Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/09/1104010176/washington-county-maryland-shooting

xpost Yeah of course but I'm thinking a more formalized 'careful, guy, u just got yr ninth strike so you're super close to suffering a mild consequence' type of situation

co-worker reporting the mall her son works at (Eastridge Mall in Gastonia, NC) just had a shooting. early news = 3 shot, with non-life threatening injuries (hope it stays that way)

department of homeland security helpfully informs us that many more people are going to be killed this summer

if only there were something, anything, anyfuckingthing at all that could be done to prevent even a few of these murders that we know are going to happen, but nah

If only.

Minority Report but the precogs are like w/e d00d

Dumb question from a non-American: I remember Trump issuing executive orders on all kinds of crazy stuff, why can't Biden issue an executive order banning assault rifles?

like with most of trump’s crazy shit it would be thrown out by the courts asap and set terrible legal precedents

and Biden's trying to present himself as the calmer, saner alternative to Trump's wild-eyed crazy act

And Biden like most Democrats is an institutionalist who doesn’t want to disturb “norms” or tradition.

Oh man---even more bad details re police response, I think---was already pretty granular in prev. reports--this is summary of latest testimony in Texas legislature:
https://link.motherjones.com/view/5eb474cbb01fd7378a5c1c4agqx0t.13x4/49c04054

Didn't realize they got there within 3 minutes---but then, of course--

That the door might not have even been locked and the person in charge at the scene claiming he didn't know he was in charge...jfc

https://apnews.com/article/alabama-birmingham-shootings-religion-1c773c7332c344e5ac30a1101cedeeef

Wow. Eva Mireles, a Uvalde teacher, called her husband and told him she had been shot and was dying.

Her husband, a police officer, tried to take down the shooter but was detained by other officers and had his gun taken away. https://t.co/fPgfra6n5z

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) June 22, 2022

There's going to be a new horrifying piece of information every other day until the sun swallows us all

Alex Jones thinks this mass shooting was completely normal

The cops really wanted this to happen huh? I was willing to ascribe the police’s actions to incompetence and cowardice but man now I’m starting to wonder if the cops were cheering this guy on.

I doubt that. I 100% believe they were all terrified of dying because god forbid any risk exist in LAW ENFORCEMENT and decided the kids had a long enough life and that the media would probably assume they did the best they could so they'd get away with being cowards.

otm. as school district cops i imagine that their days prior to this were spent yelling at kids for wearing 'inappropriate' outfits, directing parking lot traffic, collecting free coffee from nearby businesses, and basking in praise for being theoretical heroes without actually ever having to think about anything or do anything they didnt want to. they reacted like all lazy cops do: do as little as possible and hope that when its all over the buck wouldnt stop with them.

I’m sure they always had the self image of being warriors who guard the sheep from the wolves, a special breed of hero needed for these ti—OH LORD HE HAS A GUN THATS DANGEROUS OK COFFEE BREAK

It's been so wild to watch the whiplash as the pro-cop online bootlickers have 180'd from "these are fierce warriors who protect our society and need to be armed with the latest military gear to keep us all safe" to "what? it's dangerous to face a guy with an AR-15, whaddaya expect they should do? let's see you face down an armed man tough guy".

Or

"It could have made things WORSE to engage"

Or

"It changed from active engagement to barracaded shooter with hostages"

If there was a choice, which would you pick?

— johncusack.eth (@johncusacketh) June 21, 2022

Vote didn't go how he thought

98% of americans support k*ll*ng the police. dems: where is your leadership on this?????

otm. as school district cops i imagine that their days prior to this were spent yelling at kids for wearing 'inappropriate' outfits, directing parking lot traffic, collecting free coffee from nearby businesses, and basking in praise for being theoretical heroes without actually ever having to think about anything or do anything they didnt want to. they reacted like all lazy cops do: do as little as possible and hope that when its all over the buck wouldnt stop with them.

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, June 22, 2022 11:28 AM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yup. I'm from the Making a Murderer town and it was wild watching people concoct all these convoluted theories about a police coverup as though there was some tightlipped plot to frame Steven Avery. I know these people. I know what the cops are like. I've seen them bust up parties. I've seen them do "investigative" work. I watched them detain and harass my brother, who stupidly threw his backpack behind a bush when he saw them at 2 AM, thinking it had drugs in it when it actually didn't. They're the same people I went to school with and they are bullies to the core, and one of the core traits of a bully is they run away when shit gets real. They didn't botch the investigation because they were trying to hide anything, they botched it because the only thing they know how to do is intimidate and harass. They love nothing more than to respond to a noise complaint and hand out a bunch of underages while simultaneously hitting on the 19 year old girls there. Of course they were gonna screw it up. And if, God forbid, there's a shooting at a school here, I am sure it would be the same story. They don't know how to handle an active shooter situation. They shouldn't have to know. But they know how to fuck with civilians so that's all they'd do.

the police in this country are trained to be terrified. their training is very good.

