Wisconsin Death Trip

[Lemur]

Seems my state is host to the latest shooting rampage.

Word is that the dude was member of a white power punk band and an army vet. He claimed on his website that he had been active in the white power movement since 2000. SPLC was supposedly tracking him for a decade.

Which leads me to ask—why Sikhs, of all people?




(P.S.: For those who miss the reference, Wisconsin death trip has been a book, a film, and an album.)

[rvg]

Which leads me to ask -- of all people why Sikhs, of all people?

Too dumb to tell the difference between Sikhs and Muslims perhaps? Evil and stupid oftentimes go hand in hand.

[Vladimir]

Too dumb to tell the difference between Sikhs and Muslims perhaps? Evil and stupid oftentimes go hand in hand.

And likely lazy too, or maybe a coward. Going after people that fit enough of his criteria but offer less resistance.

[drone]

Which leads me to ask -- of all people why Sikhs, of all people?

Because most people in this country don't have the faintest idea who the Sikhs are. Brown people with turbans, must be a-rab terrorists. We all know Americans fail at geography, Sikhs have been targeted since 9/11.

[Centurion1]

Seems my state is host to the latest shooting rampage.

Word is that the dude was member of a white power punk band and an army vet. He claimed on his website that he had been active in the white power movement since 2000. SPLC was supposedly tracking him for a decade.

Which leads me to ask—why Sikhs, of all people?




(P.S.: For those who miss the reference, Wisconsin death trip has been a book, a film, and an album.)

methinks nazis spend little time on distinguishing between those of darker persuasion.

Anyway nasty stuff he took down 7 worshipers and a police officer with a single handgun it appears. Not even an assault rifle this time.

Pray for thevictims, all the Sikhs I have ever met (few tohugh that may be) have been wonderful people.

[Lemur]

Agreed, I went to high school with a Sikh, and he was very much a good person. I'm sure some Sikhs are rotten jerks, but the few I have known have been very cool.

I will be interested to hear if this is actually a case of "they were brown and wore turbans" or something more ... specific ...

[Vuk]

We were having almost no shootings at all, and then in just a month's time, we have been having megatons of shootings and almost-shootings. Am I the only one who finds that suspicious? I mean, did a whole bunch of wackos just decide to go wacko all at the same time, or is it not more likely that people are doing the shootings to try to encourage more gun-control laws? A guy in military intelligence didn't know the difference between muslims and Sikhs? Really?

[rvg]

We were having almost no shootings at all, and then in just a month's time, we have been having megatons of shootings and almost-shootings. Am I the only one who finds that suspicious? I mean, did a whole bunch of wackos just decide to go wacko all at the same time, or is it not more likely that people are doing the shootings to try to encourage more gun-control laws?

Unlikely.

A guy in military intelligence didn't know the difference between muslims and Sikhs? Really?

He's been out of the military since '98. Lots of time to lose his marbles.

[Lemur]

[I]s it not more likely that people are doing the shootings to try to encourage more gun-control laws?

[Papewaio]

If i roll a dice and get a 6 two times in a row it isn't a conspiracy.

Stats, clusters and copy cats. Plenty of sharper simpler explanations.

[ajaxfetish]

or is it not more likely that people are doing the shootings to try to encourage more gun-control laws?

Um, no. Definitely not more likely.

Ajax

[Fragony]

We were having almost no shootings at all, and then in just a month's time, we have been having megatons of shootings and almost-shootings. Am I the only one who finds that suspicious? I mean, did a whole bunch of wackos just decide to go wacko all at the same time, or is it not more likely that people are doing the shootings to try to encourage more gun-control laws? A guy in military intelligence didn't know the difference between muslims and Sikhs? Really?

Some hillbilly not knowing, not so unlikely. RIP victims

[ICantSpellDawg]

That man is a terrorist. His actions are despicable. I hate jack-booted Nazi thugs (The originals were so much more interesting and I've always hated the S.A.). Remember when the Nazi party was like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho?

[Major Robert Dump]

We were having almost no shootings at all, and then in just a month's time, we have been having megatons of shootings and almost-shootings. Am I the only one who finds that suspicious? I mean, did a whole bunch of wackos just decide to go wacko all at the same time, or is it not more likely that people are doing the shootings to try to encourage more gun-control laws? A guy in military intelligence didn't know the difference between muslims and Sikhs? Really?

Flattering, really. It would not be unusual for an MI person not to be able to make this cultural distinction. It would not be unusual for an American, period, not to be able to make this cultural distinction.

[Strike For The South]

We were having almost no shootings at all, and then in just a month's time, we have been having megatons of shootings and almost-shootings. Am I the only one who finds that suspicious? I mean, did a whole bunch of wackos just decide to go wacko all at the same time, or is it not more likely that people are doing the shootings to try to encourage more gun-control laws? A guy in military intelligence didn't know the difference between muslims and Sikhs? Really?