let's start a gofundme for that one
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
ffs it was only a few years ago that 20 kids were killed at an elementary school !!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
I still think back to sandy hook, and the fact that even a few dozen tiny kids and teachers getting shot and killed is not enough to initiate a change means that it will probably never come
― marcos, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
xpost I mean, I'm sitting here thinking, "This is the one that we'll be unable to overlook, this one will bring some change." But...Sandy Hook. It just all feels so hopeless.
Someone needs to spell it out in language that these republican pieces of shit will understand: people are going to become increasingly afraid to go out and spend money the longer this goes on. There will be an appreciable economic cost to your continuted kowtowing to the NRA.
― The Featureless Mash That Was Once My Face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
UNC-Chapel Hill went on lockdown this morning:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/us/north-carolina-chapel-hill-security-incident/
Oh and while I was scrolling thru that post, lookee what also popped up:
http://i.imgur.com/IyVBQHn.jpg
"May you live in like some really fun times" I think that curse went.
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
Rick Serrano @RickSerranoLAT 18m18 minutes agoCalif mass shooting: Police searching for SUV seen leaving scene; 3 suspected shooters apparently vanished from health center
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
oh fuck.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
What the fuck?
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
why the fuck would...idk
― nomar, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
ugh at humans basically
ppl can get used to all kinds of things. in israel there have been stabbings for months now and ppl are going about their lives. i am totally w/ you re the sentiment of how do we get through to these fuckers but i don't think this argument is a winner.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
acc to CBS there's a bomb squad on the scene: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/672143708335292417
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
I was gonna argue maybe it would take like 30 congressmen getting shot but maybe the public would love that shit and want more of it.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, we had a congresswoman shot in the fucking head 4 years ago and it didn't do shit
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
Insanely we've already had Congressmen get shot. And that go no traction. So elected officials, children, school kids, servicemen, hundreds of innocents ... nada.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
xpost
thats why I say we need ~30. including a couple who went down shooting with their concealed weapons.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
You mean as heroes? Imagine how bad it would have been if they didn't have those weapons!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Does anyone doubt that a serious prez candidate announcing a strong anti-gun platform would be shot within weeks?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
we will never be able to move forward until every single person who believes that upstanding citizens with concealed weapons would save the day have the chance to be in an active shooting situation and try to save everyone and fail. at this rate that should happen in another 20 or 25 years
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
If we make it that long.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
law enforcement is going to guard schools and hospitals and PP clinics etc around san bernardino since those guys are i guess still out there
― nomar, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
i hate that i have a mental bingo card for mass shootings at this point but something about this seems weird --- three grown-ass men (not teens) working together (not loners) to target a place/group of people that's politically/ideologically innocuous and then leaving the scene instead of dying in a shoot-out/killing themselves (not desperate/hopeless/suicidal)? it almost seems like a hit
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
my gut says organized terrorism but i guess we'll see
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
xp we don't know that the Inland Regional Center was the target at this stage iirc.
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
I agree, if there is definitely more than one attacker. (xp)
― Otago Imago (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
Live updates.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-shooting-live-updates-htmlstory.html
There's a terrible "waiting for the other shoe to drop" now, unless it was somehow a specific hit and they wanted to get away, almost Cartel-like.
― my harp and me (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
feel like every mass shooting has had early rumors about 2-3 killers and it usually ends up as one, but this info does seem a little more specific maybe?
― nomar, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
idk a "hit" just sounds not plausible
― nomar, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow)
or yes we do, shut up, jim
― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
PP clinic says they are safe
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link
― my harp and me (Eazy), Wednesday, December 2, 2015 3:11 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'll admit that my first thought was of the cartels, though that does seem not plausible
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link
they walked straight into the building and started shooting at what was either a meeting or a party, apparently. my first reaction was to think it was a (extremely disturbed) disgruntled ex-employee or ex-resident, but multiple shooters, with military gear? wtf
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
My thoughts exactly.
― Otago Imago (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
James Holmes also wore body armour.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
and "military grade" firepower can be purchased at the local gun shop, no problem
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:14 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah my first thought was ex-employee too but idk. :(
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
KTLA just reported that they found an abandoned black SUV in the San Bernardino area
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
i don't see newtown as any more of a "failure" for gun control than prop 8 was for the gay rights movement, myself.
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
In other news:
http://abc13.com/news/hpd-homicide-one-dead-in-shooting-outside-medical-clinic-in-sw-houston/1107084/
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
L.A. Times:
Reports indicate the shooting occurred inside a conference room rented by an outside group for a Christmas party.
??
― my harp and me (Eazy), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
not sure how you guys can follow the play-by-play on this shit every day
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
This shit is as normal as the stock market ticker
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
• Four adults have been transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center, and the hospital is expecting three more patients, hospital spokeswoman Briana Pastorino said. She did not describe the nature of the patients' wounds. Arrowhead Regional Medical Center has received eight patients, an employee who didn't want to be named told CNN.
• The three suspects are believed to be armed with AK-47-type weapons, a local law enforcement official told CNN.
• The bomb squad found a suspicious package on the second floor of a building and determined it is "not normal," the source said. They are going to handle it with a robot, the source added.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
"not normal"
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
They are going to handle it with a robot
robots = not normal
― j., Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
okay so the package is "not normal". misread that as the force saying a suspicious package accompanying a mass shooting is "not normal"
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
xp
right-wing twitter, supposedly quoting police scanner, has name of person of interest: Farook Syed
― goole, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/rickserranolat/status/672167170361675777
Suggestions now that the group who rented the conf room may have been targeted, not the organization
nothing firm yet though
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link