Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

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.

one person killed according to reports

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.

NJ*

20 year old white male. Committed suicide. Made the commendable decision not to shoot anybody else! I feel weird about that last sentence.

I feel weird about the first sentence too!

gah.

It's amazing that the first reports are always 100% wrong, huh

good job staying free, everyone

http://abcnews.go.com/US/jersey-mall-shooter-found-dead-inflicted-gunshot-wound/story?id=20785282

xp: well, he shot the place up. Just didn't point the gun at people, I guess.

School shooting foiled, I guess: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-crime-denver-20131105,0,6144331.story.

Band member kills his bandmates, jeez:

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131111/east-williamsburg/enraged-musician-kills-bandmates-williamsburg-police-reports-say

Blimey

says here who it was it was, slightly uncomfortable that i posted about this tbh, just about this in case they're friends/acquaintances of any folks here?

bad fucking story though

they'd been mentioned a couple of times on ILX before, in passing. Dreadful story.

Jesus that's really close to me. I've probably seen those guys while walking my dog. I heard helicopters last night for about an hour and figured something heavy was happening...

im sure that fox news will apply their usual shithead filters to "iranian band massacre"

seems less like a spree shooting and more like an aggrieved murder suicide. not that i am trying to be spree shooting thread cop

Shit, I remember them in No One Knows About Persian Cats. How terrible.

why did i read the comments?

I remember the trailer for that documentary they were in.

people i know getting emergency texts from the university system saying there is someone with a gun on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota...shit

UMN tweeting that it appears to be an attempted robbery, situation ongoing

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/2013/11/13/Shooting-reported-at-Pittsburgh-Brashear-High-school/stories/201311130158

Friend just posted that there is an active shooter in her hospital in Milwaukee on facebook

fuck. a Children's Hospital too?

Ok, so this is someone trustworthy but l don't see any news sites reporting this so idk

http://www.jsonline.com/news/report-shots-fired-at-childrens-hospital-b99142691z1-231935841.html

Maybe this should have been posted on the 77 police hate thread instead.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/report-shots-fired-at-childrens-hospital-b99142691z1-231935841.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24985779

A photographer, 27, was seriously hurt at Liberation and a motorist was forced to drive to the Champs Elysees before he was allowed to go.

what?

= a guy driving a car was forced to drive to the Champs Elysees and let out the shooter and then he was allowed to drive on.

Bet you this guy's some kind of right-wing kook

Boy did I get that wrong...

You got the kook bit right at least

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Yale-Students-Urged-to-Shelter-in-Place-233311781.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/fort-hood-shooting/shooting-fort-hood-military-base-many-eight-wounded-n70276

jfc

Is it wrong to suggest that if a mass shooting can take place on a military base, let alone the same military base, twice, where I assume the majority of people are if not trained in weapons use then at least familiar with guns, that maybe, contrary to the NRA and eager-beaver would-be citizen vigilantes, a well-trained and well-armed population may indeed have no bearing on preventing or otherwise thwarting mass shooters? Are there gun-toters right now beating their chests, suggesting that if they were there on that base, packing, that this never would have happened?

these shootings aren't even surprising any more

Is it wrong to suggest that if a mass shooting can take place on a military base, let alone the same military base, twice, where I assume the majority of people are if not trained in weapons use then at least familiar with guns, that maybe, contrary to the NRA and eager-beaver would-be citizen vigilantes, a well-trained and well-armed population may indeed have no bearing on preventing or otherwise thwarting mass shooters?

In the wake of the Navy Yard shooting, a lot of...shall we say Second Amendment zealots...pointed out that most of the people on that and other military installations are expressly forbidden to routinely carry firearms.

Are there gun-toters right now beating their chests, suggesting that if they were there on that base, packing, that this never would have happened?

Firearms advocates have said that, more or less, after every previous spree shooting, so I'm not going to go to the relevant forums to seek out exact quotes.

[That touches on what I thought was the least realistic part of Spring Breakers--during the restaurant robbery, shouldn't at least one of the patrons been carrying a real gun, and responded in what he or she thought was the right way?]

Spoiler!

Just kidding. They were probably chickenshit.

That movie looks awful anyway