surprise surprise the vegas shooter (remember him?) was a rwnj https://apnews.com/f467daaa52864d3ba2eaca4c7708e2e5
― maura, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
In a jailhouse interview with police and the FBI, the man said Paddock called Federal Emergency Management Agency “camps” set up after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 “a dry run for law enforcement and military to start kickin’ down doors and ... confiscating guns.”The man, whose name was redacted in reports released Wednesday, quoted Paddock saying somebody has to wake up the American public and get them to arm themselves.The man said he met with Paddock outside a Las Vegas sporting goods store after posting an online ad to sell schematics to convert semi-automatic guns to fire automatically.
I know there’s not a lot of info in the Vegas case and any new details are appreciated but that source is suspect as hell imo
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Jailhouse interview? So the guy that supposedly met him was in jail? Why did it take so long for anything to come out about the guy's potential motive, which I thought was totally unknown? So yeah, color me dubious.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
that’s just one part of about 1200 pages of evidence that were unsealed by foia this week
― maura, Saturday, 19 May 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
here’s another bitIn a handwritten account, a woman said she overheard a man she later said was Paddock talking with another man at a Las Vegas restaurant just three days before the massacre. She told police that Paddock seemed angry about the 1990s standoffs at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge in Idaho.“At the time, I just thought ‘strange guys’ and I wanted to leave,” said the woman.
― maura, Saturday, 19 May 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-shooting/spurned-advances-provoked-texas-school-shooting-victims-mother-says-idUSKCN1IL0D9
Sadie Rodriguez, the mother of Shana Fisher, 16, told the Los Angeles Times that her daughter rejected four months of aggressive advances from Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, who is in jail charged with murdering 10 people early on Friday at the high school in Santa Fe.Fisher finally stood up to him and embarrassed him in class, the newspaper quoted her mother as writing in a private message to the Times.“A week later he opens fire on everyone he didn’t like,” she said. “Shana being the first one.”
Fisher finally stood up to him and embarrassed him in class, the newspaper quoted her mother as writing in a private message to the Times.
“A week later he opens fire on everyone he didn’t like,” she said. “Shana being the first one.”
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
FWIW
FYI: Since Shana’s mom started talking to reporters, other family friends have raised questions about the reliability of her claims and say they haven’t been able to corroborate her accounts about the shooter’s behavior toward her daughter. We’ll keep you posted if we learn more. https://t.co/u2lfdZuUzK— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) May 20, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 20 May 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houston-police-chief-art-acevedo-vote-out-politicians-only-offering-prayers-after-shootings/
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 May 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
apparently this is serious?
"It's time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings because it's killing our kids. It's time for Congress to step up and pass legislation putting common sense limitations on #MSM's ability to report on these school shootings." –@MrColionNoir #MSMsense pic.twitter.com/0CulOKEPSn— NRATV (@NRATV) May 24, 2018
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
I'm gonna go buy a gun so I can shoot myself now
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 24 May 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
Not literally serious, no. It's actually a pretty clever/effective video. Not one I agree with at all mind you, but it's very well done. Skip to about 2:50 to see what they're up to.
If you don't feel like watching, after a fadeout the narrator comes back and asks if it was chilling to hear someone advocate for common sense limits on the first amendment, and says this is exactly how gun rights advocates feel when people advocate for common sense limits on the 2nd.
What he fails to acknowledge (I assume; I didn't watch to the end) is that we already DO have common sense limits on the 1st.
― early rejecter, Thursday, 24 May 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
Well 1st limits like yelling fire in a Theater are about safety totally diff and reasonable. Not about freedom.
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
1st amendment limits include perjury, libel, fraud, threats, hate speech, verbal harassment, and intimidation.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
Also, even highly protected political speech can be limited by requiring permits to march or to gather in public places for the redress of grievances.
