Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

this shooting is actually an incident that gives lie to the notion that "if only someone in the crowd had a gun this could have been prevented," as if that notion is anything other that complete bullshit in any situation like this.

Guitarist for the Josh Abbott Band, who performed last night.

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— Caleb Keeter (@Calebkeeter) October 2, 2017

That being said, I'll not live in fear of anyone. We will regroup, we'll come back, and we'll rock your fucking faces off. Bet on it.

— Caleb Keeter (@Calebkeeter) October 2, 2017

xpost if Sandy Hook didn't do it, nothing will. notice, of course, how of all the shootings the one that would elicit the most sympathy for the anti-gun cause is the one that draws in the most "it never happened" or "it was a false flag" arguments.

Any chance of efficacious action wrt gun control was dead after the non-response to Sandy Hook and it was buried with the election of Trump. I think we'll probably still have lots of good and impassioned conversation about it, though, alongside the requisite hopes and prayers. Won't somebody please think of the pundits.

I wrote that before I saw a mention of Sandy Hook. Clearly that's the agreed upon point where hope died.

notice, of course, how of all the shootings the one that would elicit the most sympathy for the anti-gun cause is the one that draws in the most "it never happened" or "it was a false flag" arguments.

― nomar, Monday, October 2, 2017 1:07 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's a really great point, I never thought about it like that.

How about a million people sitting outside the NRA HQ this weekend for as start?

blow up the gun factories and their machines.

somebody offers a deep thoughts:

When people say enough with thoughts and prayers they're just saying they don't believe in God and neither should you.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 2, 2017

Podho should find out right now if there is one

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— chris jones¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@LONG_DRIVE) October 2, 2017

Subsequent events have proven that (NRA spokesman) LaPierre had the right of things and that William Lloyd Garrison and Robert Jackson were wrong. The Constitution is not a pact with the devil, nor is it a suicide pact. It is a formalized, legalistic ritual of blood sacrifice. There are some things that we as a society, alas, must tolerate in order to stay true to our founding beliefs and to remain free. Schoolchildren shot to pieces is one of those things. The massacre of country music fans is another one of those things, the 273rd blood sacrifice to that one provision of the Constitution this year.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12764429/las-vegas-shooting-result/

and given that it's a white guy, the false flag narratives have already begun

The creator of Dilbert is spreading a rumor that Stephen Paddock's brother might be a crisis actor pic.twitter.com/idhiiMuz5r

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 2, 2017

What the fuck is the logic in this. it's a false flag bc it's a white guy w/ no clear political/radical/terrorist bent?

isn't Dildo a Logic Master?

was he always so batshit? what happened to him?

I recommend tracking down that longform profile of him from a few months back

it's a false flag bc it's a white guy w/ no clear political/radical/terrorist bent?

was he always so batshit?

Having bought and read "The Dilbert Future" when it was published, I can say the answer to this is "yes".

Well that crowd was pretty psyched when the "Bernie Bro shooter" happened
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Should we still ignore Alex Jones who has his batshit false flag shenanigans lined up already? He was thanked by The President after the latter's election tbf.

yea he's always been pretty nuts but this deep dive into MRA/Alex Jones territory seems to be a somewhat recent development

If you've got a looney prez who surrounds himself with loons like that, idk

creating a safe space for unfeeling red pilled white males since 1996

to be fair I have no idea what Dilbro is getting at there and tbh I don't think he does either

Always, always, always ignore Alex Jones.

I don't even think he has the 'stopped clock' thing going for him.

Crisis actor expert @ScottAdamsSays will be on Fox News later tonight to discuss.

I can't even deal with this.

he was good in Waking Life lol

I'm changing my job description to 'fuckwit cartoonist expert.'

it was cool to watch him smoke pot for the first time on Joe Rogan and then have a mild panic attack

OK, I've never heard of "crisis actors" til now, and my opinion of humanity has apparently not bottomed out yet.

this is worth your time, although perhaps at a later date

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html

OT: For someone with only 2-3 borrowed insights (Peter principle is real, most committee meetings are pointless, engineers should supervise engineers), he's had a pretty charmed life.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has delayed political advertisements in Virginia in the wake of a mass shooting in Las Vegas that left more than 58 people dead and more than 500 injured.

The nation’s largest gun rights organization had originally booked $32,000 in cable television advertising to begin Tuesday, according to Advertising Analytics, a nonpartisan ad-buying firm that keeps tabs on the television market.

Now, those advertisements will begin on Oct. 10. At the same time, the NRA will devote just more than $1 million to ads airing on broadcast networks in markets around Virginia.

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/353458-nra-delays-political-ads-after-las-vegas-shooting

What do you have to do to get your own dedicated massacre thread these days??

as someone else on twitter observed, they've even learned to predict how long the national outrage will last

i hate to admit it but i feel like after Sandy Hook i'm just numb to this shit now, except the sense there's an ever-expanding group of places/events where i should "stay frosty" in the event that some dude i've never met got mad that morning about his job at the place i just happen to be at or w/e

OT: For someone with only 2-3 borrowed insights (Peter principle is real, most committee meetings are pointless, engineers should supervise engineers), he's had a pretty charmed life.

most definitely a right time/right place kinda guy, though the first 6-7 years of Dilbert were pretty good

pretty amusing that he's thrown away what remained of his dignity in servitude of the living embodiment of the pointy-haired boss

for guys like Adams and Baio and even James Woods this is the best gig they've had in a decade

I guess we need to get to the point where every person in America knows someone killed in a mass shooting in order to stop this "crisis actor" nonsense. We probably will get to that point, and it probably still won't help.

Not only is Fox News giving airtime to an expert in crisis actors (a made-up thing), they're giving it to fucking Scott Adams. What the fuck is going on.

I think that tweet was satire, correct me if I'm wrong

ugh guys i hate to say this but i just heard:

active shooter at USC

xpost 2017 protip: if it seems like OTT satire, it's probably real.

who the hell knows anymore

Seeing tweets about no evidence of active shooter at USC

I think that tweet was satire, correct me if I'm wrong

no

the first good news of the day : /