Rove: 'So many warning signs' on Charleston

[mystery-ak]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/245658-rove-so-many-warning-signs-on-charleston

June 21, 2015, 09:50 am
Rove: 'So many warning signs' on Charleston

By Mark Hensch



GOP strategist Karl Rove said on Sunday he believes too many people turned a blind eye on hints before last week’s mass shooting in Charleston, S.C.

“There were so many warning signs here,” Rove told host Chris Wallace during a panel discussion on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I wish someone had spoken up and said this person is a danger to himself and others,” he added of Dylann Storm Roof, the suspected gunman.

Reports emerged on Saturday that Roof operated a website boasting photos and writings with racist and violent undertones.

Rove said on Sunday he was shocked no one had noticed the troubling webpage earlier.

“He put things up on the Internet we didn’t give any credence to whatsoever,” he said.

Roof, 21, allegedly uttered racial epithets before opening fire on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday evening.

He is suspected of targeting the church over its historic significance in Charleston’s African American community.

Rove said on Sunday that the attack was an “act of racist, bigoted evil.”

Despite this, he noted the nation’s overall progress on race relations since the civil rights era.

“Think about how far we’ve come,” he said. “We saw an entire state, an entire community, come together as one, united against this evil act.”

Police arrested Roof on Thursday morning after a 14-hour manhunt for his whereabouts.

He was apprehended in Shelby, N.C., approximately 250 miles from the scene of the crime.

[Dexter]

There are lots of crazy people that post lots of weird crap on the internet. Most of those people don't shoot up churches. It's not realistic to believe we should have had the foresight to see this coming.

[sinkspur]

Every single mass killing has occurred in a gun-free zone.

Instead of recognizing that fact, the left wants a flag taken down. Feel-goodism is the primary sin of liberalism.

[DCPatriot]

Every single mass killing has occurred in a gun-free zone.

Instead of recognizing that fact, the left wants a flag taken down. Feel-goodism is the primary sin of liberalism.

There's a line/quote from the Netflix series "Peaky Blinders" where Thomas says, "When boys grow up and have never fought [for a country or cause], they remain boys."

That certainly can be applied to the millennial generation...as well as the X generation before them.

We've spawned a generation of 'pajama boys'.

[Free Vulcan]

There's a line/quote from the Netflix series "Peaky Blinders" where Thomas says, "When boys grow up and have never fought [for a country or cause], they remain boys."

That certainly can be applied to the millennial generation...as well as the X generation before them.

We've spawned a generation of 'pajama boys'.

If you want to apply that, apply it to the Baby Boomers too. Many, many of them never grew up. Under that standard the WWII generation is the last that can honestly have claim to manhood.

[DCPatriot]

If you want to apply that, apply it to the Baby Boomers too. Many, many of them never grew up. Under that standard the WWII generation is the last that can honestly have claim to manhood.

I disagree with that, FV.

We had Vietnam. 

But, I get your point. 

The character in Peaky Blinders, probably about 30 years old, said, he'd killed a hundred men himself, and that he'd watch a thousand die in front of his eyes.   He was a brute with dead eyes.

Good series BTW.   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442560/

Set in the early 1900's in and around London.   The IRA was big then, too.

[mountaineer]

Fighting for a country or cause shows that boy there is something bigger than himself, a foreign concept for so many today's self-absorbed youth.

[alicewonders]

I disagree with that, FV.

We had Vietnam. 

But, I get your point. 

The character in Peaky Blinders, probably about 30 years old, said, he'd killed a hundred men himself, and that he'd watch a thousand die in front of his eyes.   He was a brute with dead eyes.

Good series BTW.   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442560/

Set in the early 1900's in and around London.   The IRA was big then, too.

I've got Peaky Blinders on my watch list, but I haven't watched it yet.

[DCPatriot]

I've got Peaky Blinders on my watch list, but I haven't watched it yet.

Really enjoyed it, Lea.   Each season is 'only' 6 episodes.....so it moves fast.

Great ending, btw.

NOTE:  with the accent/dialect, thank God for closed caption!  LOL!

[alicewonders]

Really enjoyed it, Lea.   Each season is 'only' 6 episodes.....so it moves fast.

Great ending, btw.

NOTE:  with the accent/dialect, thank God for closed caption!  LOL!

I'll start watching it, sounds like my kind of fare.