Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

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)

and now me

LOL I love the "it happened in australia" reply. Because Australia a) had aa right to guns in our constitution and b) banned gun ownership. Sure. That happened.

http://boingboing.net/2014/06/11/tom-the-dancing-bug-how-to-te.html

bang!

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/16/6487838/nevada-county-sheriff-identifies.html

Charles Pierce wrote about that one and boy is he pissed:

Are you happy now, Wayne LaPierre? Are you happy now, Glenn Beck, and Alex Jones, and Dana Loesch, and everyone else who gins up thoughts of armed insurrection for the purposes of profits and ratings and their personal dreams of vicarious revolution? Are you happy now, all you Open Carry nitwits and weekend Robespierres and suburban Minuteman idiots who believe in the FEMA camps and the New World Order and all the other paranoid delights that have made those radio people into wealthy parasites and the rest of you into the most laughable suckers on the planet?

Are you all happy now?

People working for the Bureau Of Land Management are getting shot.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Inevitable_Turns_Out_To_Be_Inevitable

http://wonkette.com/551950/here-is-possibly-totally-the-sovereign-citizen-who-shot-a-blm-officer-and-cop-for-freedom

http://kfor.com/2014/09/25/reports-police-respond-to-possible-shooting-near-moore-grocery-store/

not a shooting, but uhhhhhh

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/10/shooting-reported-at-marysville-pilchuck-high-school/

Shooter dead. They're currently saying 6 injured.

repeal the 2nd Amendment

I guess it's been five months since isla vista. We were overdue.

Also a shooting in the Sacramento/Auburn area. Never would have thought Auburn would have something like this.

I have family members who attend Marysville-Pilchuck. I was very worried this afternoon until I was able to find out they're safe.

I thought about you, Rev, when I saw the location.

holy shit that Sacramento business is nuts! i had no idea

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article3348287.html

carjacking dudes & the whole nine, jeeeeezus

so much of this went down in super built up suburban Sac, i can't even imagine. and auburn! jesus. how terrifying

Auburn shooter captured alive.

weirdest detail to me of this story is that the first cop killed died 26 years to the day after his father, for whom he was named and who was also a cop, was killed in the line of duty.

christ

repeal 2nd amendment indeed

Xpost crazy right?!

http://www.khq.com/story/27819040/breaking-active-shooter-situation-in-moscow-idaho

It's probably even odds that I'd be right where this happened on any given Saturday afternoon but today I decided I was lazy and didn't need to go grocery shopping. Damn.

Holy crap. Glad you're okay.