New Footage Shows Uvalde Police Rushing Into School To Take Selfies With Shooter https://t.co/bW4vYDZcE8 pic.twitter.com/h9hd8u1cib

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 22, 2022

harsh but fair

So this school is in my neighborhood and is where my children will go. I'm pissed they're charging this kid as an adult. Any idea which representative would be the one to contact? Can't tell if it's city or county jurisdiction

A Maryland teenager is being charged as an adult for taking an untraceable, loaded ghost gun to school Thursday, police said. https://t.co/PmwNxfu0Hx

— Tracee Wilkins (@TraceeWilkins) June 24, 2022

"The shooting happened outside a downtown Oslo bar that is popular among the city's LGBTQ community, witnesses and local media said."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/2-killed-in-mass-shooting-in-norway-more-than-a-dozen-hurt/ar-AAYQyYt?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=562fec174a8e49a1aac201703312fd6e

I live in Oslo. Had friends in the immediate area. This is terrible and enraging, and comes after a spring of an increasingly nasty anti-trans culture war during which Pride as an event and the Norwegian LHBTQ assosiaction FRI have been broadly painted as «activist», «ideological», «propagandic» etc. You know how it goes of course. And now this, following which the same people who have pounded Pride for months will offer their kind and considered thoughts (we don’t pray much) while for dear life avoiding to consider whether the way Pride has been portrayed contributed to this. Fuck them.

Not much is clear on motive (the gay bar was not the only place hit). The suspect is well-known to the authorities, has a record of violence, a couple of convictions. But there may also be psychiatry involved, apparently.

I dug up Alfreds beautiful piece from after Orlando again this morning.

https://www.mtv.com/news/2891842/only-when-im-dancing-can-i-feel-this-free/

So this school is in my neighborhood and is where my children will go. I'm pissed they're charging this kid as an adult. Any idea which representative would be the one to contact? Can't tell if it's city or county jurisdiction

🐦[A Maryland teenager is being charged as an adult for taking an untraceable, loaded ghost gun to school Thursday, police said. https://t.co/PmwNxfu0Hx🕸
— Tracee Wilkins (@TraceeWilkins) June 24, 2022🕸]🐦

yeah i called her and tweeted at her @SABraveboy but she hasn't responded. i talked to someone who worked for the office of my congressman Anthony Brown and she insisted that there must be more to it bc States Attorney Braveboy strives to not put kids in the system. not buying it.

#BREAKING: Multiple fatalities reported following reports of an active shooter during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.

Reports that the suspect is barricaded inside of a Sunset Foods grocery with hostages. pic.twitter.com/1MTAIDg6eM

— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) July 4, 2022

Happy 4th!

#BREAKING: Multiple people were shot along a parade route in the suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, north of Chicago, Monday morning, sources said https://t.co/7fHoMMCMKQ

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 4, 2022

"I saw this guy shooting. I saw his eyes... the first round was maybe 40-50 shots. He stopped and must have reloaded. I realized this was real and got everyone down as flat as we could."
-Man attending Highland Park parade w/ newborn grandson
LIVE: https://t.co/dCUP7VMuz8

— Ben Bradley (@BenBradleyTV) July 4, 2022

This is about 45 minutes from here, a really tony suburb north of the city.

They should cancel all fireworks and parades because this country is garbage and not worth celebrating.

Suspect still at large, 16 people to hospital, 5 dead. So far.

We know at least one person that was there (got away safely).

no violence but this video is incredibly bleak

UPDATE: Five people were killed and 16 others wounded when a gunman started shooting 10 minutes after the Highland Park Fourth of July parade kicked off Monday morning, authorities said. https://t.co/qNB7Ac1jRG

— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) July 4, 2022

sorry meant to direct link the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKHLB1b5jkc

Oh my lord — the guy is still at large and all neighboring burbs have cancelled their parades. Really fucked up!!!

Along with being a nice suburb, Highland Park also happens to be around 30% Jewish. I guess we'll learn if that played a role, but honestly, these days, it could have be anything.

A former editor of mine:

As a Highland Park resident who lives about a 10-minute walk from where this all happened, not sure I can express how unusual any violent crime is for this community. No fewer than six people offered my wife, who was out for a walk, a ride home after alerting her to events.

— Kevin Williams (@TribuneKevin) July 4, 2022

fucking awful and tragic, and another large group of young people terrorized for life

hope this at least convinces a few stubborn people THIS COULD HAPPEN IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

holy fuck

Google's 4th of July tribute goes wrong when page is overtaken by news of mass shooting pic.twitter.com/C0pfjKxFk0

— BNO News (@BNONews) July 4, 2022

Paul Verhoeven himself would think that's a little too on-the-nose

Highland Park also happens to be around 30% Jewish.

My first thought too.

If you need an illustration why I don't feel like celebrating.....

To all ilxors in Illinois, please take care.

I’m staying in (cause I have Covid) and am listening to George Crumb’s American Songbooks, whose spooky resettings of folk songs matches my mood about this country.