Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

whew

Walter Scott shooting: Michael Slager, ex-officer, sentenced to 20 years in prison

The Latest: Authorities say three people are dead following a shooting at a New Mexico high school. https://t.co/4u1dyGtO0F

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 7, 2017

a colleague's sister was texting from a broom closet at that school :-/

still wish we could change this thread title

just make this thread a sticky amirite guys

yeah but seriously title is awful

Thread is huge so would be reasonable to start a new one?

idk i think it's a fitting compendium

same.

Kentucky school shooting?

2 kids dead, 17 others injured by 15-yo shooter.

http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article196104979.html

5 dead in Pennsylvania.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-police-5-killed-shooting-pennsylvania-car-wash-152123444.html?.tsrc=fauxdal

the good news is that there is now growing bipartisan support for banning bump stocks. they're getting really close to something, i can feel it

i heard in KY they're using this to push for making it legal for public school teachers to carry

they're getting really close to something, i can feel it

about as bleak as humor ever gets

yeah, i don't mean to make light of these incidents, sorry. it is really, really heartbreaking how nothing is being done at the national level to prevent gun violence. i don't know the details of this latest one; i know it may not be a good example of a preventable outcome. there are almost always more factors than just the mere availability of a gun. but they sure don't help, that's for fucking sure. i chiefly blame the republicans for refusing to do anything to help, at the cost of many lives. it's shameful. but democrats should at least keep vocally fighting for measures to reduce gun violence, even if it's like banging a head against the wall. it may be futile, but at least send a signal that something is happening that is wrong.

as many have noted, we crossed some sort of threshold when nothing was done after sandy hook. i don't know where we are now, but it's a persistently despicable place

I only just read this recently and it's the most comprehensive take on American gun control I can recall (v leftist tho if yr not into that)

http://habeasquaestus.com/2017/10/03/profit-kills

there's an active shooter (or was) at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.

ban high schools

my sis lives there and i have friends there.

20-30 'injured' and shooter still at large.

live video here
https://www.wptv.com/news/state/shooting-investigated-at-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-in-broward-county

christ

shooter in custody. one confirmed casualty far.

now reporting multiple deaths im sick

shooter is a white male, so expect thoughts and prayers and nothing else.

prez already came in w thoughts n prayers

cool, he's done

Broward sherriff says shooter is in custody.

there's video out there from inside a classroom man alive

About 20 miles north of me.

shooter is a white male, so expect thoughts and prayers and nothing else

so otmfm it hurts

yeah that's right next to where i grew up, had a few friends who went there. fucking sick. high school was bad enough for me without major incident, i can't imagine dealing with something like this, shootings, new copters, active shooter drills, as a 14 year old :(

*news

Parkland is a very wealthy municipality, too.

the more often this happens, the more disturbing it is to me. How am I supposed to leave my daughter anywhere, attended or unattended?

come to think of it, when i was in high school, a 13 year old kid at another s fl high school shot a teacher he had an argument with in the head and killed him. he was tried as an adult. still in jail. it was haunting when i visited the school a cpl months later with the debate team.

the scope + randomness of these spree shootings is of course a lot scarier

I'm one block from my kid's elementary school and there's a lot of construction on homes nearby. Sometimes a jackhammer type sound comes from one of the sites and I have that split second where I'm not sure.

according to the local WSVN broadcast, the superintendent says there are "numerous fatalities".

hey it's all worth it though right, it's all worth it for the right to, uh, bear arms, that's some important shit right there

Hey, you never know, your country might turn into a dictatorship some day. Every American, without exception, will deliver some righteous gunslinging when that happens.

Hell yes, Alex Jones is agitating for it nightly.

the video of this was nauseating, expect we will see more footage like this as smartphone proliferate. i do like that the CBS news censored the cuss words in the midst of broadcasting bloody acts of attempted murder... wouldn't want to upset anyone ofc

I'm seeing as many as 15 killed now.

Fuck this country.

16, now, according to CNN.

yeah, seriously fuck everyone who votes for people who do JACK SHIT.

It’s too upsetting

My niece goes to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where the shooting occurred. She wasn't there at the time, but just heard from my brother many horror stories of parents still without information about their kids, others who texted as their kids hid in closets.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 14, 2018

He supposedly used an AR-15

Sun-Sentinel said it was a former student. And the body count is 17 now.

Former student who had reportedly been expelled for disciplinary reasons.