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Downtown Hound

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20. We have a right to know who is attacking us

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #15)

Sun Sep 1, 2019, 04:42 PM

Sep 2019

And if this turns out to be more of what we all believe it to be, then it only adds to our narrative on why we not only need gun control but why it's the right that needs to face more scrutiny and consequences for their rhetoric that leads to violence like this. Those two things would do way more to deter future shootings than keeping one name hidden from the public. At this point, any would be copycats literally have dozens if not hundreds of preexisting examples to choose from to "inspire" them. Keeping this one name hidden won't change that. Tighter restrictions on guns and greater monitoring of the right wing hate machine would.

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At press conference Odessa police chief REFUSES to name the shooter -- but his ID is confirmed now. [View all] pnwmom Sep 2019 OP

Shooter is related to big shot Republican/oil baron/is affiliated with the NRA. nt raccoon Sep 2019 #1

My thought exactly Retrograde Sep 2019 #3

woulldn't surprise me. still_one Sep 2019 #4

"Who's your daddy?" southerncrone Sep 2019 #6

It should be in the police report RandySF Sep 2019 #2

I've seen people get their mugshot printed in local papers Downtown Hound Sep 2019 #5

you also know he is white DBoon Sep 2019 #8

WSJ named him. Seth Ator, 36 years old octoberlib Sep 2019 #7

Good. Thank you for posting this. n/t pnwmom Sep 2019 #13

Shooters name Peace06 Sep 2019 #9

Good. Stop making them celebrities... PoliticAverse Sep 2019 #10

As if that's going to stop mass killings????? Right . . . Vinca Sep 2019 #12

I'm sorry that you can't accept the unpleasant reality that making a criminal into a celebrity PoliticAverse Sep 2019 #15

Do you think they would withhold his name if he was brown and named Mohammed? Vinca Sep 2019 #17

We have a right to know who is attacking us Downtown Hound Sep 2019 #20

No, we need to know he is and what his motivation was and who his connections were. pnwmom Sep 2019 #14

His name was Seth Ator. tblue37 Sep 2019 #11

But he goes by the name of Bud DUgosh Sep 2019 #16

There's man by that name from Odessa on Facebook but he's not Seth Ator. pnwmom Sep 2019 #18

He inadvertently gave the shooter more attention Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2019 #19

Oh, come on. Blame the "big attentioners" for their behavior. Hortensis Sep 2019 #21