Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

It is fun to think about magic solutions where the world is cleared of all evil. But you eventually have to simplify the problem and attack it from a statistical POV.

I have an idea to simplify the problem, BAN GUNS

yes, that is basically what I'm saying!

suggest ban guns

I have an idea to simplify the problem, BAN GUNS

this idea is so crazy... it just might work

http://blogs.northampton.ac.uk/history/files/2014/03/a-team-t-shirt-hannibal-a-plan-comes-together.jpg

I have an idea to simplify the problem, BAN GUNS

this idea is so crazy... it just might work

― Οὖτις, Friday, June 6, 2014 11:26 AM

just like it did for drugs http://www.lashresort.com/f/public/style_emoticons/default/smug-arms.gif

now we just have to convince people that guns can be dangerous

the crazy thing is I learned of the SPU shooting when I was... at a vigil for victims of another shooting in Seattle

lol am0n

Also in Seattle, a former co-worker is on lockdown at his new job after someone pulled a gun on a couple people next door.

ah, all resolved actually, guy got arrested, the gun was fake.

fake guns > real guns

Especially those chocolate ones

http://gawker.com/video-shows-cops-shootout-with-sovereign-citizen-at-g-1587329275

(CNN) -- Two police officers and a third person were killed by two gunmen in Las Vegas on Sunday, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer.

The attackers first opened fire and killed the officers at about 11:30 a.m. as they were eating lunch, she said.

Witnesses told police that the gunmen said "this is a revolution."

The shooters then crossed a street and went to a Walmart where the third person was killed at the store's entrance, Meltzer said.

The suspects then killed themselves, she said.

Walmart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan released a statement: "We express our deepest condolences to everyone who have been affected by this senseless act of violence."

The store is closed, and the company is working with investigators, the statement said.

what's this, like one a week now?

Walmart spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan released a statement: "We express our deepest condolences to everyone who have been affected by this senseless act of violence."

"btw, buy the affordable guns we sell," he added.

walmart should give a 20% discount to anyone shot by a gun sold from their store. 40% discount (limited to one item) for anyone whose loved one is killed by a walmart gun.

If only those police officers had been armed

3 in the past 5 days that I've heard about: Moncton on Weds, Seattle after that, now Vegas.

Vegas one is weird. Two shooters, one female.

I've noticed some news outlets have started toning down coverage of the shooters themselves - less mentions of them by name, less images of them... Or at least debating whether they should put some self-imposed limits on how they cover these people. I wonder if it could actually have an effect if an effort was made to intensely de-glamourize them. Somehow I doubt it would make all that much of a difference to paranoid schizophrenic gun nuts but might make for a marginally more sane culture.

no one shot yet but a guy with an assault rifle is pacing around a roof in LA right now

https://twitter.com/TheRyanParker/status/476071645447086080

ok apparently he just got off the roof like a second ago

now whats he doing

(i'm basically just retweeting this la times guy so click that last tweet for info) first it said it looked like he was walking toward police, but now apparently he is barricaded in a house?

@LAPDHQ: All residents in the 11600 blk of Hartsook in North Hollywood, PLEASE stay inside. Armed and Dangerous suspect with rifle.

Brio2 : "We’ve had 20 years of mass murders, throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media: If you don’t want to propagate more mass murders, don’t start the stories with sirens blaring, don’t have photographs of the killer, don’t make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero; do localize this story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week."

Dr. Park Dietz, Forensic Psychiatrist

Shots fired at Oregon high school

http://koin.com/2014/06/10/shots-fired-at-troutdales-reynolds-high-school/

Fuck this fucking hell-world that America has become.

just another typical school day
http://i58.tinypic.com/29qkx79.jpg

Bystander Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31, who was carrying a concealed weapon inside the store, spotted Jerad Miller and told a friend he would confront him, according to authorities. As he neared Jerad, he was shot in the ribs by Amanda and later died, McMahill said.

even Fox had to include this bit. maybe keep it handy for the next time the NRA has an opinion about how to prevent mass shootings

Sam Stein ✔ @samsteinhp

There have been now 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook, roughly 9.5 a month

igorvolsky ✔ @igorvolsky

74 school shootings since Sandy Hook.

117 total mass shootings in 2014.

SMELL THE FREEDOM!

jfc

Sam Stein @samsteinhp · 1h
Correction on last tweet, 74 shooting since Sandy Hook is about 4 a month. apologies for the bad math

still fucking insane

Hmm, that HS is only about 15 mi east of my apt.

There was also the Clackamas mall shooting in Dec 2012. That was like 10-15 miles from the high school, too.

more manifestos, please !

take my life, please!

yeah, thanks sebastien - the Park Dietz take on this is well illustrated in this Charlie Brooker piece - I was surprised to see a few media outlets finally act on it though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/06/10/map-at-least-74-school-shootings-since-newtown/

Georgia, which passed an expansive pro-gun law this year, has been site of the most incidents on Everytown’s list, with 10 shootings reported.

better marketing can and will solve this problem. "YOUR CHILDREN ARE GOING TO END UP DEAD"

"come for the peach pie, stay for the indiscriminate mass shootings" --georgia tourist board

I bet their shootings are v discriminatory tbh

It looks like the Vegas couple were white power enthusiasts who aimed to inspire copycat attacks so it makes sense to downplay their coverage.

At the high school today, two other students just happened to be strapped.

"The confusion that occurred about the number of gunmen at the scene apparently happened because two students were found carrying guns when authorities did a pat-down"

http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2014/06/reynolds_high_shooting_police_1.html#incart_maj-story-1

is this real? so sad if so
http://www.businessinsider.com/bodyguard-bulletproof-blanket-for-kids-2014-6

we're going to have one of these every day at some point in the not-too-distant future, right?

http://image.blingee.com/images16/content/output/000/000/000/521/408327952_1296566.gif

http://azstarnet.com/ap/commentary/article_0f98d679-f855-5e2a-af2a-1a8cea54a5f9.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oregon-high-school-shooting-20140611,0,1278614.story

oh sorry, we already discussed this. i only just saw it and thought it happened today.

hay everyone

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/476573835924226048

(retweeted by paul krugman)