The eleven
Have paper towels ready.
Joyce Feinberg, 75
Richard Gottfried, 65
Rose Mallinger, 97
Jerry Rabinowitz, 66
Cecil Rosenthal, 59
David Rosenthal, 54
Bernice Simon, 84
Sylvan Simon, 86
Daniel Stein, 71
Melvin Wax, 88
Irving Younger, 69May their memories push us to create a world that values every life.
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) October 28, 2018
Rose Mallinger, 97. Oh brave shooter.
— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) October 28, 2018
Fucking Trump terrorists!
9 out of those 11 are above retirement age. Such a valiant warrior.
Those men and women weren’t a threat to anyone. What a dreadful coward, hiding behind a gun and seeing targets instead of people. And how much bigger a coward is Trump, hiding behind plausible deniability and getting his predilection for violence fulfilled second-hand.
They are all cowards. But they think strutting and bragging and swinging (or shooting) a gun proves they are not cowards. They have no idea what courage really is, because they have never had to deploy it, unlike many of their targets, who have managed to survive in a hostile world for a long time in spite of everyone.
If we could just get away from this damned idea of manliness, perhaps people like this wouldn’t feel the need to prove they are a man by shooting an innocent, unarmed person.