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Senseless, Enraging Acts Of Violence

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champagne
06/10/09

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This is so terribly sad! He was a hero... this just sucks so much. I'm so sorry for his loved ones!!!
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Wit is periodically disensouled
06/10/09

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Rest in Peace, sir, and thank you. I am so sorry for the loss your family has suffered.
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SarahMC
06/10/09

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I'm gonna start telling other white people they're credits to their race.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
06/10/09

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Yit-gadal v'yit-kadash sh'mey raba, b'alma di v'ra hirutey, vyam-lih mal-hutey b'ha-yey-hon uv'yomey-hon uv'ha-yey d'hol beyt yisrael ba-agala u-vizman kariv, v'imru amen.

This Jew thanks you, Stephen Tyrone Johns. Rest in peace.
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ellaesther
06/10/09

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: This gives me chills.

Amen.
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lalaland13
06/10/09

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: I don't know what that says, but it makes me want to cry. Thank you for that.
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Mama Penguino
06/10/09

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: And, I'm crying. This is perfect.
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CherriSpryte
06/10/09

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RIP Mr. Johns.

And as for the scumbag who did this - I hope he's in A LOT of pain right now.
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Penny_Esq
06/10/09

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Thoughts and prayers to the family of this hero, whose courage under fire ensured no one else was hurt. We are all grateful it wasn't worse, and heartbroken that even one life was lost. God bless, Mr. Johns.
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domestic_goddess
06/10/09

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Also, I just talked to my mom about the whole ordeal and she said, "It's a shame that people like this are going to get our guns taken away, what with the abortionist murder and now this."

People are fucking dying and all she cares about is her guns? Thanks, mom.
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Laulau
06/10/09

@domestic_goddess: And if this tragedy wasn't a perfect example of how having guns WON'T allow us to protect ourselves. Mr. Johns was a security guard, presumably armed (since I know the other guards were), and a trained professional. He's now dead. Guns won't protect from the crazies.
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NefariousNewt
06/10/09

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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John, 15:13

Man this man's sacrifice not be a vain or empty one. Man his murderer taste the wrath of human justice for the coward.
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EkaterinaBallerina
06/10/09

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This is awful. I'd been hoping he'd pull through.

The Republican nutjobs owe Napolitano an apology. Which she'll never get, but she's definitely owed one.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
06/10/09

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Arggggh. What is wrong with this country? First Dr. Tiller and now this?
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stacyinbean
06/10/09

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I don't even get the motive here, what does shooting people who WORK at the Holocaust Museum have to do with anything? Just to scare people? I guess I'm glad he at least attacked a place with guards, but GRRRR. This is all so maddening!
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gertymac
06/10/09

@stacyinbean: I'm sure he just shot the guards to get into the museum (maybe he didn't know there would be guards and a metal detector?), but I do wonder if he would have shot Mr. Johns quite so quickly if he had been a white man...
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stacyinbean
06/10/09

@gertymac: But what was he going to DO to the museum? It just seems really bizarre.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
06/10/09

@stacyinbean: My guess? He wanted to make a statement. He's old, he's sick, what's he got to lose? He could bust in, shoot a bunch of Jews and Jew-sympathizers and he'd be a hero in the movement.

Instead he got one black security guard, which to those fuckers will be ALMOST as good.

I wanna go home and hug something.
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Laulau
06/10/09

@stacyinbean: This is the same guy who thought he could coerce the government into changing their fiscal policy by kidnapping people from the Federal Reserve. Cause-and-effect reasoning seems not to have been his strong suit.
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stacyinbean
06/10/09

@MissSkittles is not your kind of lady: I will NEVER be able to process adding different values to different lives, based on anything. Hugs are definitely in order. I need to order this...

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formergr
06/10/09

@stacyinbean: I'm guessing he wanted to go shoot himself some Jews, and the guard stood on his way to do that. Apparently they are saying now his car parked nearby has tested positive for explosives (shudder).
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
06/10/09

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Such a sad, tragic loss of life. These security guards are heroes for stopping what easily could have been a mass-murder rampage.
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Cafezinha
06/10/09

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Vai com Deusa, Sr. Johns.

Love and light to his family and friends.
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lalaland13
06/10/09

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This guy was no doubt already an asshole, but I wonder if some sort of dementia setting in made this seem like a brilliant idea.

Not that it's any excuse for him being an asshole, though.
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formergr
06/10/09

@lalaland13: Given that he held up members of the Federal Reserve and tried to kidap them way back in 1983 according to an article I read, I think it's just that he's an asshole, not from dementia.
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badmutha
06/10/09

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Imagine, you get up, you go to work, you say hi to everyone and prepare to check people out and make sure there is no funny business going on at the museum. It is almost time for lunch, and all of a sudden this old geezer comes charging in with a gun. You try to disarm him and....you are no more. It is too much for me to fathom. His poor loved ones.
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Kivrin
06/10/09

@badmutha: Life is fragile enough as it is without crazy old white supremacist fucktards shooting at you. This kind of thing makes me want to emigrate to a deserted island for the rest of my days.
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