Twitter beef finally gets someone killed

You are absolutely right. Instead of PROgressing, we are REgressing. We have more than ever before, people are better off than they have ever been, but are more dissatisfied with their lives than ever before. The way we treat each other has deteriorated to the point that the whole country has no respect or regard for our fellow man. Life is indeed cheap, and people will kill one another without batting an eye. Nope, no progression here. And it keeps getting worse. I dread thinking about where and how the human race will be in 30 years.

That is only because you're only focusing on the bottom end of the curve.

Evolution applies everywhere. There is progress but just as there are more people in grade school than in college because it takes longer and more effort to get to college.

There are more people at the bottom end of the curve because everyone is born at square one and it takes more time to progress to the top so there are less of them there.

The human race has made steady progress from foraging, to farming, to industrial to informational, just because it is a spectrum with some at all different stages doesn't mean that the there hasn't been progress.

Yep, twitter is following in the footsteps of MySpace.

In this case what is getting played is the blame like Twitter, insults in rap songs, fast food or the "inner city" and the mind game is taking all the drama of it way too seriously.

Since as you said that "doesnt justify cause. he fell victim to ignorance and lack of critical thinking"

They're not. They enjoy the perceived security in blaming external forces for human action. They are unaccepting of individuals as moral agents.

These days, when things like these happened, the perpetrator of a crime is fashioned as a victim, a victim of society, the gun manufacturers, of Twitter.

Criminals are victims. Repeat it. Get used to it. This is the newspeak, the new, progressive, way of looking at personal accountability.

right, its all the gun manufacturers and supporters fault, not theirs. That is like saying im fat because i eat fast food everyday and its their fault (corporate food) because they made it so easssyyy to get. Hahahaha!

@unimatrix, "bullshit", you are blaming criminal behavior on gun manfacturers? If the young man was bashed on the head with a skillet, would you be blaming cookware manufacturers?

Talk about getting on a soapbox at the wrong convention. Saying the NRA caused these two people to kill each other is like blaming pencils for causing the Patriot Act. It's just not a true cause-and-effect.

Blaming the NRA for his use of a gun is like blaming Twitter for his use of hate speech.

Ever heard of personal accountability, uni?

Sure, blame the NRA and the gun lobby for a murder. They are the ones who tell people to use their guns to kill innocent people.

Blame condom manufacturers for promiscuity. They make the condoms that hijack a man's dick and drive it into a vagina against the dick (or vagina) owner's will.

Blame fast food restaurants for obesity. They are the ones who deliver burgers to the homes of obese people, force feeding them the double cheeseburgers against the fat person's will.

Stupid as usual.

That's funny you all complain as you do a 6 person NRA pile-up on this one person for their opinion. This is classic NRA talk like you are in some kind of minority although you have large numbers of gun owners and billions of dollars lobbying the government. The government as a whole obviously supports and holds membership in the NRA so cry my a river. The gun control lobby wishes it had the numbers you guys do.

On the flip side people in inner cities are trying to do something about the gun violence, yet, they can't move an inch because there is always some group of NRA supporters from out of town trying to stop anything that would regulate this flow of guns.

This reminds me of those guys that show up to the rallies with their guns and to prove some point that they are having their rights taken away. From the looks of it you have a gun strapped to your back so what exactly the fuck are you talking about?

thanks indecisiveh

all I claimed was that the NRA and the gun lobby bear some measure of responsibility. SOME, not all.

The gun freaks always attack and malign those who advocate for a sensible gun policy. They always try to turn it into an either/or, all or nothing situation.

In time the gun lobby and the NRA will be regarded with the same contempt as the tobacco companies.

i definitely do NOT support the NRA. I just dont support ignorance and those who wish to divert the blame away from a person's stupid actions onto their personal agenda, like yours with the NRA.

the NRA sucks im gonna throw that out there.

It seems I am being accused of being part of "a 6 person NRA pile-up".

Well I don't own any guns, and I've never been a member of the NRA. I'm just a guy who believes that if a person murder's another, the person who did it is fully to blame.

It's funny how some people react to the idea that people are ultimately responsible for their own actions.

Jeez, if the weapon used to commit murder was a baseball bat and I maintained that the bat swinger was to blame and not the people who made the bat I'd probably be accused of siding with Major League Baseball or the Louisville Slugger company.

Do you people hold that your own actions are always due in part to some other entity?

Yep, leave it to you to blame anyone except the guys who were involved. You bleeding hearts really need to try to use your brains once in awhile. Don't you see that if someone is determined to kill someone they will use any means they have available? If it wasn't a gun it would have been another weapon. And if they pass a million laws against guns do you think that will stop someone who is determined from gaining access to a gun? Last time I looked there were laws against MURDER, but those laws didn't help a thing, did they? Passing more gun laws would mean exactly the same to a criminal......... NOTHING. You really should look at reality now and then.

hey nice racism!

and way to edit your comment after the fact! do you not stand behind what you originally said?

what was the original comment?

its not racist, just an observation. inner city is not a race, and yes, we tend to group things together that identify closely with each other, and yes sometimes a part of that happens to be race. stop hiding behind proposed racism and see things for what they really are. it was the truth, or trut. also the name randomly doesnt help your cause, its easy to use anonymity to spout accusations.

Why does "inner city" have a negative connotation from you? How would you even know, if it is "typical"...indulge us with clarity to your thoughts. I'm not crying racism, I just want your message to be made clear.

If the shoe fits? Wear it! "If the glove don't fit, you cannot convict"! Morons!

"hey nice racism!"

Racism? What??

The "inner city" race?

It seems to me that you need to calibrate your racism detection device; it's reporting false positives.

none of yall saw the original comment! trut said 'will sharpton and jesse jackson find some way of blaming whitey for this?' and something else about these people all being ignorant. SORRY but taken altogether that's pretty racist!

it's too bad current doesn't show when people edit their posts because i understand the confusion if you didn't see the original post.

Too bad I didn't see the comment before it was edited.

Yeah, it's difficult when people edit their posts. For that reason, when I respond to people on here, I usually quote them just so it's clear what I'm responding to.

Current could do what many other forums do and just leave some indication that a post has been edited.

Unimatrix beat Rev. Al and Jesse Jackson to the gun, so to say.