White-nationalist group that influenced alleged Charleston shooter is subsidized by American taxpayers. The Council of Conservative Citizens has had tax exempt status since 1985.
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By comparison, Blumenthal was asked by those same Republicans fewer than 20 questions about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, only four questions about U.S. security there, and zero questions about the U.S. presence in Benghazi, according to a fact sheet circulated by Democratic committee staff. The chairman of the House Select Committee, Rep. The hipster is dead, and you might not like who comes next. What do we call me?
US Mass Shootings, 1982-2012: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation. Editor's note: This dataset originally covered 1982-2012 and has since been expanded through 2016.
For more context and analysis, see our Guide to Mass Shootings in America. You can also download this data in CSV, XLS, or TXT formats, or click here for the full Google spreadsheet view. (The embedded version below does not support expanding the cells to see the full text in some places, but you can access it these other ways.) It’s not about mental illness: The big lie that always follows mass shootings... I get really really tired of hearing the phrase “mental illness” thrown around as a way to avoid saying other terms like “toxic masculinity,” “white supremacy,” “misogyny” or “racism.”
We barely know anything about the suspect in the Charleston, South Carolina, atrocity. We certainly don’t have testimony from a mental health professional responsible for his care that he suffered from any specific mental illness, or that he suffered from a mental illness at all. We do have statistics showing that the vast majority of people who commit acts of violence do not have a diagnosis of mental illness and, conversely, people who have mental illness are far more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators. But the media insists on trotting out “mental illness” and blaring out that phrase nonstop in the wake of any mass killing.
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Clementa Pinckney. A suspect, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, was captured after a 14-hour manhunt. When the gunman let a witness go free, he allegedly said, according to a cousin of a victim, "I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country," referring to the black community. Why the GOP Hates Talking About Hate: Conservatives Don’t Want to Confront Racism in Charleston Shooting. The queer rapper has made his HIV positive status public.
Will the world of rap embrace or turn on him? “Oh this fag can rap? Yeah, they saying that. Hate Crimes Are an American Problem, Not an Aberration No decent human being would attempt to rationalize the vicious murder of 9 Black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston.
But we are seeing a dangerous narrative put forth by many that underestimates the prevalent racist attitudes that fosters terror attacks against the Black community. The racist flags on Dylann Roof's jacket, explained. Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old man suspected of walking into a historically black church and massacring nine parishioners, is in all likelihood a white supremacist.
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National Rifle Association board member Charles L. Cotton wrote that the victims of a mass shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church died because of Reverend Clementa Pinckney's advocacy for gun safety laws. Pinckney, along with eight others, was killed by a gunman during a June 17 attack at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 2013, Pinckney, who was also a South Carolina State Senator, introduced legislation to require more comprehensive background checks on gun sales and supported several other gun safety measures during his career as a legislator. Why the Confederate flag started trending after the Charleston shooting. UPDATE: It was reported later that suspect Dylann Roof drove a car with Confederate flag licence plates. In the wake of the mass shooting in South Carolina, the image of the Confederate flag started trending online - driven by liberals who blame it for stoking racism in America.
As news broke of a mass shooting which killed nine in a church in Charleston in the state of South Carolina, a mostly predictable reaction developed online. But alongside trending phrases such as "Charleston shooting" and "Black lives matter", another term became a top US trend on Twitter: "Confederate". It's a reference to the red and blue Confederate battle flag, which 150 years after the American Civil War is still flown outside South Carolina's state house.
With anger, sadness, Obama says church shooting shows need for reckoning on access to guns. WASHINGTON — Giving voice to intense heartache, anger and sadness, President Barack Obama said Thursday the South Carolina church shooting that left nine people dead shows the need for a national reckoning on gun violence. The Creepy Fundamentalist Homeschool Cult That Trained the Duggars. Police Report Reveals the Duggar Discipline Method: "They Have a Rod" The J-curve – James C. Davies’ Theory of Revolutions.
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Of the 50 U.S. hospitals that mark up prices the most, 49 of them are part of for-profit hospital chains, according to the study’s authors, Ge Bai of Washington & Lee University and Gerard Anderson of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Concentration Camps in the Dominican Republic? Share. Dominican Republic to be 'Socially Cleaned' in two days. British Leader to Scott Walker: I Never Dissed Obama. Guests arrived at the community college to a soundtrack that included rapper Pitbull. I thought homeschooling my kids would be simple. I was wrong. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Cries During Meeting About State Budget He Dest...
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