Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

But at least

Four people are in the Froedtert Hospital emergency room being evaluated, and none are in critical condition, hospital officials said.

was he disgruntled

could have been avoided if he had a two-parent home

The most pointed bit in last night's SNL debate opening was the woman who asked what they planned to do about assault weapons. Romney: "Nothing." Obama: "Nothing."

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/544/article/p2p-73696177/

In The Myth of Martyrdom, author Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama, rejects the prevailing view of suicide terrorists as radicalized individuals who will do anything for a cause. Rather, he asserts, they are merely unhappy, damaged individuals who want to die. Terrorist organizations recruit people who are in desperate straits for suicide missions and call them martyrs, and we have bought into their propaganda.

Citing recent research, including evaluations of preemptively arrested suicide terrorists, Lankford argues that the psychological profiles of self-destructive killers, whether underwear bombers or school shooters, are not so different from those of the 34,000 Americans who commit suicide every year, burdened by mental illness, social isolation, and personal and professional failures. Underneath the political rhetoric in suicide letters, martyrdom videos and testimonies of grieving family and friends, Lankford finds evidence of deep psychological pain. The young mother who blows herself up in a crowd, for instance, turns out to be escaping the shame of an adulterous affair.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-reviews-the-myth-of-martyrdom-what-really-drives-suicide-bombers-rampage-shooters

so this isn't about the Texas college shooting? (thankfully it appears that nobody is dead)

Not sure if a one man spree but this sounds crazy:
http://news.yahoo.com/police-5-dead-shooting-south-seattle-081054003.html

Damn, that's a ton of comments

a ton of racist comments!

You can't say "racist", it's racist.

ugh, it wasn't a drug thing, it was a domestic violence incident which escalated when neighbors came out to see wtf was going on.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/26/18517847-two-dead-five-injured-including-sheriff-in-two-county-texas-shooting-spree?lite

^^^I just got to work after the 3 day weekend and just found out my coworker, one of the people on my 4 person team, was one of the people shot in this. I am in shock. I cannot fucking believe it. She is going to live, in fact she will get out of the hospital today, so she is very lucky, but she was shot sideways through the mouth so I quail at the thought of what recovery will entail for her. She is the nicest, smartest, toughest person. She had just climbed out of the Grand Canyon on a hiking trip when it happened. What the fuck.

Damn, sorry to hear. That's crazy

The shooter was a marine who'd deployed twice to afghanistan. My teammate was the first person he shot in this spree, apparently. Well, other than the woman he murdered before he left his base in NC...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/28/us/texas-marine-fatal-shooting-spree/index.html

omg whoa
i heard about this on the radio this morning but came in mid-story so i didn't get a lot of the original details
i don't even know what to say

yeah it's like how are we supposed to work today exactly?

she knows martial arts. I wished she had had an opportunity to knock this asshole's fucking head off before he shot at her car.

Living with those injuries, I just don't even know what she must be going through right now. I didn't read anything more about the shooter -- is he alive or dead?

dead, shootout

the email which we received said she was "lucky to escape with only major damage to her teeth"

relative degrees of lucky...

that's simply nothing short of one of the most horrific things i could imagine

and i have an imagination for horror!!

Shot sideways through the mouth?? Good grief, that's not exactly what you'd call lucky but holy mother of fuck, she's done well to walk away from that.

oh Jon that's awful.

Jesus

OK so there's been more detail reported now about what happened to my teammate Laura and her 2 friends. Her friend who was behind the wheel apparently displayed a quickness of mind under crisis of which I am quite sure I would have been incapable:

The Texas shootings began about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, when the gunman shot a passenger in a car carrying three people in their 20’s in the Eden area of Concho County, about 210 miles southwest of Dallas, Doane said

Doane said Smith pulled up behind the trio’s car and started firing at them.

“They thought he was throwing rocks at them and he was actually shooting at them,” Doane said.

The driver slammed on his brakes, turned around and headed toward Eden where he hid the vehicle in a car dealership lot. That move probably saved their lives, Doane said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/texas-authorities-man-suspected-of-killing-1-wounding-5-was-from-north-carolina-marine-base/2013/05/27/1c485c8c-c72a-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html

http://www.jdnews.com/news/crime/texas-officials-marine-had-no-known-ties-to-state-1.150413

whole thing just makes me heartsick for so many reasons

The mom, right? "I don't know, maybe they argued and he went crazy."

yeah. and just, being a person going about whatever they're doing that gets shot in this crazy scenario. the fact that he drove ALL that way. his wife dead in the motel. and this guy, who is clearly having a horrific break and ptsd shit, it's just...there's no part of this that isn't just as sad as it gets.

and yeah, that is some A+ quick thinking from the driver in your coworker's car, Jon.

The hiding their car in the auto dealership lot is like suspense-novel thinking, i feel sure I would have just put the pedal to the metal and tried to outrun the fucker (and been caught).

Neither my boss or I have spoken to her yet, just emails from her mom where she is resting. She is one of those v quiet people who has a core of solid iron as far as I can tell, so I am v hopeful she'll be able to tackle this.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0613/St.-Louis-shooting-Gunman-kills-four-including-himself-video

worst boss ever : /

7 dead

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/27/us/ap-us-apartment-shootings-florida.html

fuck

Somehow averted, but Jesus Christ way too close.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/us/georgia-school-gunshots/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/21/214085753/school-clerk-in-georgia-persuaded-gunman-to-lay-down-weapons

wow what a hero

I know there's a danger in overextrapolating from a case like this, but Gary Younge's column on this is great:

The heroism of Antoinette Tuff reveals what's missing from politics

shots fired at LAX...?

Yup, something's going down.

Live coverage

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/live

Tory Bellici of Mythbusters is there, it turns out:

https://twitter.com/ToryBelleci

Suspect neutralized.

My office is two blocks from the airport and there is WAY too much police/fire/security traffic for it to have been just one person. I suspect there are/were more people involved.

that's possible but also since it was an airport incident they may be going OTT.

that would be my suspicion

reporting it was a lone gunman with a high-powered rifle at the moment

Apparently a second person arrested in a parking garage.

Also I could totally see this being the case:

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the shooter was an off-duty TSA agent.