Four Marines killed in a rampage shooting, coincidentally occurring a few weeks after another one

[Baron Scicluna]

Probably was checking to see if what he did would qualify him for the 72 virgins. He sounds like a guy who needed to get laid.

 

[Dick Whitman]

We're getting closer to a motive, and to me being right on multiple levels:

Counterterrorism investigators have uncovered evidence the gunman who killed five service members last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., searched the Internet in the days leading up to the attack for Islamic materials about whether martyrdom would lead to forgiveness for his sins, like drunkenness and financial debt, according to law enforcement officials.

The searches are one part of a nuanced portrait of the 24-year-old gunman, Mohammod Abdulazeez, that investigators have patched together based on examinations of his electronic and online communications and interviews with his family and friends. The F.B.I., which is leading the investigation, has become increasingly convinced that Mr. Abdulazeez, who died in a shootout with police, turned to radical ideology as he struggled with severe mental health and financial issues, the officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/us/chattanooga-gunman-mohammod-abdulazeez.html

Of course you're right. We were all 99 percent sure that radical Islam motivated him.

But you're the biggest media critic here, with frequent spot-on criticism when the media reports without the facts to support its assertions.

And yet in this situation - whenever it arises - you want the media to treat speculation as fact.

You compare this to Dylann Roof, but by 5 a.m. the next morning, the chief of police of Charleston stood at a podium and himself called it a hate crime, from Roof's mouth to his.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Yeah, I think that it will come down to getting his head turned around by the web sermons and religious exhortations he was getting. He wouldn't be the first, or the last, fundamentalist who did something reprehensible in the name of his religion.

 

[Riptide]

Remember: If guns and drones are outlawed,
only outlaws will own guns and drones ...

 

[Alma]

Of course you're right. We were all 99 percent sure that radical Islam motivated him.

But you're the biggest media critic here, with frequent spot-on criticism when the media reports without the facts to support its assertions.

And yet in this situation - whenever it arises - you want the media to treat speculation as fact.

You compare this to Dylann Roof, but by 5 a.m. the next morning, the chief of police of Charleston stood at a podium and himself called it a hate crime, from Roof's mouth to his.

Damn good points. I don't know what the rebuttal would be. Media...must...declare...faster!

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Our heroes:

Armed man fires accidental shot near recruit center

 

[JohnHammond]

 

[Baron Scicluna]

They will pry my Sprint phone put of my cold dead hands.

 

[JohnHammond]

 

[YankeeFan]

 

[SpeedTchr]

They will pry my Sprint phone put of my cold dead hands.

Which is ok, since it probably only gets 2 bars in that shirtass town with the Deliverance boys standing guard.

 

[doctorquant]

The mattress is mildewed and lumpy ...
But you fall fast asleep where you lay ...
Under the lump, there's a 20-gauge pump ...
'Cause they'd just as soon blow you away