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calimary

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2. This is my great dread now.

Reply to Segami (Original post)

Sun Jul 14, 2013, 05:05 AM

Jul 2013

Any tin-plated vigilante with a messiah complex and a hard-on to be some twisted ten-cent Rambo knock-off now has cover, and clearance, to shoot somebody they decide they don't like. Profiling is okay now. Even amateur profiling. So is stalking. Even better and more delicious when it's coupled with a concealed weapon.

Good Grief - what have we come to? Sheesh - add this to the evisceration of the Voting Rights Act, and it's a VERY grim day.

And to think ... five years or so ago, I actually allowed myself to think that maybe America had finally turned a page, and had gotten beyond shit like this. Discouraging. REALLY discouraging.

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It’s Not RIOTS You Need to Worry About,....It’s MORE ZIMMERMANS [View all] Segami Jul 2013 OP

Stalking someone without cause is now “defense” in NRA America Skittles Jul 2013 #1

Sick shit Art_from_Ark Jul 2013 #3

it get sicker by the minute Skittles Jul 2013 #4

You're right Art_from_Ark Jul 2013 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #6

Rest assured, you haven't heard the last Segami Jul 2013 #13

it's a gun humping coward's wet dream Skittles Jul 2013 #17

This is my great dread now. calimary Jul 2013 #2

It will become open season on blacks in America once again UserNSAv32 Jul 2013 #5

At times like this not me. 47of74 Jul 2013 #10

Is this how the brownshirts got started? Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #11

IF YOU LIKED THE OLD BARBARISM YOU'RE GONNA LOVE drynberg Jul 2013 #7

I think is absolutely necessary to press for tougher gun laws, and intolerance of bigots with guns. Hoyt Jul 2013 #9

Exactly right, and the worst possible outcome. truebluegreen Jul 2013 #12

First they enslaved us, destroyed our families, raped and lynched us at will malaise Jul 2013 #14

I believe this is far from over. Segami Jul 2013 #15

This is the American Stephen Lawrence - it's far from over malaise Jul 2013 #16

My, my malaise,..some would label you a conspiracy nut Segami Jul 2013 #19

All of the protests have been peaceful; it's the carte blanche to vigilantes that worries me GiaGiovanni Jul 2013 #18