The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.

A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.

“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “He wanted to kill n------.”

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      Also, the gun had nothing to do with it. It was because our country does nothing about the mental health crisis.

      What? Government subsidized mental health care? What are you, a commie?

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        It’s a joke on how white mass shooters are portrayed as victims of society instead of as terrorists

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          I mean… aren’t they both?

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            Yes yes we’re all tragedies of pseudo-random determinism, 7 billion products of our environment, very sad much insight.

            That’s why you have to put down the rabid dogs humanely.

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            Yes, but thats’s removing responsibility on the perpetrator’s part, and we obviously can’t do that. We’re assumed to be responsible for our actions.

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              We can hold someone responsible for their own actions while still acknowledging that people are a product of their own environment and try to study and address the underlying societal/economic conditions that led to these situations occurring in the first place.

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          No, it’s very clearly a “joke” about how the left oftentimes attributes crime in urban areas to socioeconomic conditions.

          The original commenter here is simultaneously making light of a right-wing shooter with racist manifestos and also making fun of the left.

          Nothing has gone over my head.

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          No. The intent of the commenter’s comment is very clear to me and I guarantee he’s laughing at the fact his comment was upvoted while mine was downvoted.

          Check his comment history. He’s a right-wing troll.