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Shooting at Mormon church, church set on fire. Gunman killed in shootout. Police haven't released the gunman's name yet (archive.ph)
posted 268 days ago by Mpetey123 268 days ago by Mpetey123 +72 / -0
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– Mpetey123 [S] 37 points 268 days ago +37 / -0

Michael Masters, who oversees security operations for the main U.S. network of Jewish schools and synagogues, told ABC News. "Attacks against religious institutions are attacks against our democracy as a whole." Masters said there has been an increase in targeted attacks across the faith-based community over the past several years. "This is something we’ve been working to prepare for in the Jewish community for many years. In the current threat environment, the offenders are often not distinguishing. There’s the Jewish community, the Sikh community, the Annunciation church and now the LDS church in Michigan," he said.

Don't know why the jews were brought up

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– Kienan 50 points 268 days ago +50 / -0

"Christians attacked, Jews most affected," is why.

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– lapalapa 5 points 268 days ago +5 / -0

Mormons aren't Christians. Mormonism is a cult that was created before the modern definition of the term.

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– deleted 3 points 268 days ago +3 / -0
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– Impishdesire 5 points 267 days ago +5 / -0

Are Mormons and Islam the same? Basically some guy saying “yo god told me all this stuff just trust me bro”

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– DefinitelyNotIGN 3 points 267 days ago +3 / -0

They both involve people saying "yo, this special extra edition of the Bible has more truth per square inch than the old one. In particular, we really need to have 4 wives.", but the other tenants described and proscribed by them differ pretty significantly.

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– deleted 18 points 268 days ago +18 / -0
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– SparkMandrill83 9 points 268 days ago +9 / -0

Guilty conscience

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 22 points 268 days ago +22 / -0

My lefty friends all seem eager to make the shooter out to be a right wing nut.

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– GamingTheSystem-01 20 points 268 days ago +20 / -0

Some anti-lefty ammo:

  • Do you think right wingers are going to film tik tok dances celebrating this like the left did with Charlie Kirk?
  • Do you remember when republicans got on tv and said if we didn't do something about churches it would be the end of our country?
  • Do you think that was a fascist church or a fascist shooter?
  • Why do American flags make him right wing?
  • Is it good or bad that people in a church were killed?
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– Kienan 10 points 268 days ago +10 / -0

Some anti-lefty ammo

I have so many jokes I can't make. Roughly five and a half jokes. Like, five point five something.

Also, this really is a joke. Violence is last resort, and we're already fucked if we get to that point. Literally humor only, don't @ me.

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– brimshae 5 points 267 days ago +5 / -0

I prefer a little less than a half a joke, usually around 45%. 0.45, .45 if you will, but that's just me.

Edit: 0.45 Actual Comedy Points

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– AgilePickle1123 2 points 267 days ago +2 / -0

Too bad they are already yelling in your face and calling you a bigot

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– tralbolh 7 points 268 days ago +7 / -0

Edit: https://communities.win/c/TheDonald/p/1AR0iruKxC/to-the-surprise-of-no-one-it-see/c

^This points out the STOP sign above the Trump/Vance sign. likely both stolen signs. That show purported anti Trump scoial media posts from 5 years prior.

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It doesn't look unlikely at this point, though far from certain.

Some media is reporting they are investigating a residence on Atherton Road in Burton, Michigan.

Some on social media say they saw the house that was filled with cops and the google streetview shows a Trump/Vance sign on the back fence.

It has both a house and a trailer at the same address though, so it is quite possible multiple families/generations are living at the address. (IE trump sign or even the truck used in the shooting could be owned by grandpa, etc)

Reports of PTSD from Iraq.

One thing to keep in mind though, the some outlets suggest he planted bombs beforehand, so it likely wasn't a crime of passion and leaving/putting the flags in his truck bed for the shooting was a deliberate decision.

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– Kienan 6 points 268 days ago +6 / -0

Anything is possible, but I just wish people would be honest. Unless it's explicitly politically motivated/targeted, it's pretty disingenuous to go to that. If a leftist kills someone for being a "Trumper," a "fascist," a "Nazi," or similar...yeah, that's politically motivated leftwing violence. (Somehow still rightwing, as far as media/ADL reporting goes, though.)

If a Republican kills someone because the aliens told him to...yeah, don't really care about the dude's politics. That's a mental health issue. Like with that recent pier shooting; the dude literally thought the gayKK was out to get him (LGBT + white supremacists, somehow.) He was just a lunatic with literal brain damage, sounds like, but will surely be painted as far right by the media, because he thought gays were out to get him. Despite him being terrified of white supremes.

I'm guessing this is going to be somewhat similar, since this guy is also a veteran. Veteran and family man = rightwing, as far as the media is concerned.

