Arizona man planned a mass shooting targeting African Americans at an Atlanta concert to incite a race war, feds say

Maybe we should actually regulate gun shows....

Pftt. Yeah sure.

Then how will the criminals and lunatics get weapons easily that live in blue states with strict gun laws?

Nobody ever thinks about the lunatics.

This would limit the spreading of white supremacy more than I think most would expect, the online side is a tougher nut to crack but gun shows are the wild fucking west, I attended some with friends who’s parents went when I was a kid and some wild shit flies

You mis spelled ban.

Gun trade should be highly regulated, nobody should be able to just give a gun to someone else, whether it's in a sale or a gift.

I love how this is completely legal but they still try to frame it as evasion.

He's clearly insane, but you're right, it's still interesting how his "logic" works.

It's scary that these psychos think violence is the answer to their perceived problems. There's a line from The Boys that talks about this, I'm paraphrasing: they would rather see themselves as warriors against "secret forces of evil" than the lonely forgettable losers they are.

It's even more frightening to me that they live in some fantasy world where they think they can win a race war. Nobody here would win that. We'd all lose, and some other hostile nation would take full advantage of our domestic self-destruction. I'm worried it's not a fringe notion. I'm worried a significant percentage are deluding themselves along these lines of violent planning.

As corny as it sounds...United We Stand, Divided We Fall...is still true.

It’s always a self report with these people. They would do a race war at the drop of a hat, so naturally the people they look down on (and ironically characterize as more violent) must be just as ready to do the same.

BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE!

Narcissism and psychopathy are associated with conservative political orientations and political extremism, so it's no surprise that a reich-wing lunatic believes he'll be the one to finally cause a race war by murdering minorities. Conservatives often have overinflated ideas of their own importance, and this dude was no different.

They're basing that mindset on white supremacist fiction like the Turner diaries. William Luther Pierce should've been shot instead of being allowed to die at an old age from kidney disease in a trailer park.

They all think they’re in the Turner Diaries

They can't organize because they hate each other just as much as they hate anyone else. They all have opinions on the way things should be, but no no two of them can decide what those things are. It would just descend into a bunch of factions all fighting each other until everyone else gets sick of them and just drops a bomb on them.

They seem to think that their AKs are going to have any effect against a modern military. They wouldn't even be presented with a target.

The delusion that you will be the spark of great change is very real in some people. I bet it didn't occur to George Floyd.

It's a theory that keeps circulating in right wing circles. If you just commit a big enough massacre of minoroties, you'll get another BLM. And then you can unload the cops on all the brown people by claiming they're Antifa Radical Terrorists.

Not unlike what's happening in Palestine right now. Use any mass movement of opposition to violence as the bloody shirt that justifies genocide.

And if they think the only reason black people haven't killed a bunch of white people as part of a race war because they just haven't really had a convenient excuse for it, they haven't really been paying attention to history.

I literally don't know a single person who would join some Aryan army. All the white people I know would absolutely like up to smash the fash.

Liberal gun owner here. I go to gun shows. I avoid the creepy ones.

I frequently get downvoted for telling people it's not that hard to buy a gun without a paper trail, if you're willing.

I don't even think he knows the meaning of his surname lol but it does make it more ironic

Very Very ironic

The meaning of Prieto - Spanish: nickname for a dark-haired or dark-skinned man, from Old Spanish prieto ‘dark, black’.

I take that back, if we saw someone on tv do this we would complain about it being unrealistic.

This timeline is fucking crazy

I hear Russia is always in need of more fodder troops lately.

But these people are ALWAYS cowards so they won't ever fight where there's a chance their victims would fight back.

Yeah, but that's less fun.

How NIMBY of you..

That's not going to solve the problem. Guns are not like cars, a necessary evil in some places. The purpose of a gun is to kill or maim something. Target practice is practicing putting a hole in something living. Handguns should be banned and all sales of long guns should be regulated for hunting purposes.

If guns were all about "target practice" and "self defense", there would be a ton of pellet guns and rubber bullets sold. No attacker is going to double check whether you're holding a pellet gun or a real one. They're going to run tf away.

I owe you a ten second car...