Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

He deserves everything he gets

Agreed.

high school students are troops now

does that mean they get better airplane seats

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/bayarea/article/Santa-Fe-mass-shooting-Texas-Houston-thoughts-and-12925436.php

A state representative from Houston is asking for more than just sympathy following the mass shooting in Sante Fe, Texas on Friday.

"Y'all been sending thoughts and prayers for two freaking decades now," tweeted Rep. Gene Wu, who represents the Gulfton area. "Time to try something new."

Not that the "too many doors" thing is worth refuting, but most schools do control access, often through one or at most two doors (which always have someone watching them, in my parental experience). This shooter was a student, I'm sure he just walked in with the rest of the students. God people will say any idiot thing to avoid talking about guns.

...too many doors?

Gene Wu otm.

Are you with me Rep Wu?
Are you really just a shadow
Of a man that I once knew

So will Texas really force all students to go through 1 door now and put armed security there at entrance? Cheapskate right-wingers like to talk but that’s it.

I have kids at a school with exactly one door and it is exactly one pain in the ass, thanks.

Everywhere in DC is like that already. Work, church, temple, school, all one door, all guarded. The exceptions? Museums. They have two doors.

Anyway fuck gun people, fuck Texas and ESPECIALLY fuck this piece of shit for deciding the place to start his rampage was ART CLASS.

surprise surprise the vegas shooter (remember him?) was a rwnj https://apnews.com/f467daaa52864d3ba2eaca4c7708e2e5

In a jailhouse interview with police and the FBI, the man said Paddock called Federal Emergency Management Agency “camps” set up after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 “a dry run for law enforcement and military to start kickin’ down doors and ... confiscating guns.”

The man, whose name was redacted in reports released Wednesday, quoted Paddock saying somebody has to wake up the American public and get them to arm themselves.

The man said he met with Paddock outside a Las Vegas sporting goods store after posting an online ad to sell schematics to convert semi-automatic guns to fire automatically.

I know there’s not a lot of info in the Vegas case and any new details are appreciated but that source is suspect as hell imo

Jailhouse interview? So the guy that supposedly met him was in jail? Why did it take so long for anything to come out about the guy's potential motive, which I thought was totally unknown? So yeah, color me dubious.

that’s just one part of about 1200 pages of evidence that were unsealed by foia this week

here’s another bit

In a handwritten account, a woman said she overheard a man she later said was Paddock talking with another man at a Las Vegas restaurant just three days before the massacre. She told police that Paddock seemed angry about the 1990s standoffs at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge in Idaho.

“At the time, I just thought ‘strange guys’ and I wanted to leave,” said the woman.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-shooting/spurned-advances-provoked-texas-school-shooting-victims-mother-says-idUSKCN1IL0D9

Sadie Rodriguez, the mother of Shana Fisher, 16, told the Los Angeles Times that her daughter rejected four months of aggressive advances from Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, who is in jail charged with murdering 10 people early on Friday at the high school in Santa Fe.

Fisher finally stood up to him and embarrassed him in class, the newspaper quoted her mother as writing in a private message to the Times.

“A week later he opens fire on everyone he didn’t like,” she said. “Shana being the first one.”

FWIW

FYI: Since Shana’s mom started talking to reporters, other family friends have raised questions about the reliability of her claims and say they haven’t been able to corroborate her accounts about the shooter’s behavior toward her daughter. We’ll keep you posted if we learn more. https://t.co/u2lfdZuUzK

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) May 20, 2018

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houston-police-chief-art-acevedo-vote-out-politicians-only-offering-prayers-after-shootings/

apparently this is serious?

"It's time to put an end to this glorification of carnage in pursuit of ratings because it's killing our kids. It's time for Congress to step up and pass legislation putting common sense limitations on #MSM's ability to report on these school shootings." –@MrColionNoir #MSMsense pic.twitter.com/0CulOKEPSn

— NRATV (@NRATV) May 24, 2018

I'm gonna go buy a gun so I can shoot myself now

Not literally serious, no. It's actually a pretty clever/effective video. Not one I agree with at all mind you, but it's very well done. Skip to about 2:50 to see what they're up to.

If you don't feel like watching, after a fadeout the narrator comes back and asks if it was chilling to hear someone advocate for common sense limits on the first amendment, and says this is exactly how gun rights advocates feel when people advocate for common sense limits on the 2nd.

What he fails to acknowledge (I assume; I didn't watch to the end) is that we already DO have common sense limits on the 1st.

Well 1st limits like yelling fire in a Theater are about safety totally diff and reasonable. Not about freedom.

1st amendment limits include perjury, libel, fraud, threats, hate speech, verbal harassment, and intimidation.

Also, even highly protected political speech can be limited by requiring permits to march or to gather in public places for the redress of grievances.

People engaged in political protest are frequently treated as if they were one baby step away from engaging in illegal activity. Sometimes they are beaten and gassed if someone within a few blocks of them failed to immediately comply with police orders, distorted and barely comprehensibly delivered by shouting at them through a bullhorn.

But, of course, none of this is comparable to the horror of asking gun owners to register their weapons with the government.

Hah you get it

I mean its basically this

‘Breitbart’ Refusing To Release Names Of Mass Shooting Victims In Order To Prevent Them From Getting Attention https://t.co/M1Cw8sxnjo pic.twitter.com/97dlCcmuOG

— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 21, 2018

two injured in Indiana middle school

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2018/05/25/noblesville-school-shooting-active-shooter-reported-middle-school/644021002/

A 100% surreal, this-is-America moment from the Las Vegas massacre, told by one of the police officers at the scene. https://t.co/BjmsIKBPFQ pic.twitter.com/bewR36YCfv

— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) May 25, 2018

crazy

my brain said “well OF COURSE” when I read that which is a sign that I am very thoroughly USAmerican I guess

It's early Sunday morning. When I first read "he flipped off the shooter," I thought that was some other way of saying he turned off the safety or something.

I mean, y’all. it was a country show and they were serving alcohol, there’s no way that didn’t happen when the rounds started popping off

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/why-we-should-stop-putting-cameras-in-front-of-shooting-survivors-so-quickly-10530260

My ex in AZ just posted that a guy came to her law office today and killed two of her employees

damn. live here and didnt hear about it til this post.

Seems like this is a multi day AZ spree--suspect killed a pathologist on thurs, two paralegals on fri, and another man today. still at large.

Jesus shit

Man

it’s somehow related to the jon benet ramsey case?

Yeah the forensic pyschiatrist in the case was one of the victims apparently:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/us/arizona-psychiatrist-murders-paralegals.html

jesus fucking christ

This should not be hanging in my soon-to-be-kindergartener’s classroom. pic.twitter.com/mWiJVdddpH

— Georgy Cohen (@radiofreegeorgy) June 6, 2018

Rip usa

as a twitter commenter points out on that post, those words are to be sung to the tune of 'twinkle twinkle little star'

i can't even make a cynical joke to distance myself from how awful that is tbh, it's just crushingly sad

That is surreal

freedom ftw

http://i4.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

luckily my kids are still in day care, and nobody would ever shoot up a day care

dark lols