alternet – Authorities say a suspected gunman has been killed and an off-duty officer injured in a shootout outside a Walmart store in the east Texas town of Commerce.
Commerce spokeswoman Marty Cunningham says the incident Sunday began when police received a call of shots being fired from a red Ford Mustang at a bridge in the town of Greenville, about 50 miles northeast of Dallas. Source: CBS News
Lately there have been a lot of shootings by people that have decided to resort to violence for what they see as an inequitable and unjust society.
I don’t know if the recently reported Wal-Mart shooter is one of these.
In the CNN video below, the talking heads are claiming that conspiracy theories are pushing people over the edge.
But people are not resorting to violence because of conspiracies (real or imagined). They are resorting to violence because they see their circumstances as intolerable and their society as unjust.
I know there are conspiracies. The government prosecutes criminals all the time for engaging in them. But that doesn’t make me want to shoot people. In fact, just the opposite. I want to make a real peaceful change so that we don’t have people resorting to violence.
But, as I have warned, we will see more and more people resorting to violence over the societal situation. Sure they are mentally unstable. But they are often pushed over the edge because of what they see going on around them.
When we have a break down in social justice and in a sense of fairness, and people don’t see peaceful alternatives, many will resort to violence…Grant Lawrence
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