MrSquished
Lifer
- Jan 14, 2013
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yet another mass shooting, and we still have people on the fence about common sense gun laws in states like Illinois.
America will blink, and tens of millions of Republican voters will send thoughts and prayers and then continue to enable this to continually happen over and over and over again.
These are shitty people.
America will blink, and tens of millions of Republican voters will send thoughts and prayers and then continue to enable this to continually happen over and over and over again.
These are shitty people.
woolfe9998
Lifer
- Apr 8, 2013
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First clue as to his motive might be this:
Maybe he thought his ex-wife would be there. Or maybe he thought that friends she had there encouraged her to do something that angered him. Maybe he went to the other dance studio after she wasn't there at the first one. Either way, it's got to have something to do with his ex-wife.
Maybe he thought his ex-wife would be there. Or maybe he thought that friends she had there encouraged her to do something that angered him. Maybe he went to the other dance studio after she wasn't there at the first one. Either way, it's got to have something to do with his ex-wife.
Really long standing grudge. They divorced over a decade ago.
purbeast0
No Lifer
- Sep 13, 2001
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Just another Sunday in America.
www.cnn.com
Baton Rouge nightclub shooting injures 12 | CNN
Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are searching for at least one suspect involved in a nightclub shooting that left a dozen people injured, according to L'Jean McKneely, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesperson.
www.cnn.com
- Jan 2, 2001
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Just another Sunday in America.
Baton Rouge nightclub shooting injures 12 | CNN
Police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are searching for at least one suspect involved in a nightclub shooting that left a dozen people injured, according to L'Jean McKneely, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesperson.
Not to mention the 3 children and 5 adults shot (2 are critical) in house in Shreveport. "...a dark-colored SUV pulled up in front of the home and multiple people got out and fired into the home. Preliminary information is that this is related to an ongoing dispute between two groups of individuals. "
It never ends.
Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
- Feb 14, 2004
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Just updated to 36. We are living in crazy times:
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
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Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
- 37,502
- 8,097
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Will only get worse until legislation happens to limit access to murder weapons.
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
- 37,502
- 8,097
- 136
There's apparently video of the ~90 second struggle between the perp and the guy who disarmed him at the first club (preventing a massacre there). I wonder if that video's accessible. I'd like to see that.
From the New York Times:
“That moment, it was primal instinct,” he said. “Something happened there. I don’t know what came over me.”
They fought over control of the gun for about a minute and a half, and it felt like they were similarly matched in strength, Mr. Tsay said. At one point, the gunman looked down at the weapon and took one hand off it, as if to manipulate the gun to begin shooting. Mr. Tsay said he seized the moment and pried the pistol away from the man.
From the New York Times:
“That moment, it was primal instinct,” he said. “Something happened there. I don’t know what came over me.”
They fought over control of the gun for about a minute and a half, and it felt like they were similarly matched in strength, Mr. Tsay said. At one point, the gunman looked down at the weapon and took one hand off it, as if to manipulate the gun to begin shooting. Mr. Tsay said he seized the moment and pried the pistol away from the man.
Fenixgoon
Lifer
- Jun 30, 2003
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so i was checking on CNN earlier and their headline usually reads something like "what we know so far about _______" whether it's the victims, the murderer, etc.
i think they need to take a page from the onion. shit, give them referral traffic.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
And instead of "what you need to know about the victims" it should be "what you need to know about the assholes who value guns more than you or your children"
name and shame every single rep and senator who refuses to pass gun legislation.
i'll fully admit i was quite pro-gun years ago. i very vociferously defended the 2A. but it's clear its current manifestation has no place in society. christ almighty these headlines get fucking old, and the number of victims have grown to mountains. it's almost a shame they are buried, because america has no way of seeing the true human toll. imagine a whole monument built on the sacrifices at the altar of freedumb. it would be horrifying, and yet the disconnection in our communities means its accepted by ~50% of the country.
i'd be surprised if it happened in a rural community, and people there said "you know, we should rethink this whole thing"
i think they need to take a page from the onion. shit, give them referral traffic.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
And instead of "what you need to know about the victims" it should be "what you need to know about the assholes who value guns more than you or your children"
name and shame every single rep and senator who refuses to pass gun legislation.
i'll fully admit i was quite pro-gun years ago. i very vociferously defended the 2A. but it's clear its current manifestation has no place in society. christ almighty these headlines get fucking old, and the number of victims have grown to mountains. it's almost a shame they are buried, because america has no way of seeing the true human toll. imagine a whole monument built on the sacrifices at the altar of freedumb. it would be horrifying, and yet the disconnection in our communities means its accepted by ~50% of the country.
