. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I have never felt the need to track down a gun and shoot up a business and a bunch of people.

I'll leave the "sex-addicted" part without comment. May not be addicted, but I'm a very enthusiastic casual user.

[Locrian]

64. religion ?

what about religion ? seems to me that "guilt" and "sin" combine with "those 'bad' girls tempting, etc" and all that crap tied up with sex is part of the toxic recipe in this case

[BobTheSubgenius]

79. Very, very true.

It is all entangled with the extremely unfortunate PuritanCalvinist bent that coloured a lot of the early history of the nation. When it was just colonies, even.

I certainly don't discount that in my thinking, and I am as staunch an advocate of the wall of separation as you are likely to meet. In this case, I was addressing just the points raised in the post to which I was responding, though.

[LakeArenal]

63. GUILTY.

Lock him up.

[BigmanPigman]

65. A mass murderer.

Jail isn't going to be a picnic for him. I'm surprised he didn't kill himself (yet).

[Rustyeye77]

66. I don't know what to call him now...

But I suspect he will be called “sweetie” soon.

[Lucinda]

67. +1

[dflprincess]

68. I say this as a woman over 60

Apparently 3 of the victims of the Atlanta shooter were over 60 (one was in her 70s), another was in her 50s.

Don't give me any BS about this asshole's "sex addiction" and seeing women as "temptation". I'm pretty sure it's been a long, long, time since I or very many women in my age group have represented "temptation" to any male in their early 20s.

This was strictly racism and misogyny. One thing I've noticed in these attacks on Asians is that these big, brave, bigots seem to be targeting older women and men, nothing to do with sex and "temptation".

[librechik]

69. former president

[dixiechiken1]

70. Inmate #72435

[Joinfortmill]

73. Yup.

[MFM008]

74. the FORMER president

45 to be exact..........

[Laura PourMeADrink]

75. T R U M P

[Master_Monstruwacan]

78. A "devout Christian"?

n/t