The suspect in the Florida State University shooter, who faces first degree murder charges for killing two and injuring five on Thursday was a member of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a fascist youth group around the Republican Party, and is a registered Republican voter in Florida. The 20-year-old suspect, Phoenix Ikner, is the stepson of Leon County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jessica Ikner, who has been with the department for 18 years.
Forgive my ignorance, but I have a question about this. In my country, we tend to associate America with a lot of DIY justice, from vigilantism to witch hunting, and you can still find the stereotype of Americans hunting down witches/communists/abusers/etc. in localized media. Yet nobody is witch hunting against gun owners?
I don’t know, I look at many of you and think that yelling “that guy’s a gun owner” sounds like it would have more merit and success than “that guy is an abuser”. Gun owning sounds like the one thing I can find feasible to do in the form of mob justice, and nobody does it. And here you guys are descending into chaos because bullets are a cultural value to you.
Because there are 10s of millions of gun owners in this country, if not more. Very, very few of them commit crimes with guns.
Yeah we should get in a big group with little space between us and threaten the homes and families of people with shotguns, fantastic idea!
Only half the country has a gun in the household, this plan is brilliant!
I don’t think angry mobs are a common thing here, but setting that aside-gun owners tend to shoot people who are hunting them. Angry mobs are not brave.