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time for open carry with guards in the churches nowIf you don't fight for what you deserve, you deserve what you get.
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they wont use the "T" wordWhen its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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Authorities have arrested Dylann Storm Roof, the suspected gunman in a terrorist attack at a black South Carolina church.
The white supremacist was captured in Shelby, North Carolina.
He is suspected of killing nine people at a Charleston church Wednesday night.
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So sickening and sad!Comment
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thought the news was gwine seh dem find him in the woods with a self inflicted gun shot woundComment
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this is what the bieber wannabe said before he fired shots , him mussie have information dat the ress a wi nuh have
Roof reportedly said. “You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.
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Fox News masters of spin.......Attack on Faith????
No Mention of racism and encouraging gun ownership.Comment
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If We Must Die - Poem by Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Claude McKayComment
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Dylann Roof confesses to 'race war' massacre at Charleston church, but says he almost backed out: reports
The white South Carolina man accused of slaughtering nine black people inside a historic church wanted to spark a race war — but he nearly backed out because his victims were sweet to him.
Dylann Storm Roof, who has confessed to killing six women and three men at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church, "almost didn't go through with it because everyone was so nice to him," NBC News reported Friday.
Ultimately, Roof told investigators he had to “go through with his mission” to start a race war, sources told the network.
Roof was charged with nine counts of murder and one count of weapon possession Friday, and when he appears in court later he will likely get an earful from the families of the victims.
“The victims' families will be here and they will have an opportunity to speak,” Magistrate James (Skip) Gosnell, who will preside over Roof’s bond hearing, told the Daily News.
FULL COVERAGE OF THE CHARLESTON CHURCH MASSACRE
Roof is unlikely to be in the courtroom. Most initial hearings are conducted via a video link from the Charleston County jail.
He is being housed a few cells away from a white North Charleston police officer charged with fatally shooting an unarmed black man named Walter Scott, whose videotaped killing horrified the nation.
Gosnell said he will read Roof his rights, spell out the charges against him, and describe how the proceedings will go moving forward.
Roof will be defended by court-appointed attorney Ashley Pennington. The prosecutor will be Solicitor Scarlett Wilson.
Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley said he was "very grateful that he was behind bars" and there was "an audible gasp of relief" after Roof was arrested Thursday.
Riley said the city will hold a prayer vigil on Friday night "within the bosom of this community."
"He had this crazy idea that he would divide us," Riley said. "All he did was unite us and make us love each other more."
"He was a domestic terrorist who wanted to start a race war and he failed," added Bakari Sellers, a former member of the South Carolina General Assembly.
Meanwhile, a steady stream of people — many of them in tears — paid their respects at the memorial to the slain victims in front the church.
The 21-year-old admitted racist from Lexington, S.C., Roof was arrested in North Carolina 220 miles from the historic house of worship that police said he defiled with a barrage of bullets.
Friends said Roof believed "blacks were taking over the world" and wanted to save the "white race." In the photo he posted of himself on Facebook, he had the apartheid-era South African flag patch sewn on his jacket.
The FBI and the Department of Justice are investigating the mass shooting as a hate crime.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Roof should pay for his crimes with his life
"We will absolutely want him to have the death penalty," the Republican said Friday on the "Today" show.
Roof's divorced parents, Ben Roof and Amelia Cowles, have not yet said anything about the tragedy. But Roof's former landlord said he remembered the accused killer as a child.
"I just remember when Dylann was a blond little thing playing in the yard," the landlord said. "It's hard to imagine what he became."
Roof’s sister, Amber, was supposed to get married on Sunday. Her minister announced Friday the wedding has been postponed.
Roof bought his .45-caliber handgun at a Charleston gun store in April with birthday money from his parents.
On Wednesday evening, the young man with the bowl haircut sat quietly in the basement while the victims were in the midst of a Bible study class for an hour before he started shooting, police said.
His presence did not alarm anyone because plenty of tourists visit the historic building and the church welcomes all visitors, Charleston leaders said.
About an hour into the Biblical study, witnesses said Roof suddenly got up and declared, "You have to go."
"He just said, 'I have to do it'," Sylvia Johnson, the cousin of slain pastor Clementa Pinckney, told MSNBC.
Roof then methodically murdered nine people, police said, starting with the pastor, who was also a South Carolina state senator and an acquaintance of President Obama.
But he spared at least one woman, said Dot Scott, the president of Charleston's NAACP.
"Her life was spared because the shooter said, 'I'm not going to shoot you because I want you to tell everyone what happened'," Scott told CNN.
Scott did not identify her, but a woman named Felecia Sanders survived the slaughter by playing dead as she lay on top of her daughter to protect her.
Roof fled and was arrested Thursday morning in Shelby, N.C., a few miles from where his sister's fiancé, Michael Tyo, lives, after police were alerted by a sharp-eyed florist.
Roof's friend said he talked about his plans to "kill a bunch of people" at a local college about a week before the shooting, but no one took him seriously.
"He flat out told us he was going to do this stuff," Christon Scriven told The News on Thursday. "He's weird. You don't know when to take him seriously and when not to."
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NRA official blames slain South Carolina pastor for Charleston church shooting because he opposed concealed firearms
A National Rifle Association official is blaming the victims in Wednesday night’s ghastly church shooting in Charleston, S.C.
NRA board member Charles Cotton ranted Thursday that the church’s slain pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator, somehow caused the killings by opposing concealed firearms.
Pinckney “voted against concealed-carry,” Cotton wrote in an online forum for Texas gun rights advocates.
“Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.
Cotton faulted Pinckney’s support for regulating guns, without mentioning shooter Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old white supremacist who killed Pinckney and eight others who welcomed him to a Bible study session in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The kooky Cotton, whose biography says he’s been an NRA board member for 13 years, also moderates TexasCHLforum.com, which calls itself “the focal point for Texas firearms information and discussions.”
He was responding to another poster on the site who noted “the pastor of this church, who was killed, is a State Legislator in S.C.”
Cotton could not immediately be reached Friday. An NRA spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.
In February, Cotton drew controversy when he voiced support for corporal punishment by writing that “a good paddling in school may keep me from having to put a bullet in him later.”
Cotton made that comment on the same website in response to a bill proposed by Texas Rep. Alma Allen to prohibit corporal punishment in schools.
"I'm sick of this woman and her 'don't touch my kid regardless what he/she did or will do again' attitude," he wrote.
"Perhaps a good paddling in school may keep me from having to put a bullet in him later."
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