Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

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

Yeah, the kid I tutor was telling me about the lockdown drills he's had to go through and it's...just goddamn heartbreaking. His attitude was somewhere between anxious and totally blasé. Like, this is just how it is, this is all they know.

i wonder if the duck-and-cover nuclear drills were more or less damaging. They had songs for that too.

no, of course subjecting an entire generation of kids to constant anxiety about the prospect of being violently murdered alongside their classmates, perhaps at the hands of one more of their classmates, won't have a devastating effect on their long-term mental health, why do u ask

(not directed at u morbs, i was drafting that while you were posting)

i always felt pretty secure knowing that my arms over my head would impede the terrible waves of nuclear hellfire

the rather obvious difference is that we weren't seeing nukes dropped on schools on a regular basis

what is 'nothing stops a good bad guy wih a gun than a good guy with a gun' than simple scaled-down mutually assured destruction, i ask u

can't wait for the Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird IDs the different types of automatic gunfire in order to help gauge the distance of the active shooter

"Say look at this! I was cleaning out my nest, and I found an old book of my notes on what to do if a deranged mass shooter enters a school."

Jesus

a little too close to the nest for flappy bird.

the sign itself is disturbing enough, the fact that it's supposed to be sung to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star makes me want to die

These kids (my kids included) have been raised with this stuff all their lives. They're really too good at shrugging it off.

My niece (11) has been homeschooled for several years, and as of 3 years ago was being shielded from news of any shootings (I was not allowed to watch the news when visiting). I wonder if they've kept up with that.