rolling disgruntled shootings thread 2010

my bro-in-law works for a military contractor, has visited the bldg many times.

The mother of Josh Morgan, a wide receiver for the Washington Team-That-Will-Not-Be-Named, was working at the Navy Yard when this all happened. This wouldn't be particularly noteworthy except for that Morgan's mother was also in the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks and Morgan himself was a junior at Virgina Tech during its campus shooting.

jeez...

http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/16/exclusive-navy-yard-dropped-its-guard-pentagon-inspector-general-says/#ixzz2f6cD5chr

The audit shows a history of those with criminal records managing to bypass the Navy’s security. Fifty-two “convicted felons received routine unauthorized installation access, placing military personnel, attendants, civilians in installations at an increased security risk,” according to the audit.

The Pentagon inspector general began the audit in September 2012, and in August 2013 posted an update to its website reporting that it was expected to be released within the next 30 days.

The mother of Josh Morgan, a wide receiver for the Washington Team-That-Will-Not-Be-Named

just call them what they are, the washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

(a moderator request fixed that problem)

I followed all of that, I just thought that the rolling disgruntled shooting thread wasn't a good place to display hatcat

you're...right about that. sorry everyone, this isn't my day

case in point why comedy auto-replace coding is not funny

yes let's make this thread about that

disgr8080ntled

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/contractor-would-not-have-hired-aaron-alexis-if-past-brushes-with-law-had-been-known/2013/09/17/e5bc83da-1faa-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html?hpid=z3

that one goes in the "well duh" file

I guess the "I thought our lives were an open book" line is erased by this guy not having an online presence? maybe?

x-post- Contract blames the military here of course also

Contractor

thx obama

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/03/20805397-shots-fired-at-uscapitol-female-suspect-killed

unremarkable run of the mill shooting at a high school near me going on right now, active shooter, 2 injured, yadda yadda yadda

http://kdvr.com/2013/12/13/2-injured-in-shooting-at-arapahoe-high-school/

*hits snooze button*

Colorado, are you cool?

seeing as how bimonthly mass shootings are here to stay i'm trying to find all the upsides to them

guns bring people together, as you can see from this livestream of what is going on around the school right now http://kdvr.com/on-air/live-streaming/

also gun sales are major $$$ into the economy... and because the population is smaller after each shooting i guess... our per capita gdp goes up..

:(

watching the helicopter feed of what i presume must now be the procedure for these routine shootings is horrifying.

get shot at in school --> forced to evacuate in a single file line with their hands held up --> all students wrangled into the school's track herded together and patted down by a swat team --> ppl text and tweet --> that's it we're done here, next shooting

shooter killed himself. guns win! guns win.

DR Commish
December 13, 2013 at 1:23 pm
To Karen… AND Armed Security. Liberals HATE Guns… but the only way to STOP a Bad Guy with a Gun…. Is a Good Guy with a Gun.
The police can simply not be everywhere we might need them. With a “National Response Time” Average of 22 Minutes… And with the (seemingly increasing) number of evildoers that choose to do harm, We need to place “First Responders” at the sights of most concern.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/13/justice/florida-movie-theater-shooting/
(CNN) -- It started with a father sending text messages to his daughter during the previews of a movie.
It ended with the 43-year-old man shot dead amid the theater seats, and a 71-year-old retired police officer in custody.

The shooter sat down and put the gun in his lap.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oejMv9uUr5c/T1LxLikXT7I/AAAAAAAABEU/j_by4Mlr7G0/s400/shooter%2Bmcgavin%2Bgif.gif

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/14/justice/new-mexico-school-shooting/?hpt=hp_t2

http://newsdiffs.org/diff/401687/401815/www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/us/florida-man-is-shot-to-death-for-texting-during-movie-previews.html

Original NYT story on the theater shooting was headlined "Florida Man Is Shot to Death for Texting During Movie Preview" and included the sentences:

The killing underscored the increased debate about when to use smartphones in public. In October, the singer Madonna was spotted texting during the Lincoln Center premiere of “12 Years a Slave.” That led Tim League, chief executive of Alamo Drafthouse, a Texas-based chain of boutique cinemas, to post on Twitter that she was banned from watching movies at his theaters.

protip - you can turn down brightness and mute your stupid devices you cant put down for 120 minutes.

protip you should be able to go to a movie and annoy people without fear of getting fucking shot

i just assume whenever i go out there's a 20% chance i'm going to get shot for no reason whatsoever

stay home, at least get shot by someone you love

I spend the first ten minutes of every movie contemplating the 'vision cones' of imaginary shooters and planning our escape route

I can't tell if you're joking or not but I basically plan escape routes wherever I go, under the assumption one day I will need to run for my life from a crazy person/racist

Yeah, I've been in that mode since Aurora. Movies, supermarkets, restaurants, back-to-school night.

I've been in that mode since I was 8.

Holy shit. That sounds stressful. So you always have it in the back of your head that someone might go crazy in the public places you go to?

Reminds me of how I read somewhere that "guys" always size each other up and figure out who are "potential threats" in bars &c. I have never ever done anything like this (and yes, I'm male), and I find it really hard to believe that's a common thing. The idea just makes me laugh and think of the "ocular patdown" in Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

: (

Holy shit. That sounds stressful. So you always have it in the back of your head that someone might go crazy in the public places you go to?

I always have it in the back of my head that someone might violently object to my presence because I'm a black man in America and statistics aren't in my favor.

protip you should be able to go to a movie and annoy people without fear of getting fucking shot

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:48 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

i disagree

Oh man. Being a white guy in Norway = privilege of mooning around completely oblivious to the world as a cruel place.

xp I was not joking. This is relatively new to me, a privilege of being middle class and white in the USA

Oh man. Being a white guy in Norway = privilege of mooning around completely oblivious to the world as a cruel place.

Well now that Anders Behring Breivik is locked up, for sure

well, the flipside to that is afaict Anders Breivik is an aberration in Norway, whereas there are probably close to a million people in the US who are likely to shoot someone in the next five minutes

I remember being dragged along with my class into a semi-trailer parked outside of our elementary school where some guy explained the dangers of driving around railroad crossing barriers. He pointed to a 7-segment countdown display on the wall and noted that someone dies from a train collision every time the clock counts down to zero. I don't understand the purpose of this education given that we were all under 10 years of age and could not drive. It just gave me a general feeling of dread and insecurity when in the car with my parents. He also explained to us that we should run toward the approaching train if our vehicle were ever stuck on the tracks. That way, post collision debris would not kill us.

anyway, DJP's countdown reminded me of this is all. sorry for the derail. run towards the derail. carry on.

post collision debris would not kill us

presumably because the train would kill you first? idgi

i think he means if you're in a car about to get hit by a train, instead of running away from the train (in the same direction the car and its debris would be flying) run towards and past the train, in the opposite direction it's going.

I would think instinctively you'd run away from the track (perpendicular to the direction the train is travelling). I guess running towards the train might be better, but if the train derails, which seems likely, it might be dangerous to be too close to the track, even if you're upstream from the point of impact.

yes, I think there will be a wide debris cone that you are trying to avoid. The original instruction may have involved a smaller angle than 180 degrees relative to the train's vector to account for track proximity. I don't remember.