Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

an argument apparently got out of hand and somebody pulled a weapon

Although, this bit makes it sound more like an altercation that went horribly "worst case scenario" instead of a textbook shooting spree. But still...fuck a guns.

fuck.

I went skating there a couple of months ago. Halfway through the night a couple of guys from the gang unit came through with a drug dog.

At a fucking roller rink.

evidently an angry ex-husband type deal. dude shot his son's mother & himself at his son's eleventh birthday party. what a fucking asshole.

ban all guns

if we get started today, then such a ban might be effective in about a century

If we get started today the thread might be over in about a century.

sounds like we should get started soon then

another fucking spree clusterfucking. Great.

shouldn't you be out drunk driving

do you really know i'm not?

Clearly they should just ban roller rinks and birthday parties (/Texas logic).

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16175435

A nine-year-old boy has shot and critically wounded a girl in their classroom in Washington state.

Police took the schoolboy into custody after the shooting at the Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremerton, 15 miles west of Seattle.

The girl, aged eight, was taken by air ambulance to Harborview Medical Centre in Seattle with a gunshot wound and remains in a critical condition.

Bremerton School District spokeswoman Patty Glaser said police were still investigating the incident, which took place shortly before the end of classes on Wednesday.

"We do know the gun and the student were found," she said.

The school was locked down before students were allowed to leave.

The district said grief counsellors would be on hand for students, staff and parents.

Bremerton was where I was born; only really visited it twice. Something fundamentally sad and empty about it.

envisioning some reverse It's A Wonderful Life where ned never leaves Bremerton and it is a happy place where no shooting sprees ever happen

Yeah, I dunno. I think I would have gone slowly nuts.

This was a one inch blurb buried inside the LA Times today. Five dead in Georgia shooting.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203960804577238850391163984.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Bremerton is a navy town like Port Angeles right?

You got it. My dad's sub was based there.

I think I would have gone slowly nuts.

So much better to get it out of the way quickly

Admittedly true.

;)

http://www.woio.com/story/17024182/breaking-chardon

My friend is a teacher there.

i have a friend with kids in chardon. i don't think they're in high school yet- 8th grade maybe

Times like these, living on the west coast is nice. By the time I'm awake, all the facebook freakouts have already happened and everyone is safe and waiting to evacuate.

one dead

middle school is on the same site as the high school. friends kid is home safe.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12069/1215536-53.stm

We were locked down all afternoon. My building is on the other side of a parking garage from this one. I was walking up the street from getting lunch about 15 minutes before this happened.

damn. stay safe. seems odd to say 'hope it's all ok' when it clearly isn't

thx, but this was yesterday.

Rare, but we had one in Toronto today.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/shots-fired-torontos-eatons-centre-media-reports-225942578.html

The mall where it happened was the country's most famous when it opened in the late '70s; I don't think it's quite as much of a tourist mecca as it used to be.

I'm sorry. The gravity of this crime is horrible and basically straight out of my worst nightmares, but this quote made me lol.

"Any place for discharging a fire arm in the city of Toronto is dangerous. In the food court of the Eaton centre on a Saturday evening, it's not only dangerous, it's outrageous," he said.

These things are extra-sickening when random young people are involved; there's a 13-year-old in critical condition who was visiting the city. This is getting some attention too: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/baseball/mlb/06/03/lawrie.mall.shooting.ap/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a18&eref=sihp.

It's weird how Lawrie's tweet is being treated as such a big part of this story

According to Lawrie, he left the food court 10 seconds before the shooting; if that's accurate, I guess I can see why his proximity has been a story, especially on a site like CNN/SI that has no special attachment to the city (and is, after all, a sports site). But no, it shouldn't overshadow actual victims; my own sense is that it hasn't, but maybe you've encountered coverage I haven't.

Over in Seattle, it's been a grim thing to watch my FB feeds this past week. Everyone I know in Seattle seems to have known the people who were killed at Cafe Racer.

Just the Star, the Sun, TSN and CBC
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Actually, I guess it's not so strange if Lawrie's a bigger celebrity than I realized. I never heard of him until the helmet/umpire thing last month (don't follow baseball)

I went to the Racer Sessions memorial last night, there were hundreds of people there. Basically everyone who wandered into Cafe Racer at some point remembered one of the victims. Even my dad, who had been there twice, remembered that he had asked Drew what card game he was playing, and he had offered to teach him then and there.

http://gothamist.com/2012/08/24/five_shot_outside_empire_state_buil.php

I was @ herald square at 9 am. heard nothing.

u might be dead :(

BTW, blows my mind that the most severe punishment Norway can give for that psycho who killed 77 people is just 21 years in prison.

He'll be out when he's 54!

I heard law in Norway specifies it is possible for a judge to extend the sentence if it is ruled he is still a danger to society after the sentence is up, and he had said he would do it again.

See, that's the justification for life in prison: when is a guy who killed 77 men, women and children in cold, racist blood not a danger to society? You can't rehabilitate that.

Yeah I agree that it's kind of nuts to not initially get the highest of sentences in any court system.

Yes, NPR news just now said Norway's preventive detention law means "he'll never be released", hope that's right.

um:

http://gawker.com/5937573/breaking-reports-of-mass-shooting-near-empire-state-building?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Shooter Identified as Jeffrey Johnson, 53, at Mayor’s News Conference