Why are you so concerned with trying to disprove it was a hate crime?If he said aliens are coming and I am trying to save you, we just take that at face value, too? He could be mad because his black girlfriend broke up with him. We know nothing except hearsay about this person. "A survivor said" (not me but someone told me) is not evidence of anything!!
In SC, if you go to a gun show to purchase, if you buy from a dealer, you fill out the paperwork and wait for the dealer to send it in and get authorization to sell you the gun. If you buy from an individual, who is just there with guns to sell, no paperwork, just agree on a price, and do the deal. If you go to a store, paperwork. If you ask somebody you know to sell you a gun and he agrees, do the deal. That is how it happens here.I should have clarified I meant a hand gun as a gift. Not that a shotgun could not inflict damage tho. I as a Parent who had a young adult already showing disrespect for the law and a drug charge would not hand said adult a hand gun. How does the Father feel now. No way I would want to be associated with making this happen. Sure he could purchase one on his own. Yes how did the paper work, work for gifting this gun????
I cannot believe LE interviewed this lady and told her you can now go give a press conference or an interview and thoroughly disclose everything we've discussed with you since 12 MN.
It's not true that guns are "everywhere" and that anyone can get one at any time. It DOES matter whether someone gives a kid--or young adult--a gun as a gift.
My own 18 yr old would have a very hard time getting a gun. We live in a small town in NY and I've only ever seen guns in the wild when hunters cross our property. It's just not a gun culture here. I don't know anyone who has one.
In a gun culture where everyone has one....they seem to have a way of getting used. A gun becomes the final "answer" to problems. Why have one if they're not going to be used?
Anyway, I'm not getting into an argument about whether gun ownership is part of a syndrome of violence. I believe it is. (my last and only post on this topic)
Since January, Roof has been arrested twice, both at the Columbiana Mall in Columbia, S.C. According to arrest records, on February 28, Roof went into a Bath and Body Works store wearing all black and asked "out of the ordinary questions," including how many associates were working, when they closed and what time they leave. Mall employees complained and when an officer approached him Roof said "his parents were pressuring him to get a job."
Why are you so concerned with trying to disprove it was a hate crime?
The officer noted that Roof was becoming increasingly nervous. He searched Roof and found "orange strips" that Roof said were "suboxone," a Schedule 3 narcotic. Roof was arrested and his 2000 Hyundai Elantra was towed.
He didn't "announce" anything that hadn't been said by the police chief or mayor in a press conference.
The Rev. Sharpton is not the villain of every event.
I guarantee you he read a lot of hate on the Internet about black people. I bet he has quite the Internet history. The Internet allows people to congregate with those who agree with their views. Every time there is a crime in the news involving a black person as the perp, there are comments on MSM sites about how much crime black people commit, etc. So then you have someone like Roof who reads that crap, and it feeds his anger and hatred towards black people. That's why I don't see those types of comments as just someone's opinion or harmless.
Why are you so concerned with trying to disprove it was a hate crime?