Knoxville church shooting. My neighbor says this piece of dogshit didn't attack a rightwing Baptist church because those people carry assault weapons in the pews. I'm sure that view would be ironically heralded by wingnut bloggers like my fellow Princetonian
Tigerhawk, or Limbaugh dittoheads. A
Unitarian Church? Yep, in red states that's a nest of faggots, dykes, and race-traitor elitists called Obama voters! Church? Nah, they ain't no real Christians!Drivin' them small cars. Watching An Inconvenient Truth! Might as well been a mosque. Or a synogogue--of regular reformed 'rich" Jews, that is. We flag and cross-waving white boys LOVE Lubavitch/Orthodox/crazy West Bank settler types 'cause it means the Rapture's a-comin'. Oh yeah, and neocon Wolfowitz types. We love them too despite their Jew-sounding names...
Now get this: the guy was frustrated because he couldn't get a job. When white people murder over this, it's called mental illness. When black males do, it's called animal nihilism. But think of it as allegory for what Barack said way back when Hillary was playing her own race card. He can't fnd a job...so instead of blaming the people who really run things, e.g. other white males more in tune with Dick Cheney and the Chinese than with Ted Kennedy or Ellen DeGeneres, he decides to attack a liberal church. Harmless, loving CHRISTIAN people. Where's wrath...the shame...on Hannity or Ingraham or Janet Parshall, blah blah? Yeah. I thought so. Barack, pick a running mate who'll shove this stuff back in their faces, because there is no reason other than psyches like this murderer's you are leading McCain by only 5 points...
Read between the lines here:
Authorities were investigating why an apparent stranger entered a church and opened fire during a children's performance of "Annie," killing two, including a man witnesses called a hero for shielding others from gunfire.
Seven others were wounded Sunday at the Unitarian church and attendees tackled the gunman.
Jim D. Adkisson, 58, has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting and was held on $1 million bail, according to city spokesman Randy Kenner, who did not know if Adkisson had an attorney.
No children were harmed at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Members said they dove under pews or ran from the building when the shooting started.
The slain man was identified as Greg McKendry, 60, a longtime church member and usher. Church member Barbara Kemper told The Associated Press that McKendry "stood in the front of the gunman and took the blast to protect the rest of us."
Linda Kraeger, 61, died at the University of Tennessee Medical Center a few hours after the shooting, Kenner said.
Five of those injured were in critical or serious condition at a hospital Sunday. Two others were treated and released.
The gunman's motive was not known. But Kemper said the gunman shouted before he opened fire.
"It was hateful words. He was saying hateful things," she said, but refused to elaborate.
The FBI was assisting in case the shooting turned out be a hate crime, Police Chief Sterling Owen said.
The church, like many other Unitarian Universalist churches, promotes progressive social work, such as desegregation and fighting for the rights of women and gays. The Knoxville congregation has provided sanctuary for political refugees, fed the homeless and founded a chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, according to its Web site.
