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In reply to the discussion: Listening to the GOPers, they're all talking as if Farook's radicalization is like some alien curse [View all]MrScorpio
(73,778 posts)Because I pointed out when armed radicals of any stripe mow down people for whatever reason in this country, we ought to look at the bigger picture, rather than targeting one demographic over ignoring others.
Perhaps the problem is more about the processes of radicalization themselves rather than just about Islam.
Perhaps it has to do with things that are going on in this country, where we have so many mass shootings in a given year, than any other western industrialized nation.
Perhaps radicalization and mass shooting are like one big apple pie that anyone can take a bite from.
As far as radicalized Muslim shooters, those guys are way down the totem pole versus, let's say, white guys who shoot up abortion clinics. But either way, we have dead bodies lying in our streets, right?
Hundreds of mass shootings in a year, many by armed radicals of different stripes... It's no less sicker by non-Muslims than by the few Muslims. This is an American epidemic.