I guess it was true what I was told that some people only take certain parts of a post in order to construct a "counter-argument" often twisting the initial statement, alas.
One of the many things that come to my mind are: Why don't we stop ingraining into our kids the idea that a group of people are more prone to act a certain way because of their skin color/gender? (This applied to the stereotypes made both to white and black people), to avoid younger generations to pay so much attention to these traits and instead, try to look at the reasons behind why people do these things and act accordingly, by submitting them to justice? Why don't we start raising children with a mentality that promotes love and tolerance towards each other and ignore the visual differences to also avoid profiling people? This goes for both sides (or as many sides that exist). Guns should stop being glorified, they need to stop being promoted as the only way of people to defend themselves, to try to avoid conflict with other people regardless if they have different ideas, and instead try to find a common ground peacefully, to achieve a certain goal. To stop categorizing certain actions as "self-defense" in order to justify them and continue doing them. When you are self defending yourself, you are not looking to severely wound someone else, you are looking to stop them from continuing violence against you or other people so that you can repel them and ultimately let the authorities know so they can take action. Why don't we study the factors that make some people be so mentally weak, they can be molded to what someone else wants and have them act a certain way? We have psychologists and plenty of other resources available.
But here we are, implying some people are "illiterate" for not seeing things with the exact same eyes they do, implying that we are equating things to something even worse when it is clearly not the case. I wonder who actually suggested that "Leftists should be jailed and executed" the one who suggested this is clearly out of their mind unfortunately..., because if someone from the left (nor any other political side/belief) didn't do anything that breaks the law, I don't see why they should be jailed, much less executed, but if it's the contrary, then they should be arrested/fined (depending on the gravity), just the same way any other person commits any sort of crime without looking into what political spectrum they belong. Some people fail to understand that constantly name-calling people, shouting at them for actions that other people committed won't really make a big change, instead, people will stop taking you seriously, even if at some point the arguments you bring are substantial and can bring a positive solution.
This will be my last post regarding this specific topic, I admit I am not someone who tends to debate very often, I also wish my vocabulary wasn't so limited so maybe I could be able to make my messages much easier to understand. These have been my "two cents" regarding these terrible incidents. My prayers and deepest condolences to the relatives of the deceased.
Edit: Yeah, Divine Retribution, I also agree with that. I know there are situations where you have no other option but to cause severe harm to the aggressor in order to defend yourself even though that's not your primary objective. It's indeed a very tough situation, thanks for bringing it up.
