8 dead in 3 separate shootings in Georgia

[Lennyjoe]

Looks like a 21 year old guy with spa issues. Or was it a lefty wanting to push the gun control agenda by making a statement?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-dead-shooting-georgia-massage-parlor-suspect-loose-n1261262?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm

[WLJ]

I was going to say something in the Biden gun control thread that now is about the time for a mass shooting to push the current bills over the edge in the senate not because of any tin-foil hattery but because Murphy is an ahole.

[Hawkmoon]

Looks like a 21 year old guy with spa issues. Or was it a lefty wanting to push the gun control agenda by making a statement?

Or a guy with Asian women issues.

[Fly320s]

Or a guy with Asian women issues.

I wonder if he was denied a "happy ending" at those places and he was angry about it. 

[lee n. field]

"Spa issues"?

[Lennyjoe]

Sounds more like Asian women issues.

[freakazoid]

Probably got turned away either all together or when he pushed for a happy ending, and decided to take it out on them.

[Ben]

I'm seeing lots of "covid racism" talk, even from conservatives, on the news this morning. Seems kinda racist to mix up Chinese and Koreans. Plus if you look at the guy's mugshot, and his target establishments, it seems kinda easy to pin a likely motive. But I guess that would be racist too, because then you're implying that all Korean massage parlors are "massage" parlors.

[WLJ]

I'm seeing lots of "covid racism" talk, even from conservatives, on the news this morning. Seems kinda racist to mix up Chinese and Koreans. Plus if you look at the guy's mugshot, and his target establishments, it seems kinda easy to pin a likely motive. But I guess that would be racist too, because then you're implying that all Korean massage parlors are "massage" parlors.

Trump's fault

https://www.theblaze.com/news/ted-lieu-atlanta-mass-killing-trump-kung-flu?utm_medium=push&utm_source=pushnami

[WLJ]

Georgia officials said Wednesday that the suspect in a series of shootings at Atlanta-area massage parlors that left eight people dead may have a "sexual addiction" and that it was too early to say if the attack was a hate crime.

Police arrested a white 21-year-old Georgia man who they say has taken responsibility for the shootings, while denying they were racially motivated, though many of the victims were women of Asian descent. Instead, officials told reporters that Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, said he was a frequent visitor of massage parlors and intended to eliminate the temptation he thought they posed. But officials wouldn’t say whether the parlors where the shootings occurred were places where sex took place.

He was on his way to Florida and intended to commit similar crimes there, they said.

Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant cautioned that it was too early to say if it was hate crime. But many members of the Asian American community said they felt they had been targeted.

https://www.wlky.com/article/georgia-massage-parlor-shootings/35857026

[HankB]

Note to self: Avoid shady people and shady businesses.

[Ben]

Well, this will be fodder for congress:

Long purchased the gun used in the shootings just hours earlier, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-shooting-suspect-police-attacks-not-racially-motivated-sex-addiction

It seems just about confirmed now, that this was not race based, but I'm betting the MSM and politicians will ignore the confession and all we will see is "white guy killed Asians due to white supremacy."

[Hawkmoon]

It seems just about confirmed now, that this was not race based, but I'm betting the MSM and politicians will ignore the confession and all we will see is "white guy killed Asians due to white supremacy."

Spot on.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9369859/Four-people-shot-dead-two-spas-Atlanta-hours-three-killed-massage-parlor.html

Initially, police said they were probing whether race was a factor in the attacks because six of the eight victims were Asian women.

But on Wednesday morning, they said Long told them that was not why he carried out the attacks. Instead, he said he is addicted to sex and porn, and wanted to remove the 'temptation' of the parlors.

So, basically, he was a religious nut who somehow rationalized that killing other people was the way to remove temptation from his life. In the face of this, we then have:

Biden condemned the increased number of hate crimes against Asians in his primetime speech last week, saying they have been ‘attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated’ because of the coronavirus pandemic.

‘It’s wrong. It’s un-American, and it must stop,’ he said.

Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, a minister, said ‘this kind of violence’ is driven by hate even if the suspect said that was not his motive.

‘Anybody who takes precious lives in that manner is driven by hate,’ he told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Yeah, twit brain -- SELF-hate. Not racial prejudice.

Embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted: 'Our hearts break for the 8 victims of the Georgia shootings last night, 6 of Asian descent.

