Yep. And it's a form of racism. White men committing violent acts (unless they are like, poor rednecks or something) get analyzed and people try to find explanations that somewhat absolve them of some of the responsibility.

Indeed. The guy who killed George Tiller has schizophrenia. Does that make him not a terrorist? Heck no - it makes him a mentally ill terrorist.

I know it's early, and that the "motive is still unclear." I know how wrong it is to rush to judgment, before a lot of information is in, and how disastrous that can be. But honestly, regardless of what information comes out, I think that Islamaphobia played at least a significant factor in this. To commit a crime as…

How I love the flagging button with the "hate speech" option. I've flagged two hateful comments already.

Protip: Don't read through the comments on Gawker's version of this. Since it's a white guy committing this crimes, someone making the *totally unexpected* claim that American's crumbling mental healthcare is to blame here.

Following up on some replies to other comments, I can't tell you how much it infuriates me that when a white dude murders, he's "clearly insane" or "mentally damaged." When a Muslim murders, it's clearly their hateful religion.

Thank you for the headline - seriously. So sick of media's passive representation of murderers/rapists when it comes to crimes: "Woman Was Raped" "Students Were Killed." It's not some invisible, scary monster - it's the frakkin' dude next door 0r even inside the house!!! Whew - sorry. I'm pissed.

This story has been up for 8 minutes, and tgere are already trolls in the greys.

"Lumping atheists together is like lumping people who don't smoke together."

I await with bated breath Bill Maher's inevitable call for all "moderate atheists" to stand up and condemn this vile act - and if they don't, we'll know that they stand with this vile terrorist.

For fuck's sake, what is WRONG with people?! It's only 9:30 am but this may be enough internet for today already.

I was thinking onstage, myself.

They didn't just drug test 37 people. They drug tested 16,000.

according to this article the program in FL cost more than it saved. Imagine TN will be similar if not more costly since the positive test rate in FL was higher. http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/fl…

I think I've finally reached my limit for today. No more procrastination for me...

And Mr. Casada still gets paid despite passing and supporting clearly unconstitutional legislation. Doesn't sound like he is "behaving as he is supposed to."

Racism. Ignorance. Fear.

Because those people believe the same things and they hate the most needy of their fellow citizens to the point they'll starve children.

"not only did the program end up costing the state more than they would have paid out in benefits to people who failed the test"

"That's 37 people who should not be receiving taxpayer subsidies, because they are not behaving as they are supposed to," said state Rep. Glen Casada, a Republican from Franklin. "If the taxpayers are going to support you there are certain criteria you need to adhere to. This is a good use of taxpayer money."