Next thing we'll find out is that he is white.

Check the picture in the article. He is.

Five days after the Houston home invasion, and they still haven't identified the gunmen who were shot.

Jesus wept - John 11:35

"Suffer the children"...

Matthew 19:14 (KJV)

They'll find *some* small shred of evidence that he was somehow favoring the left.

From the link in the OP:

See down thread.

Some places have started to report that Robin Westman was Robert Westman in another life (until 2020), had a manifesto, etc... I'm sure this will be red meat for some folks, if accurate. I generally don't put a lot of stock in the first 48 hours of tragedy reporting anymore.

A big percentage of what we hear immediately following such tragedy ends up being changed later.

I think that’s what the Vegas shooter was doing. “I’ll show THEM how to do this!! type sad thing.

He (transgender so you know who will run with that) wanted to make a name for himself. At 20, he didn’t see his life being anything. Not an excuse of course but algorithms can drown you into brainwashing yourself.

Please the parents, church, school, teachers, marketers, peers ......... we are less important than TV commercials. That's where these soul-less, weak, manipulated cretins begin and reside. I can imagine this is worse today than 40 years ago, and it was bad back then.

YouTube took it down but it is all over social media.

Amassing weapons, writing manifestos JFC

Family, friends, colleagues, teachers, neighbors?

I wager their are several people who knew him, watching the news and thinking 'wow I'm not surprised.'

That's not cool. Robin legally changed her name from Robert, that her parents (or at least her mom) signed off on because she was a minor at the time, because she wanted a name that better fit her gender.

Hadn't seen it anywhere on DU

I think those suffering at the hands of this person need a little consideration first, and then one can criticize if the media (and others) don't respond appropriately to the confirmed, detailed facts surrounding the accused.

But, yes, it is the VICTIMS I am concerned with. Right now, I don't give a GD how one refers to the monster that killed these children. That will come, but right now, I am still just horrified as hell--as, I would think, would be EVERYONE.

there are more than enough reasons for us to hate each other to go around.

A church full of kids was shot up!

to deflect from the horror of unregulated high powered firearms.

None of us knew of the name change prior to your post. I have a CIS-male friend named Robin.

And maybe never will.

I don’t care what he/she/they were going through. There is no excuse to kill little kids.

Sorry to state the obvious, but we need to stick to the basics before we start making ANY excuses. Not suggesting that you are trying to make excuses. Just hope that doesn’t happen any time by our side.

This person is a cold blooded killer. Full stop.

We shouldn't be making excuses ever. And this knee-jerk thing about running for the sources to see if we can blame it on Trump or Biden (or whoever) is just as sick.
No human in their right mind does this. There is no trend in their politics when this stuff happens. It's damn near an even split right v/s left. But what is a trend is that the subject of their perceived injustice is almost always political.
Where do they learn to hate others so badly that they would go out and do this?
THAT should be our focus.

But assuming it's true, and I have no reason to doubt what you're saying, any inadvertent misgendering is near the bottom of the list of important things at this point, IMO.

IT Murdered Children. It should not be given any human dignities because it doesn't deserve to be considered human. It is a monster.

It's name should never be repeated again. No one should ever care what it was once called.

The ghouls will be railing even harder against the trans community. Terrible all around.

They are bringing up previous shootings involving trans people: Colorado Springs, Denver, Aberdeen, Nashville, Uvalde, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Houston, and Rockville.

Because your list sure as hell aren't all trans folks.

the Uvalde and Philadelphia ones were.

you will clearly see that I was posting what "they" are saying. Can't imagine how that would be unclear.

And, 7 out of 9 is concerning to say the least.

Whether you meant to or not:

"They are bringing up previous shootings involving trans people: Colorado Springs, Denver, Aberdeen, Nashville, Uvalde, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Houston, and Rockville."

If you had said the following, it would have been clear:

They keep bringing up previous shootings that didn't even involve trans folks, such as .....

you asking?

And you know why your post was removed.

DU does not allow transphobia, as are RW claims that Uvalde and other mass shootings are hoaxes. Which si what your removed post said.

The idea that being trans is in any way causal is offensive.

But that's where we are: anything that can be utilized to deflect from the guns is, immediately.

Isn't it a shame scrotus cannot read "well regulated militia" in the 2nd Amendment?

Same ownership, same slanted clickbait

The comments on that NYPost article are sickening. No mention of guns at all; just ‘Trump derangement syndrome’, evil Democrats, transgendered people, etc. The right wing is out in force.

Blaming lgbt and saying Uvalde was a hoax.

...is/was a German band. The letters stand for (roughly) "no pity for the majority". Saw that in one of the photos/videos the shooter allegedly posted. I haven't seen that referenced since Columbine, and I suspect it's a reference to that tragedy given the context. Please note, the band KMFDM had nothing to do with Columbine.