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."
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/544/article/p2p-73696177/
― Jeff, Friday, 14 December 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
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
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
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
so this isn't about the Texas college shooting? (thankfully it appears that nobody is dead)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure if a one man spree but this sounds crazy:http://news.yahoo.com/police-5-dead-shooting-south-seattle-081054003.html
― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, that's a ton of comments
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
a ton of racist comments!
― how's life, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
You can't say "racist", it's racist.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― kate78, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/26/18517847-two-dead-five-injured-including-sheriff-in-two-county-texas-shooting-spree?lite
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, 27 May 2013 06:38 (ten years ago) link
^^^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.
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Damn, sorry to hear. That's crazy
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
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
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
omg whoai heard about this on the radio this morning but came in mid-story so i didn't get a lot of the original detailsi don't even know what to say
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's like how are we supposed to work today exactly?
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
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.
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
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?
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
dead, shootout
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
the email which we received said she was "lucky to escape with only major damage to her teeth"
relative degrees of lucky...
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
that's simply nothing short of one of the most horrific things i could imagine
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
oh Jon that's awful.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
Jesus
― Hockey Drunk (kingfish), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
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
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 30 May 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
whole thing just makes me heartsick for so many reasons
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 May 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
The mom, right? "I don't know, maybe they argued and he went crazy."
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 30 May 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 May 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 30 May 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0613/St.-Louis-shooting-Gunman-kills-four-including-himself-video
― Shock G Mo Collier (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 14 June 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
worst boss ever : /
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 14 June 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
7 dead
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/27/us/ap-us-apartment-shootings-florida.html
― schlock corridor (WilliamC), Saturday, 27 July 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
fuck
― fervently nice (Treeship), Saturday, 27 July 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Somehow averted, but Jesus Christ way too close.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/us/georgia-school-gunshots/
― how's life, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/21/214085753/school-clerk-in-georgia-persuaded-gunman-to-lay-down-weapons
― how's life, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
wow what a hero
― Hooks on Phoenix worked for me (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
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
― Alba, Monday, 26 August 2013 09:04 (ten years ago) link
shots fired at LAX...?
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 November 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
Yup, something's going down.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 November 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
Live coverage
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/live
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 November 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
Tory Bellici of Mythbusters is there, it turns out:
https://twitter.com/ToryBelleci
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 November 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
Suspect neutralized.
― how's life, Friday, 1 November 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 1 November 2013 17:24 (ten years ago) link
that's possible but also since it was an airport incident they may be going OTT.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 1 November 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
that would be my suspicion
reporting it was a lone gunman with a high-powered rifle at the moment
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 November 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Apparently a second person arrested in a parking garage.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 November 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Also I could totally see this being the case:
Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the shooter was an off-duty TSA agent.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 November 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
one person killed according to reports
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 1 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Shooter at the Garden State Mall in Nj. Local place for me... no confirmed victims? Only reports were of a decked out shooter aiming at security cameras during the closing of the mall. No arrests yet and they're looking for the guy.
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link
NJ*