Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

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

"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."

Jesus

a little too close to the nest for flappy bird.

the sign itself is disturbing enough, the fact that it's supposed to be sung to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star makes me want to die

These kids (my kids included) have been raised with this stuff all their lives. They're really too good at shrugging it off.

My niece (11) has been homeschooled for several years, and as of 3 years ago was being shielded from news of any shootings (I was not allowed to watch the news when visiting). I wonder if they've kept up with that.

remember nuclear attack drills? good times.

I guess I feel lucky that I grew up & went to school after nuke drills and before shooting drills. Fire drills were it
god
fucking
dammit
@ that sign

I hate every time I see this thread bumped without having read the news

(it's not anyone's fault, just the frequency of there being new shootings and the plausibility that one could happen at any time)

(I was going to post "how is this any different from Duck and Cover" but people are on that already: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/are-duck-and-cover-school-drills-from-the-nuclear-era-a-useful-parallel-to-active-shooter-drills.html)

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/parkland-florida-massacre-school-guard-andrew-medina-harassed-victim-meadow-pollack-family/

A mass shooting at an arts festival in Trenton NJ, at nearly 3am last night:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/17/trenton-shooting/708419002/

https://splinternews.com/at-least-1-dead-20-injured-in-shooting-at-all-night-ar-1826899819

jesus. multiple shooters, at an art festival.

i know some ppl w/ Trenton roots; v shaken

it's a fucked up city

Four people shot in the building where my kids' orthodontist is. It's breaking news at the moment via a local facebook page.

good lord! like going to the orthodontist isn't terrifying enough

She's actually really great. I'm just worried about everyone who works there, and then the kids. It's an office building with multiple businesses (including our local newspaper). Super quiet place.

They're saying 4 dead, 20+ injured.

Is this the one you guys are talking about?

Multiple people shot at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html

yep.

Checking for suspicious packages, one already found, suspect in custody.

yesterday

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/27/milo-wants-vigilantes-start-killing-journalists-and-hes-not-being-ironic

Top two comments in r/The_donald's post on the Annapolis shooting.

"Here we go! Right on time!"
"so it begins" pic.twitter.com/MrfZuZqSQm

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 28, 2018

FFS

jesus fucking christ

AA Co police having responded, a living suspect almost certainly means a white dude.

I took one for the team and read Milo’s Instagram post on this. My advice: don’t bother.

Grew up and my pops still lives closer to Bestgate than to downtown, so this is messing me up.

xxp

A law enforcement source tells CBS News the suspect is male, white, in his 20s, no iD.

Two law enforcement sources say the suspect used a shotgun.

4 dead, 5 injured/transported.

— CBS News Radio (@CBSNewsRadio) June 28, 2018

Hannity already blaming Maxine Waters for this

if only megan mcardle had been there to rush the shooter

this is fucked up

Responding to our story @Mediaite about his encouragement of violence against reporters, Milo Yiannopoulos sent me an ominous message: pic.twitter.com/PhRd9Dv39J

— Amy Russo (@amymrusso) June 26, 2018

confidentially I am crazy, and I will fucking kill you

wtf is he trying to become the charlie manson of gamergate spuds?

yo i preferred not knowing what milo thinks

...and I just found out my dad drove right by the building minutes as this was happening.

Fuck Milo. Or better yet ignore him. He thrives on oxygen.

or best yet, deport him

deport him from planet earth

no oxygen in space, iirc

otm

the media paying attention to Milo over this is like throwing gasoline on a fire

Suspect is not cooperating with the police, won't even give his name. Little fucking white warrior shithead.

there's no correct way to behave and they're of course welcome to do whatever helps, but this whole thing about the survivors reporting on their massacred co-workers and 'we've got a paper to put to bed!' and other journalists saluting their dedication is kinda creepy

dunno why but i'm guess that this won't turn out to be ~purely~ motivated by a desire to kill journalists. my gut feeling is dude will turn out to have some personal beef coupled with these recent incitements. "hatred of journalists deep enough to kill them indiscriminately" still seems pretty fringe compared to, like, "hatred of black people/LGBTQ/women/Jews/Muslims/etc"

which doesn't make it any less tragic/horrifying, and, if anything, places more blame on milo/trump/et al

Dude allegedly mutilated his fingers to avoid detection but got sold out by big brother. damn.

BREAKING / NBC News: A 39 year old white male has been positively identified through the use of facial recognition software as the shooter at a newspaper in Annapolis, authorities say.

A court authorized search of the suspect's home is underway. Reported with @jonathan4ny

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) June 28, 2018

dunno why but i'm guess that this won't turn out to be ~purely~ motivated by a desire to kill journalists. my gut feeling is dude will turn out to have some personal beef coupled with these recent incitements. "hatred of journalists deep enough to kill them indiscriminately" still seems pretty fringe compared to, like, "hatred of black people/LGBTQ/women/Jews/Muslims/etc"

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1439,w_2560,x_0,y_0/dpr_2.0/c_limit,w_740/fl_lossy,q_auto/v1492107334/articles/2016/11/08/the-man-behind-journalist-rope-tree/161108-brandy-journalist-shirt-tease_e24aqd