Mourners at Kalamazoo vigil call for conversation about gun violence

[SecularMotion]

Inside a packed church, hundreds of residents from the Kalamazoo area of Michigan carried white candles and gathered to mourn the loss of six people who were killed on Saturday in a seemingly random act of murder.

Just hours after Jason Dalton, 45, was arraigned on Monday for multiple counts of murder and assault in connection with the shooting spree, clergy members from several churches led the congregation in song and prayer.

Residents described it as an effort to begin a healing process in response to the violent outburst over the weekend by Dalton, a situation unlike anything the community has ever imagined happening in their backyard.

“It’s something that we’ve seen across the United States,” said Steven Chamberlin, a comparative religion professor at nearby Western Michigan University. “I think we need to start addressing ... why this is happening with alarming regularity.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/23/kalamazoo-shooting-mourners-at-vigil-call-for-conversation-about-gun-violence

[Iliyah]

1. Why in the hell did he do it? Damn

Prayers to the families of loss & injured ones.

Damn

[SoCalMusicLover]

3. Because What Good Is An Unused Gun? nt

[branford]

7. You should inquire of the 99.99+% of the 80-100+ million legal American gun owners

who have and will never engage in any criminality.

[pablo_marmol]

8. That would be too honest and intelligent for The Controllers, I'm afraid. NT

[GGJohn]

10. Yet, 99.9% of the firearms privately owned in this country

will never be used in a criminal or negligent manner.

[ileus]

2. Uber violence kills peepoles

[Eleanors38]

4. I wonder if attention to this will be brief; after all, a billionaire is involved...

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...and has launched a recall AND a ballot measure in Austin to get what he wants. This publicity is bad, and may be bottled.

[Eleanors38]

5. The mourners will converse more than some posters here

[DonP]

6. "Conversation" or angry monologue?

When people around here say they want to "have a conversation about gun violence" it usually means "Shut up and be beaten about the head and shoulders until we get tired of calling you names".

Wonder what this one means?

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. The latter. Which (as you yourself have often noted) is usually *all* they ever do.

They are, however, doing a fine job of keeping the replacement keyboard market
humming along, so there's that...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. Yes but...

...WHAT DO YOU CALL FOR? I wouldn't want to put words in your mouth.

[friendly_iconoclast]

12. Apparently, he doesn't care to talk about it....