2 officers shot at Dallas Texas police protest

Big difference between protesting and armed protest.

 

It was not. They weren't doing it for protection. It was the same stupid chant that they were doing before. They were walking TOWARDS the cops. You're picturing people cowering in fear and saying "DON'T SHOOT!"

I'm saying these were people who were walking towards the cop cars with their hands raised mindlessly droning "Don't shoot. Don't shoot." It wasn't for their safety.

 

The national media changes the narrative. They are not impartial news sources, they make their decisions to report in a way that they see fit. There is no news anymore, they are politically aligned vehicles of propaganda.

Obama has been flaming these movements. He assumes those shot and killed were victims of police brutality before any investigation whatsoever. This is clearly a case of a Black on White hate crime/terrorist attack, yet the focus will be still on Gun Control Legislation and how young black males are victims.

 

Hey, its a list made without any kind of due process or accountability so why the hell not.

 

You're fooling yourself if you think its only 7 kids.

 

bullshit...Obama has been equally pissed at all the white, muslim and black shooting sprees during his administration...those students in Oregon weren't black males or the kids in the movie theater in Denver or that Amish School massacre..c'mon man...you're excercising tunnel vision to use Obama as your scapegoat. He wants gun control....that's your issue here it seems

 

If ever there was a shooting where guns were not to blame, this is it.

There is SO much more involved here than guns. Take your pick.

Police brutality/violence
Racial relations
Media overhyping something to create conflict/generate views and clicks
BLM basically serving as a conduit for violence towards the police

Guns aren't even in the top 3 or 4 reasons why this happened.

 

You're fooling yourself if you think young people lacking in perspective doing dumb but non-violent things is an important part of the story.

 

This is an oxymoron if I ever read one....it's like a chicken without an egg

 

Really? You think cheering the deaths of white Police officers is not an important part of the overall story of racial divide in this country?

Come on. You are smarter than that.

 

Guns are never the reason why something happens. The underlying cause is always something else, like hatred stemming from myriad factors or good old-fashioned mental/emotional imbalances. Guns are the enabling factor. Even if there were no guns, there would still be violence. But no one's going to successfully cut down 6 police officers with a dagger or machete. Guns have become an easily-acquired force multiplier for much more complicated problems.

 

Well and various bombs.

 

That they were "cheering the deaths of white officers" is your interpretation, which is obviously heavily subject to bias. It looked to me (and yes, my own perceptions are an interpretation subject to bias) like they were essentially taunting/trash-talking police officers. I think that's stupid, especially in this context, but it's a far different action from what you're imputing to them.

 

I remember when Martin Luther King was killed the riots in Washington DC.....there's a long history of racial tension...this whole problem didn't start yesterday and the protesters who get out of hand should be dealt with accordingly but I've never heard so many stories in a year of cops killing people as a go to move than I've heard this past year. There's no good spin to this tragedy and no doubt innocent policemen died...

 

Bombs are much, much harder to target. Killing police officers specifically with a bomb would be extremely difficult. Bombs are used for untargeted damage, death and disturbance.

 

Either or, the end-result is the same. Creating tension and racial division. Which, is an important part of the overall story of this country and needs to be eradicated. (along with abuse of power by some police).

 

The whole point is that everyone is important...no need to pick teams if we are actually a United States

 

How do you "eradicate" what amounts to impoliteness without heavily curtailing the first amendment? Do you also endorse "eradicating" any rudeness by the police? Or does this amount to, "People I disagree with should be much more heavily regulated" (in terms of speech--I realize you also implicated police brutality).

 

Exactly why I said that behavior needs to be eradicated from this country, in my very first post about that video.

I was only speaking to that specific video. But I also believe in police reform as well.