Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

great idea! what the US needs to do is go ahead and clear out the backlog of hundreds of people on deathrow, maybe in a public place where large crowds of civilians can gather around and witness the awe-inspiring power of the state. then we can go ahead and just kill one person a day. since we don't care enough about spree shootings to try to prevent them, we should soon have enough mass murderers queued up to kill one off in prime time, every night.

http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article205168669.html

Dylan Roof's little sister arrested.

in addition to all the obvious ways this is horrifying, it's also horrifying that the educational system is such that kids would rather be literally beaten than take the chance -- even a small chance, given that most colleges have said it won't affect admissions -- of not getting into college

My kid and two other students walked out of their rural, very conservative, public school for 17 minutes today. They were given two punishment options. They chose corporal punishment. This generation is not playing around. #walkout

— Jerusalem Greer (@JerusalemGreer) March 14, 2018

Jesus Christ I had no idea corporal punishment was still legal in 22 states.

I didn't realize how widespread corporal punishment in public schools still was.

"more than 167,000 students were paddled in the 2011-2012 school year in American public schools.[152]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment#United_States

Conservatives: 'we want smaller government! but the state should be allowed to beat children'

The land of the free to beat kids

Have noticed a few comment sections of news articles in the past week that have been overrun by republicans smearing the protest kids as "bullies". It was those protesters who drove the shooters to kill by bullying them, you see, and now they're being hypocrites by asking stop the violence. I'm certain that a few years ago when schools were really starting to make huge strides in anti-bullying initiatives that you would find these same republicans arguing that back in their day kids didn't need to be mollycoddled and this nonsense is all the result of helicopter parents who need to teach their kids to grow a spine.

yeah it makes no sense, the only winning move is not to ever read the comments on anything ever

Yeah, I know that and I usually do not enter there. I just wanted to point out their cute little change of heart about bullying.

sorry guys, but this one's been blown wide open

https://www.facebook.com/james.h.fetzer/videos/10156040035767978/?hc_location=ufi

Yeah, I know that and I usually do not enter there. I just wanted to point out their cute little change of heart about bullying.

― how's life

"heart"

School shooting in St. Mary's County Maryland. Not much known at the moment.

https://wtop.com/maryland/2018/03/shooting-reported-high-school-st-marys-co/

Not a spree but police claim a person with shotgun held to someone's head in a Panera Bread in Princeton, NJ:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/man_with_gun_reported_at_eatery_near_princeton_uni.html

I can relate

looks like the armed officer actually worked this time

NRA rushed out a video bragging about it on the same day. Not too soon to politicize that tragedy!

hmm, shooter wasn't a teacher, he wasn't hiding outside with two other officers, perpetrator had a handgun and not an AR-15, obv we found the solution that will work in all situations, good going guys.

https://www.statesman.com/news/crime--law/updated-bombing-suspect-mark-conditt-wrote-political-views-blog/CQUCcXNJ9nb2iFs8sSq0pK/

In 2012, when he was 17 years old, Austin bombing suspect Mark A. Conditt laid out his political views in a series of blog posts he wrote for an Austin Community College course on U.S. government.

In the posts, Conditt takes conservative stances on a variety of issues. He wrote that he was against gay marriage and abortion and in favor of the death penalty.

On abortion, he wrote: “First, if a women does not want a baby, or is incapable of taking care of one, she should not participate in activities that were made for that reason. Second, if we are going to give women free abortions, why not give men free condoms, or the like? Is it not up to the couple to take these preventive measures?”

Arguing against gay marriage, he wrote that homosexuality is “not natural.”

“Just look at the male and female bodies. They are obviously designed to couple. The natural design is apparent. It is not natural to couple male with male and female with female. It would be like trying to fit two screws together and to nuts together and then say, “See, it’s natural for them to go together.”

On the death penalty, he wrote, “Living criminals harm and murder, again - executed ones do not.”

if u kill a killer...there is still the same # of killers in this world...

Reagan's dead and his policies are still killing ppl

This guy was a psycho with terrible political views, but I'm cool with free condoms.

Me too, been using ziplocs and a rubberband for the last week

jfc

blogs aren't natural either, Dead Guy

this is one of the most sinister and creepy things i've seen in some time

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000005794914/las-vegas-gunman-planned-massacre.html

yeah, i watched that earlier as well. there's something really unsettling about watching him chat amiably with the hotel and casino staff.

chilling

what the actual fuck at Time's headline

http://time.com/5211363/maryland-high-school-shooting-austin-rollins-lovesick/?xid=time-amp-fbshare

It's as bad as if the headline had said he was doing it for lols.

That would actually be better I think.

The girl he shot died last night.

But how is his heart!?!

i hadn't seen that photo of the hotel room full of weapons. holy fuck.

find the pulsing thriller music bed of the paddock video pretty tasteless

i blame nightline

just watching him and reading about him, it reminds me of a lot of previous psychopaths who buried everything under a veneer of dull respectability, one where the warning signs were just really, idk, boring. like a quick temper or certain secretive behaviors or being a bit controlling. like Dennis Rader or some other guys. and it brings to mind something that was said in Mindhunter about how psychopaths often don't think there's anything wrong with them and they never seek help, and of course implicit there is that if a psychopath wants to hide their true nature and accomplish something they've been marinating on for awhile, they'll be able to do it because often they come across just like this guy.

you see, it's a mental health issue folks

yeah the amount of effort that he put into essentially becoming a 'mirrors', that is, reflecting mundane behaviour so as not to be noticed *too much*...it's so disturbing to watch. like he knows that trying to be invisible over these days would draw attention. the point is to be doing 'normal' things so that he can carry out his awful massacre and control everything around him. like you just know that he is on those cameras because he wanted to be, and that he probably loved the idea that the entire hotel and its staff were basically his playthings, like he's playing a Sims game or something.

banality of evil right there.

that was the ap headline iirc

the parkland kids were in my old neighborhood bookstore / bistro tonight giving speeches, slam poetry, all the stuff. standing room only. group of a half dozen high schoolers huddled by the hardbacks helping each other rehearse a speech. gonna be a big day tomorrow.

damn, sorry to have missed that. tomorrow should be good.

I still support and would march with these kids were I in the States but Emma is otm here

These proposals are pretty awful. We need to (1) end military presences in school, (2) create point-of-production regulation, and (3) pass laws to create distributor liability for shootings. None of these are on this list. https://t.co/4T9jo2Rira

— Emma Caterine 🌹⚖️💸 (@EmmaCaterine) March 24, 2018

Deregulating mental health privacy laws is probably the worst proposal I’ve ever seen. Law enforcement are not competent to handle mental health issues. We need unarmed crisis response teams. https://t.co/4V8zopb2La

— Emma Caterine 🌹⚖️💸 (@EmmaCaterine) March 24, 2018

Yeah somebody needs to send these high school kids to a seminar on public policy before they can be allowed to talk to reporters

how dare these kids not have completely realized, ready to implement ideas.

when I was 17, the most initiative I could take was signing an email chain letter petition with my Juno mail account saying "Columbine shouldn't happen".

guys like I said I still support them but the mental-health snitching and more cops in schools proposals are actively bad