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– Adamrises 8 points 268 days ago +8 / -0

Its just the playbook that creating "hate crimes" allowed into existence. Where suddenly if you are white and commit a crime against a black, then you possibly were racially motivated and its somehow a "bigger" injustice. Even if they crime is entirely logical without the race angle.

Once we opened the door to those kind of mitigating circumstances, then everyone was always going to rush to try and take advantage of it for their team.

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– Kienan 11 points 268 days ago +11 / -0

Fuck the Civil Rights Act, and fuck LBJ.

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– Gizortnik 4 points 268 days ago +4 / -0

Don't forget that SecWar has been being bombarded by x-posts which have been identifying a slew of Communists and Assassination Supporters in the military that need to be removed. There's still a possibility that this was one of them, but I have no information on any motive yet.

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– Mpetey123 [S] 4 points 268 days ago +4 / -0

They are eager to do it with Charlie Kirk's shooter as well.

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– Grumman 4 points 267 days ago +4 / -0

Because leftists are scum. The same leftist will both celebrate a murder and spread propaganda claiming the perpetrator was conservative.

Such blue-on-blue incidents do happen - like the anti-ICE shooter who shot at the police and hit the people they were arresting - but the leftist would have you believe that every left-wing crime is such an incident.

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– undecidedmask2 18 points 268 days ago +18 / -0

Imagine hating Christians so much you don’t even go after them and instead try and kill Mormons.

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– AntonioOfVenice 4 points 268 days ago +4 / -0

How are you so sure that this was not directed at Mormons?

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– Mpetey123 [S] 8 points 268 days ago +8 / -0

I think he was being pithy.

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– Kienan 17 points 268 days ago +17 / -0

It really is amazing how much news I get from the anime fox woman.

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– MargarineMongoose 12 points 268 days ago +12 / -0

Foxu News > Fox News

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– AntonioOfVenice 10 points 268 days ago +10 / -0

I liked this news better before I opened the news and learned that there are at least two dead at the church. The headline here is pretty optimistic: the shooter getting himself killed and all.

RIP to all but him.

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– Gizortnik 3 points 267 days ago +3 / -0

One might say: fuck him in particular.

Church Security is something all Churches should invest in, and it should start with the Pastor being armed.

"Pistol Packing Preachers" is a classic Americana trope and it's awesome.

"The shooter was killed when the preacher shot him with a .45-70 Henry Rifle. What was left of the shooter was wrapped in a plastic bag and sent to the morgue."

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– brimshae 3 points 267 days ago +3 / -0

.45-70

To quote a friend of mine: The only government I like.

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– Gizortnik 3 points 267 days ago +3 / -0

Facts.

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– SparkMandrill83 8 points 268 days ago +8 / -0

Liberals on my social media feed are blaming Trumps rhetoric, continuing to prove they will never, ever learn (because no one on the right is willing to punish them for it)

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– Kienan 8 points 268 days ago +8 / -0

Liberals...will never, ever learn

I mean, they're almost literal NPCs, so...

When liberals learn, they stop being liberals. The only way you can remain a liberal is refusal to learn.

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– tralbolh 6 points 268 days ago +6 / -0

They learn it is effective, and so continue.

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– Mpetey123 [S] 5 points 268 days ago +5 / -0

What don't they blame on Trump's rhetoric

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– AgilePickle1123 4 points 267 days ago +4 / -0

Ask them if their rhetoric killed Charlie Kirk or maybe they think Trump is to blame for that too.

Man, it must suck having a president that causes people to die every time he opens his mouth

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– Mpetey123 [S] 5 points 268 days ago +5 / -0

Update: Gunman is identified

https://archive.ph/uRCPk

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– undecidedmask2 3 points 268 days ago +3 / -0

Veteran? Wonder if he’s ex Mormon or some crazy leftist thinking he’s killing Christians

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– paraguayan_observer 3 points 268 days ago +3 / -0

I mean... we LDS are christians too.

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– undecidedmask2 5 points 267 days ago +5 / -0

No you’re not. Mormonism is Islam for Europeans.

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– AgilePickle1123 1 point 267 days ago +1 / -0

lol, lmao even

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– theaustrianpainter 4 points 268 days ago +4 / -0

Maybe they were grooming a family member or something. Mormons do that.

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– undecidedmask2 2 points 268 days ago +2 / -0

We will see if shooter is ex mormon, that will answer all our questions.

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– theaustrianpainter 2 points 268 days ago +2 / -0

Apparently he is an Iraqi war veteran.

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– Mpetey123 [S] 1 point 268 days ago +1 / -0

The article says 100 agents are looking for a motive

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– deleted 4 points 268 days ago +4 / -0
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– Mpetey123 [S] 3 points 268 days ago +3 / -0

Okay, I didn't know it.

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