'While we await details from Georgia, this much we do know: Hate crimes against Asian Americans have soared during COVID. And it must stop.

'NY will always stand up against bigotry & hate.'

"Never mind the facts. I need a good sound bite to clean up my image and distract y'all from trying to impeach me."

At a press conference on Wednesday, the Mayor of Atlanta said that while these killings do not seem to be have been driven by racism, there is a problem with anti-American-Asian hatred.

'Whether it is senseless violence that we've seen play out in our streets, or more targeted violence like we saw yesterday, a crime against any community is a crime against us all.'

So, even though the killings weren't racially motivated, they were still racist. Got it.

[Perd Hapley]

Oh, Cuomo chimed in on some guy killing a bunch of people. Right.

[WLJ]

So, even though the killings weren't racially motivated, they were still racist. Got it.

Do you recall a single recent killing where the killer was white and the victim was non-white that wasn't immediately labeled racially motivated even if it was in self defense?

[lee n. field]

Note to self: Avoid shady people and shady businesses.

The Rule of Stupid.

[Perd Hapley]

Do you recall a single recent killing where the killer was white and the victim was non-white that wasn't immediately labeled racially motivated even if it was in self defense?

I can think of some whites killed by whites, and it was called racism.

[freakazoid]

It seems like the left has really been cranking up the whites are racist against asians rhetoric more and more lately. I wonder if this is simply a build up to something with China and/or North Korea. The left setting up a situation now for something to come later. Sort of like them asking Trump if he would step down quietly for a "smooth transition of power", since they knew they were going to rig the election beforehand.

[Boomhauer]

It seems like the left has really been cranking up the whites are racist against asians rhetoric more and more lately. I wonder if this is simply a build up to something with China and/or North Korea. The left setting up a situation now for something to come later. Sort of like them asking Trump if he would step down quietly for a "smooth transition of power", since they knew they were going to rig the election beforehand.

But they ain’t saying *expletive deleted*it about urban youts attacking Asians.

[MillCreek]

So are these Korean workers just doing the jobs that Americans won't?  Why are they so prevalent in the spa/massage parlor business?  It is the same up here in Seattle as well.

[WLJ]

But they ain’t saying *expletive deleted*it about urban youts attacking Asians.

If it's happens every day and is the norm it's not news

Meanwhile in Chicago
https://heyjackass.com/
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 108
Shot & Wounded: 493
Total Shot: 601
Total Homicides: 114

[WLJ]

My head hurts

Alison Collins 高勵思
@AliMCollins
Replying to @AliMCollins
Many Asian Ss and Ts I know won't engage in critical race convos unless they see how they are impacted by white supremacy.
1:12 PM · Dec 4, 2016

Alison Collins 高勵思
@AliMCollins
Replying to @AliMCollins
Where are the vocal Asians speaking up against Trump? Don't Asian Americans know they are on his list as well?

Just. WOW! SF Board of Education Commissioner Alison Collins’ racist, anti-Asian tweets surface (this thread is especially BAD)
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2021/03/19/just-wow-sf-board-of-education-commissioner-alison-collins-racist-anti-asian-tweets-surface-this-thread-is-especially-bad/

[Hawkmoon]

Wow!

    I even see it in my FB timeline with former HS peers. Their TLs are full of White and Asian ppl. No recognition #BlackLivesMatter exists.

    — Alison Collins 高勵思 (@AliMCollins) December 4, 2016

Perhaps they don't show recognition of BLM because they recognize it as what it is -- a political sham and a cover for a racist, terrorist movement.

[Phyphor]

"It's all about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

[Ben]

Wow, cancel culture side note:

A sheriff was reported as saying the suspect "had a bad day" and that's why he went on the shooting spree. This is how it was reported from VOX (another reputable news source), and the sheriff is now in trouble.

However it turns out a (ironically, the founder of and former VOX) journalist listened to the entire news conference, and it appears that the sheriff was reading from the suspect's statement. The suspect said he was having a bad day - the sheriff did not.

Anyway, the sheriff is going through the wringer. Even Fox news seems to still reporting it as the sheriff making the statement (unless they update the story post my post).

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/03/19/vox-founder-matt-yglesias-fact-checks-the-bad-day-clip-from-voxs-aaron-rupar-in-the-shot-chaser-of-the-year/

https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-sheriff-said-shooting-suspect-bad-day-replaced