Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

needs its own thread: Nine dead in shooting by white gunman at historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina

xxp unfortunately you are certain to

Days without a mass shooting 29 0

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/us/chattanooga-tennessee-shooting.html

Days without a mass shooting 29 7 0

http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/6-injured-in-movie-theater-shooting-in-lafayette/34327438

Clay Henry is vice president of operations for Acadian Ambulance. He told The Associated Press that 10 people all together were shot and eight were brought to the hospital. Henry said the gunman and one other person were pronounced dead on arrival.

https://medium.com/hatewatch-blog/lafayette-theater-shooter-fan-of-hitler-neo-nazis-and-antigovernment-conspiracies-38a16afc9643

Yep. This fuckin guy. Looong history of red flags

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article28490638.html

Awful for the families :(

is there a german compound word for something both terrifying and hilarious:

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/man-dons-knights-templar-costume-to-scare-away-muslims-from-new-york-military-recruiting-center/

Not sure if this counts as a spree but http://mashable.com/2015/08/26/virginia-wdbj7-shooting/

This is horrible.

scrolled right onto the video of them being murdered, on twitter. try avoid doing that, please.

THis is obscene. This whole fucking country is obscene. We've lost our minds.

gun debate pls.

apologies goole, the video didn't autoplay on my computer but might on yours.

https://twitter.com/bryce_williams7/

You could have warned us what the fuck that was first!

(Seriously I don't recommend clicking on that.)

no f-ing way am i watching that holy shit

sorry, he uploaded the video after I posted the link... fuck.

Repeal the 2nd amendment everybody!

that twitter user must have been suspended in the last minute

He'd been filling his timeline for the past week with all the background shit that rolling news loves to pore over in the wake of a shooting: baby pictures, as a young man, selfies etc. Fucking hell.

by "twitter user" i mean murderer

for those of us who aren't gong to click on that link... what is in that link?

it's a disabled Twitter account

The gunman's (deactivated) Twitter account, wherein he pretty much handed the police an open and shut case.

Holy shit.

Yeah, you don't want to know. Especially since I clicked on the fucking thing just seconds after he uploaded the video.

He just took his own life.

Apologies again for anyone who saw the video.

just watching the first vid was disturbing enough for me and I should not have

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/26/3695487/tv-journalist-shooter-id/

He was the reporter's ex-boyfriend.

thanks everyone

xp jesus

repeal 2nd amendment etc etc

There's some info on what was at the Twitter account here - http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/26/virginia_tv_on_air_attack_reporter_cameraman_killed.html

It's not graphic.

I am VERY interested in hearing what the NRA has to say about this

apologies goole, the video didn't autoplay on my computer but might on yours.

― Not to beat a moribund horse (stevie), Wednesday, August 26, 2015 10:08 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it wasn't you, it was just from a twitter search as soon as i saw mention of this happening!

lots of people advising you to turn off twitter autoplay video settings today.

xp no you aren't

I am VERY interested in hearing what the NRA has to say about this

― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, August 26, 2015 11:55 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"require journalists to carry guns for self-defense"

xp: I am, actually. I want to know if they're going to follow their same "a few bad apples/senseless tragedy/who could have foreseen" script or if the detail of this being a black man murdering two white people on camera is going to make expanding background checks seem like not such a bad idea.

I am VERY interested in hearing what the NRA has to say about this

They make it a point to not comment on shootings. The only reason they did so on Newtown is because they were cornered.

Fair enough, DJP, but instinct and past experience tells me that even to the extent that their crazy base overlaps with the crazy racist GOP base, they can't afford politically to be seen as approving any limitations whatsoever.

I also don't remember a sustained uproar about disabling Twitter autoplay when people were passing around video of Walter Scott being chased down and shot by Michael Slager but, given the ephemeral nature of the Twitter timeline, I might have missed it.

I don't recall it myself. But I'm trying to remember -- this video was native to Twitter. Was the Scott video like that as well?

I don't remember tbh; that was the detail I was trying to recall when I initially had the reaction to my timeline that I had to see if I was being unfair/overly sensitive.

both vids are cold blooded killings but this one's quite a bit more graphic

Then again, I did successfully avoid the Scott video until ABC Nightly News used it as a teaser for their broadcast without preamble or warning during a commercial break for Ellen so it probably wasn't as blatantly out there.

I'm amazed that Twitter wasn't faster taking it down. I had enough time to find the account, flag the individual videos, flag the account. If it's an obscure ISIS account, that's one thing; but when the guy's name was on the news and it still took about 15 minutes to take it down...

15 minutes is pretty fast!

apparently he's not dead

TV networks did loop the walter scott killing with total callousness; seems like there was lots of uproar about that, at least among twitter ppl i follow

it does seem to me like twitter has become much more video intensive in the last couple months or even weeks. just about every promoted tweet runs a full commercial now; this is a recent development

then, yeah, the shooter posted his own first-person video of the killing to twitter which i think is an absolute first