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Old 02-13-2015, 11:41 PM   #1
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No details yet so this is somewhat premature...but does anyone else think that 'home grown' depressed white people are just as dangerous as any external terrorist group?
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Old 02-14-2015, 08:02 AM   #4
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No details yet so this is somewhat premature...but does anyone else think that 'home grown' depressed white people are just as dangerous as any external terrorist group?
More. Folks rarely see them coming until they do what they do. They also usually act out against places they are very familiar with, so can cause a lot of damage in a short time.
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If something would have happened today in Halifax it likely could have been very ugly especially if they hit the Hockey Day in Canada festivities. There will probably be a lot of people in a concentrated area.
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My facebook has blown up over how unsafe Halifax has become. I had one friend who now lives in Vancouver say he's happy he's in Vancouver as it's far safer than the Maritimes (yes, Vancouver's lower eastside is far safer than the mean streets of Summerside).

Isn't the police preventing crime the exact definition of safe?
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My facebook has blown up over how unsafe Halifax has become. I had one friend who now lives in Vancouver say he's happy he's in Vancouver as it's far safer than the Maritimes (yes, Vancouver's lower eastside is far safer than the mean streets of Summerside).

Isn't the police preventing crime the exact definition of safe?
I think we might have the same FB friend.
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I grew up in Halifax and lived there for 25 years. It's a hell of a lot safer than Winnipeg or Edmonton, the only two other cities I've lived in. Maritimers love to exaggerate.
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No details yet so this is somewhat premature...but does anyone else think that 'home grown' depressed white people are just as dangerous as any external terrorist group?
I missed where it said they were white.
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My facebook has blown up over how unsafe Halifax has become. I had one friend who now lives in Vancouver say he's happy he's in Vancouver as it's far safer than the Maritimes (yes, Vancouver's lower eastside is far safer than the mean streets of Summerside).

Isn't the police preventing crime the exact definition of safe?
Halifax does have one of the highest murder rates in the country.
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I missed where it said they were white.
'no details yet' is where I covered my ass...

But this is one of the accused...maaaaybe he isn't white

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And whoever tipped the police off is as big a hero as anyone...
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My facebook has blown up over how unsafe Halifax has become. I had one friend who now lives in Vancouver say he's happy he's in Vancouver as it's far safer than the Maritimes (yes, Vancouver's lower eastside is far safer than the mean streets of Summerside).

Isn't the police preventing crime the exact definition of safe?
Halifax area is dangerous. When I lived in Dartmouth there was alot of gun crime. Well, I shot my neighbour with an air rifle when I was 4. He fired first.

Didn't lose an eye.

Seriously, so glad this was stopped. Really hate these people that think it is okay to murder people.
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No details yet so this is somewhat premature...but does anyone else think that 'home grown' depressed white people are just as dangerous as any external terrorist group?
Depressed? Wasn't there 4 of them? A support group gone awry?
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'no details yet' is where I covered my ass...

But this is one of the accused...maaaaybe he isn't white

And... we don't have pics of the second charged shooter but their name is Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath.... maybe she's white.

Sounds like a Columbine type scenario to me so far. Could have a political motive though.

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Halifax area is dangerous. When I lived in Dartmouth there was alot of gun crime. Well, I shot my neighbour with an air rifle when I was 4. He fired first.

Didn't lose an eye.

Seriously, so glad this was stopped. Really hate these people that think it is okay to murder people.
I'm not saying Halifax is the safest city in the country. My point is that this incident doesn't exemplify the dangers of Halifax but actually that the police are doing a good job and it's improving.

On top of that it's foolish to associate an entire region based on on small part of it.

It'd be like me saying "Edmonton is a joke therefore Calgary sucks"
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From what I've heard... The one that killed himself, tipped off the cops prior to eating a bullet.
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And... we don't have pics of the second charged shooter but their name is Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath.... maybe she's white.
FWIW, Souvannarath is a SE Asian name.
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Sounds like a bunch of social outcast losers, who think that nobody likes them and their life is terrible because of the people around them.

In otherwords wastes of oxygen.

People like this are why hard labor sentences shouldn't have been lost.
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FWIW, Souvannarath is a SE Asian name.
Safe guess.

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Both their Facebook profiles seem fairly "normal". Hers has more political pictures shared, but nothing really "extreme", imo.
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