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The Guardian is reporting that...
Two gunmen have been killed and a security guard injured during what appeared to be an attack on a contest for cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad in a Dallas suburb.
The gunmen drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland shortly before 7pm on Sunday where the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) were hosting the exhibition and contest.
According to city authorities an unarmed guard at the event was shot at before the men were engaged and killed by police.
Further...
A bomb squad was called in after reports of a possible incendiary device at the scene of the incident. Police said a "bomb container trailer" had also been deployed in which to place any suspect device.
A police spokesman said two males had been killed and their bodies were still lying outside their car hours later.
"Because of the situation of what was going on today and the history of what we've been told has happened at other events like this, we are considering their car (is) possibly containing a bomb," Officer Joe Harn, a spokesman for the Garland Police Department, said.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @08:35AM
is hate speech and intolerance considered a "right." These racists were baiting other racists and the result is a mess. Duh!
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Monday May 04 2015, @08:52AM
I may not live in America, but the right to free expression is probably the only example of a right they have I consider worth following. Shame some Americans aren't so good at figuring out whether something they're expressing is inflammatory (as opposed to merely controversial), but then that's not purely an American problem.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anal Pumpernickel on Monday May 04 2015, @09:24AM
It sounds like America has it right in this instance, then. You, however, sound like you would enjoy North Korea, given that you hate freedom of speech so much. Idiotic and intolerant speech should result in criticism, not government thugs stopping people from saying things you or others don't like.
Though, America does have free speech zones, obscenity laws, laws that criminalize 'terrorist' speech (like making obvious bomb jokes about airports), and FCC censorship, among other things. Those need to be gotten rid of, or else we don't have freedom of speech either.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @09:41AM
>hate speech and intolerance
>racists were baiting other racists
>not knowing the difference between race and religion
You speak as if you're uneducated, even though you probably have some college education.
Oh, that's right, you're probably one of those SJW types that wish to censor all "intolerant speech" based on moral grounds.
While I'm at it, the concept of racism was a product of Marxism, which you should be very familiar with. Not only that, but only the Western world views racism as something which should be eliminated.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @09:42AM
2 down. Hope the security guard recovers.
Don't mess with Texas, as they say.
Europe should take a lesson. How many cartoonists have been murdered by these lunatics for drawing Mohammed over there?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @12:56PM
Only in America is hate speech and intolerance considered a "right."
These racists were baiting other racists and the result is a mess. Duh!
It is only a right in that the alternative is worse.
BTW, as far as I'm concerned, writing the first half of your post in the subject line is a shooting offense too.