Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

I'm not a fan of events these days and maybe there's a subconscious fear, idk.

My kid's school had a lockdown recently because an armed robbery suspect ditched his car and was running through the neighborhood.

Also, there was a 2A asshole who liked to stand across the street from the elementary school with an AR-15. The cops said they couldn't do anything about him.

yeah I've thought about that a lot too. I mean obviously the focus has to be on the victims but every kid who survives one of these shootings, especially those who are just 7-10 years old when it happens, are gonna be fucked up from it for life. even the shooting drills our school has to do puts some messed up thoughts in their heads. my son once told me he wants me to buy a gun for him so he can protect his sister in case a "bad guy" comes. congrats Republicans, your grand policy ideas could've come from the mind of a second grader.

Also, there was a 2A asshole who liked to stand across the street from the elementary school with an AR-15. The cops said they couldn't do anything about him.

god I hate this shit so much. a while back I saw a dude with a handgun in a holster, obviously positioned in a way that people could see it, while shopping at Festival Foods. oh are you supposed to be the "good guy with a gun"? sorry but I think you're a fucking lunatic because you legitimately think you're going to have to murder someone at the grocery store.

Think I might have mentioned this itt before, but one day my son was telling me about the fire drill they had that day which led into him talking about the tornado drills and active shooters drills they'd done as well. Which, y'know, heartbreaking enough that these have to be a thing, but I noticed that he kept saying "when we have a shooter come to the school" and not "if we have a shooter come to the school". It's just so fucking common that kids expect it to happen.

tipsy i read your post about your friend and the shooting story and i am so sorry. what a horrible thing. unbelievably sorrowful, i cannot think of more to say.

Also, there was a 2A asshole who liked to stand across the street from the elementary school with an AR-15. The cops said they couldn't do anything about him.

Yeah, there's a dude doing this not far from me in Maryland recently. I'm absolutely mind-fucked that this is not already illegal here. I've never heard of anyone else ever open-carrying in Maryland. I'm massively confused.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/jden-mcadory-man-with-gun-severn-school-bus-stop-governor/43944583#

I know it's probably not wise to aggravate someone holding an ar-15, but my instinct would be to hurl abuse at someone open carrying like this. Probably lucky I haven't encountered this so far.

Man, tipsy! That story. My heart goes out to your friend (and everyone in this thread - what a world).

To belatedly answer Jeff upthread, I'm sure it's the same shooting! It was this guy and a friend of his, a red Kia pulls up, they shoot him...just absolutely insane. My brother likes to take photos at night in Chicago and I advised him to be careful, but after this happened to his pal I suspect he doesn't need to be told that.

xp That guy looks much older than 20.

When asked if he could understand how parents and children might be afraid seeing him armed by the bus stop, McAdory told the I-Team: "I do understand. So, I talked to the kids this morning at 7 a.m. right at that bus stop over there with the AR-15."]

^^^as if… that made things better

i think adults seriously think kids are going to be all like "COOOOOOL!" when they see guns like it's the 80s and they're blowing up GI Joes with M-80s every day, and not that they've grown up in a world where they have to worry about dying in school every day.

A Virginia high school graduation now…

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/seven-people-wounded-shooting-following-virginia-high-school-graduation-2023-06-07/"> https://www.reuters.com/world/us/seven-people-wounded-shooting-following-virginia-high-school-graduation-2023-06-07/

There was a shooting at a graduation last year too.

The suspect was likely to be charged with two counts of second-degree murder in addition to other offenses, interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards told a press conference.

Edwards called the shooter's behavior "disgusting and cowardly," since his dispute appeared to be with just one person.

not to revive the question of america's exceptional derangement, but I wonder if a big cop in any other country would make a point of saying that real men shoot at their enemies with a clear line of sight

A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbour after a years-long feud was arrested on Tuesday, authorities said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65837876

"Florida woman"

fuckin charge it as a goddamn hate crime

How is that second degree murder and not first? xps

I guess lack of premeditation? I’m not sure what the legal standard is, how far in advance you have to show intent. If someone is knocking on your door for several minutes and you eventually decide to go shoot them, that seems kinda premeditated to me? But I’m not a lawyer.

