Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

*sighs*

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/11/27/walter-reed-military-medical-center-active-shooter/

god dammit

fully expect this to happen at work some day

#BREAKING: We are aware of reports of an active shooter at Naval Support Activity Bethesda. No confirmation. More to follow as available.

— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) November 27, 2018

OOPSIE

CONFIRMED: No active shooter at Naval Support Activity Bethesda. Was ad hoc drill by tenant command. https://t.co/P9N65mMdOA

— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) November 27, 2018

phew

good drill

ad hoc dril

if a sniper shot me i owuld run over to where he is and kick the gun out of his hand and kill him because hes not specialized in melee fight

— wint (@dril) October 11, 2014

fuck, this one was better (I'll stop now)

(accidentaly fires entire ar15 magazine into my foot & leg with 100% accuracy rate) alright. thats fine. heres what i think happened, [1/82]

— wint (@dril) June 9, 2017

A sheriff's sergeant who responded to a mass shooting last month at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks was killed by friendly fire from a California Highway Patrol officer's weapon during a shootout with the suspect, authorities announced Friday.

At a morning press conference, Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said Sgt. Ron Helus was struck five times by bullets from the suspect and a sixth time* by a round from the CHP officer's AR-type rifle.

*In the heart. Good aim CHiPpy.

Why do CHiPs have AR-15s anyways?

[North Hollywood shootout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout), mostly. The patrol officers were so outgunned with their service pistols they were handing out AR-15s from a local gun shop.

Not CHP or LASD, but LAPD are being sued after they killed someone in similar circumstances (although perhaps worse because she obviously wasn't armed and this wasn't a nighttime firefight but an daytime hostage situation) https://laist.com/2018/11/29/family_of_silver_lake_trader_joes_shooting_victim_melyda_corado_files_lawsuit_against_lapd.php

this level barely registers now

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/us/sebring-florida-bank-incident/index.html

imagining: "i dunno, does five people even count as a mass shooting, anymore?"

FB page showed him as a fan of Milo Yiannopoulos & Alex Jones.

him = shooter

my god Florida is so weird, discrete, and vast that I didn't know this county was less than 250 miles away, and that Sebring is its county seat.

that is a next-level abysmal real name

pic.twitter.com/r4Ind4FqBu

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 24, 2019

sh4un king is saying all the victims were women. But I haven't seen any verification of that from an actual newsource.

Why do people keep doing this

An empty thing to say but seriously. The worst fucking trend.

Do you have a link, Yerac?

I don't know how I didn't hear about this yesterday. So much noise.

if you go on facebook, sh4un king's posts are all public.

oh here is something that verifies. https://www.wfla.com/news/highlands-county/sebring-bank-victims-5-women-including-mother-of-2-killed-nbc-reports/1722594987

thanks!

As soon as I saw details in the NYT article--CO in training, lives w mother in a mobile home, called in his own crime--I thought, "We're going to find out that he hates women, aren't we."

Feel like this is the longest we've gone without one in a while. So I just looked to see when the last time this thread was bumped: early December. Fuck

sometimes i'll think about how right now there's someone out there who's been quietly stockpiling weapons and ammo and how he's going to pull off a mass shooting. later this afternoon, tomorrow, next week, next month, whenever.

Victims made to lie down and shot in the back of the head. Fuck

https://www.wfla.com/news/highlands-county/police-describe-execution-style-killings-inside-sebring-bank/1723228973

Xaver was arrested in a beige T-shirt depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Thursday morning, he wore a black-and-white striped prison uniform as he was appointed a public defender and ordered held without bond.

His father said he’s “heartbroken for the victims” and that his son “wasn’t raised to be like this.”

“He’s always been a good kid. He’s had his troubles, but he has never hurt anyone ever before. This is a total shock,” Josh Xaver told CNN. The Associated Press has reached out to both parents of Zephen Xaver requesting interviews, with no immediate response.

It wasn’t a shock to Alex Gerlach, who identified herself as Xaver’s former girlfriend. She said he’s long been fascinated with the idea of killing, but no one took her warnings seriously. For some reason, he “always hated people and wanted everybody to die,” Gerlach told WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana.

“He got kicked out of school for having a dream that he killed everybody in his class, and he’s been threatening this for so long, and he’s been having dreams about it and everything,” she said. “Every single person I’ve told has not taken it seriously, and it’s very unfortunate that it had to come to this.”

Gerlach told The Washington Post that Xaver said he purchased a gun last week and “no one thought anything of it” because he had always liked guns.

Xaver has no apparent criminal record in the areas where he’s lived in Indiana and Florida, and his school records are spotty: Two school districts in northern Indiana said he attended for several years but did not graduate. Xaver also briefly studied online. Salt Lake City-based Stevens-Henager College spokeswoman Sherrie Martin confirmed that Xaver was enrolled from September to December before withdrawing last year.

i mean of COURSE

Josh Xaver doesn't quite sound like he's been on the ball

“He had guns because he’s always liked guns”
ok cool America, no problem good to know

Louisiana shootings: Five killed and suspect at large

ffs

And of course this murderer was dating one of the victims.

and that State College shooting didn't even hit my radar until now.

didn't know about that one til now

Not quite on topic but there was a recent report that suicide among active duty marines is at a 10 year high, even though most of them have not been depliveoyed nor have seen combat. I have a friend who is a military psychiatrist. Her view is that it's unreasonable and inappropriate to expect psychiatry to solve poverty, shitty education, violence, destruction of supportive social systems and a species wide epidemic of loneliness. I hadn't heard someone say this before but yeah, it's true.

depliveoyed = deployed

Your friend is otm.

3 young white men, in 3 different places, killed 14 people (+one killed himself) last week. fucked up.

Not quite on topic but there was a recent report that suicide among active duty marines is at a 10 year high, even though most of them have not been depliveoyed nor have seen combat. I have a friend who is a military psychiatrist. Her view is that it's unreasonable and inappropriate to expect psychiatry to solve poverty, shitty education, violence, destruction of supportive social systems and a species wide epidemic of loneliness. I hadn't heard someone say this before but yeah, it's true.

sometimes the most disturbing motive at all is when there isn't one

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A high-stakes gambler who rained down a hail of gunfire, killing 58 people from his high-rise casino suite in Las Vegas wanted infamy and mass destruction, the FBI told the Associated Press Tuesday, but took whatever motive might stretch beyond that to his grave.

“It wasn’t about MGM, Mandalay Bay or a specific casino or venue,” said Aaron Rouse, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas office. “It was all about doing the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some form of infamy.”

Rouse says Stephen Paddock acted alone when he planned and carried out the attack. The 64-year-old fatally shot himself after opening fire from his hotel suite.

Rouse says the reason for Paddock’s rampage remains a mystery after months of study by agents and behavioral specialists. Almost 900 people were injured during the Oct. 1, 2017, attack on an outdoor country music concert.

the vegas shooting should be one of the most infamous crimes in recent american history and it's as if it never happened

i feel like we're at a point in american history where violence being rained down upon this country's citizens is just expected and tacitly accepted. it's like tornados and hurricanes at this point, sometimes a small one will pop up and sometimes a major, destructive one, but they're going to happen and you just can't fight nature.

he vegas shooting should be one of the most infamous crimes in recent american history and it's as if it never happened

part of the relative indifference afterward had to do with the disturbing frequency of mass shootings in general, but i do think a large part of it was the lack of a clear motive in this case.

900 people injured, just for infamy, apparently. it's hard to process.