Two people shot dead at Kenosha Wisconsin protest?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238317)
Walnut Creek, California
August 26, 2020 1:56pm CST
I try to keep up with the news, even as I try just as hard to distance myself emotionally from the news.
Two people were shot dead and several others were wounded at a Kenosha Wisconsin protest last night.
Apparently they have arrested a suspect, a juvenile white kid with a semi-automatic weapon.
There are so many ways to "spin" this story. The lives lost may even take a back seat to the spin jobs that will come from the Right and the Left.
For now, I will only gather data and see what happens. What is your take on the latest round of American gun violence?
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
26 Aug 20
I watch and listen. It is madness, absolutely madness going on as everybody sits back and allows it. I feel like I am in a third world country when I see these scenes. They are not protests. They are riots. Looting. Burning businesses. People are dying. Portland, Chicago, all over.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
26 Aug 20
Violence. Murder. Crime.
Left wing or Right wing activism.
Whatever be happening or likely to happen.
Human lives have been lost.
Humanity is losing everywhere (perhaps all over the world).
Religious faith be it of what Great Indian epics tell or even the Bible (where the first murder perhaps led to the word sinner).
No easy solutions in sight though, as many hardliners cannot leave their violent thinking and methods.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
26 Aug 20
I sometimes listen to this song at times like this. "When everyone's talking/and nobody's listening/how can we decide?" (Or something like that.)
Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic Daylight Again (2005 Remaster) · Crosby, Stills & Nash Daylight Again ? 1982 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the Uni...
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
29 Aug 20
@TheHorse Yeah such incidents do make us feel so.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Aug 20
Alas, there will always be crazy people. There will always be stupid people. And there will always be lazy people. And there will always be angry people. I suppose that we as a society have to manage these facts to provide the maximum benefit to the maximum number of people. Does that sound like an easy task? Heh.
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@moffittjc (128837)
• Gainesville, Florida
27 Aug 20
Personally, if people are rioting, I think the police should shoot them.
I don't know all the details of this latest killing by the juvenile, so I'll hold off on passing judgement. But you gotta figure, if people are allowed to openly carry weapons around like they've been letting them do in all these protests, then eventually other people are going to get shot.
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@moffittjc (128837)
• Gainesville, Florida
27 Aug 20
@TheHorse I have not read about that yet, but I'm sure the American Civil Liberties Union will probably be against it. haha
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Oct 20
@moffittjc My worry is that humans could remove the dart before it has its full effect.
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@Namelesss (3364)
• United States
26 Aug 20
I refuse to be drawn into this as there is no way in hell I will ever know the right and wrong of it and neither will 99.9% of the rest of the us. It'll spin this way and that causing all kinds of regrettable things to be said and done. I saw it on the news and am answering your post but after this I'll only see more by accident.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
27 Aug 20
These types of "protest" must end. The National Guard needs to be called in to control the rioting and looting. Have a good Thursday.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
28 Aug 20
@LindaOHio It really is.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
28 Aug 20
@TheHorse You're right. It's such a shame.
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@snowy22315 (208962)
• United States
27 Aug 20
Of course the shooter was wrong, but so were the "demonstrators" and the police started the whole thing..I understand the heat of the moment and all that, but that guy was posing zero threat to them at that point...getting into his car...really??
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@snowy22315 (208962)
• United States
27 Aug 20
@TheHorse They had none obviously.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Oct 20
@snowy22315 Nothing is obvious to me. I like to collect as many facts as I can.
@LeaPea2417 (40032)
• Toccoa, Georgia
27 Aug 20
All of this is orchestrated for political purposes.
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@LeaPea2417 (40032)
• Toccoa, Georgia
28 Aug 20
@TheHorse Don't you think that the timing of the violent protests during an election year seems like it is planned? , That people in high places who have lots of money to pay the protesters , set it up?
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@wolfgirl569 (135791)
• Marion, Ohio
27 Aug 20
I did see a little piece about that but havent looked farther into it.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
27 Aug 20
my wife's cousin lives there, they haven't gone outside at night in a long time.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Aug 20
@DocAndersen I take it that it doesn't seem like the kind of town where massive violence would erupt.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
27 Aug 20
@TheHorse Kenosha, is a place i spent a lot of time in as a kid, i am shocked watching the news
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@jvicentevalera (13671)
• Santiago, Chile
27 Aug 20
As a foreigner I hold back to say something, I do not want to be inappropriate. I just hope one day a law nationwide help to reduce crime by the usage of irresponsible weapons out there!
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@jvicentevalera (13671)
• Santiago, Chile
28 Aug 20
@TheHorse those quotation marks really get my attention. Hahah
