Thank you for the clarification that mental illness does not equal violence. I’m sick of the idea of trigger happy men mass murdering and getting away with being “crazy.” Agreed with the US being terrifying for the Other.....we women can’t even get basic health care with out being terrorized. Uggg.

White male privilege: What ‘s it called when nonwhite people shoot others? Drive through any city, and truthfully, it isn't white males shooting people approximately 40 times each day across the country. Every day.

They can’t feel shame when they so vehemently believe that Planned Parenthood murders babies for profit. And when you try to explain otherwise, they insist that the facts aren’t “their truth” and as such they will believe what they want to believe, facts be damned.

holy shit.

No joke. I am considering moving out of my house today as one of my housemates just said, “Good! I saw those videos of PP selling baby brains and they deserve to be brought down.”

I cannot understand why North America is so lax on animal offences. It is infuriating - especially when there is significant evidence that many murderers and sociopaths start out abusing animals.

There very well be mental illness at play here. But mental illness doesn’t equal violence. Plus, as Obama noted a few years ago, the US doesn’t have a monopoly on mental illness. We sadly aren’t even the only country with widespread white male privilege and national political figures who spew out hateful rhetoric that…

Mentally ill or no, the rhetoric used by the GOP and far right’s antichoice attempt at a Planned Parenthood smear campaign worked on this man just like it works on people who wouldn’t go so far as to actually commit murder. People are genuinely thrilled this happened. I wish the anti choice bigots spreading messages…

People who shoot dogs should be on some kind of list.

Whew, he was a lone wolf! We can rest assured knowing that no other like-minded white men will commit such heinous acts!

Has it been announced yet whether he obtained the gun legally (as in, passed a background check even with domestic violence on his record)? I haven't seen it mentioned.

It’s not true mental illness (and being mentally ill doesn’t mean you want to shoot people, such a bullshit scapegoat) but there’s really something... off about these anti-government, live off the grid types. I am completely unsurprised by all of this information. Nothing good ever comes from strange white men who…

Shorter: seriously, a dude shoots up a planned parenthood, what do you think his deal was? Immigration reform?

Yeah, people like to imagine this is an isolated incident, but it isn’t. Terrorism targeting abortion providers has been increasing in frequency at an alarming rate and it’s simply a more violent expression of the views and convictions of A LOT of people in this country, overwhelmingly old, white, Christian and male.…

Not that this is a surprise, but via the Associated Press: “The mayor of Colorado Springs says authorities aren’t ready to discuss a possible motive of the gunman who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic there but says people can make “inferences from where it took place.”

All the Republicans who have spent the last six months excoriating Planned Parenthood as a place of evil while promoting a sick gun culture have blood on their hands.

“A forensic analysis of the videos found they are so egregiously manipulated that they would never be accepted as evidence in a court of law.” Huffington Post

How don’t more people know the PP videos were seemingly “created” for partisan purposes? :(

Thanks for the simple act of listing this under terrorism. The gymnastics people are displaying to avoid that word/ definition of this act staggers my mind.

They’re already calling him a hero - claiming less people died than they normally would in that PP yesterday thanks to him. Some are also saying that if any of the victims were there for an abortion they deserved it. I’ll bet there’s already a GoFundMe set up for him.

I think Martin Freeman/Joanna Page’s story is cute enough, but yeah otherwise I can agree.