The scene was Odessa, Texas. Another Saturday afternoon. Another disgruntled white male. Another mass shooting. Another day of deaths.
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Yes, over the Labor Day weekend, a crazed gunman in Odessa, Texas decided to go on a mass shooting spree by firing random shots from his pickup truck. He then hijacked a mail truck, killed 7 people and injured 19 more before he was shot and killed by police in a bloody movie theater parking lot gun battle.
As of this writing, one of the injured was a 2-year-old child. At least 7 others remain in critical condition.
So, who exactly was this mass murderer? Police have identified the shooter as 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator — another discontented white male.
According to police, the rampage began around 3:13pm CT when two Texas Department of Public Safety troopers attempted to conduct a routine traffic stop on Interstate 20. Before the vehicle came to a complete stop, Ator pointed a rifle toward his rear window and fired several shots at the DPS patrol unit, wounding one of the troopers. He then traveled into Odessa and began shooting at random pedestrians, leaving a string of multiple victims in the aftermath. Next, Ator abandoned his own vehicle and stole a mail truck to continue his reign of terror through Odessa. Police were able to corner him in the parking lot of the Cinergy Movie Theater where gunfire was exchanged. The shooting rampage ended when the gunman was killed by police.
Sadly, this is the 2nd mass shooting in less than 30 days in Texas. Earlier in August, a gunman killed 22 people in a mass shooting in El Paso, about 285 miles west of Odessa.
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“If it’s Saturday , there must be another mass shooting # Odessa #Texas” – Twitter User
In reaction to the shooting, Democratic presidential candidate and Texas native Beto O’Rourke said, “We need to end this epidemic.”
“There is no reason we have to accept this as our fortune, as our future,” O’Rourke said. “Our hearts are with Midland, Odessa, and everyone in West Texas who has to endure this again. More information is forthcoming, but here’s what we know: We need to end this epidemic.”
What are white males so angry about that they need to regularly shoot and kill innocent people? Why is the NRA and their flunkies inside the Republican-led Congress so hell-bent on continuing to hand these angry white terrorists military-grade guns and assault rifles? This level of firepower is simply not needed for casual hunting, so why are such weapons continuing to be funneled into the hands of those who should never have them?
The NRA is always quick to claim it is the right of every American to bear arms. However, if every young, black male in America were to join the NRA and then immediately purchase a legal firearm, an anti-gun law would be introduced, passed, and signed into law within an hour. After all, the NRA fully backed gun control during the 1960’s when the Black Panthers roamed the streets of America with guns, so why not now?
Oh, who are we kidding? We all know the unwritten rule. Guns in the hands of black men is wrong, but guns in the hands of white men is A-OK!
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Your Odessa and Midlands gunman: Seth Ator, a 36 year old Texas native.
Killed 7, injured 19 during his rampage.
Not black, not an immigrant, not a Muslim.
White, American, male. pic.twitter.com/GPnLbxRyYT
— Katrina Hourrican (@HourricanKatie) September 1, 2019
The scene was Odessa, Texas. Another Saturday afternoon. Another disgruntled white male. Another mass shooting. Another day of deaths. […] -DJ
Another day in America (sigh)!