Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

the smoke bombs stood out for me. the horror of gun shots going off, with smoke everywhere. jfc

i don't even know what to say or think any more. it's so clear what the problem is, and what the obstacles are. the way these mass shootings are reported, the aftermath, the non-responses from the nra and their pals in congress, the outrage on the left, even the language of futility, or of noting how often it's happened, like what i'm typing now. it's maddening

plus the realization that we're not going to Repeal the Second Amendment for a few decades because of the way that the supreme court has been stolen / stacked with sexual abusers

marco rubio watches this with a straight face, like nothing is happening

“I hope to God no one sends me anymore prayers. I want gun control. No more guns!”

The mother of shooting victim Telemachus Orfanos. She says her son survived the Las Vegas mass shooting but was killed in Thousand Oaks.

This must stop. pic.twitter.com/PkDJtgSYWH

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) November 9, 2018

as if these weren't already tragically, cosmically stupid events, there were multiple people from the Las Vegas shooting at this thing

48 I read, one of whom was killed.

The gunman reportedly posted this message to Facebook after he started shooting:

I hope people call me insane... (laughing emojis).. wouldn't that just be a big ball of irony? Yeah.. I'm insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is 'hopes and prayers'.. or 'keep you in my thoughts'... every time... and wonder why these keep happening...

NBC News reports:

Police were responding to reports of shots fired at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on Monday afternoon. Anthony Guglielmi, chief communications officer for the Chicago Police Department, said there are reports of multiple victims on Twitter Tuesday. One suspect was shot as searches of the area were continuing, authorities said. Mercy Hospital is 26 blocks south of the Chicago Loop.

i was wondering what was going on. i live another 25 blocks directly south of that, but there were a TON of police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks racing north when i took my dog out a little bit ago. :(

The @NRA told Mercy Hospital to "stay in their lane" after doctors spoke out about gunshot wounds last week.

Now a shooter has injured at least three people in that very hospital and all are in critical condition. This is officially and sadly their lane now, @DLoesch. pic.twitter.com/IZLDnWBXjs

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) November 20, 2018

jesus christ

apparently it began with a domestic dispute, acc to NPR

Yeah. The first victim had recently broken off an engagement to the shooter.

wow imo "domestic dispute" spreads out the blame too much

*sighs*

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/11/27/walter-reed-military-medical-center-active-shooter/

god dammit

fully expect this to happen at work some day

#BREAKING: We are aware of reports of an active shooter at Naval Support Activity Bethesda. No confirmation. More to follow as available.

— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) November 27, 2018

OOPSIE

CONFIRMED: No active shooter at Naval Support Activity Bethesda. Was ad hoc drill by tenant command. https://t.co/P9N65mMdOA

— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) November 27, 2018

phew

good drill

ad hoc dril

if a sniper shot me i owuld run over to where he is and kick the gun out of his hand and kill him because hes not specialized in melee fight

— wint (@dril) October 11, 2014

fuck, this one was better (I'll stop now)

(accidentaly fires entire ar15 magazine into my foot & leg with 100% accuracy rate) alright. thats fine. heres what i think happened, [1/82]

— wint (@dril) June 9, 2017

A sheriff's sergeant who responded to a mass shooting last month at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks was killed by friendly fire from a California Highway Patrol officer's weapon during a shootout with the suspect, authorities announced Friday.

At a morning press conference, Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said Sgt. Ron Helus was struck five times by bullets from the suspect and a sixth time* by a round from the CHP officer's AR-type rifle.

*In the heart. Good aim CHiPpy.

Why do CHiPs have AR-15s anyways?

[North Hollywood shootout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout), mostly. The patrol officers were so outgunned with their service pistols they were handing out AR-15s from a local gun shop.

Not CHP or LASD, but LAPD are being sued after they killed someone in similar circumstances (although perhaps worse because she obviously wasn't armed and this wasn't a nighttime firefight but an daytime hostage situation) https://laist.com/2018/11/29/family_of_silver_lake_trader_joes_shooting_victim_melyda_corado_files_lawsuit_against_lapd.php

this level barely registers now

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/us/sebring-florida-bank-incident/index.html

imagining: "i dunno, does five people even count as a mass shooting, anymore?"

FB page showed him as a fan of Milo Yiannopoulos & Alex Jones.

him = shooter

my god Florida is so weird, discrete, and vast that I didn't know this county was less than 250 miles away, and that Sebring is its county seat.

that is a next-level abysmal real name

pic.twitter.com/r4Ind4FqBu

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 24, 2019

sh4un king is saying all the victims were women. But I haven't seen any verification of that from an actual newsource.

Why do people keep doing this

An empty thing to say but seriously. The worst fucking trend.

Do you have a link, Yerac?

I don't know how I didn't hear about this yesterday. So much noise.

if you go on facebook, sh4un king's posts are all public.

oh here is something that verifies. https://www.wfla.com/news/highlands-county/sebring-bank-victims-5-women-including-mother-of-2-killed-nbc-reports/1722594987

thanks!

As soon as I saw details in the NYT article--CO in training, lives w mother in a mobile home, called in his own crime--I thought, "We're going to find out that he hates women, aren't we."

Feel like this is the longest we've gone without one in a while. So I just looked to see when the last time this thread was bumped: early December. Fuck

sometimes i'll think about how right now there's someone out there who's been quietly stockpiling weapons and ammo and how he's going to pull off a mass shooting. later this afternoon, tomorrow, next week, next month, whenever.

Victims made to lie down and shot in the back of the head. Fuck

https://www.wfla.com/news/highlands-county/police-describe-execution-style-killings-inside-sebring-bank/1723228973

Xaver was arrested in a beige T-shirt depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Thursday morning, he wore a black-and-white striped prison uniform as he was appointed a public defender and ordered held without bond.

His father said he’s “heartbroken for the victims” and that his son “wasn’t raised to be like this.”

“He’s always been a good kid. He’s had his troubles, but he has never hurt anyone ever before. This is a total shock,” Josh Xaver told CNN. The Associated Press has reached out to both parents of Zephen Xaver requesting interviews, with no immediate response.

It wasn’t a shock to Alex Gerlach, who identified herself as Xaver’s former girlfriend. She said he’s long been fascinated with the idea of killing, but no one took her warnings seriously. For some reason, he “always hated people and wanted everybody to die,” Gerlach told WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana.

“He got kicked out of school for having a dream that he killed everybody in his class, and he’s been threatening this for so long, and he’s been having dreams about it and everything,” she said. “Every single person I’ve told has not taken it seriously, and it’s very unfortunate that it had to come to this.”

Gerlach told The Washington Post that Xaver said he purchased a gun last week and “no one thought anything of it” because he had always liked guns.

Xaver has no apparent criminal record in the areas where he’s lived in Indiana and Florida, and his school records are spotty: Two school districts in northern Indiana said he attended for several years but did not graduate. Xaver also briefly studied online. Salt Lake City-based Stevens-Henager College spokeswoman Sherrie Martin confirmed that Xaver was enrolled from September to December before withdrawing last year.

i mean of COURSE

Josh Xaver doesn't quite sound like he's been on the ball

“He had guns because he’s always liked guns”
ok cool America, no problem good to know