To belatedly answer Jeff upthread, I'm sure it's the same shooting! It was this guy and a friend of his, a red Kia pulls up, they shoot him...just absolutely insane. My brother likes to take photos at night in Chicago and I advised him to be careful, but after this happened to his pal I suspect he doesn't need to be told that.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:55 (eleven months ago) link
I'm not a fan of events these days and maybe there's a subconscious fear, idk.
My kid's school had a lockdown recently because an armed robbery suspect ditched his car and was running through the neighborhood.
Also, there was a 2A asshole who liked to stand across the street from the elementary school with an AR-15. The cops said they couldn't do anything about him.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:56 (eleven months ago) link
yeah I've thought about that a lot too. I mean obviously the focus has to be on the victims but every kid who survives one of these shootings, especially those who are just 7-10 years old when it happens, are gonna be fucked up from it for life. even the shooting drills our school has to do puts some messed up thoughts in their heads. my son once told me he wants me to buy a gun for him so he can protect his sister in case a "bad guy" comes. congrats Republicans, your grand policy ideas could've come from the mind of a second grader.
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:00 (eleven months ago) link
god I hate this shit so much. a while back I saw a dude with a handgun in a holster, obviously positioned in a way that people could see it, while shopping at Festival Foods. oh are you supposed to be the "good guy with a gun"? sorry but I think you're a fucking lunatic because you legitimately think you're going to have to murder someone at the grocery store.
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
Think I might have mentioned this itt before, but one day my son was telling me about the fire drill they had that day which led into him talking about the tornado drills and active shooters drills they'd done as well. Which, y'know, heartbreaking enough that these have to be a thing, but I noticed that he kept saying "when we have a shooter come to the school" and not "if we have a shooter come to the school". It's just so fucking common that kids expect it to happen.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:03 (eleven months ago) link
tipsy i read your post about your friend and the shooting story and i am so sorry. what a horrible thing. unbelievably sorrowful, i cannot think of more to say.
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Friday, 2 June 2023 03:09 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, there's a dude doing this not far from me in Maryland recently. I'm absolutely mind-fucked that this is not already illegal here. I've never heard of anyone else ever open-carrying in Maryland. I'm massively confused.
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/jden-mcadory-man-with-gun-severn-school-bus-stop-governor/43944583#
― peace, man, Friday, 2 June 2023 12:29 (eleven months ago) link
I know it's probably not wise to aggravate someone holding an ar-15, but my instinct would be to hurl abuse at someone open carrying like this. Probably lucky I haven't encountered this so far.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 2 June 2023 12:56 (eleven months ago) link
Man, tipsy! That story. My heart goes out to your friend (and everyone in this thread - what a world).
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 June 2023 13:17 (eleven months ago) link
― Jeff, Friday, 2 June 2023 14:48 (eleven months ago) link
xp That guy looks much older than 20.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 2 June 2023 15:13 (eleven months ago) link
When asked if he could understand how parents and children might be afraid seeing him armed by the bus stop, McAdory told the I-Team: "I do understand. So, I talked to the kids this morning at 7 a.m. right at that bus stop over there with the AR-15."]
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 2 June 2023 15:25 (eleven months ago) link
^^^as if… that made things better
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 June 2023 15:29 (eleven months ago) link
i think adults seriously think kids are going to be all like "COOOOOOL!" when they see guns like it's the 80s and they're blowing up GI Joes with M-80s every day, and not that they've grown up in a world where they have to worry about dying in school every day.
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:49 (eleven months ago) link
A Virginia high school graduation now…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/seven-people-wounded-shooting-following-virginia-high-school-graduation-2023-06-07/"> https://www.reuters.com/world/us/seven-people-wounded-shooting-following-virginia-high-school-graduation-2023-06-07/
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 02:14 (ten months ago) link
There was a shooting at a graduation last year too.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 12:30 (ten months ago) link
The suspect was likely to be charged with two counts of second-degree murder in addition to other offenses, interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards told a press conference.Edwards called the shooter's behavior "disgusting and cowardly," since his dispute appeared to be with just one person.
Edwards called the shooter's behavior "disgusting and cowardly," since his dispute appeared to be with just one person.
not to revive the question of america's exceptional derangement, but I wonder if a big cop in any other country would make a point of saying that real men shoot at their enemies with a clear line of sight
― rob, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 12:37 (ten months ago) link
A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbour after a years-long feud was arrested on Tuesday, authorities said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65837876
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:02 (ten months ago) link
"Florida woman"
fuckin charge it as a goddamn hate crime
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 June 2023 00:56 (ten months ago) link
How is that second degree murder and not first? xps
― groovypanda, Thursday, 8 June 2023 10:32 (ten months ago) link
I guess lack of premeditation? I’m not sure what the legal standard is, how far in advance you have to show intent. If someone is knocking on your door for several minutes and you eventually decide to go shoot them, that seems kinda premeditated to me? But I’m not a lawyer.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 June 2023 12:49 (ten months ago) link
I… don’t know how to react to kids just roasting someone who attempted to shoot up their school on IG
my high school had an active shooting threat earlier. no one got hurt but students did find the shooters ig pic.twitter.com/3EkxBL2pjM— tony🗣 (@ratatatvandal) June 8, 2023
― Roz, Friday, 9 June 2023 12:25 (ten months ago) link
😣
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 9 June 2023 16:44 (ten months ago) link
Happy Fourth of July!