I… don’t know how to react to kids just roasting someone who attempted to shoot up their school on IG

my high school had an active shooting threat earlier. no one got hurt but students did find the shooters ig pic.twitter.com/3EkxBL2pjM

— tony🗣 (@ratatatvandal) June 8, 2023

😣

Happy Fourth of July!

Shooting in Fort Worth leaves at least 3 dead and 8 others wounded

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/us/fort-worth-shooting-deaths/index.html

Philadelphia police search for motive in mass shooting that left 5 dead and 2 children injured

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/us/philadelphia-shooting-motive-suspect-tuesday/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/03/baltimore-mass-shooting/

shooting at a mpls punk show last night

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/08/12/1-dead-6-injured-after-mass-shooting-at-minneapolis-punk-show

horrible.... was a house called Nudieland

so what happened apparently the next door neighbors of Nudieland are some guys in their late 30s, they see a party and show up fusion flashing guns, wouldn't pay for beer,and were hitting on underage girls. they were asked to leave and came back just shooting randomly into a crowd.

fuck this country

Fuck this country.

no indication this is anything other than a false alarm yet afaik but ... yeah

Still ongoing. 😢 https://t.co/SlL7mht7r9

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) August 28, 2023

First day of school. Five year old children spent their first day of kindergarten “sheltering in place” —what a twisted phrase— because of a gunman on the loose, and they still can’t go home.

They likely wouldn’t have heard from their parents either.

First day of kindergarten. https://t.co/eXEBKmYzlV

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) August 28, 2023

fuck this country and it's absolute refusal to deal with guns in any meaningful way

FUCK this country

we didn't even mention the Jacksonville shooting on Saturday.

^^I was just thinking that

Otherwise, well, folks, I’m really out of words

hard to tell if anybody was shot yet. Governor Cooper called it a shooting, but federal law enforcement says it has no information on anybody being shot, and local hospitals haven't received anybody.

hoping that's true and they prevented a massive disaster, but the worst news often takes a while to materialize.

this is a really fucked new normal.

xpost the Jacksonville shooting was unbelievably terrifying

xxxposts that is

the shooter here (I'm near unc) evidently attended wuhan university in 2015 so the dumbest people alive will be making a whole thing about this forever now. twelve million people live in wuhan.

I should mention Cooks Corner - my dad took me for hamburgers there in the early 70s and it was just our local biker burger place. Hesitant to call it a “biker bar” even though it’s popular with bikers.

My sister mentioned that she now lives off of a street that has had two mass shootings now (Cooks Corner and the Laguna Woods church shooting)

Professor killed, according to friend who is a former UNC art prof.

My sister and my mom were both within a mile of this event at some portion of today :(

What makes me saddest for some reason is always the random news article quotes from international students who are like, "You see it on the news all the time happening in America, but I thought this place was different." You just know their families are worried sick whenever something like this happens :(

the shooter here (I'm near unc) evidently attended wuhan university in 2015 so the dumbest people alive will be making a whole thing about this forever now. twelve million people live in wuhan.

The bluechecks have discovered the NSF pic.twitter.com/apNcqAVxSi

— human bidenome project coordinator (@Forever_Wario) August 29, 2023

no, actually you mustn't

Timothy McVeigh reportedly received school lunches, as well as clean water and electricity, from local governments where he lived

So did Charles Manson

Wake UP, sheeple!

going viral, with good reason

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4yLMPXXsAAbbH4.jpg:large

2 dead and several injured at the shopping center down the road where my ex used to work and where we'd take our son to run around and play when he was little.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/31/austin-texas-shooting-arboretum-mall-victims/70732766007/

One or maybe two shootings in Lewiston, Maine just occurred.

Few details but just breaking now (via citizen, so grain of salt etc)

https://www.wmtw.com/amp/article/active-shooter-lewiston-maine-2-scenes-shelter/45646010