Showing posts with label mass shooting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mass shooting. Show all posts

Monday, June 20, 2016

Van Jones turns Trump’s mass shooting policy on its head: ‘Start racially profiling white men’

Van Jones appears on CNN (screen grab)
During a Sunday interview, the presumptive GOP nominee suggested that he would consider racial profiling as a tactic to prevent terrorism.
“Well I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump told CBS News. “And I hate the concept of profiling but we have to start using common sense and we have to use our heads.”
On Monday, Jones pointed out that racially profiling Muslims would be an ineffective way to prevent mass shootings.
“I just think it’s really interesting that we’re talking about racially profiling in the context of mass shootings,” he noted. “The vast majority of the people who are doing the mass shootings in America aren’t Muslims at all.”
“Young white men,” CNN host Brooke Baldwin sighed.
Jones continued: “You are seven times more likely to be killed by a right wing extremist — a racist or an anti-government nutjob — seven times more likely than a Muslim.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/van-jones-turns-trumps-mass-shooting-policy-on-its-head-start-racially-profiling-white-men/

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Sunday, June 12, 2016

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick deletes "reap what you sow" tweet after mass shooting at LGBT club

This tweet was sent out from Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick's account hours after a mass shooting an LGBT nightclub in Florida. Click the gallery to see some responses.
http://m.chron.com/about/article/Texas-Lt-Governor-Dan-Patrick-tweets-reap-what-8076147.php

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