Shooting in Fort Worth leaves at least 3 dead and 8 others wounded
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/us/fort-worth-shooting-deaths/index.html
Philadelphia police search for motive in mass shooting that left 5 dead and 2 children injured
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/us/philadelphia-shooting-motive-suspect-tuesday/index.html
― nickn, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 16:47 (nine months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/03/baltimore-mass-shooting/
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 16:51 (nine months ago) link
shooting at a mpls punk show last night
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/08/12/1-dead-6-injured-after-mass-shooting-at-minneapolis-punk-show
― budo jeru, Saturday, 12 August 2023 17:43 (eight months ago) link
horrible.... was a house called Nudielandso what happened apparently the next door neighbors of Nudieland are some guys in their late 30s, they see a party and show up fusion flashing guns, wouldn't pay for beer,and were hitting on underage girls. they were asked to leave and came back just shooting randomly into a crowd. fuck this country
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 12 August 2023 17:48 (eight months ago) link
Fuck this country.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 August 2023 17:59 (eight months ago) link
no indication this is anything other than a false alarm yet afaik but ... yeah
Still ongoing. 😢 https://t.co/SlL7mht7r9— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) August 28, 2023
First day of school. Five year old children spent their first day of kindergarten “sheltering in place” —what a twisted phrase— because of a gunman on the loose, and they still can’t go home.They likely wouldn’t have heard from their parents either.First day of kindergarten. https://t.co/eXEBKmYzlV— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) August 28, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 19:49 (eight months ago) link
fuck this country and it's absolute refusal to deal with guns in any meaningful way
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 August 2023 20:34 (eight months ago) link
FUCK this country
― budo jeru, Monday, 28 August 2023 20:59 (eight months ago) link
we didn't even mention the Jacksonville shooting on Saturday.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:08 (eight months ago) link
^^I was just thinking that
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:08 (eight months ago) link
Otherwise, well, folks, I’m really out of words
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:09 (eight months ago) link
hard to tell if anybody was shot yet. Governor Cooper called it a shooting, but federal law enforcement says it has no information on anybody being shot, and local hospitals haven't received anybody.
hoping that's true and they prevented a massive disaster, but the worst news often takes a while to materialize.
this is a really fucked new normal.
xpost the Jacksonville shooting was unbelievably terrifying
― I can't turn a fart into a question (Neanderthal), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:09 (eight months ago) link
xxxposts that is
the shooter here (I'm near unc) evidently attended wuhan university in 2015 so the dumbest people alive will be making a whole thing about this forever now. twelve million people live in wuhan.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 28 August 2023 21:19 (eight months ago) link
I should mention Cooks Corner - my dad took me for hamburgers there in the early 70s and it was just our local biker burger place. Hesitant to call it a “biker bar” even though it’s popular with bikers.My sister mentioned that she now lives off of a street that has had two mass shootings now (Cooks Corner and the Laguna Woods church shooting)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 28 August 2023 22:17 (eight months ago) link
Professor killed, according to friend who is a former UNC art prof.
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 28 August 2023 23:34 (eight months ago) link
My sister and my mom were both within a mile of this event at some portion of today :(
― fajita seas, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 01:43 (eight months ago) link
What makes me saddest for some reason is always the random news article quotes from international students who are like, "You see it on the news all the time happening in America, but I thought this place was different." You just know their families are worried sick whenever something like this happens :(
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 11:17 (eight months ago) link
The bluechecks have discovered the NSF pic.twitter.com/apNcqAVxSi— human bidenome project coordinator (@Forever_Wario) August 29, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 14:46 (eight months ago) link
no, actually you mustn't
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 14:47 (eight months ago) link
Timothy McVeigh reportedly received school lunches, as well as clean water and electricity, from local governments where he lived
So did Charles Manson
Wake UP, sheeple!
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 15:55 (eight months ago) link
going viral, with good reason
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4yLMPXXsAAbbH4.jpg:large
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 31 August 2023 04:31 (eight months ago) link
2 dead and several injured at the shopping center down the road where my ex used to work and where we'd take our son to run around and play when he was little.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/31/austin-texas-shooting-arboretum-mall-victims/70732766007/
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 1 September 2023 03:59 (eight months ago) link
One or maybe two shootings in Lewiston, Maine just occurred.
― omar little, Thursday, 26 October 2023 00:49 (six months ago) link
Few details but just breaking now (via citizen, so grain of salt etc)
― omar little, Thursday, 26 October 2023 00:50 (six months ago) link