Another mass shooting in the US - these time Sikh community

[Jaga]

19 years old boy shot 8 people at FedEx community. Half of them were from the Sikh community

fox59.com/news/these-are-the-victims-of-the-indianapolis-fedex-mass-shooting/

These are the victims of the Indianapolis FedEx mass shooting

On Friday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Department identified the eight victims, including:

32-year-old Matthew R Alexander
19-year-old Samaria Blackwell
66-year-old Amarjeet Johal
64-year-old Jaswinder Kaur
68-year-old Jaswinder Singh
48-year-old Amarjit Skhon
19-year-old Karli Smith
74-year-old John Weisert

Of the victims, the SikhsPAC says half of the fatalities were members of the Sikh community. The Sikh Coalition, the largest Sikh civil rights organization in the United States, reacted to the shooting. Their executive director sent a statement reading in part:

“We are deeply saddened to learn that Sikh community members are among those injured and killed by the gunman in Indianapolis last night. Our hearts and prayers are with their families, and we are in touch with community leaders, government and law enforcement officials to learn more. While we don’t yet know the motive or identity of the shooter, we expect that authorities will continue to conduct a full investigation–including the possibility of bias as a factor.”

[karl]

Jaga

My good heavens, when does it end! Now a shooter has killed eight people for no good reason.. It matters little of any motive, for the end results is still the same, these people are dead for ever and for no good reason.

Karl

[pieter]

Jaga/karl,

This is another senseless, inhumane, sad, very vile, vicious, nasty, mean, obscurantist and bad example of hatred, aversion, racism and extremism. Probably it is another white suprematist, extreme right, Neo-Nazi (Aryan Nation, American Nazi Party, KKK), Proud Boys inspired political mass killing. There is a lot of hatred in the extreme right corner of the Western World in the USA, Canada, Continental-Europe and Australia today. I can add Russia, the Ukraine and Turkey to that.

It is sad that in the USA the minorities of Sikh people, Hindu's, Asians, Jews, Blacks (the attack on and killing of people in a Black church in the the Charleston church massacre) and Muslims are the target of extreme right fringe groups. It seems like a Pandora box was opened a few years ago and that copy cat killing operations occur every now and then. How can the Americans screw the cap back on the jar? Is the USA society to much filled with hatred, indifference towards the other, frustration, irritation, aversions towards new comers, xenophobia, racism and discrimination to be able to stop these attacks?

Will we see more attacks soon, or is this a temporary sad time based terrorist operation?

Cheers,
Pieter

[Jaga]

Pieter and Karl,

this boy was just 19 years old. He was probably mentally disturbed. As far as I know his father died of suicide also. I really believe that the US has too many guns and does not have a community spirit.

+++It seems like a Pandora box was opened a few years ago and that copy cat killing operations occur every now and then. How can the Americans screw the cap back on the jar? Is the USA society to much filled with hatred, indifference towards the other, frustration, irritation, aversions towards new comers, xenophobia, racism and discrimination to be able to stop these attacks?
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well written but sad