Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/23/multiple-deaths-after-shooting-at-walmart-in-chesapeake-virginia

JFC (although he seems high as fuck on something)

The Colorado shooter’s dad on finding out his son murdered people: “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting... And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew… I am a conservative Republican.” (@CBS8) pic.twitter.com/7Zw4vpLtjE

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) November 23, 2022

He was also an actor in a bunch of straight pornography films and has meth charges associated with him. Wild and sad ride

porn? this guy?

This is the booking photograph of the Shooting at Club Q suspect. pic.twitter.com/uA7lvU6S27

— Colorado Springs Police Department (@CSPDPIO) November 23, 2022

the shooter's father is the porn actor

nobody looks great when they've just had their head stomped

yeah Stan M, it was the shooter’s fascist dad who was the tweaker porn actor, not the shooter

i cannot believe i am writing such sentences tbh

thank you for recognizing him

Hard to know what’s going on with that Monterey Park shooting, details are scarce and the shooter fled, but it’s just awful.

Apparently the shooter turned up at another dancehall earlier on, and people spotted his gun and grabbed/stopped him so he fled that venue.

The articles say “dance studio” which I thought was a place where you learned dancing. Is “dance studio” Californian for nightclub or dance hall?

I heard they taught traditional Chinese and ballroom dances, so the former.

I think that particular place is a regular type (albeit somewhat larger) dance studio space which was being used for this particular new year celebration party.

Ah.

Shooter (72 yr old Asian man) killed himself in Torrance, per reports.

it's surprising to me that the suspect is in his seventies.

FWIW, the Laguna Woods shooter was 68. Many of the dance studios/dance halls in the San Gabriel Valley have evening events for folks in their 50s and older and the shooter was apparently a former instructor.

Stephen Paddock was 64. It’s not all disgruntled college age incels out there.

yeah. in some ways it makes it more disturbing. these guys had a lifetime to accumulate wisdom and experience but are still in thrall to their narcissistic grievances.

school shooting in des moines. 2 students dead, 1 staff in hospital :(

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Sometimes I think it's the "nothing to lose, nothing to look forward to" factor that allows older folks to do this.

yeah, i suppose if you live for yourself and yourself alone, feeling no charity or solidarity toward your fellow human beings, that logic would make sense. i guess that, specifically, is what fucks me up about it.

Ok Jesus Christ

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/deadly-shootings-half-moon-bay/3137085/?amp=1

Seven people were shot and killed at two separate scenes in Half Moon Bay Monday afternoon, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.

Four victims were found dead at about 2:22 p.m. along the 12700 block of Cabrillo Highway, the sheriff's office said. Another victim was transported to Stanford Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

Shortly after that discovery, three more victims were found dead at a separate scene in the area, according to the sheriff's office.

The suspect, 67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident Zhao Chunli, was taken into custody at about 4:40 p.m. after he was found in his vehicle in the parking lot of the Half Moon Bay substation, the sheriff's office said. He was taken into custody without incident and a weapon was found in his car.

another senior citizen?

yeah certainly weird to have two older asian guys shooting anyone in CA. I did read that this is a demographic that may have started arming themselves in the past few years at a higher rate due to anti-AAPI sentiment; whenever you start having more guns around, shit like this starts happening. Video of the arrest of this guy is pretty intense.

anyway more details on the Monterey Park shooter coming out (isolated, long time angry weirdo) and the Half Moon bay shooting turning out to be some kind of workplace dispute, I think the age and demographics being shared by these shooters is simply a coincidence.

As AKM points out, the gun ownership may have a correlation - but yeah, other than that they don't seem to have much connection on the face of it.

Oh wait.. as YOU pointed out!

Bigger picture, the prospect of septuagenarian mass shooters seems unsurprising given how many angry old guys with guns there are out there.

wanna feel old dylan klebold would be 42 today

This is not a realm in which I want more diversity and inclusion

certainly not. but in the way we now have people who have survived multiple mass shootings we now have an adult population who has lived their entire lives with this bullshit

The mass shooting is such a well established trope at this point. It’s in the air for people to turn to when they are feeling alienated and aggrieved.

much of american culture tells people the answer to their problems is to arm themselves, sadly

Including people on this message board!

Beep’s high school just switched to clear backpacks for everyone because they were finding so many guns in random searches. A few weeks ago two students (one in her grade) were arrested for capital murder. Another about a week ago was trying to shoot someone outside the school. Last year the school was in lockdown because two guys were firing guns out in the street and those bullets were hitting the school with one even flying through a window into a populated classroom. In my sons middle school they find mostly knives but there have been a few guns. I’ll never get used to this shit.

Holy shit, what a nightmare:(

can you share where that is? i'm sorry to hear of it, i have difficulty imagining the resulting stress on everyone.

Little Rock

wow. stay safe and be well. i am not used to midwestern or southern mores and i am currently visiting family in missouri. it's kind of shocking to me really. not in a good way.

“Welcome to Missouri, where our mores are less!”

I kind of assumed this was happening to a degree in every high in the US (except the private ones) so now I’m kind of extra worried.
But yeah I remember my mum visiting and we had just seen ‘Black Swan’. Walking to the car a man stepped out of his strip mall office casually holding a rifle of some kind. I thought my poor mum was going to buckle at the knees. Definitely not something she sees in her day to day.

one thing i hate about it is that it takes every ounce of self-restraint to avoid pointing at them or saying "look at that dipshit with a gun, what a fucking asshole" or eyerolling or any other number of reactions. because the last thing you want to do is make a man with an assault rifle feel like he's under assault. so instead, most of the time, they float through these situations with everyone just going about their daily business. it's like a bad dream where something is way off but everything else seems to stay the same.

Exactly! Oh we were super polite while thinking ‘You tiny dick asshole piece of shit’

Meanwhile they’re standing there at the ATM whatever, thinking “the citizens are calm today, in my protection. But I am constantly scanning the surroundings as a potential war zone and am ready for any tactical threat”

fucking weirdos!

And you know they think in military jargon - ‘I’m fully prepared to neutralize the enemy. ‘

Nah you’re ready you’re itching to kill someone or something. Let’s get it straight.

this is definitely not happening in nyc schools

or at least not anywhere near the level you're describing

braggin 2023