La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for June 20, 2015

South Carolina…

Humans fight the way they train. The victims in the church were all civilians with no training in self defense. The gutless bigot picked a safe place to commit murder.

Arizona? Why, ‘cause it’s been invaded by criminals from the south?

Arizona has a very high concentration of Mexicans including my family. Maybe Lalo thinks Mexicans are terrorists.

What a loathsome comment.

You’re not usually this cruel. It’s not becoming.

While I can understand the desire to fantasize that we would have acted differently in such a situation as what went down in Charleston, we really don’t know unless we’re confronted with it. The thing is, we don’t exactly know how this went down, and in any case, folks will be disposed to fight, flee, or freeze. My guess is it went down fast, people didn’t have a chance to react until it was too late for many of them, and that the women in the room (the majority of those there) would have been conditioned more to the flee/freeze reflex. Again, all this is total conjecture, and any anger at the victims is also based on conjecture that will inevitably be unfair to them.

Arizona also has one of the most repressive state governments led by conniving Republicans. Maybe that’s what Lalo is talking about, you FOX News maniac.

to RE gress, to RE press, it’s what the RE publicans do. One of these days it may be replaced by a territory.Remember that at Least Bush, and maybe others made way for a North America that would make Canada, the USA, and Mexico, all one place like Europe and the Euro.I would hope that would make us all feel warm and cosy and brothers. But in reality almost no one would be happy if that happened.

It’s quite possible he wounded many people with his first round before reloading, which may have incapacitated those people. When faced with someone who holds a gun and has already fired it into people’s bodies, there’s no telling how any of us would react. And keep in mind that the gun in question looks to have been a .45 Glock, which can be reloaded fairly quickly with clips. Again, though, I would suggest waiting until we know the whole story of what happened that evening until we start making pronouncements towards the victims. And no matter what, we must remember that when it comes down to it, there was one person culpable in all of this, and that person—who has apparently confessed—is Roof.