BALANCE

For those interested in truth, as opposed to political partisanship, poor old DonDiego notes:

The whacko-shooter in El Paso was a Trump Supporter:

Ref: Patrick Crusius

The whacko-shooter in Dayton was a self-described "leftist" and Elizabeth Warren Supporter:

Ref: Conner Betts

DonDiego opines that both of the shooters were twisted souls, . . . influenced w-a-a-a-a-y too much by extreme political bias.

Sleepy Joe thought the shootings were in Houston & Michigan. 

Baltimore which has strict gun control laws just had their 200th murder of the year. 

Chicago which also has strict gun control had 3 shootings totaling 30 people this past weekend. 

There are 10 million so called assault rifles in the US. The probably of one being used in a mass shooting is .000001%. The focus needs to be on the mentally ill. 

I read that Chicago had 49 shot and 6 killed over the weekend, but who's counting?

Don Diego brings up a accurate point that the shooters are radicalized nuts.

Did the Dayton shooter suggest his politics motivated his shooting like the El Paso shooter?   Did he envoke Elizabeth Warren's speech or create a leftist manifesto explaining his motivations?   No?  Oh.   

Thanks for the unbalanced false equivalency.

Indeed - Both shooters were nuts....but only one was radicalized by extremist political rhetoric (kinda the same way Al Queada members are).     I suspect DonDiego and Boilerman would have a hard time writing off Al Queada as mentally ill weirdos as oppossed to political terrorists.   

Whats the "balanced" term for people who condemn violence but deny or ignore the motivation behind it?     

So, . . . . like, . . . . who pissed in PJStroh's Cheerios this morning ? ? ?

_ _ _ EDITED TO ADD_ _ _ 

DonDiego suggests PJStroh check out the link to Connor Betts in the original post.

I consider myself more of a Captain Crunch man....preferably without urine.  

But back to the topic at hand:

"Liking" something and "being motivated" by something are not the same thing.    And I find it more than a little difficult to believe DonDiego does not understand this dynamic.   

But just in case:

Osama Bin Laden "liked" AFC soccer - but it was irrelevant to his architecture of 9/11.   

The El Paso shooter "liked" Star Trek but did not cite William Shattner as any relation to his spree.   

In both instances there were well documented reasons for the attacks.   It would seem the documented reasons in the El Paso shooting make DonDIego uncomfortable hence his "balanced" false equivalency in the weekends events and aformentioned relationship in phrases.

Who's Counting ?

These guys: Hey JackAss !

Regarding PJStroh's post of 10:10am suggesting DonDiego is uncomfortable:

i. Nothing about the shootings have anything to do with poor old DonDiego.  DonDiego initiated this thread specifically to avoid political/personal unpleasantness on the LVA, because both these incidents were the result of nutcases, . . . specifically nutcases who's political dogmas drove them to become mass-murderers.

Based on the link which poor old DonDiego supplied:

__Mr. Crusius was motivated by a dislike of folks crossing the US Borders and entering the USA illegally.  

__Mr. Betts had tweeted: "I want Socialism, and I'll not wait for the idiots to finally come 'round to understanding."

ii. Apparently, in PJStroh's evaluation a politically-driven nutcase opposed to "open borders" is much, MUCH, MUCH worse than a politically-driven nutcase opposed to an absence of Socialism.  This may suggest PJStroh has a problem.

iii. HELL YES ! ! !  Everything about both events makes DonDiego uncomfortable.  If PJStroh believes one of the shooters' motivations to be superior to the other's that is PJStroh's problem.

iiia. DonDiego apologizes if his observation makes PJ Stroh "uncomfortable".

I generally like Don Diego's posts.  I find them amusing even though I don't agree with him most of the time.  However, he has really managed to plumb new depths with this thread.  I agree with PJ it seems Don Diego is frantically looking for something he can spin as being just as bad so he can justify his own complicity in voting and otherwise continuing to support the white supremacist in the White House whose racial vitriol is radicalizing a whole generation of young conservatives. 

There is no comparison between the two. Conner Betts targeted his sister and has a history of mental illness. His motivation wasn't to make a political statement, he didn't write a manifesto and he didn't target people because of their skin color, religion or their perceived political affiliation.  He didn't quote Elizabeth Warren and he didn't reference a liberal conspircy theory.

Patrick Crusius has no history of mental illness.  He wrote a political manifesto in which he quoted the President and cited a popular conservative conspircy theory (replacement theory).  He drove several hours to specifically target Latinos.  This guy is not crazy. He is a guy that got radicalized by the conservative media and the President.  He isn't any different than radical young Muslims that strap suicide vests on after being recruited.  Trump is just like the guys that recruit those radical Muslim suicide bombers.  He doesn't pull the trigger or make the bomb, but he does his best to indoctrinate them, subtly convince them to take action and his government makes sure they have easy access to the weapons to carry out their mission. 

I can understand why Don Diego would feel the need to rationalize his part in supporting this kind of thing.

From my last post:

"Liking" something and "being motivated" by something are not the same thing.    And I find it more than a little difficult to believe DonDiego does not understand this dynamic.

I stand corrected. 

Clearly,  DonDiego does not understand this dynamic.    

This is officially DonDiego's motive for the Dayton shooting rampage....

"a politically-driven nutcase opposed to an absence of Socialism."

Note to readers:   Dont bother trying to find that same inference from any law enforcement, investigating agency, or reporters outside the Info-Wars sphere.    You wont find it.    But in DonDiego's defense it sure makes the shootings look balanced, doesn't it?