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Another Day in American Life: Domestic Terror against Religious Minorities & Gun-based Mass Murder

Posted: August 5, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: just because | Tags: , |28 Comments

By now, you’ve probably heard about the death of 7 people in a Sikh Gurdwara in Wisconsin. The FBI will be investigating this as an act of domestic terrorism.  There are three gun shot victims in critical condition in the hospital.  One is a police officer who was responding to the 911 call and was ambushed by the shooter.

Gun violence in the United States claims so many victims that events like these seem every day.  How many people need to die before we can challenge the NRA and its stranglehold on our elected officials?

I can only imagine what horrible details are going to come out about this shooter who was shot dead by the injured police officer’s partner.  The crime scene and the perpetrator will be investigated over night.

Today, we should remember these victims and all the victims of senseless gun crimes enabled by a society with a gun fetish masquerading as an appreciation of a constitutional right.

Please share your thoughts and links with us.

Om Shanti Om.

28 Comments on “Another Day in American Life: Domestic Terror against Religious Minorities & Gun-based Mass Murder”

  1. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    August 5, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    Mother Jones ‏@MotherJones

    TIMELINE: 30 years of mass shootings in America, with photos of the killers http://bit.ly/MGd1vb #templeshooting

    • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
      August 5, 2012 at 5:20 pm

      I’m glad to see they updated the list. They included the ones I sent them.

    • Woman Voter (@WomanVote)'s avatar Woman Voter (@WomanVote) says:
      August 5, 2012 at 9:05 pm

      Mother Jones left this one out:

      The 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis occurred on April 4, 1991, in Sacramento, California, when four people took hostages at a Good Guys! electronics store located near the Florin Mall, after botching a prior robbery. During the hostage crisis, three hostages as well as three of the four hostage-takers were killed, the fourth hostage-taker being captured by authorities. An additional fourteen hostages were injured during the crisis. To this day, the 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis remains the largest hostage rescue operation in U.S. history, with over fifty hostages being held at gunpoint.[1]
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sacramento_hostage_crisis

      • bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
        August 5, 2012 at 10:05 pm

        They included only rage shootings by single shooters and a few where there were two like Columbine. The incident you’re describing is in a different category. It was a botched robbery, not a school or workplace-type rage shooting.

  2. northwestrain's avatar northwestrain says:
    August 5, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    NRA — terrorist enablers. Let’s call the NRA out for what they are.

    More people are killed by gun violence than died in 9-11 — and yet we are all treated as suspects when we fly.

    Every time a mass slaughter happens the NRA seems to demand even looser gun laws and more combat weapons.

  3. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    August 5, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    Wisconsin neighborhood evacuated in followup to Sikh temple shooting | The Raw Story

  4. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    August 5, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    Commercial break if you need it. I did.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/04/talking-dog-says-i-love-y_n_1739900.html

  5. HT's avatar HT says:
    August 5, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    I stopped reading newspapers and listening to news, so hadn’t heard this. A Gurdwara? We have one in our neighborhood. The Sikhs are by and large are non violent people – their mantra is to accept all who come to them. They feed the hungry. I don’t understand how people can think that, they are wonderful people although I do wish they would bathe and shave more often – never mind. I guess I do.

  6. List of X's avatar List of X says:
    August 5, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    After Aurora, Fox News was saying that it is too soon to have a conversation about guns. Is this a good time? Or would that be after next mass shooting?
    I am sure NRA will now be saying “if there was a worshiper with a gun in the temple, the shooter would have been stopped earlier, so people should be allowed to carry guns to temples”.

  7. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    August 6, 2012 at 12:03 am

    Keeping track of Curosity landing at JPL in about 25-30 min.

    http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/

  8. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    August 6, 2012 at 12:34 am

    Touch down confirmed … NASA nerds are celebrating!!!

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