The American version of good news. https://t.co/s8lO7UiBsc pic.twitter.com/kDv6nFeuGb— David Roberts (@drvolts) October 30, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 October 2023 22:15 (six months ago) link
see, the good guy with a gun isn't a myth.
― omar little, Monday, 30 October 2023 23:02 (six months ago) link
All it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a bad guy with a gun.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 30 October 2023 23:04 (six months ago) link
There is currently a dustup in Georgia about whether to arm teachers. Republican lawmakers want to offer financial incentive for them to get training and carry. Fucking insane.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 30 October 2023 23:07 (six months ago) link
nothing says 'public safety' more than having a bunch of unsecured handguns floating around an elementary school
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 30 October 2023 23:26 (six months ago) link
good luck with the lawsuit when an unhinged teacher kills a few students with a state-sponsored handgun.
― omar little, Monday, 30 October 2023 23:36 (six months ago) link
My elementary school principal got fired for bringing a gun to school and pointing it at a kid in his office
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 00:11 (six months ago) link
Thinking about all of my high school teachers and how definitely none of them should have had guns.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 05:03 (six months ago) link
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:04 (six months ago) link
It was the 80s, man
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:21 (six months ago) link
He didn't shoot the kid but still got fired? Draconian imo
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 12:30 (six months ago) link
The kid probably ripped him off in coke deal anyway
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 17:25 (six months ago) link
The right to bear arms and flash them at minors shall not be infringed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 17:26 (six months ago) link
did he then kick a gun over to the kid and say "pick up the gun"?
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 17:27 (six months ago) link
Even the Reagan administration supported gun control, and when his successor George H.W. Bush was in office, he rejected the NRA for its sociopathic extremism - that's how fucked up the gun culture is today.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 20:52 (six months ago) link
xpost sad lol
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 21:01 (six months ago) link
The PBS News Hours just listed all the red flags on this Maine dude... the family, the army reserve, everybody was saying this guy is about to snap.. the cops went by his house a couple times but then just let it go
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:29 (six months ago) link
They were on their way to a Dunkin'
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:42 (six months ago) link
I think Maine has some kinda sort 'yellow flag' laws without the teeth of other states' red flag laws
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:51 (six months ago) link
i don't blame the cops. unless there was some severe screw up on that end. it's the lawmakers.
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 22:53 (six months ago) link
it is 100% on the cops to assess if he's a threat (there was ample evidence) and take him into custody or take his guns away. 100% no debate.
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:27 (six months ago) link
Probably the cops didn't want to deal with the hassle of having their home addresses and children's schools read on air by Fox News anchors -- which, to be clear, is exactly what would have happened if they had taken dude's guns away at any point before he began using them to kill people
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 13:21 (six months ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/us/university-of-nevada-las-vegas-campus-shooting/index.html
― omar little, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 20:50 (four months ago) link
11 dead (so far) including the gunman.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/prague-university-shooting-leaves-several-dead-police-say-2023-12-21/
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 December 2023 16:04 (four months ago) link
Was just reading about this
Not an American export to be proud of
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 December 2023 18:05 (four months ago) link
15 dead so far, not including the gunman... who was a student at the university.
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 December 2023 19:05 (four months ago) link
Happy new year
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2024/01/04/police-at-perry-high-school-in-iowa-amid-reports-of-school-shooting/72105587007/
― omar little, Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:02 (three months ago) link
jfc
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 January 2024 16:23 (three months ago) link
Ron Fucking DeSantis is in Iowa and was brazen enough to make this statement:
"We obviously have a responsibility to create safe environments," DeSantis said in an exclusive interview with the Des Moines Register and NBC News. "The federal government is probably not going to be leading that effort, I think it is more of a local and state issue, but we've shown how it's done in Florida."
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:32 (three months ago) link
One sixth grader (for those confused, as I initially was, this is a small enough town where the middle school and high school share a building) killed and five others injured. Not that the age should ever matter, but as a parent of a sixth grader this hits even harder.
I despair at the fact that no meaningful change will ever come from this broken shithole garbage country and hundreds of parents are just going to be expected to lose their children every year just because captain dipshit has seen too many movies and is terrified a brown person might accidentally speak to them. Fuck this bullshit country forever and ever.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 January 2024 22:35 (three months ago) link
Tell us how you really feel, jon
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 5 January 2024 00:06 (three months ago) link
Just noticed the shooter's first name was Dylan.. like Dylan Klebold, Dylann Roof
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 02:51 (three months ago) link
xp - yeah, sorry YMP, I should just be quiet, docile and silently accept that this is just the price we pay for "freedom" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 January 2024 15:11 (three months ago) link
furious profanity is the hardest clapping
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:17 (three months ago) link
man i regret that jon. i am truly sorry, i'd love to undo that.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:18 (three months ago) link
my son was 7 when they started doing active shooter drills and it kind of messed him up, for a month he was asking about strangers entering the school, if there were any "bad guys" where we lived, he even told me once he wanted to bring a gun of his own so he could shoot the bad guy and protect his sister (you see Republicans, you have the same logical capabilities as a 7 year old). he started getting up at night and locking all the doors in the house. and I can't even say "maybe these drills do more harm than good" because there's still a nonzero chance that could save his life one day. it just fucking sucks so much.