People engaged in political protest are frequently treated as if they were one baby step away from engaging in illegal activity. Sometimes they are beaten and gassed if someone within a few blocks of them failed to immediately comply with police orders, distorted and barely comprehensibly delivered by shouting at them through a bullhorn.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
But, of course, none of this is comparable to the horror of asking gun owners to register their weapons with the government.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 24 May 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
Hah you get it
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 24 May 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
I mean its basically this
‘Breitbart’ Refusing To Release Names Of Mass Shooting Victims In Order To Prevent Them From Getting Attention https://t.co/M1Cw8sxnjo pic.twitter.com/97dlCcmuOG— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 21, 2018
― frogbs, Thursday, 24 May 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
two injured in Indiana middle school
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/25/noblesville-school-shooting-active-shooter-reported-middle-school/644021002/
― sleeve, Friday, 25 May 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
A 100% surreal, this-is-America moment from the Las Vegas massacre, told by one of the police officers at the scene. https://t.co/BjmsIKBPFQ pic.twitter.com/bewR36YCfv— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) May 25, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 May 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
crazy
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 May 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
my brain said “well OF COURSE” when I read that which is a sign that I am very thoroughly USAmerican I guess
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 27 May 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
It's early Sunday morning. When I first read "he flipped off the shooter," I thought that was some other way of saying he turned off the safety or something.
― pplains, Sunday, 27 May 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
I mean, y’all. it was a country show and they were serving alcohol, there’s no way that didn’t happen when the rounds started popping off
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 27 May 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/why-we-should-stop-putting-cameras-in-front-of-shooting-survivors-so-quickly-10530260
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
My ex in AZ just posted that a guy came to her law office today and killed two of her employees
― President Keyes, Saturday, 2 June 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
damn. live here and didnt hear about it til this post.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Saturday, 2 June 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
Seems like this is a multi day AZ spree--suspect killed a pathologist on thurs, two paralegals on fri, and another man today. still at large.
― President Keyes, Sunday, 3 June 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
Jesus shit
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 3 June 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
Man
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Sunday, 3 June 2018 01:18 (five years ago) link
it’s somehow related to the jon benet ramsey case?
― maura, Sunday, 3 June 2018 06:33 (five years ago) link
Yeah the forensic pyschiatrist in the case was one of the victims apparently:https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/arizona-psychiatrist-murders-paralegals.html
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 June 2018 07:45 (five years ago) link
jesus fucking christ
This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener’s classroom. pic.twitter.com/mWiJVdddpH— Georgy Cohen (@radiofreegeorgy) June 6, 2018
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:48 (five years ago) link
Rip usa
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
as a twitter commenter points out on that post, those words are to be sung to the tune of 'twinkle twinkle little star'
i can't even make a cynical joke to distance myself from how awful that is tbh, it's just crushingly sad
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
That is surreal
― jmm, Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
freedom ftw
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
http://i4.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
luckily my kids are still in day care, and nobody would ever shoot up a day care
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
dark lols
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the kid I tutor was telling me about the lockdown drills he's had to go through and it's...just goddamn heartbreaking. His attitude was somewhere between anxious and totally blasé. Like, this is just how it is, this is all they know.
― This Bobo Isn't Going to Honk Itself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
i wonder if the duck-and-cover nuclear drills were more or less damaging. They had songs for that too.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
no, of course subjecting an entire generation of kids to constant anxiety about the prospect of being violently murdered alongside their classmates, perhaps at the hands of one more of their classmates, won't have a devastating effect on their long-term mental health, why do u ask
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
(not directed at u morbs, i was drafting that while you were posting)
i always felt pretty secure knowing that my arms over my head would impede the terrible waves of nuclear hellfire
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
the rather obvious difference is that we weren't seeing nukes dropped on schools on a regular basis
― Eliza D., Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
what is 'nothing stops a good bad guy wih a gun than a good guy with a gun' than simple scaled-down mutually assured destruction, i ask u
― and TOWERS MONACO as 'seaman' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
can't wait for the Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird IDs the different types of automatic gunfire in order to help gauge the distance of the active shooter
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
"Say look at this! I was cleaning out my nest, and I found an old book of my notes on what to do if a deranged mass shooter enters a school."
― omar little, Thursday, 7 June 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
Jesus
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 June 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link