Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

So he "opened fire" with a starter pistol, into the air, and then was shot by the police, who maybe injured 25 people there with CS gas? I really want to get to the bottom of this, because the link "armed-man-opens-fire-at-german-cinema-kinopolis-viernheim" couldn't be more at odds with what we know, or any more alarmist, based on what was reported. As scary as that situation might have been.

Man, this shows how messed up the US really is. A masked gunman terrorizes a German theater with a fake gun and ends up the only one dead. That British guy who overstayed his visa to plan a Trump assassination for 6 months ends up arrested because his "plan" turned out to be grabbing the security guard's gun at a Trump rally, in the only country in the world where a mentally non-citizen who has overstayed his visa could probably walk into store and buy a machine gun. I wish these were our usual headlines.

Ha, "mentally non-citizen." That's how I feel, sometimes. "Mentally-ill non-citizen," I meant.

you can put all that together in a pot with uncontrollable rage and a premeditated mass murdering / ethnic cleansing impulse and call it a pathological condition that really has very fucking little to do with actual political or religious affiliations or sexual orientation.

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, June 22, 2016 12:43 PM (Yesterday)

the orando shooter was a lone nutcase, but his madness clearly intersected with global trends in murderous lunacy. attempts to divorce incidents like this from radical islamic fundamentalism strike me as misguided. opposition to right wing paranoia and bigotry shouldn't lead us to deny obvious realities, and many of these incidents do arise from within a specific and specifically religious subculture. just as other acts of terror stem from similarly toxic christian fundamentalism, american racism, etc.

He found confirmation and reinforcement of his prejudices within a violent and radical ideology.

Not spree but there was a shooting where a ten year old boy was killed at Hotel Caribe in San Juan last night. I'm at that hotel. It happened a little over an hour after I left the pool area.

I came downstairs last night to see an ambulance being loaded and police tape everywhere

fort myers

15 dead in Japanese stabbing attack.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/32528286/15-dead-dozens-injured-in-japan-mass-stabbing?sf31730560=1

austin, TX. one dead.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/active-shooter-leaves-multiple-victims-austin-texas-police/story?id=41025191&cid=abcn_fb

Gunman who wounded 9 was wearing Nazi paraphernalia, sources say

http://www.click2houston.com/news/large-police-presence-reported-in-southwest-houston

KPRC2 has confirmed the owner of that vehicle is 46-year-old attorney Nathan Desai.

Ken McDaniel, Desai's former law partner, said that they decided to go their separate ways in February because of economic reason. He said he hasn't spoken to Desai since then.

Desai's father, Prakash, who said his son ws in his own practice, but it was not doing well.

so cool that we've normalized the Nazis in our culture

we've gotten to the point of wondering which particular spree shooting was the reason for the thread bump

Yeah, I thought this was going to be about the Washington state thing.

motherfucker

(CNN)At least two children were shot Wednesday at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, Anderson County EMS Director Scott Stoller told CNN.

"Right now we are still developing information. We are still treating patients. One of the children was life-flighted to Greenville Trauma Center, Stoller said.
The shooter is in custody, according to Sheila Cole, spokeswoman for the Anderson County Sheriff's Office.

goddamn it.

Shit, this really hits home. My dad works in the Anderson County school system.

fffffff

the shooter is a teenager, who knows what the motive is, who knows what his intent was.

Father of the shooter found dead.

The three victims at the school were struck by bullets from a handgun, Capt. Garland Major of the Anderson County Sheriff's Office said. One male student was hit in a leg and another boy was struck in a foot. The female teacher was wounded in a shoulder, Major said.

This sounds promising but please please please let these children and their teacher survive.

update:

Both children shot were little boys; one, who was shot in the foot, has been discharged from the hospital already. The other boy was hit in the leg and his current condition is unknown. The teacher was shot in the shoulder and has also been released.

good

CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy shot and killed his father then drove to an elementary school in South Carolina and opened fire with a handgun, wounding two children and a teacher on Wednesday, authorities said.

Volunteer firefighter Jamie Brock held the suspect down on a playground behind Townville Elementary School in Anderson County until police arrived, giving a teacher time to get students inside the building, authorities said. The teenager never entered the school, located near the Georgia state line about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Atlanta.

"He risked his life to mitigate this incident," Anderson County emergency services director Taylor Jones said of Brock. "He used enough force to take him to the ground."

U.S. schools have taken added security precautions since 2012 when a gunman shot dead 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Wednesday's shooting left a 6-year-old boy in critical condition and undergoing surgery, Scott Stoller, Anderson County's director of emergency services, told the Anderson Independent Mail.

The other boy and a female teacher were in good condition, said Juana Slade, spokeswoman for AnMed Health Medical Center. Both boys were 6 years old, the Independent Mail reported.

The teenager shot his 47-year-old father, Jeffrey DeWitt Osborne, in the chest then drove a pickup truck about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the school where he crashed the vehicle into the fence surrounding the playground, authorities said. The teenager was not named.

Thank goodness.

sad the other one is in critical condition

My comment was an xpost to sleeve btw

fuckin thank god for that firefighter

Active shooter reported at Ohio State

turned out to be an active stabber/driver. fortunately the suspect the only one killed (known of at this time, at least)

and is somali. I look forward to a sober and thoughtful response from america.

ah christ

9 shot, 3 dead in Ft. Lauderdale
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4095720/Nine-shot-one-dead-shooting-Ft-Lauderdale-Hollywood-Airport.html

reports of more gun fire just now

multiple shooters, multiple locations being reported but not confirmed

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article124963889.html

Ari Fleischer
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@AriFleischer

I'm at the Ft. Lauderdale Airport. Shots have been fired. Everyone is running.

a friend of mine is also on tarmac in a plane waiting for this shit to resolve

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More shooting or something. I'm on the Tarmac on foot now. Yikes,

press conference confirms only one shooter

apparently he flew into florida today. the gun was stored in a checked bag.

Didn't know you could check guns, christ

if only everyone else had a gun in their check bag they could have stopped him.

apparently he was coming from canada

very few places you can't have a gun xxps

why do they always think there was a second shooter?

very few places you can't have a gun

^^^ courthouses and that's about it iirc

why do they always think there was a second shooter?

― Treeship, Friday, January 6, 2017 3:52 PM (four minutes ago)

it was being reported on police scanners . I guess chalk it up to mass confusion from various panicked sources.

And Trump's inauguration. xp

The story out of Rick Scott's press conference: he "reached out multiple times" to Trump and Pence, even once calling the latter "vice president." A reporter asked if he'd reached out to the president, i.e. Obama. "I have not."

Reported he had the gun packed in his luggage, picked it up at the luggage claim and then somehow loaded it. Are you allowed to carry bullets with you? Anyway, also reported he had a conceal carry permit and a Florida military ID. Has any of that stuff been confirmed yet? (Not to mention his name, which already leaked?)

I thought ammo had to be checked separately, but I guess there's nothing stopping you from loading yr weapon once yr in the baggage claim