Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

note the order of preference

if you must fight, they say do exactly what you just said - pick up random objects and throw them :(

^ certainly that's a much better tactic than frowning, finger-shaking and tut-tutting, but it's still is a last-ditch option when your assailant has such a massive advantage in weaponry, planning and surprise. Evasion will always be more reliable for your chance of personal survival, when there is any kind of escape route at all. If the choices are passively submit to die or else fight, the exact odds of winning the fight don't matter much.

actually you’re supposed to barricade and shelter in place before trying to escape

then run, then fight (if cornered)

yup the hide part
i want to tut-tut a man to death now that you mention it

meanwhile, back at parkland http://www.miamiherald.com/news/article208653029.html?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-waffle-house-shooter-20180423-story.html

jeepers it's hard to believe a guy like this slipped through the cracks of our already too-restrictive gun laws...

Some guy has been walking around my neighborhood with an AR-15 strapped to his back, apparently waiting for people to call the cops on him. When the police arrive he videotapes them and yells about his 2nd Amendment rights to open carry. The police sent out a statement that basically says he's not breaking any laws but is clearly an asshole.

that feeling when you're making the opposite point of the one you're trying to make

If there was a law it would be against it

dare I make the assumption that this is a white guy

Well he's still alive, isn't he?

I wonder whether he'd be willing to do it in blackface. Ask him.

A shooter has been reported at Texas' Santa Fe High School, the school district there said. The district is on lockdown.

Per two law enforcement sources, at least 8 confirmed fatalities. https://t.co/1JLOT8cPUm

— St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ (@stjbs) May 18, 2018

Quotes from a local TV news site:

"I was sitting in my classroom and I heard really loud booms, but I really didn't know what they were at first," a student said. "Then, I realized what they were when I heard screaming."

"I never thought it would happen here," said Tyler Turner.

"It hurts my heart to see this happening," another student said. "I don't feel safe in this town anymore ... There was nothing we could do but run."

Saw on FB that a friend's husband who works part-time at the school is safe. He was driving in at the time and was told to turn around.

<Invocation of Neanderthal's DN>

this is barely popping up on my Twitter feed, everyone's too busy dragging Jordan Peterson.

massacre debate rinse repeat

I think I know someone who occasionally works that Galveston ER ...

8 reported deaths....

8-10. Possible explosive devices both on and off campus (a home).

Countdown to suspect image with a MAGA hat...

Huh, reportedly two homes (connected to the shooter) cordoned off for suspected explosives. News crew apparently beat the police to one of them ...

Damn. A reader commenting on the news out of Santa Fe. https://t.co/xlPdjPfSql pic.twitter.com/0NozhHrJ5K

— Teddy Amenabar (@TeddyAmen) May 18, 2018

Reporter: "Was there a part of you that was like, 'this isn't real, this would not happen in my school?'"

Student: "No ... it's been happening everywhere, I always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen here too." pic.twitter.com/3SyckfreIPhttps://t.co/VZ3ZPllJWD

— Talya Minsberg (@tminsberg) May 18, 2018

Wow

the broken bearing of someone who almost just got killed and is pondering her future of being smeared as a crisis actor

get your Thoughts and Prayers in while they are still fresh

toughening up American kids the hard way

At this rate a 9 year old is going to beat an active shooter to death with her bare fists.

covering all bases, shooter reportedly had a shotgun and a pistol along with an assault weapon.

hearing about explosives as well

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Man-carrying-American-flag-and-handgun-arrives-at-12925271.php#photo-15574523

Fuck this guy forever

he should get together with the Kent State girl.

fucking idiot!god damn people fucking suck

im glad they were those stupid red hats so they are easily identified

Reminds me of the Stoneman-Douglas parent who made sure he had his Trump gear on before he showed up at the school to be interviewed (oh, and to also find out what happened to his kid).

I thought Fred Phelps had died

Rolling Stone reminds us that both Trump & Pence spoke in front of the NRA IN TEXAS TWO WEEKS AGO: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-santa-fe-shooting-w520488

yeah, there's a brief window of opportunity to pander to the NRA these days, you can't blame them for taking advantage. after a major shooting it's polite to wait a few weeks so it doesn't look like you're supporting the people who make money off of people dying too much. but then of course the next big one could be any day so you can't wait too long to pander, either. it's not easy for them

Local News says 10 dead now.

Reportedly used dad's guns.

Also, numbers going around that 2018 has been deadlier for school children than it has been for military..

wonder if that's per capital, that would be o_O

capita

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/18/2018-has-been-deadlier-for-schoolchildren-than-service-members/

The school shooting near Houston on Friday bolstered a stunning statistic: More people have been killed at schools this year than have been killed while serving in the military.

Initial estimates put the number killed at Santa Fe High School at eight, but even without those deaths, nearly twice as many people were killed at schools than in the military. (The figures for the military were compiled from Defense Department news releases and include both combat and noncombat deaths.) Including only students who died in school shootings (excluding, for example, teachers) the total still exceeds military casualties.

A large part of that is the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. Without those 17 deaths, the totals for the two groups are about the same.

This is not usually the case. In 2017, the number of fatalities among service members was far higher than the number of people killed in school shootings, according to The Washington Post data.

high school students are troops now

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/dimitrios-pagourtzis-santa-fe-suspect/index.html

Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, has been identified as the suspect in the Texas high school shooting that left 10 people dead, Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset said.

Pagourtzis is being held on capital murder charges with no bond. More charges may follow, the sheriff said.

Student Mateo Twilley said she knew Pagourtzis and that he wore a trench coat to school.

"I had my advisory class, which is after third period with him," she told CNN. "He was really quiet and he wore like a trench coat almost every day."

grim lol @ the trench coat thing still being a thing

Lt. Governor Dan Patrick everyone...

http://www.thisisinsider.com/santa-fe-shooting-texas-dan-patrick-doors-stop-school-shootings-2018-5

I mean, even PIERS MORGAN is clowning his ass.