Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

Hell, I didn’t even make the paper
‘Cause I only killed one man

—Steve Earle, 1990

Missing context makes for a weird detail in that one:

The person who alerted authorities was outside the home when deputies arrived and was not shot

BREAKING: Uvalde residents boo Texas Governor Greg Abbott as he pays his respects at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde Texas | @TPUSA pic.twitter.com/4JSipaKOvv

— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) May 29, 2022

otm. the least he deserves

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/americas/canada-handgun-sales-cap/index.html

And now this

https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-police-school-district-longer-cooperating-texas-probe/story?id=85093405

I can't imagine that will go well for them

Huh, who'd have ever guessed that there might be implications after spending years making sure there is absolutely no punishment whatsoever for not cooperating with any sort of government investigation, probe or inquiry.

At the NRA Convention someone told us that hammers are used to kill more people than guns. So we looked up the stats in front of them. pic.twitter.com/ju5R8Pqbvk

— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) May 31, 2022

later that guy (probably one of his friends) will find where that "stat" came from that conclusively showed he was wrong, and they will attack whoever or whatever institution did the study or collected the data. it won't be hard for them to find that it is somehow connected to a university or department or professor, or was possibly funded by george soros, or both.

but it is temporarily satisfying and even addictive to confront complete fools like that guy and just tell them to their face how wrong they are. but it also doesn't change anything at all, ever. it is completely ineffective today

My colleagues' eyebrows went up like the curtain at the Met when a month ago during a teaching presentation I insisted, after teaching rhetoric for years, that we gotta stop teaching students as if facts mattered.

otm and completely evident in the way that guy neverthelesses back to the 2nd amendment being "important to him" on a personal level

Really hoping Channel 5 made it out to GunCon

Clinic shooting in Tulsa

4 dead as of now (including suspect).

https://katu.com/news/nation-world/police-say-multiple-injuries-in-hospital-shooting-scene-described-as-catastrophic-warren-clinic-tulsa-police-department-suspect-down-shots-fired-shooting-searching-floor-by-floor

Yet another door problem

Yet another door problem

same as it ever was

Jesus the subway shooting was a month and a half ago
Seems like forever ago already

Police have said a gunman who killed three employees and a patient at an Oklahoma hospital was targeting the surgeon who performed his back surgery.

He had purchased a semi-automatic AR15-style rifle just hours before the shooting, and was also armed with a handgun, police said.

Starting to see a pattern emerging here

look nothing you’re proposing would have stopped this okay trust me

When it comes to gun laws, think of the possible innocent victims. My latest:https://t.co/AH6yCSUcsM

— Stan Kelly (@KartoonistKelly) June 2, 2022

What the fuck was the grudge about his back surgery if the cunt was able to tote an ar-15

Not much to tote - an AR weighs less than a bichon frise.

But it has more of a kick.

Gang Of Four said it best ...

Armalite rifle, police and IRA
Armalite rifle, use it everyday

Breaks down easy, fits into a pram
A child can carry it, do it no harm

My partner always cautions people against getting back surgery for the purpose of alleviating pain, since there's absolutely no guarantee of that happening (despite what surgeons say). I guess this is why?

that's what fentanyl is for

^Amy Grant's best moment

to help us snooze it

Lol i know nothing abt guns but i'd assumed that an ar-15 while light *for an assault rifle* would still be a heavyish kind of thing to carry around routinely

I've also had disappointing back surgery so there but for the grace of god goes my surgeon

Tho the op did mean i got to stay home for the 2018 world cup so i felt we were square anyway (i did get better, it just took a while and wasn't 100% which, middle age lol)

xpost That's why he only bought it that afternoon

:: BREAKING NOW @tmj4: Five people shot at Graceland Cemetery in Racine during funeral for Da’Shontay King, man shot by Racine Police on May 20.

— Steve Chamraz (@TMJ4Steve) June 2, 2022

Zero doors in a cemetery and still.

https://www.kcci.com/article/cornerstone-church-ames-iowa-police-presence/40181931?fbclid=IwAR3X6mOz31YnGXG4g0uFg5EcKo-H0MGRcvuP6JR7AGRnEIvvM9L_Gkarv7o#

My colleagues' eyebrows went up like the curtain at the Met when a month ago during a teaching presentation I insisted, after teaching rhetoric for years, that we gotta stop teaching students as if facts mattered

Yeah, all this kinda thing just seems to point out how the standard liberal “information deficit” model doesn’t actually help for shiiiit

so different how much information people can acquire from different locations these days. when I was in college, Wikipedia didn't even show up until I was a Junior, and wasn't widely used, and it was still mostly news articles from large news outlets, the AP or actual books/encyclopedias if I was writing a paper.

Bloggers didn't update their blogs enough back then to be a frequent source of alternative news back then, and InfoWars was relatively new.

I would guess a lot of papers show up today with citations from like Twitter and random fly-by-night online news sites ?

There was one fact in Biden's address last night that, bad on me for not hearing it before, was incredibly sobering, which was this: "Over the last two decades, more school-age children have died from guns than on-duty police officers and active-duty military combined." It seems to me that something like this should fucking really be a wake up call to the US, but maybe we are too dead inside.

This American Summer hasn't even technically begun yet, but I have a feeling it's gonna be a rough one - both mass shootings and the run of the mill street shootings

the same number of people that believe the shooting of kiddies is a necessary evil to protect our rights are the same number of people who believe being run over by a drunk driver was part of "God's plan" and is a blessing in disguise

xpost one reason I've carefully curated my FB friends list is there are some absolute terrifying gun-owning lunatics here, precisely the type that might show up on your doorstep one day if you look at them the wrong way.

I got threatened with violence by one in the midst of an angry FB argument on a Friend's page, and he threatened a few other people. Turns out he lived only three miles from me. a dudebro who was racist af, anti-BLM, and regularly bragged every five minutes about how he served, which turned out to be 3 months where he served as a radio technician.

rather than reply, a bunch of us reported him to his school and shared the threats.

Multiple people pointed out that the US isn’t going to enter into a Civil War so much as a Days of Lead type era as we get more cascading social collapse.

So Furiosa will be a training video for the End Times

Finally, a real-word solution for a fruitless debate:

The US company behind Tasers plans to produce stun gun-armed drones it claims will help stop school shootings.

The Arizona-based company, Axon, says that the high-tech solution is necessary amid a "fruitless" debate on gun policy in the US.

The announcement, however, earned a stern rebuke from the company's own ethics board...

Guns aren't the problem, it's the lack of armed drones hovering nearby that's the real problem

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/03/nation/what-drives-mass-shooters-grievance-despair-anger-are-more-likely-triggers-than-mental-illness-experts-say/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/us/philadelphia-shooting.html

Today in Nigeria, heard 50 deaths on the radio just now.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/africa/mass-shooting-nigeria-church-intl/index.html

that nigerian attack is almost certainly the work of boko haram, the same armed insurgent group that kidnapped all the children in a girl's school several years ago.