Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

I've worked with multiple angry dudes who kept assault rifles in the trunks of their cars. Really don't miss sharing an office with psychotic gun nuts.

Yeah I had a similar experience at my first job. Nutty firmware guy claimed he had guns in his car. Ended up getting fired after he told me he was erasing all his code because he was mad about something. We had cops guarding the building for a few months.

would be a neat trick to successfully erase all one's code in any contemporary dev shop

Looks as though that Knoxville shooting was actually the cop shooting himself and then killing the kid. They are refusing to release body cam footage.

Was just reading an article about that, though still not sure I understand the timeline. The working theory being the cop shot himself first (to provide cover or a "reason" for what happened next?) then shot the kid?

my understanding was there was a scuffle with the kid, the cop's gun went off wounding him, and then he shot the kid. No idea if the shooting was as cover or thinking that the kid had fired the shot or something else.

Oh okay, the one article I saw initially said the kid's gun went off during the scuffle, but that wasn't the bullet that hit the cop - which is why I was confused about the timeline. That makes more sense.

Disarm the police.

The Knoxville story as we know it for now is summed up in this update from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: https://tbinewsroom.com/2021/04/12/tbi-agents-investigating-knoxville-officer-involved-shooting/

Things that are clear from it: The kid had a gun, which "was fired" in the course of a struggle. The bullet from that gun did not hit the officer. The kid was then hit by one or more bullets. The officer was hit by a bullet not fired by the kid.

Things that are not clear: How was the kid's gun actually discharged? Did the bullet from the kid's gun hit the kid, or did it just go somewhere else? Did the officer shoot himself or was he shot by the other cop? How many bullets actually hit the kid? And, really to me the biggest question, why did the officers go barging into the bathroom after him? If they had him trapped in there, they had already neutralized any threat he posed to other people in the school. It's hard to see how they didn't have other options at that point. And I don't think any explanation of that decision is ever going to satisfy a lot of people in the community.

Our city is pretty fucked up over this whole thing. It's going to be ugly for a while.

Not a spree shooting, but it was nonetheless unsettling to be following the Indianapolis news and get a call from my mother in law who was out for her first post COVID shopping trip with a friend, only to get caught in a lockdown at a mall in Ann Arbor with what was originally reported as an active shooter situation. Thankfully she is out safe.

Officers are investigating a report of shots fired at @Briarwood mall. At this time there IS NOT an active shooter and we ask people to avoid the area of the mall while the investigation is in progress.

— Ann Arbor Police (@A2Police) April 16, 2021

America, 2021. Fucking hell.

My wife was asked to come in early to work today, but as she was getting ready to go, she got a call to hold off. Apparently there is an active shooter at the Starbucks at the shopping center where she works. At least 3 people shot. Her coworkers are all stuck sheltering in the back of their store right now.

Jesus. This won’t end until every American has had an encounter with a mass shooting.

Nope. This is in a fairly nice, quiet area, right by my local Trader Joe's. Don't know what the story is yet, but doesn't sound good.

jesus that's scary. glad your wife hadn't left yet when this happened.

Three dead in Austin, Texas:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-active-shooting-incident-texas/story?id=77151159

Three dead in Kenosha, Wisconsin

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/18/3-dead-2-injured-in-kenosha-wisconsin-shooting/7276067002/

covid's been a monstrous shitty nightmare, but the temporary reprieve from this type of monstrous shitty nightmare was kind of refreshing. back to normal i guess.

glad your wife is okay, moodles, and so sorry this came so close.

One dead in Omaha, Nebraska:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/17/us/omaha-mall-shooting/index.html

jfc they're really making up for lost time aren't they

Was the reprieve just in coverage though? xps

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/04/16/more-than-one-mass-shooting-per-day-has-occurred-in-2021/?sh=7c3329ec6493

The U.S. was wracked by a record high 610 mass shootings in 2020, the most of any year since the organization began tracking the number in 2014.

well. fuck.

They still haven't caught the guy in Austin, sounds like it was more of a domestic incident and did not actually appear at the shopping center. Her coworkers were finally allowed to leave the stock room and go home about 1 1/2 hours ago.

How did we have more mass shootings in 2020 during the pandemic?

I was wondering the same thing. I thought they were really low and recently spiked again.

I think they did go down during the worst months, but there were a ton early last year before the pandemic, and then some in the fall too.

I take that back, the summer was the worst. It is part of the overall crime increases that a lot of cities saw — a lot of mass shooting don't register to us as "mass shootings" because they're part of criminal enterprises rather than random events.

It’s being reported that the Austin shooter was a former cop.

RIP :(

This fucking country. The headline really says it all:

There were at least 9 mass shootings across the US this weekend

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/us/us-weekend-mass-shootings/index.html

Fun Terrifying country you've got over there

It's just so depressing to know that nothing is going to move the needle to enact any meaningful change. By living in America in 2021, we've all just tacitly agreed to shoulder the risk of being shot in a mass shooting.

JUST IN: San Jose officials say "there are multiple injuries and multiple fatalities" from shooting at VTA facility, cautioning that information is "preliminary." https://t.co/qEvtxR3I4n pic.twitter.com/FHWbhje4R8

— ABC News (@ABC) May 26, 2021

JFC:

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Active-shooter-downtown-San-Jose-16204454.php

Another day in America

The mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo, said in an interview that “at least several people” were killed in the shooting. He said the facility had been evacuated.

“It appears that the suspect’s house is on fire but that there was nobody inside,” Mr. Liccardo said. “There’s a strange connection here between arson and the shooting.”

I work close by, boss called and told me to go home, colleague lives 2 blocks away from the VTA site

fucking america

I thought this revive might have been about the 12 mass shootings we had over the weekend but, of course not. This fucking country.

2021 is definitely off to a worse start, according to the wikipedia tracker there were 178 mass shootings in America as of April 30th. There were 108 over the same period in 2020.

All those shooters working from home last year tho

Not for the first three months of 2020 though. Unfortunately the wiki sources don't have a handy summary table for the years prior to 2020 for me to keep going without more time than I care to spend at the moment.

Nine dead and here in the UK you have to scroll down most news websites before even seeing it mentioned

Even the NY Times you have to scroll more than a third of the way down before seeing an article about it.

i read that the shooting took place during a union meeting? enclosed space aspect always adds an extra layer of horror

so awful & terrifying

Fuck fuck fuck 8 people and America is yawning

My buddy grew up with the shooter. :/

Eesh. I'm sorry to hear that.

yeah cosign, that’s rough

single digits? no obvious gimmick. it's just another mass shooting in america, then, not a headline event.

sorry, DJI, just read that. i don't mean to demean all these events, it's just fucking crazy how often this happens