Welcome to Utah; it’s the new Florida!
Patel right behind him like, “Man I wish it wasn’t one of us too.”
I honestly thought I was in /c/TheOnion
no… he laments he can’t blame a nonmormon.
Not exactly, he lamented that he couldn’t blame anybody not from Utah.
Lol rolled the dice, came up snake eyes again.
Just good ol honest home grown terror.
He means Mormons.
Unfortunately, they have a storied history of murder and violence.
Don’t forget Mountain Meadows, or the time they (probably) had the governor of Missouri assassinated, or the time they were ABSOLUTELY PLANNING to throw down with the Grand Army of the Republic before someone realized the Army had more men and materiel to prosecute a war with.
No scapegoat for you. Maybe try facing your moral and policy failures this time? No? Ok, keep praying to god. Maybe next time he’ll help you out with a black trans muslim shooter instead of yet another young white conservative dude.
i like how cox is tryting to avoid blaming the shooter , because hes a white straight ultra right male. cant be hurting a straight white maile voting base.
Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say ‘Hey, we don’t do that here.’”
In 2023 over 15,000 people were murdered with guns in the United States. You definitely do that there. You know you do. You’re very good at it, and you refuse to do anything about it. You have no compassion for the other victims, so to cry about how one of your own was at the receiving end is political theatre.
How many of those deaths are gang on gang violence?
In 2023, the majority of U.S. gun deaths were suicides (58%) and homicides (38%).
That’s pretty wild. But with over 400,000,000 guns in the USA it’s not going to stop anybody.
Not sure if this is serious or a bit. These were Kirk’s last words more or less
He was talking specifically about Utah when he said “here”. He even mentioned that the state was leading the nation in charitable donations. There was zero ambiguity.
The “charitable donations” are the community’s socially required tithes to the Mormon church.
Not exactly the same as everywhere else.
Nobody asked, I’m sure corporate tax write offs are no small part either, point is he was talking about Utah.
The bulk of those “Charitable” contributions are “voluntary” contributions to the mormon church. Members must contribute 10% of their income plus a little extra just because in order to hold positions of leadership in the church, get married attend cult weddings and most importantly not go to hell.
The mormon church uses less than 1% of their funds for humanitarian needs. The other 99% is used to expand the hundreds of billions in hoarded wealth.
You won’t catch me singing their praises, I just wanted to point out this post and article is a really stupid hit piece.
His talk was pretty decent except for this bizarre thing which is wierder the longer you think about it. I mean I sorta get it but man.
It’s pretty normal for a governor to say they wishes an act of terror hadn’t been committed by somebody living in their state. I think this makes us look shitty.
I have never heard a govenor express such sentiments. They often express the act had not happened in their state. Are you being sarcastic?
Uvalde, Texas - 2022 Robb Elementary School Shooting
“This was a young man that was from Uvalde. He was raised in Uvalde. This is not something that is—we’re not a big city. This is a city of 16,000 people. Most of the law enforcement, most of the people knew him… We’re a town that prays together, we’re a town that works together, and we’re a town that grieves together… It’s just hard to believe that somebody from our community would do this to our community.”
El Paso, Texas - 2019 Walmart Shooting
“We are Texans, and we will not be defined by this evil. We are defined by our love… This is not who we are. This is not Texas… We must unite against this evil. And we must remember that it is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to overcome our differences that divides us.”
Highland Park, Illinois - 2022 Parade Shooting
“I also want to add that we as a community, and I as a mayor, are reeling from the loss that we experienced yesterday. It’s a profound sense of grief. The shooter was from our community. He was a resident of our community. So we are all, as a community, grappling with the fact that this was one of our own.”
Dayton, Ohio - 2019 Oregon District Shooting
“The shooter was from Bellbrook. A graduate of Bellbrook High School. It is a very small community, very close to our community… It’s just so sad. The motivation is so confusing. And to have that kind of hatred in your heart, and to do that kind of violence in our community, is just a tragedy.”
Virginia Beach, Virginia - 2019 Municipal Center Shooting
“He was one of our own. And he turned on his own.”
Santa Fe, Texas - 2018 Santa Fe High School Shooting
“This is a local kid. He’s from our community… It’s just very difficult. We’re all feeling this. You know, these are our children. These are our friends’ children. These are our neighbors’ children, and it’s just a terrible day.”
San Bernardino, California - 2015 Terrorist Attack
“I think that after this, we have to look at the fact that, you know, this is a global issue. But it happened in our city. It was committed by people that lived in our city and in our region.”
Norway, 2011 attacks
“He grew up in our neighborhood, believed in the same God, and had the same skin color as the majority in this country. He was one of us.”
Not one of those says “I wish they had been from somewhere else.”
There’s a huge difference between “we have to acknowledge it was one of us” and “I wish they had been from somewhere else.”
One takes ownership of the failure of the society, the other cowardly tries to avoid the failure.
thanks because as I was reading I was thinking how to summarize this. Saying you are shocked it came from the community is fairly different than saying you had hoped that if something like this happened it was not somone from the community.
bullet casings with the phrases, “Hey fascists! Catch!” with an up arrow, a right arrow and three down arrows,
Boy was trying to call in a 500kg on the target.
I now say “calling a Charlie” in Helldivers when I need a 500kg. Or replace Charlie with Kirk, or a combination of the 2.
500 kirkagram
The Right is the party of murder.
Weren’t we all hoping the same thing, that the shooter wouldn’t turn out to be a member of whatever group we identify as? I know I was.
Idk, I’m waiting for the left side to start fighting back. The right keeps bullying us.
Yes, but the difference is that he’s the governor of the state of Utah. He’s supposed to represent all the residents of his state. By choosing a side he alienates a significant portion of his populace for no apparent political gain or reason.
How do these clowns manage to put their shoes on?
What do you mean? That’s tradwife duties.
