Agreed. That's the way it's always been. Leaders who twisted their holy book for gain. The Crusades etc. Islam is basically like Christianity during the Crusades.
All religious teachers/theologians of all religions perhaps according to systematic studies/researchers should emphasis that some Positive verses are of the highest priority when making judgements. Such as Spirit lives and Letters kill! While specifically should mention that some Negative verses are already outdated, due to historical context issues! Both of these Positive and Negative verses, once agreed by individual religious councils, must be printed on the inside cover of every single printed copy of their holy books! Relevant posters must be displayed on walls and entrance of worship places! All schools should educate students these updates/changes! Making it as a compulsory legislation by law makers! The world may become safer! Perhaps much safer, and less wars! That hopefully might help! Just 2 cents!
On the basis of what? Because he made some tasteless jokes? Either agencies find evidence or they don't. Or you also want your gun rights revoked because someone does not like your face? Harder access to certain types of firearms would have gone a much farther way...
Shocking. So next time you say something in a drunk state we shall take you seriously and revoke your citizenship and ship you out to banana land? You people utterly contradict yourself. You get all excited about 2nd Amendment and free speech but then want to revoke the same for someone having said something you don't like. Ridiculous. So are we starting the same spiel as the banned word bomb on airplanes in general society now? Thanks US for having people of the world searched for tweezers and nail cutters each time we want to board planes and thanks for microphones stuck up our asses to listen in on which words we use in the check in queue. Instead of simply banning to society harmful and utterly useless weapons we now need to spy on our coworkers what they might or might not say. That is your idea of a free America? Wow
You can take people at their word or not. Sometimes they talk shit, other times not. War has been declared by certain entities. Ask yourself if the jokes made relative to those entities by the killer matters to the dead. . Often agencies will say what is politically correct to say (or only do what is politically correct), even if there is evidence to the contrary. In fact, it seems quite common these days.
So what? You still can't go all rampage on 2nd amendment and free speech but deny the same to your neighbor just because he is a Muslim. Well you can but it would spell the end of what America stands for. Hardly any of the white supremacists have ever been brought in for questioning so what's the difference all of a sudden? My point is that banning certain types of weapons is in fact one of the easiest ways among all other options) to reduce (not eradicate) such atrocities.
So if a guy jokes about being affiliated with terrorists, but really isn't, even though we are at war with said terrorists, he should still have the right to bear? Hmmm. Even if he is just joking, he's just demonstrated enough stupidity about such things to question his rationality to own firearms, IMO. And yet, everyone else should still make sacrifices because of either his possible affiliations or sympathies (self proclaimed, remember?) to those who would harm us, or his plain stupidity? I believe in responsible ownership, regardless of capacity. I've said so a thousand times in this forum. I don't consider joking about terror, especially after events over the last several years, a responsible action, do you? And in this case, he wasn't joking. How would you reduce or eradicate the weapons already in possession after banning them?
By that rational you should probably confiscate 200 million firearms that currently reside in the possession of dumb and irrational people. Good luck