The Buffalo Lynching

[kpete]

Over the years, every resident of this country has learned that no setting is off limits to a mass shooting. When it happens, people utter the platitude about never thinking that such violence could happen in their own community. It’s hard not to wonder whether they are blind optimists or fools because the evidence makes it plain that such things could happen anywhere and everywhere. No place is safe. No place is sacred. Anything passes for a shooting range.

......the violence, particularly the violence that targets people because of race, religion and sexual orientation, is not a creation of the Internet or modern weaponry. That hate has always been there. It’s simply gotten easier for people to act on their worst impulses. Barreling into a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood and spraying the patrons with bullets from a jury-rigged semiautomatic weapon is a lot more efficient than lynching them one by one. It’s faster to shoot up a Walmart in a neighborhood filled with recent immigrants, as a killer did in 2019, than it is to negotiate over immigration policy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/18/weekend-violence-punctuates-generations-hate/

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[FalloutShelter]

1. K&R. WOW

That’s powerful.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Indeed. Indeed, indeed. /nt

[niyad]

3. Heartbreaking and powerful.

[Wounded Bear]

4. K & R...nt

[Warpy]

5. I prefer to call it a massacre by a genocidal gun nut

which is what it was.

[H2O Man]

6. Recommended.

Terrible. My son & I got in to Buffalo about an hour after the horror.

[KS Toronado]

7. Noticed 2 were not currently from Buffalo

Lockport is 30 miles away, Auburn is 125 miles away. So sad, drove from out-of-town
to Buffalo probably to help a elderly relative would be my guess.