As a formerly religious person with a formal religious background, I can tell you what the explanation is, and it is really really dumb. I am too lazy to look up the verse, but to paraphrase there is a section of the Bible that talks about predestination. God “foreknew” who would believe in him and therefore…

Something doesn’t have to be illegal for it to be wrong. There are lots of terrible things you can do that are perfectly legal, actually.

At best he will face manslaughter charges, and here’s hoping these comments come back to bite him in court.

To be honest, I couldn’t tell if they were being sarcastic or not either. It’s so hard to tell if people are really just supremely ignorant or joking. If you don’t believe me, just take a peek at the greys.

Wow, and to think that could have taken a really dark turn. It would be kind of horrifying if they had objected to him taking his own child from the facility. On behalf of white people I’m sorry some of us are so goddamn stupid.

It isn’t a double standard even, it’s just context.

The thing about bringing up Hamas violence is that Sanders hasn’t been the one bringing it up. It has been how Trump and Co. have been framing the violence to justify Israel’s response. The way I read that was more that he was acknowledging and dismissing the stance that Trump and Republicans are going with, which is…

“...you don’t lay hands on people like these idiots have.”

Let’s call it what it is: assault. It really doesn’t matter how you feel about what the students were doing. What matters is if you think it justifies assault and it doesn’t.

It hits me in the feels that it hits you in the feels...

Next it’s going to be Hoggish Greedly.

One of the first questions I asked when I started reading the Root was something along the lines of “how can I be better white person?” It really is kind of a loaded question, and several people called me on it but one was kind enough to give me what I have taken for good advice. Just try to be a good person. All the…

I agree completely, but once some jerk calls the police and asks them to remove someone from privately owned property, they have to do it. They don’t have to do it the way the did it. They can be polite, calm, respectful. Let the woman say her piece because a) she has every right to be angry and b) even if she didn’t,…

To some this may not be related... but this whole tragedy illustrates multiple levels of white privilege.

To be fair, I think objectively anyone would agree that it would be better to have a gun in the very specific situation James Shaw was in.

He was armed when they took him too.

Go east. I visit there often because I love the Smokys, but damn. There’s some big flea markets I like to stop at where they sell guns openly. A friend I go with told me it’s actually illegal, but no one cares to enforce it so people do it anyway. Don’t even get me started about the open racism.

This is coming from someone who’s against a total gun ban, but doing it would not be difficult at all. It’s very simple. Make it illegal to own or sell firearms and ammo. Ban reloading equipment. Guns are useless without bullets. No new guns could be manufactured and sold. Undoubtedly, people would be hoarding…

I mean, we don’t know that for sure...

Cowardly police have no idea how to handle a confrontation without escalating it. When I asked a cop family member why this is he told me they are pretty much trained to behave the way you see in the video, as if that makes it acceptable.