Comments on: Tenn. gay-friendly church shooter hoped attack would spur more

By: drewski

drewski — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:42:52 +0000

This church is still a place I remember not for a shooting, but it was where I watched my mother and my (ex-)stepfather get married. Far as I know, my time in that church was far too long ago for me to know any of those people. But I still know the area, still have friends and family in the area, and I’m still amazed that such an attack would happen in Tennessee. Sure that sounds naive. Tennessee is a churchy place, but that’s just the point–I didn’t grow up seeing the latent violence that seems so common in Texas or Oklahoma. I’m surprised that somebody in Tennessee would shoot up a church, because that’s the one thing most people would agree is untouchable. Anyway, Adkisson obviously has background, and I’m less concerned with him doin’ time than I am interested in seeing him coming to terms with his actions and their consequences. Either he was stunted in his development, or he has at least a behavioral issue. I wanna know what’s what in him, and I want him studied and interviewed and assessed to the point that he’d rather be dead than reveal any more of himself.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:22:35 +0000

Just another all AmeriKKKan bigot. Glad I live in Canada

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:56:56 +0000

While I can fully understand and even sympathize with those here who feel sad, or feel like crying over a story like this one (it really IS tragic), this is where my tolerance ends. I feel NO sympathy, empathy, or anything ELSE for this type of parasite.

The man was and is a coward, period. Let him rot in a tiny cell for the rest of his life (if you can call it a life that is) The congregation would have done him a FAVOR if they HAD beaten him to death. What a small-minded, inadequate, pathetic little worm he is. Good riddance.

By: scott

scott — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:56:01 +0000

Knoxville Police Department Investigator Steve Still seized three books from Adkisson’s home, including “The O’Reilly Factor,” by television commentator Bill O’Reilly; “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder,” by radio personality Michael Savage; and “Let Freedom Ring,” by political pundit Sean Hannity.

These are scary arguments. As a liberal homosexual i have to defend the idea that consuming ideas and words and knowledge is not evil, no matter what words, ideas, and knowledge you consume. Acting evil is evil, but the consumption of information, even conservative and angry information, should not be a point to degrade someone on. I own several guns, my truck has balls, and i firmly believe in a face for an eye. But this person is obviously troubled beyond just being a xenophobe. He expresses rage and self dissapointment in his interview that are very familiar to many people in america (even though they don’t all try to kill us) and i don’t think we as liberals are so immune to these emotions, these problems, or this violence. we still steal, we still kill (porn producers for money , we still love and we still hurt in ways we cannot express. This is just a monkey with a broken brain, but the symptom is not that he is conservative and hates liberals. The symptom is that he is OK with violence against not just some liberals, blacks, and queers, but also the people he loves (i.e.his wife.). I just think that we should all try to remind ourselve to try to be more like the victims here (attempting to forgive and heal) and less like the perpetrator (hatefull and carrying an axe against people for obscure reasons that only sound good in blog bites on the net). It’s a pretty lofty goal and i have no illusions that any of us will be massively successful at it unless your ghandi reborn. Just something to think about as you let the angry lump in your throat settle in after reading this story. speaking of which i think i need a drink to wash mine down. This story made me want to cry.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:10:07 +0000

I blame Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other right wing radicals for fostering the attitudes that led Adkisson to kill people he was taught to demonize….Rush and Sean make their livings DEMONIZING gay people, DEMONIZING liberals, and they have blood on their Republican hands.

By: KaninZ

KaninZ — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:35:25 +0000

He wanted to show what a big, brave, macho American defender of the faith, the institution of marriage (one he was reaally invested in having been married 5 times himself) and heterosual values by attacking a CHURCH during a CHILDREN’S SHOW.
Nice going dickweed. You should be tried and fried as a domestic terrorist.

By: Gay Man

Gay Man — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:26:44 +0000

Typical heterosexual male; thinks he’s perfect and uses violence against anyone different from him to get his way.

By: Aaron V.

Aaron V. — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:31:08 +0000

If only he had picked up a microphone or a pen instead of a gun, conservatives and the GOP would have a successor to Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:57:07 +0000

This article makes me so sad. I wish that our government and our media would focus more on compromises and unity than on arguments and dehumanizing the opposing side. Then people like this man wouldn’t become indoctrinated into becoming terrorists. Perhaps if he hadn’t been hearing so many messages of hate, his problems wouldn’t have exploded out of him in such a horrible way.

By: Bob Cees

Bob Cees — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:43:15 +0000

At first I thought this was n Onion article, but, wow, this guy may have just made me a supporter of the death penalty.
Way to go, shoot up dem libras muckin’ up this here country with they talk of love and peace and nonviolence n whatnawt! I mean they is all homos or blackies!

Funny how he may have accomplished exactly the opposite of what he intended to do. Good riddance, hopefully we will wipe these blood & bone bags out of the gene pool in a few generations.