Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

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.

remember nuclear attack drills? good times.

I guess I feel lucky that I grew up & went to school after nuke drills and before shooting drills. Fire drills were it
god
fucking
dammit
@ that sign

I hate every time I see this thread bumped without having read the news

(it's not anyone's fault, just the frequency of there being new shootings and the plausibility that one could happen at any time)

(I was going to post "how is this any different from Duck and Cover" but people are on that already: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/are-duck-and-cover-school-drills-from-the-nuclear-era-a-useful-parallel-to-active-shooter-drills.html)

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/parkland-florida-massacre-school-guard-andrew-medina-harassed-victim-meadow-pollack-family/

A mass shooting at an arts festival in Trenton NJ, at nearly 3am last night:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/17/trenton-shooting/708419002/

https://splinternews.com/at-least-1-dead-20-injured-in-shooting-at-all-night-ar-1826899819

jesus. multiple shooters, at an art festival.

i know some ppl w/ Trenton roots; v shaken

it's a fucked up city

Four people shot in the building where my kids' orthodontist is. It's breaking news at the moment via a local facebook page.

good lord! like going to the orthodontist isn't terrifying enough

She's actually really great. I'm just worried about everyone who works there, and then the kids. It's an office building with multiple businesses (including our local newspaper). Super quiet place.

They're saying 4 dead, 20+ injured.

Is this the one you guys are talking about?

Multiple people shot at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html

yep.

Checking for suspicious packages, one already found, suspect in custody.

yesterday

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/27/milo-wants-vigilantes-start-killing-journalists-and-hes-not-being-ironic

Top two comments in r/The_donald's post on the Annapolis shooting.

"Here we go! Right on time!"
"so it begins" pic.twitter.com/MrfZuZqSQm

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 28, 2018

FFS

jesus fucking christ

AA Co police having responded, a living suspect almost certainly means a white dude.

I took one for the team and read Milo’s Instagram post on this. My advice: don’t bother.

Grew up and my pops still lives closer to Bestgate than to downtown, so this is messing me up.

xxp

A law enforcement source tells CBS News the suspect is male, white, in his 20s, no iD.

Two law enforcement sources say the suspect used a shotgun.

4 dead, 5 injured/transported.

— CBS News Radio (@CBSNewsRadio) June 28, 2018

Hannity already blaming Maxine Waters for this

if only megan mcardle had been there to rush the shooter

this is fucked up

Responding to our story @Mediaite about his encouragement of violence against reporters, Milo Yiannopoulos sent me an ominous message: pic.twitter.com/PhRd9Dv39J

— Amy Russo (@amymrusso) June 26, 2018

confidentially I am crazy, and I will fucking kill you

wtf is he trying to become the charlie manson of gamergate spuds?

yo i preferred not knowing what milo thinks