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2024 16:31 (three months ago) link
It's just disheartening and infuriating to watch it repeat over and over and over again and knowing that nothing is ever going to change because so many people in positions of power simply don't care.
It's fine Hunt3r, I'm not offended, I get that it wasn't a helpful post. But it came from the intensity of my impotent rage about this issue and I don't really regret it. Raging and swearing doesn't change anything either, but I don't know, I somehow feel it's important to remember this isn't normal and we shouldn't expect it to just be a part of life. Other than donating to causes like Everytown and voting for local and national candidates that actually do care about righting this, I feel powerless about something so fundamentally fucked up that we (meaning American society) has just casually let happen.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:40 (three months ago) link
"have just casually let happen", that should be
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:41 (three months ago) link
he even told me once he wanted to bring a gun of his own so he could shoot the bad guy and protect his sister (you see Republicans, you have the same logical capabilities as a 7 year old)
It would seem to me that your son's reaction is the exact desired one, in this case
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:41 (three months ago) link
active shooter drills:
- there is no evidence they work (literally none!)- there is tons of evidence they are incredibly harmful- they protect against something that happens once every 6000 years at a given school (i know this thread is revived too often, but it's important to remember how rare these things are when you're making a decision that involves trade offs, e.g. many hours of lost schooling, traumatizing toddlers, etc.),
i don't think they're *designed* to militarize and traumatize kids so they think guns are part of life. they happen in too many liberal states for that to make sense (e.g. NY requires four per year! more than any other state). they're just a completely deranged and shameful "we must do *something*" response. (and they also happen to be very profitable for the people that consult on them and run them.)
our school tells us when they will be, and we have the luxury of keeping our kids home (6 and 3! can you imagine 3 year olds doing this?!) i think we're technically breaking the law when we do this.
there was an attempt in the NY assembly last year to reduce the number to 1 per year and allow parents to opt out, but it got tied up in the usual venal legislative bs.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 January 2024 19:38 (three months ago) link
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/14/iowa-principal-school-shooting-died-00135533
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 15 January 2024 21:15 (three months ago) link
Several people shot at New York City subway station, police say
Police spokesperson could not immediately say how many people were shot or the extent of their injuriesAssociated PressMon 12 Feb 2024 18.03 EST
Several people were shot Monday at a New York City subway station, police said.
The shooting was reported about 4.38pm.
A police spokesperson could not immediately say how many people were shot, the extent of their injuries or whether anyone was in custody.
The station is in the Bronx, at the intersection of Mount Eden and Jerome Avenues.
Video from television news helicopters showed a subway train stopped at the station and orange evidence cones on the elevated platform.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 12 February 2024 23:47 (two months ago) link
Also this one I heard on the radio this morning. Too few to qualify as mass shooting, but strange in its own right. Occurred at J03l 05t33n's mega-church. And the female shooter's 7 yr old son was shot in the head, likely by the guards there since the shooter came in with him.
https://news.yahoo.com/woman-opened-fire-joel-osteens-145458078.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
― nickn, Monday, 12 February 2024 23:57 (two months ago) link
Texas is the reason
Police believe Moreno legally purchased the AR-15 in December.
Authorities have not released a motive for the shooting. Hassig said Moreno had a "mental health history"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 00:03 (two months ago) link
Osteen's reaction to this was genuinely creepy and inhuman, he was smirking through the whole thing
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 04:49 (two months ago) link
the shooting was during the Spanish language service, which was probably a relief to him
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 05:16 (two months ago) link
Comments on that Yahoo story are an ... adventure.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 12:50 (two months ago) link
the piece itself is almost unintelligible? it’s like an ai “tell me about an imaginary mass shooting in tx.”
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 13:04 (two months ago) link
i know “rules” about pronouns and consistent organization and organized narrative and like that have changed, but it was like trying to interpret yr nightmare images after waking, with identities changing within sequences and time order shuffled or something. whose kid? who died? wait who the fuck? huh?
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 13:08 (two months ago) link
Yeah, I noticed there were no pronouns used in the first story, but a note that the shooter sometimes used the alias "Jeffrey." I skimmed the second story and saw some "shes."
― nickn, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:16 (two months ago) link