Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

IF ONLY THESE DEVELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE HAD GUNS THIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN

there's definitely an epidemic, it's insane neither political party really has a plan to address it

why should democrats do anything? their main presidential candidate is an arms dealer. this is symptomatic of a sick society.

the united states as a country is literally an arms dealer to the entire world. this is what we do.

IF ONLY THESE DEVELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE HAD GUNS THIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, December 2, 2015 2:51 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Didn't Rick Santorum actually get his developmentally disabled child an NRA membership, or something to that effect?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVPpKb7WwAA4ghD.jpg:large

that doesn't include the PP shooting or the last few days

I used to work with people with developmental disabilities, for years it was my grind -- including a facility in Ontario, CA - San Bernardino is about half an hour further east. I don't usually burst into tears when I hear about a spree shooting but I have spent a lot of time in facilities like this one. The people who live there and the people who work there, they work so hard: the residents just to get by, the workers just to make life a little better for people who're up against some long odds.

I can't take this one, I feel a panic inside about the fear the residents must be going through.

I can't stand this.

oh jclc, <3

I think a mass shooter would have to go to the e! network and murder the whole kardashian family and like ryan seacrest for popular opinion to shift enough to get shit done

let's start a gofundme for that one

ffs it was only a few years ago that 20 kids were killed at an elementary school !!

I still think back to sandy hook, and the fact that even a few dozen tiny kids and teachers getting shot and killed is not enough to initiate a change means that it will probably never come

xpost I mean, I'm sitting here thinking, "This is the one that we'll be unable to overlook, this one will bring some change." But...Sandy Hook. It just all feels so hopeless.

Someone needs to spell it out in language that these republican pieces of shit will understand: people are going to become increasingly afraid to go out and spend money the longer this goes on. There will be an appreciable economic cost to your continuted kowtowing to the NRA.

UNC-Chapel Hill went on lockdown this morning:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/us/north-carolina-chapel-hill-security-incident/

Oh and while I was scrolling thru that post, lookee what also popped up:

http://i.imgur.com/IyVBQHn.jpg

"May you live in like some really fun times" I think that curse went.

Rick Serrano ‏@RickSerranoLAT 18m18 minutes ago
Calif mass shooting: Police searching for SUV seen leaving scene; 3 suspected shooters apparently vanished from health center

oh fuck.

What the fuck?

why the fuck would...idk

ugh at humans basically

Someone needs to spell it out in language that these republican pieces of shit will understand: people are going to become increasingly afraid to go out and spend money the longer this goes on. There will be an appreciable economic cost to your continuted kowtowing to the NRA.

ppl can get used to all kinds of things. in israel there have been stabbings for months now and ppl are going about their lives. i am totally w/ you re the sentiment of how do we get through to these fuckers but i don't think this argument is a winner.

acc to CBS there's a bomb squad on the scene: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/672143708335292417

I was gonna argue maybe it would take like 30 congressmen getting shot but maybe the public would love that shit and want more of it.

Yeah, we had a congresswoman shot in the fucking head 4 years ago and it didn't do shit

Insanely we've already had Congressmen get shot. And that go no traction. So elected officials, children, school kids, servicemen, hundreds of innocents ... nada.

xpost

thats why I say we need ~30. including a couple who went down shooting with their concealed weapons.

You mean as heroes? Imagine how bad it would have been if they didn't have those weapons!

Does anyone doubt that a serious prez candidate announcing a strong anti-gun platform would be shot within weeks?

we will never be able to move forward until every single person who believes that upstanding citizens with concealed weapons would save the day have the chance to be in an active shooting situation and try to save everyone and fail. at this rate that should happen in another 20 or 25 years

If we make it that long.

law enforcement is going to guard schools and hospitals and PP clinics etc around san bernardino since those guys are i guess still out there

i hate that i have a mental bingo card for mass shootings at this point but something about this seems weird --- three grown-ass men (not teens) working together (not loners) to target a place/group of people that's politically/ideologically innocuous and then leaving the scene instead of dying in a shoot-out/killing themselves (not desperate/hopeless/suicidal)? it almost seems like a hit

my gut says organized terrorism but i guess we'll see

xp we don't know that the Inland Regional Center was the target at this stage iirc.

I agree, if there is definitely more than one attacker. (xp)

Live updates.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-shooting-live-updates-htmlstory.html

There's a terrible "waiting for the other shoe to drop" now, unless it was somehow a specific hit and they wanted to get away, almost Cartel-like.

feel like every mass shooting has had early rumors about 2-3 killers and it usually ends up as one, but this info does seem a little more specific maybe?

idk a "hit" just sounds not plausible

xp we don't know that the Inland Regional Center was the target at this stage iirc.

― Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow)

or yes we do, shut up, jim

PP clinic says they are safe

There's a terrible "waiting for the other shoe to drop" now, unless it was somehow a specific hit and they wanted to get away, almost Cartel-like.

― my harp and me (Eazy), Wednesday, December 2, 2015 3:11 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll admit that my first thought was of the cartels, though that does seem not plausible

they walked straight into the building and started shooting at what was either a meeting or a party, apparently. my first reaction was to think it was a (extremely disturbed) disgruntled ex-employee or ex-resident, but multiple shooters, with military gear? wtf

feel like every mass shooting has had early rumors about 2-3 killers and it usually ends up as one, but this info does seem a little more specific maybe?

My thoughts exactly.

James Holmes also wore body armour.

and "military grade" firepower can be purchased at the local gun shop, no problem

they walked straight into the building and started shooting at what was either a meeting or a party, apparently. my first reaction was to think it was a (extremely disturbed) disgruntled ex-employee or ex-resident, but multiple shooters, with military gear? wtf

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:14 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah my first thought was ex-employee too but idk. :(

KTLA just reported that they found an abandoned black SUV in the San Bernardino area

i don't see newtown as any more of a "failure" for gun control than prop 8 was for the gay rights movement, myself.

In other news:

http://abc13.com/news/hpd-homicide-one-dead-in-shooting-outside-medical-clinic-in-sw-houston/1107084/

L.A. Times:

Reports indicate the shooting occurred inside a conference room rented by an outside group for a Christmas party.

??

not sure how you guys can follow the play-by-play on this shit every day