You are being distracted. Focus.
That wasn't the argument. The argument was that you shouldn't put a baby's life on the line for the death of a criminal. It doesn't matter what color the criminal was, it matters whether we go ahead and endanger lives, spread Covid, endanger lives, with criminals always on our shirt tails and whether we should illegally march with such hot tempers flairing, endangering lives, damaging property, lives, assaulting all police officers indiscriminately, endangering lives (and taking them) etc. etc.
Ah, "My" reporter.... Marginalizing, Eider, and obviously so.
Again, YOU focus and wake up. This is about whether purposefully endangering lives in double-digits (dead and many more harmed) over it, is the right thing to do in protest. Or even if there isn't some onus upon someone doing a crime, for their own demise, by choice of the conflict with the law. This isn't apartheid, it is someone willingly choosing crimes, and paying due consequences. Any time (unfortunately) anybody encounters a policeman, the potential for death by resistance is always part and parcel. I'm not saying its right, police need to be retrained to protect and serve and put their own lives on the line to accomplish that, but all this angry marching isn't taking responsibility for their family member's own very poor choices. THAT isn't worth a baby's life.
Again, focus. This is not a gun discussion.
You wake up. Little kids are dead. The first life lost was a 'black' life. This baby's life was a 'black life.' If your movement ('your' propositionally for anybody doing this) kills many black lives (and it did) does your movement REALLY support black lives mattering???? :nono:
YOU wake up. And for whom? A criminal? I do want justice for the man. I DON'T want 13 mostly black lives gone for my actions!
:doh: These died in breaking laws! It doesn't mean I don't care, but those BABIES did NOTHING wrong! Nothing. Your values are warped when you can't get this through your thick head!
Quit asking. This isn't a gun thread.
Right, because you've binned me with supposed conservatives. It is a liberal ploy and untrue. My church, and most churches are involved in taking care of these kids. I've personally fed many of them from the food bank. You? No $, no volunteer work, likely. Are YOU the one that doesn't care and then project that dismal self-indulgence and lazy irresponsibility on conservatives???? Are you? Try not to be one of those dupes. It is heinous for its accusation, especially when most I ever talk to really are ugly and self-indulgent about it. I've given a lot (over $30k) for children in 3rd world countries. Not enough, but I'm not ashamed of this amount and wish it were a challenge to the rest of the world (at least those on TOL) to do the same and save some of these precious lives. I know our economics aren't good, but if I can do it, with 4 kids of my own, so can just about anybody.
It was inevitable. Getting the permits and doing this with a level head would have saved lives. I'm not against the movement, I already said as much, I'm against hotheads being involved in it and by association, all of them doing illegal demonstrations.
I'm not sure changing your opinion was ever on the books. That'd be a real accomplishment that forums seldom rise to. What I rather hope is that such will affect voting, and will affect seeing another's point of view, and that it might cool off hotter heads long enough to do things the right way so other lives are not lost, when people are calmed down and will do things through legal channels.
