Anti-Asian racism in Georgia

Sunny said:
911, your first paragraph makes absolute sense. Your second paragraph is questionable, in view of the fact that every single victim was Asian. Could that have just been a coincidence? The guy suffers a sex addiction and decides to shoot a whole bunch of people (although I don't really see what the addiction and the shooting have to do with each other, especially since he was also shooting at men), and they just all happened to turn out to be Asians? Even though he traveled many miles to get from one "spa" to another? So it couldn't be blamed on just being in an Asian neighborhood?

Clearly, he was aiming at a particular category of victim. Why were all of them Asians? Certainly, the "hate crime" element has to at least be investigated.
Click to expand...
Correct. Race is definitely an element. Either he randomly chose Asian establishments to terrorize or he specifically chose to terrorize the establishments that he had frequented prior to the shooting. Either way ....... race plays a big part in his crime.
 

Sunny said:
911, your first paragraph makes absolute sense. Your second paragraph is questionable, in view of the fact that every single victim was Asian. Could that have just been a coincidence? The guy suffers a sex addiction and decides to shoot a whole bunch of people (although I don't really see what the addiction and the shooting have to do with each other, especially since he was also shooting at men), and they just all happened to turn out to be Asians? Even though he traveled many miles to get from one "spa" to another? So it couldn't be blamed on just being in an Asian neighborhood?

Clearly, he was aiming at a particular category of victim. Why were all of them Asians? Certainly, the "hate crime" element has to at least be investigated.
Click to expand...
Supposedly, the shooter, Robert Long,had visited the spas or at least 2 of them previously. He had been seeing a psychiatrist and attempting to give up sex, but recently fell off the wagon. Long is a very religious person and participated in his church’s activities.

It would be nice if we could get inside his head, but that’s not going to happen, so we almost have to take his word when he says it was not racially motivated, or at least until it’s proven otherwise.
 
I first started hearing about hate crimes against Asians many months ago after the term "China virus" was used by you know who. There were several beatings in the NY metropolitan area. Of course this horrible shooting was the worst I've seen reported yet. Just before this happened there was another report of an elderly Asian man being beaten so badly that part of his face was purple. I hope every last perpetrator of these horrible crimes is punished to the fullest extent of the law.

And I have to point this out. Notice how White mass murderers get to live to face the justice system while Black people who may not have done nearly as heinous a crime or any crime at all...don't?! Oh the officers feared for their lives when approaching them? Get the hell outta here! It happens over and over again and it's sickening!! And very angering. :mad: I just read another thing about this incident that made me sad and angry today. Mario Gonzalez, aHispanic man (aka man of color) who had gone to the spa for a relaxing spa day with his wife, who was killed, was treated badly and handcuffed since police assumed he must've been involved. He kept asking about his wife and they blew him off. People vouched for who he was but that was blown off too. He didn't find out until two hours later that his wife had been killed. :cry::mad:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/mario-gonzalez-atlanta-spa-shooting-handcuffs.html
@Pecos @UsernameRSP
 
Last edited:
OneEyedDiva said:
I first started hearing about hate crimes against Asians many months ago after the term "China virus" was used by you know who. There were several beatings in the NY metropolitan area. Of course this horrible shooting was the worst I've seen reported yet. Just before this happened there was another report of an elderly Asian man being beaten so badly that part of his face was purple. I hope every last perpetrator of these horrible crimes is punished to the fullest extent of the law.