i'd be surprised if it happened in a rural community, and people there said "you know, we should rethink this whole thing"
- Jan 2, 2001
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And we also have 2 students dead and one school employee in serious condition after a shooting today at a charter school in Des Moines, Iowa. They don't say how a old the students were. They do have 3 suspects in custody.
www.desmoinesregister.com
Police make arrest in Des Moines shooting that killed 2 students, injured founder Will Keeps
A police spokesman said the shooting was \
www.desmoinesregister.com
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
- 37,502
- 8,097
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Columbine High was a watershed moment. Two students working together to terrorize their high school with guns designed to kill humans in mass. They upped the ante in the mass murder go-out-with-a-bang game.
On April 20, 1999, a school shooting and attempted bombing occurred at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States.[a] The perpetrators, 12th grade students Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. Ten students were killed in the school library, where Harris and Klebold subsequently committed suicide. Twenty-one additional people were injured by gunshots, and gunfire was also exchanged with the police. Another three people were injured trying to escape. At the time, it was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, until the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#cite_note-5 The shooting has inspired dozens of copycat killings, dubbed the Columbine effect, including many deadlier shootings across the world.[c] The word "Columbine" has become a byword for school shootings.
Wikipedia
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Meghan54
Lifer
- Oct 18, 2009
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GodisanAtheist
Diamond Member
- Nov 16, 2006
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7 Dead, 1 Injured in Half Moon Bay Mass Shooting; Suspect in Custody
Seven people were killed in a mass shooting that spanned two separate scenes in Half Moon Bay Monday afternoon, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
www.nbcbayarea.com
-Mass shooting not far from where I live. Everyone is freaking out about it. Just completely in shock, this doesn't happen here attitude everywhere.
Fucking weird too, another old Asian guy blasting other Asians.
Not to get super conspiratorial, but some sort of weird CCP opp? Cultist shit? I dunno man.
Freaky.
Muse
Lifer
- Jul 11, 2001
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It's "in my neighborhood" (~20 miles from me) and 2 of the 3 major networks I checked (ABC, NBC and CBS) have had non-stop coverage of it, skipping the network evening news programming. Only CBS has its network news with Nora O. The coverage is repetitive and scanty. They keep going over the same thing, showing the arrest (which is bizarre), interviewing lots of people and nobody knows squat about the whys and wherefores. 2 different locations and it appears it's workplace related, a mushroom farm and another location a few miles away.
Eerie resemblance to the SoCal shooting Saturday in that the arrested is an older guy and appears to me to be Chinese as well.
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Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
- Feb 14, 2004
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I really like Australia's approach:
Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
In the wake of the killing in Uvalde, here’s what America can learn from Australia’s response to tragedy.
www.vox.com
Guns are fun as a hobby or for hunting or collecting, but there's no reason to own an automatic or a semi-automatic weapon, especially like you said, how it really has no place in society these days. Although handguns have the highest usage rate in mass shootings:
Guns used in mass shootings U.S. 2023 | Statista
Handguns are the most common weapons used in mass shootings in the United States. Other types of guns used in mass shootings include rifles and shotguns.
www.statista.com
It's very tricky. I know people who have guns from like the Civil War. You can 3D print guns these days. Black market guns are apparently pretty easy to come by. Full eradication seems difficult, but curbing it like Australia did seems to have helped. Easy problem to solve in theory, super tricky problem to solve in practice.
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WelshBloke
Lifer
- Jan 12, 2005
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- 136
It's difficult for me to get my head around the amount of people killed by gunfire in the USA. If we get one shooting it's major news country wide for a fortnight.
Any way to get a bit of context I tried googling some numbers of people shot so far in 2023 and this website came up....
linkage
Holy shit I thought, 300 people is a lot of people killed in a month. Then I looked at the date!
That's not ok USA!
Any way to get a bit of context I tried googling some numbers of people shot so far in 2023 and this website came up....
linkage
Holy shit I thought, 300 people is a lot of people killed in a month. Then I looked at the date!
That's not ok USA!
ivwshane
Lifer
- May 15, 2000
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- 14,905
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Well it’s because of the people here, not the readily available access to guns and inaccessible health care system!/s
HomerJS
Lifer
- Feb 6, 2002
- 36,051
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