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Shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue, 11 Dead

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11 Dead, Several Others Shot At Pittsburgh Synagogue

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: At Least 11 Dead and Gunman Identified

Guns beat bombs.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 27 2018, @11:44PM (9 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday October 27 2018, @11:44PM (#754560) Journal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting [wikipedia.org]

    The suspect was identified by local authorities as Robert Bowers, a resident of Baldwin, Pennsylvania. He was taken into police custody after the shooting and sent to a hospital. Bowers was armed with an assault rifle and three handguns.

    Bowers' Gab.com social media profile was registered in January 2018 under the handle of onedingo and the account's description was "jews are the children of satan. (john 8:44) --- --- the lord jesus christ is come in the flesh". The cover picture was a photo with the number 1488 — used by neo-Nazis and white supremacists to evoke David Lane's "Fourteen Words" slogan and the Nazi slogan Heil Hitler. Bowers had published one post that referenced the white genocide conspiracy theory. He also reposted content by other anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, and Holocaust-denying users, and criticized President Donald Trump for being a "globalist, not a nationalist" and for supposedly being controlled by Jews.

    A month before the attack, Bowers posted photos showing the results of his target practice, and a photo of his three handguns, calling them his "glock family". In the post, he identified the .357-caliber handguns as Glock 31, Glock 32, and Glock 33.

    Bowers reportedly made anti-Semitic posts directed at the HIAS National Refugee Shabbat in the weeks before the shooting.

    Shortly before the attack, in an apparent reference to immigrants to the United States, Bowers posted on Gab that "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in".

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @02:53AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @02:53AM (#754582)

    He did not have an assault rifle. (for example, the M16 or the M4) Such rifles are extremely rare outside of the special forces. Ones produced in the past 3 decades can not be owned by individuals. The closest thing you can buy is a semi-automatic that is cosmetically similar.

    It was a conservative synagogue, not a liberal one.

    Bowers claims that he did not vote for Trump.

    Trump could be controlled by his daughter. That is common for fathers. She is a Jew, which would make Trump actually controlled by a Jew.

    Bowers is quite right about HIAS. That is an organization that effectively advocates for mass suicide. Similar Jewish groups in Europe advocated in favor of immigration, and now the Jews in many European cities (Paris for example) have to hide the fact that they are Jews out of fear that they will be murdered by the Islamic immigrants.

    • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @09:48AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @09:48AM (#754630)

      Apparently, you don't understand that the Jews track lineage through the matriarchal line. If a Jewish woman marries a non-Jewish man, their children are Jewish. If a Jewish man marries a non-Jewish woman, their kids aren't Jews. So, Trump's daughter is not a Jew, nor will her children be Jews. Jesus Christ was a descendant of Moses, through his mother's line. There is an unbroken line of motherhood, tracing directly back to Moses. It wouldn't matter who or what Joseph was, even if he were the father.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday October 28 2018, @07:22PM

        by Bot (3902) on Sunday October 28 2018, @07:22PM (#754749) Journal

        > Apparently, you don't understand that the Jews track lineage through the matriarchal line.

        they smart

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @10:48PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @10:48PM (#754813)

        She did all the crazy miserable suffering with an orthodox rabbi. Therefore, she is a Jew and her children will be Jews.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @06:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @06:29PM (#754730)

      "Did not vote for Trump"

      So a slightly less stupid psycho, ok. PS u insane in the membrane

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @10:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @10:06AM (#754636)

    Are you saying that Bowers is not jmorris? We are all confused. Of course our resident anti-semi-ant-ite is Ethan Knowles Fluered, also known as RunawayFromThatShit. Both in FBI custody now, no doubt. I can't believe how stupid conservatives are! Caught in a matter of hours?

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday October 28 2018, @06:42PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday October 28 2018, @06:42PM (#754733) Journal

    ok war against nazis is justified by the fact they have an agenda against you.

    war against jews is bad because they don't have an agenda against you #notalljews

    so my question is: since it is provable that subscription to gab.ai and loving guns do not entail having an agenda at all, isn't this thread hypocrite?

    but ok let's play, i see your jew shooter and raise you a gang of immigrant africans that drug, gangrape, kill a 16 year old girl in Rome.

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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 30 2018, @12:20PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 30 2018, @12:20PM (#755602) Journal

      but ok let's play, i see your jew shooter and raise you a gang of immigrant africans that drug, gangrape, kill a 16 year old girl in Rome.

      Ok... so why is murder of 11 innocent people in Pennsylvania justified because gangrape-murder in Italy? I have an alternate solution here. Punish people who commit vile acts impartially, that is irrespective of their religion, ethnicity, country of origin, etc.

      ok war against nazis is justified by the fact they have an agenda against you.

      war against jews is bad because they don't have an agenda against you #notalljews

      War is not justified merely because someone has an "agenda" against another. That is in large part because agendas, even when in deliberate conflict with another, can be both modest (way below any rational threshold for war) and imagined (such as your repeated claims that certain Muslim minorities are bent [soylentnews.org] on genocide, despite a complete lack of evidence to support that claim).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @07:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 28 2018, @07:14PM (#754744)

    For those who were wondering about what the "1488" meant:

    The "88" in "1488" refers to "Heil Hitler". "H" is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so "88" is "HH".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_white_nationalism [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words [wikipedia.org]