And I have to point this out. Notice how White mass murderers get to live to face the justice system while Black people who may not have done nearly as heinous a crime or any crime at all...don't?! Oh the officers feared for their lives when approaching them? Get the hell outta here! It happens over and over again and it's sickening!! And very angering. :mad: I just read another thing about this incident that made me sad and angry today. Mario Gonzalez, aHispanic man (aka man of color) who had gone to the spa for a relaxing spa day with his wife, who was killed, was treated badly and handcuffed since police assumed he must've been involved. He kept asking about his wife and they blew him off. People vouched for who he was but that was blown off too. He didn't find out until two hours later that his wife had been killed. :cry::mad:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/mario-gonzalez-atlanta-spa-shooting-handcuffs.html
@Pecos @UsernameRSP
Click to expand...
Right you are! In the Dylan Roof mass murder case in South Carolina, the cops arrested him without firing a shot (Did not fear for their lives). Furthermore and because of Roof's dominant caste fragility, the cops actually bought him Burger King after the arrest. No kidding!

https://abc7.com/dylann-roof-south-...g-emanuel-african-methodist-episcopal/801013/
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I just read another thing about this incident that made me sad and angry today. Mario Gonzalez, aHispanic man (aka man of color) who had gone to the spa for a relaxing spa day with his wife, who was killed, was treated badly and handcuffed since police assumed he must've been involved. He kept asking about his wife and they blew him off. People vouched for who he was but that was blown off too. He didn't find out until two hours later that his wife had been killed. :cry::mad:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/mario-gonzalez-atlanta-spa-shooting-handcuffs.html
@Pecos @UsernameRSP
Click to expand...
Par for course. I remember a police shooting back I believe it was in the '80 in NYC. A plain clothes black cop was chasing a white suspect. Uniformed cops came upon the situation and end up shooting/killing a fellow officer based on racist assumptions.
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
Par for course. I remember a police shooting back I believe it was in the '80 in NYC. A plain clothes black cop was chasing a white suspect. Uniformed cops came upon the situation and end up shooting/killing a fellow officer based on racist assumptions.
Click to expand...
Do you remember a couple of years back the same thing happened to a Black security guard who was trying to detain a suspect. Cops were told he was the good guy trying to subdue the bad guy, who if I remember correctly was White, but they shot him anyway. I think he died.
 
Irwin said:
Unless you're a white Christian male in the U.S., you've probably experienced some form of prejudice. On second thought, even if you're white, you've probably been called "white boy" at some time in your life. Prejudice is the American way! :ROFLMAO:
Click to expand...
"Prejudice" is not so bad. It's "racism" that's the American scourge.
 
911 said:
Supposedly, the shooter, Robert Long,had visited the spas or at least 2 of them previously. He had been seeing a psychiatrist and attempting to give up sex, but recently fell off the wagon. Long is a very religious person and participated in his church’s activities.

It would be nice if we could get inside his head, but that’s not going to happen, so we almost have to take his word when he says it was not racially motivated, or at least until it’s proven otherwise.
Click to expand...
Another question we have to ask is 'If guns were not easily available, would this crime have happened?'
In Britain, gun laws are much stricter. However, I don't doubt that incidents like this would happen here too, if it was easy to get your hands on a gun.
 
Verisure said:
That's right. If the U.S. is uninterested in fixing its social problems then removing guns at least helps.
Click to expand...
Not sure how that would work to help.
There are just as many unregistered guns as there are registered guns.

A lot of people buy guns, they may be registered ok, but then they sell that gun and the next owner doesn't register it. Now it's in the hands of an unknown person.

Before having to have background checks there were guns being sold so that still leaves a lot of guns floating around somewhere.

So let's confiscate everyone's guns. Ok, how?

You only have paper work on registered guns.

So you go after those. Ok, what about all those other guns?

What about hunting rifles?
Do we hunt them down and confiscate them too?

They can be used to kill people also.

If it became law to turn in your guns, law abiding people would comply. But do you honestly think that those who could've buy a gun legally would jump in line to hand over their guns?

Who are they? Where are they? How would you get their guns?

And now the guns not turned over, not found are out there in the hands of possibly persons will bad intentions.

So now, would the US be safer after guns removed? No, it's much more dangerous.
 
Becky1951 said:
Alrighty then, you have it all worked out.

Except the part where all the guns are removed. And the part where the unstable persons still have guns.

