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While I agree that masks and lockdowns were mentally harmful for everyone, the Buffalo shooter threatened to shoot up his high school a few years earlier and he’s possibly schizophrenic. If his parents did not get him help when the first threat occurred, how much worse would the Covid situation have deteriorated his thinking…or….could his mental illness have progressed even without Covid.

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I saw the live stream of the buffalo shooting. The first person he killed was a white woman. He randomly shot into the store and into the crowd standing outside the store. Watching the video I counted at least 5 white persons shot, and those were his initial victims. It is difficult to believe this was racially motivated based on what I saw, it seemed more like random violence.

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To all the questions you asked about the repercussions of the lockdowns, masking, school closures, business closures, lack of personal contact, the answer is a resounding, "Yes!" Humans need all those contacts! You cannot live alone in your head, with only the TV, phone, and video games, 100% of the time and not have some mental deterioration. If you have any initial mental problems, they will only be exacerbated. This could definitely be part of the problem. Also, IMHO, (because I don't trust anyone in office anymore) some of it could be set up to take away our 2A rights. Remember the planned kidnapping of the MI governor? Set up by the FBI, using some gullible guys. The FBI perps at J6, etc. None of this mess is good.

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RFKjr says the masks were used by sillycone valley to give digital an advantage over face to face.

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I believe Jeffery Tucker is correct. The motivations of those on the left and then throw covid in as the icing on the cake. It was designed for the purpose of destruction. And this, along with so many events designed to cause chaos by Soros and company was the triggering event for hate that manifested in this psycho to commit mass murder. It was a culmination of events. We will never be the same.

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Your rage has given me strength. When you have stood and faced a room in profound frustration, I have been strengthened. When you write your op-eds, this refusal to lie down and be driven over by a tractor has given me a sense that, thank god, a man who speaks for me, expresses my own rage and disappointment, and shakes his fist at the world that would bind him in chains and leave him to suffer until he breaks his own limbs in anger.

Your voice, along with the short list of heroes you mention, have allowed us our sanity. Thank you for shouting the love in your heart.

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The unintentional irony of your headline is more powerful than your headline because the answer called Covid-19 is blowing in the wind. Lockdowns and Facemasks have transferred a tremendous in two years an enormous amount of public and private wealth upwards to benefit a very tightly knit web or RHIZOME of Oligarchs. The unintended irony is of course this simple undisputed fact.

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Our own government is trying to kill us and our children and you think we should just go on living this charade, this pretense like everything is the normal, like we don't know what their doing?That's truly devoid of reality.the bio weapon spike protein was intentionally released to facilitate the control of the population and the vaccine which was manufactured before the release of covid also meant to cripple the public and the economy, they mean to take over the food distribution to keep us controlled to the point if we step out of line they will starve us and deny us energy to heat our homes that is if we have one.they have declared white Christians, veterans, suspender the enemy.they are replacing working class citizens with illegal immigrants. That's a fact.so,why are we angry? You've stole our country. You are our enemy, you have declared war on us and we won't take it .

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Thankfully, no one I know died of covid. Sadly, I did lose at least three people to deaths of despair. I myself had to get on anti-depressants which were a God-send.

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enter "burqa robbery" into duckduckgo. It seems to have tradition, albeit somewhat more comprehensively "masked" ;)

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May 22, 2022·edited May 22, 2022

Persons guilty of crimes committed with depravity should be reasonably separated from the public commons. Depravity is an overarching defect of being that transcends the crime itself; a magnitude of malice and reckless indifference inherent to and a precursor to that which defines the very worst of the intent to do harm and commit a crime against another.

It matters not what form depravity may take in the violation of another or their property. Any person who willfully acts out with reckless indifference and in a depraved manner needs to go away; needs to be removed from the public commons into supervised institutionalization where their capacity to harm others by future acts of depraved recklessness is delimited by fiat of their long-term incarceration in the interest of the public defense. It can be street crime. It can be white collar crime. Depraved reckess indifference is the defining behavior that must be confronted and adjudicated and ultimate locked away to ensure no harm follows.

I've felt for years that using imprisonment to punish was an error in government thinking. We need to save our resources to imprison those who we don't dare let walk among us.

But today the woke does it in the opposite way: "Punish the political opposition with threats of bankrupting prosecution and intended jailing and let the depraved run free provided they remain politically useful." What is this but the enabling of Stalin's and Mao's useful idiots?

Tyranny has many faces. Violence against another takes many forms. The greater crime is the intent to do harm and reckless indifference in the treatment of others. Under these rules serial liars like Adam Schiff, Fauci, Collings, Birx, Pelosi and Schumer might be doing time.

Why did our ancestors first begin to use the designations "High Crimes" and "Misdemeanors" as measurement points of judicial process?

Perhaps our ancestors figured this out long ago.

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The authorities knew about this evil one long before this, and did little to prevent what happened.

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I wholeheartedly agree the lockdowns & mandates inflicted upon us all and which were reinforced by irrational fear & undue stress have caused more permanent damage to individuals than we may ever know.

However, it would take a forensic A/V specialist to convince me this incident was not staged and that the video was not altered in post production.

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I can’t be sure the pandemic caused this depraved animal to go on a shooting spree. His family and school was aware of his threats and recommended psychiatric help. So either the family dropped the ball or the system did as he was able to purchase weapons and a bullet proof vest. I have two kids age 20 and 24 that had/have miserable college years of lockdowns, masks, Vax threats, sickness, isolation, no graduation ceremonies, and the usual family life stressers of death, illness, loss etc etc. They’re on the Internet 24/7

and dealing with social justice warriors and America haters everywhere they go. It’s insanity.... if I saw they were slipping through the cracks I would make certain to get them the help they need no matter what. Something is not kosher here with this individual and COVID Or no COVID he was mentally ill from the get go. I don’t believe a word of his “manifesto”.

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Monkeypox lockdowns incoming. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Covid was just for practice.

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