Another day ... / mass shooting

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Again, it's not about literally covering the story.  It's the narrative that would have been played if the dynamics were different.

I'm trying to get my head around this one. You're mad that IF some hypothetical--that didn't actually happen--HAD happened, then the coverage of this non-occurring hypothetical would have hypothetically been different??

That's some Class A pre-emptive outrage.

[Billy Hoyle]

Yeah because nobody remembers the Boston marathon bombings...

They were Muslim immigrants and it was during one of the most high profile sporting events in the US.

[4everwarriors]

It's frightening to me that you are allowed to be free in society.

Wow dude, don't pop a hemorrhoid. Pretty sure you will benefit from getting a therapy dog and taking goat yoga classes, aina?

[MU82]

Sure, you talking 'bout the election where 87% of eligible Milwaukeeans cast a vote, truckloads of ballots for Biden were suddenly found at 3:30 am, and pipes burst in ATL? Everything was on the up and up and kosher, hey?

Hey doQ, here's the guy you worship:

Supporters of Donald Trump who thought they were sending a single donation were charged over and over by his campaign operation.

The charges were part of an intentional scheme to boost revenue to Trump's struggling presidential campaign. Recurring online donations were set up by default, and a fine-print disclaimer and opt-out language became increasingly hard to find.

Demands for refunds spiked, and complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. The magnitude of the money involved is staggering for politics: All told, the Trump campaign and the Republican Party raised $1.2 billion with WinRed, a for-profit donation processing service, and refunded roughly 10 percent of it.

In effect, the overcharges were an interest-free loan — eventually paid off with some of the tens of millions of dollars Trump raised after the election under the guise of pursuing his unfounded claims of election fraud.

Ever the con man. He doesn't care if you hate him or you love him. He'd scam his best friend if he thought it would help buy another gold toilet for one of his palaces.

[Galway Eagle]

They were Muslim immigrants and it was during one of the most high profile sporting events in the US.

1) two weeks to reply to a post?

2) You missed the intentional sarcasm in my post where I point out that people do in fact remember non white conservative terrorists. 

[Pakuni]

1) two weeks to reply to a post?

2) You missed the intentional sarcasm in my post where I point out that people do in fact remember non white conservative terrorists.

What's 9/11? Never heard of it. Was it in the papers?

[Billy Hoyle]

1) two weeks to reply to a post?

2) You missed the intentional sarcasm in my post where I point out that people do in fact remember non white conservative terrorists.

I hadn't even look at this thread in weeks nor did I look at the date of the original post. And no, I was not looking for sarcasm. That said, those two dudes would be considered "white" or "white adjacent" by many of those with agenda, like the killer in Boulder has been labeled.

[Pakuni]

I hadn't even look at this thread in weeks nor did I look at the date of the original post. And no, I was not looking for sarcasm. That said, those two dudes would be considered "white" or "white adjacent" by many of those with agenda, like the killer in Boulder has been labeled.

Wut?

[MU82]

those with agenda

Like those screaming that the media ignored murder by a Farrakhan follower even though the media literally covered the hell out of it? That kind of agenda?

[MU82]

8 dead in shooting at FedEx facility in Indianapolis

https://apnews.com/article/fedex-indianapolis-mass-shooting-e92ad3117c56357b3b2c71a2903e68a8

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A gunman killed eight people and wounded several others before killing himself in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport, police said, in the latest in a spate of mass shootings after a relative lull during the pandemic.

Five people were hospitalized after the Thursday night shooting, according to police. One of them had critical injuries, police spokesperson Genae Cook said. Another two people were treated and released at the scene. FedEx said people who worked for the company were among the dead.

A witness said that he was working inside the building when he heard several gunshots in rapid succession.

"I see a man come out with a rifle in his hand and he starts firing and he starts yellin' stuff that I could not understand," Levi Miller told WTHR-TV. "What I ended up doing was ducking down to make sure he did not see me because I thought he would see me and he would shoot me."

Police have not identified the shooter or said whether he was an employee at the facility.

"We're still trying to ascertain the exact reason and cause for this incident," Cook said.

It was the latest in a recent string of mass shootings across the U.S. Last month, eight people were fatally shot at massage businesses across the Atlanta area, and 10 died in gunfire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.

It was at least the third mass shooting this year in Indianapolis alone. Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot and killed in January, and a man was accused of killing three adults and a child before abducting his daughter during at argument at a home in March.

Let's not change a thing because what we're doing now is working spectacularly. Thoughts and prayers.

[MU82]

People want to know a viable step we can take to perhaps prevent some of these? How about "red flag" laws with teeth?

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Brandon Hole, the 19-year-old who the police say fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility on Thursday night, legally purchased two semiautomatic rifles he used in the attack more than six months earlier, according to the chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

In March of 2020, the police had seized a shotgun from Mr. Hole after his mother raised concerns about his mental state, records show. But, Chief Randal Taylor said, the fact that Mr. Hole was legally able to make the more recent gun purchases indicates that, despite his mother's warning and the police seizure of a gun, the authorities had not deemed him subject to Indiana's so-called "red flag" law,  which bars people who are found by a judge to present dangerous risk from possessing a firearm.

Under the state's longstanding red flag law, the authorities have two weeks after taking someone's weapon to argue before a judge that the person is unstable and should be barred from possessing a gun for a period of time. But Chief Taylor was unsure whether a hearing like that ever took place — even though the police never returned the shotgun they had seized last year.

[MU82]

Kenosha: 3 dead, 2 injured after mass shooting at bar

https://abc7chicago.com/bar-kenosha-shooting-mass/10524839/

My daughter-in-law knows the owner of the bar. He was not among the victims.

[Jockey]

Kenosha: 3 dead, 2 injured after mass shooting at bar

https://abc7chicago.com/bar-kenosha-shooting-mass/10524839/

My daughter-in-law knows the owner of the bar. He was not among the victims.

I've been in there a few times.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

And now 3 dead (so far) with an active shooter in Austin.

But hey, there is nothing that we can possibly do about these things, so lay back and enjoy it I guess.

[MU82]

Maybe folks have been doing it wrong and should go with "Prayers and thoughts" instead of vice versa.

[Jockey]

We need to find out what is so terrible about the US that makes us the only country in the world with mental illness.

[tower912]

Coming faster than transfers on 4/14.

[Pakuni]

A good guy with a gun will be along any moment now, so I've been told.

[jesmu84]

Nature is healing

[GooooMarquette]

And now 3 dead (so far) with an active shooter in Austin.

But hey, there is nothing that we can possibly do about these things, so lay back and enjoy it I guess.

I hear we need to keep pumping more guns onto the streets, so all the "good guys" will have them to prevent all the "bad guys" from killing innocent people.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

I hear we need to keep pumping more guns onto the streets, so all the "good guys" will have them to prevent all the "bad guys" from killing innocent people.

It worked so well in the wild west, the very model of a peaceful society, why wouldn't we want to repeat that?

[🏀]

[MU82]

Guy just shot up an Ashwaubenon casino. 2 victims dead, another seriously injured. Shooter also dead.

Clip I just watched on YouTube led with police spokesman saying, "Thoughts and prayers go out."

Of course.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

We can't make any new laws to stop this. Criminals will just break the laws anyway. That's just common sense.

[MU82]

We can't make any new laws to stop this. Criminals will just break the laws anyway. That's just common sense.

Totally agree. Indeed, I've emailed all of my state and national representatives and urged them to get rid of all laws because people will just find ways to break them.