Logic = it can't be done.
Click to expand...
You can't reduce the number of handguns? Land o' Goshen! Sounds like laziness to me.
 
win231 said:
Simple "Solutions" never work for complicated problems.
Much like saying, "If you want to lose weight, just eat less."
Click to expand...
Simple "Solutions" work wonders for simple steps in the right direction.
Much like saying, "If you take one step at a time you will eventually arrive at your destination."
 
Verisure said:
You can't reduce the number of handguns? Land o' Goshen! Sounds like laziness to me.
Click to expand...
Ok whatever 🤣🤣🤣

You obviously cannot grasp the scope of the problem, therefore it seems simple to you. It's all just a matter of laziness in your eyes. 😥😥😥

I'll not waste my time with further replies to you since you have no real understanding of the task it would be to remove all guns. Its impossible.

But hey if you come up with a plan of how to accomplish that, be sure to let us know!
 
Becky1951 said:
Ok whatever 🤣🤣🤣

You obviously cannot grasp the scope of the problem, therefore it seems simple to you. It's all just a matter of laziness in your eyes. 😥😥😥

I'll not waste my time with further replies to you since you have no real understanding of the task it would be to remove all guns. Its impossible.

But hey if you come up with a plan of how to accomplish that, be sure to let us know!
Click to expand...
If you don't actually read what I have written, but respond anyway ..... then it's not my fault if you are confused. (n)
 
Last edited:
Obviously, the guns that are already out there would remain out there. But we certainly could make it harder for people to buy guns. How do so many disturbed, psychotic, hate-filled individuals manage to go into a gun store and just buy a gun, as if they were buying a loaf of bread?

A lot of these mass shootings, perhaps most of them, are committed with guns that were recently bought.
 
Verisure said:
Simple "Solutions" work wonders for simple steps in the right direction.
Much like saying, "If you take one step at a time you will eventually arrive at your destination."
Click to expand...
Yes, but the steps have to be productive to be useful. We have restrictions that are designed to prevent possession of cocaine & other illegal drugs. How are those restrictions helping?
How would you propose to prevent possession of guns by those with evil intent? You can say, "Take the guns away." Please explain a process that would work.
We have laws against drunk driving. Did those laws prevent the deaths of Princess Dianna? Or Ted Kennedy's teenage mistress?

Laws work - IF people obey them. The problem is, criminals don't obey laws. Law-abiding people do obey laws. So, if guns were illegal, good people would not have them, but bad people would still have them; leaving good people at the mercy of bad people.

Possession of firearms by mentally-ill persons is also illegal. But, that law didn't prevent Adam Lanza's idiotic mother from providing her mentally-ill son, Adam, with several firearms which he used to kill 26 children & teachers at an elementary school.
 
Sunny said:
Obviously, the guns that are already out there would remain out there. But we certainly could make it harder for people to buy guns. How do so many disturbed, psychotic, hate-filled individuals manage to go into a gun store and just buy a gun, as if they were buying a loaf of bread?

A lot of these mass shootings, perhaps most of them, are committed with guns that were recently bought.
Click to expand...
You ask, how is it so easy to purchase a handgun? Because the gun manufactures and the NRA are in cahoots. We're talkin' money!
 
Sunny said:
Obviously, the guns that are already out there would remain out there. But we certainly could make it harder for people to buy guns. How do so many disturbed, psychotic, hate-filled individuals manage to go into a gun store and just buy a gun, as if they were buying a loaf of bread?

A lot of these mass shootings, perhaps most of them, are committed with guns that were recently bought.
Click to expand...
I've bought many loaves of bread in my time & they let me walk out of the store without any problem or carbohydrate check. 😁
I had to pay for & pass a detailed background check & written test & wait 10 days before taking possession of a gun. And I had to repeat that process for each gun.
But they let me drive away in my new car in an hour. "Approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year; on average 3,700 people lose their lives every day on the roads. An additional 20-50 million suffer non-fatal injuries, often resulting in long-term disabilities."

And Tim McVeigh killed 186 people in less than one second in Oklahoma - something no gun could do. With legally-purchased diesel fuel & fertilizer. Man is an evil species.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top