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
Up to 10 victims injured in shooting near Chiefs parade, fire department says
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/kansas-city-chiefs-parade-shooting-02-14-24/index.html
But of course, the Chiefs won so let's shoot at the crowd
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 21:04 (two months ago) link
...officials now confirming 22 have been injured with nine of them believed to be children.
JFC
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 15 February 2024 01:06 (two months ago) link
Oh god
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 February 2024 01:39 (two months ago) link
the Osteen church shooter's kid does not sound like he is going to have any quality of life, if he lives (lost most of his frontal lobe; no one knows yet if she shot him or he was shot by the police).
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."
yeah initial reports on social media in awful places seemed to be 'shooter was trans!' but it does not appear to be the case; shooter was apparently schizophrenic.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/16/us/lakewood-church-shooting-child-victim-injury/index.html
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 16 February 2024 23:38 (two months ago) link
Yesterday near Monterey, Cal. Four dead in drive-by, reasons unknown.
https://www.ksbw.com/article/1-victim-shot-in-king-city-was-celebrating-california-birthday-killed/60085162]
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:53 (one month ago) link
the city of brotherly love
Seven bystanders were injured on Wednesday in a shooting involving a Philadelphia city bus, authorities said, the fourth gunfire incident on the transit system in as many days.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/shooting-philadelphia-bus-seven-people-injured
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 7 March 2024 01:22 (one month ago) link
Philadelphia is the poorest city of its size in the United States. Northeast and Rhawnhurst areas near where that incident took place are notoriously rough, with shitty transit options and few social services and community hubs. I mention this not to excuse this sort of violence, which is reprehensible, but to say that I think it arrives from different social conditions than a lot of spree shootings that have been discussed in this thread.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:23 (one month ago) link
That’s also the 4th shooting on a Philadelphia bus this week.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:53 (one month ago) link
Yeah, and none of them can be separated from the social conditions within Philadelphia. I’ve helped bury kids shot in gang beefs, trust me I know what the stakes are and what’s going on in the city where I live.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 March 2024 03:20 (one month ago) link
A guy in Toronto fired at pro-Palestine protesters the other day. With a nail gun. Nobody injured. So glad we don’t have our equivalent of the 2nd Amendment. Yet.
― It was on a accident (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 7 March 2024 04:27 (one month ago) link
3 dead in Levittown, shooter on the run
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/breaking-suspect-sought-multiple-killed-levittown-shooting/3805011/
― StanM, Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:06 (one month ago) link
Every time this thread is revived I despair.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 March 2024 18:18 (one month ago) link
Seven children, ages 12 to 17, wounded in Indianapolis mass shooting
“Once again, we have a situation in which young people are resolving conflict with firearms, and it has to stop,” said the deputy chief of the Indianapolis metropolitan police department, Tanya Terry.
no one died, so the NYT didn't bother mentioning it. tbf, there have been over 100 mass shootings so far this year; guess you can't cover them all
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 April 2024 02:44 (one month ago) link
For once this thread is not being updated because a shooting just happened (though one probably did)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/09/michigan-school-shooters-parents-sentenced-to-10-years-00151367
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:10 (three weeks ago) link
still find it troubling that a 15 year old who was clearly displaying serious mental health issues would get life without parole
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:14 (three weeks ago) link
otm.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 22:15 (three weeks ago) link
The article doesn’t include the most chilling evidence: the text they sent to the kid when they heard news reports of the shooting, saying basically “this isn’t you is it?”. That pushes it over from just “tragic mistakes
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 02:08 (three weeks ago) link