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When you know race the narrative changes.
When he's white-every excuse is tossed out and a trip to Burger King for lunch is provided.
Any other race and if he is not killed-it's every reason including blaming Obama and even the Black Panther movie.
When the bottom line is we need better gun control and better ways to deal with stuff like bullying and harassment.
We can't keep cherry picking stuff because we need it to fit some stupid narrative.
When one of these happen, I think of this quote from a doctor working in a trauma center that appeared in the Huffpost:
“As a country,” Goldberg said, “we lost our teachable moment.” She started talking about the 2012 murder of 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Goldberg said that if people had been shown the autopsy photos of the kids, the gun debate would have been transformed. “The fact that not a single one of those kids was able to be transported to a hospital, tells me that they were not just dead, but really really really really dead. Ten-year-old kids, riddled with bullets, dead as doornails.”
Such a terrible thing to have happened today.
Let's deal with actual facts.
Diabetes is bad, that much you didn't screw up. However, you have no understanding of diabetes of any type at all. Sugar, even excessive sugar does not cause diabetes. It's a myth shot down by the JDRF, the American Diabetes Association, and the Joslin Clinic. Do yourself a favor and the next time you feel like uttering the word diabetes, just SHUT THE FUCK UP. You'll sound like much less of a judgmental moron then.
Also worth noting is the value of Sweet Tarts as an efficient remedy for real diabetics having real hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) episodes.
In hindsight, perhaps there never was a teachable moment after Sandy Hook, not while politicians beholden to the NRA and the gun lobby would bend over backwards to prevent enactment of even moderate gun control legislation. Not while right wing lunatics and conspiracy freaks ranted that the massacre was a “false flag” and was staged in an attempt by President Obama to take everyone’s guns. Just like after Sandy Hook, Aurora, Pulse nightclub and other tragedies, politicians will do nothing more than offer meaningless “thoughts and prayers”, then sit on their hands while waiting for NRA checks to arrive.
Avatar: Here's to the late, great Steve Dillon. Best. Punisher. Artist. EVER!
my gay girlfriend who lives in greece asked me to move in with her because everytime she looks at the news, another mass shooting happens here and she's scared i'm gonna get shot by some nutter with a big gun.
i didn't know what to tell her.
It's not the most reassuring thing you could say, but other things are much more likely to kill you.
There were 17,250 homicides in 2016, but that's a fraction of the fatalities of other major causes...
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php
35 times more people die of heart disease.
34 times more people die of cancer.
8 times more people die of accidents.
7 times more people die of strokes.
Hell, more than twice as many people die of suicide (the tenth leading cause of death in the US.)
The people providing the money can have some say in how it's spent.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets