Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

OTMFM

I've had enough imagination. I mentally hold my breath whenever my sister's family goes to Disney World.

xxp

this is the price we appear to be willing to pay to keep our current interpretation of the second amendment

i can't really compute that, but apparently many have and are fine with it

now they're saying 58 dead

i cant begin to imagine the horror of that scene - with him firing from so high above there’s nowhere to hide. just...my god

i cant watch the videos, i wont, but the few photos I’ve seen were beyond heartbreaking

horrific

with 400 wounded/injured there's a good chance the death toll rises further, unfortunately

500 injured

aaannnd we have yet another fucking spree shooting. Great: http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/10/americas-first-mass-shooting-since-vegas

jesus. what's it gonna take.

http://www.thoughtsandprayersthegame.com/

omg

boom boom boom boom - make that 274 mass shootings

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article176420606.html

I'm so tired of seeing the "we need better mental healthcare" dodge. None of these people would actually support expanded mental healthcare services so just fuck off.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, October 2, 2017 11:55 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this

Don't have anything to add beyond the obvious. The saddest & most frustrating thing about this is that absolutely nothing has changed since Sandy Hook. That same Onion article gets shared, the conversation gets stuck in a limited loop like "Lisa needs braces / Dental plan." I know it's been said many times before, but if anything would've led to stricter gun laws, it would've been that. Didn't happen. What it's going to take? Terrifying to imagine.

this shooting is actually an incident that gives lie to the notion that "if only someone in the crowd had a gun this could have been prevented," as if that notion is anything other that complete bullshit in any situation like this.

Guitarist for the Josh Abbott Band, who performed last night.

pic.twitter.com/0NFjHf3PW2

— Caleb Keeter (@Calebkeeter) October 2, 2017

That being said, I'll not live in fear of anyone. We will regroup, we'll come back, and we'll rock your fucking faces off. Bet on it.

— Caleb Keeter (@Calebkeeter) October 2, 2017

xpost if Sandy Hook didn't do it, nothing will. notice, of course, how of all the shootings the one that would elicit the most sympathy for the anti-gun cause is the one that draws in the most "it never happened" or "it was a false flag" arguments.

Any chance of efficacious action wrt gun control was dead after the non-response to Sandy Hook and it was buried with the election of Trump. I think we'll probably still have lots of good and impassioned conversation about it, though, alongside the requisite hopes and prayers. Won't somebody please think of the pundits.

I wrote that before I saw a mention of Sandy Hook. Clearly that's the agreed upon point where hope died.

notice, of course, how of all the shootings the one that would elicit the most sympathy for the anti-gun cause is the one that draws in the most "it never happened" or "it was a false flag" arguments.

― nomar, Monday, October 2, 2017 1:07 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's a really great point, I never thought about it like that.

How about a million people sitting outside the NRA HQ this weekend for as start?

blow up the gun factories and their machines.

somebody offers a deep thoughts:

When people say enough with thoughts and prayers they're just saying they don't believe in God and neither should you.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 2, 2017

Podho should find out right now if there is one

pic.twitter.com/2Uns7nMLKW

— chris jones¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@LONG_DRIVE) October 2, 2017

Subsequent events have proven that (NRA spokesman) LaPierre had the right of things and that William Lloyd Garrison and Robert Jackson were wrong. The Constitution is not a pact with the devil, nor is it a suicide pact. It is a formalized, legalistic ritual of blood sacrifice. There are some things that we as a society, alas, must tolerate in order to stay true to our founding beliefs and to remain free. Schoolchildren shot to pieces is one of those things. The massacre of country music fans is another one of those things, the 273rd blood sacrifice to that one provision of the Constitution this year.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12764429/las-vegas-shooting-result/

and given that it's a white guy, the false flag narratives have already begun

The creator of Dilbert is spreading a rumor that Stephen Paddock's brother might be a crisis actor pic.twitter.com/idhiiMuz5r

— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) October 2, 2017

What the fuck is the logic in this. it's a false flag bc it's a white guy w/ no clear political/radical/terrorist bent?

isn't Dildo a Logic Master?

was he always so batshit? what happened to him?

I recommend tracking down that longform profile of him from a few months back

it's a false flag bc it's a white guy w/ no clear political/radical/terrorist bent?

was he always so batshit?

Having bought and read "The Dilbert Future" when it was published, I can say the answer to this is "yes".

Well that crowd was pretty psyched when the "Bernie Bro shooter" happened
xp

Should we still ignore Alex Jones who has his batshit false flag shenanigans lined up already? He was thanked by The President after the latter's election tbf.

yea he's always been pretty nuts but this deep dive into MRA/Alex Jones territory seems to be a somewhat recent development

If you've got a looney prez who surrounds himself with loons like that, idk

creating a safe space for unfeeling red pilled white males since 1996

to be fair I have no idea what Dilbro is getting at there and tbh I don't think he does either

Always, always, always ignore Alex Jones.

I don't even think he has the 'stopped clock' thing going for him.

Crisis actor expert @ScottAdamsSays will be on Fox News later tonight to discuss.

I can't even deal with this.

he was good in Waking Life lol

I'm changing my job description to 'fuckwit cartoonist expert.'

it was cool to watch him smoke pot for the first time on Joe Rogan and then have a mild panic attack

OK, I've never heard of "crisis actors" til now, and my opinion of humanity has apparently not bottomed out yet.

this is worth your time, although perhaps at a later date

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html

OT: For someone with only 2-3 borrowed insights (Peter principle is real, most committee meetings are pointless, engineers should supervise engineers), he's had a pretty charmed life.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has delayed political advertisements in Virginia in the wake of a mass shooting in Las Vegas that left more than 58 people dead and more than 500 injured.

The nation’s largest gun rights organization had originally booked $32,000 in cable television advertising to begin Tuesday, according to Advertising Analytics, a nonpartisan ad-buying firm that keeps tabs on the television market.

Now, those advertisements will begin on Oct. 10. At the same time, the NRA will devote just more than $1 million to ads airing on broadcast networks in markets around Virginia.

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/353458-nra-delays-political-ads-after-las-vegas-shooting