New Video Shows Man Shooting Gun Near Crowd of Counter Protesters in Charlottesville

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New Video Shows Man Shooting Gun Near Crowd of Counter Protesters in Charlottesville

Matt Novak

Yesterday 6:00pm



New video has surfaced that shows a man drawing a gun and opening fire at counter protesters during the neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville on August 12th. The man was reportedly taken into custody this morning, but many are asking why police didn’t do anything at the time......

Another video/source......


Wow, what is up with Trumps America ?

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Bodhisattva said:

It is what Obama left us with...

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Geoist said:

Both should be arrested.

How do you know that was a warning shot?

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TurtleDude said:

at that range with no one hit?

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Excon said:

Yes people were actually close enough. So stop with the bs.
1. One slip or someone from his rear pushing him and damage would have been done because he was close enough and was a threat. There isn't a Court of law that would say he wasn't actually a threat.
2. Had you bothered to notice when the guy with the gun first passed by Mr.Flamethrower, he didn't get it ignited but he sure hit him with the spray.

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Excon said:

Yes people were actually close enough. So stop with the bs.
1. One slip or someone from his rear pushing him and damage would have been done because he was close enough and was a threat. There isn't a Court of law that would say he wasn't actually a threat.
2. Had you bothered to notice when the guy with the gun first passed by Mr.Flamethrower, he didn't get it ignited but he sure hit him with the spray.

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dirtpoorchris said:

legally couldnt the racist guy shoot him 15 times like a cop could if he seen someone with a flamethrower?

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SouthernDemocrat said:

The guy aside from being a nutjob was an idiot because the biggest danger in using a spray can as a "flame thrower" was that it would have blown up in his hand.

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Bodhisattva said:

So not just a flame thrower but a bomb as well... just think if this terrorist was more competent. Responding with lethal force was necessary.

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SouthernDemocrat said:

Idk, but obviously responding to the thread with a trolling comment was necessary.

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TurtleDude said:

You mean the guy who fired the handgun in the direction of someone who was using an aerosol can and a lighter as an improvised flame thrower? was anyone hit? seems to be both of them ought to have been at least arrested.

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Excon said:

Irrelevant.



No. Simply no.

The act of carrying is benign and is not a threat to public safety.
If there is a threat to public safety in this issue, it presented itself with the counter protestors.


You do not restrict ones rights when the other is causing the actual issue.
Nor do you take away any of the group's rights.

The only rational solution, given the Rights we have (and to preserve them), is to prohibit counter protestors from being around the original protests.

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1. Pointing out how others are wrong is not really defending anyone.
2. Bigoted nonsense intended to shut down argument.

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Irrational hyperbole.
No one started a race war.

Based on experience, they planned to come prepared to defend their selves from those who were armed to attack them, not start a race war.

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OpportunityCost said:

Anyone besides me unsurprised that the state ACLU cropped the footage so you don't know what the other guy was doing? Talk about manipulation!

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Bodhisattva said:

Well... that is a pretty ridiculous comment.

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haymarket said:

For you to react that way tells me it hit a home run.............. with the bases loaded............... over the wall .............. into the street beyond.

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SouthernDemocrat said:

That is an absolutely absurd argument. Basically you are saying that Nazis and other white supremacists have 2nd Amendment rights, thus they should be able to carry, and your solution is to restrict the 1st Amendment rights of everyone else.



No, just calling a spade a spade. You can make whatever arguments you want. The fact is though that white supremacists are responsible for the majority of domestic terrorism.



https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/18/16151924/radicalization-white-supremacists-nazis



I never said they started a race war, I said that is one of their stated intentions. At the core of white supremacist ideology is the notion that there needs to be a race war. That is why they arm themselves like some kind of militia.

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TurtleDude said:

that doesn't include the millions of crimes caused by leftwing black gangstas as "acts of terrorism" even when the cases involve rape or murder or assault on white victims. For example, crap like the "knockout" game is not listed as acts of terrorism even though its clearly racist inspired terrorism.

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Tanngrisnir said:

I have it on good authority that those actually number in the kabillions. Shocking, I know.

The knockout game, insignificant myth that it is, isn't terrorism no matter how you slice it.

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TurtleDude said:

How do you define "terrorism"?

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HenryChinaski said:

The idiot was charged with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, a felony that carries up to 10 years in prison. Bye bye douchbag.

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TurtleDude said:

is there an intent requirement in that statute?

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B. If any person willfully discharges or causes to be discharged any firearm upon any public, private or parochial elementary, middle or high school, including the buildings and grounds or upon public property within 1,000 feet of such school property, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony,

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HenryChinaski said:

Come on now, ya think he "accidentally" fired the weapon?

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JANFU said:

No one did, and no one was close enough

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DiAnna said:

I actually saw that whole thing happen on tv. The supremacist was swinging his confederate flag and the pole to which it was attached at a group of protesters (non-armed, non-helmeted, non-masked regular protesters). The other guy picked the can off the ground, and sprayed flame at the flag.

I didn't actually see the guy with the gun until watching this replay from another angle, but that was no damned warning shot. He leveled it chest-high and fired straight into the crowd. How he missed all those people is beyond me, but frankly it was not from a lack of trying. The old guy standing behind the man with the flames looks about 90 years old, and completely bewildered.

And as usual that day, not a single police officer in sight.

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