The 'Mass-Shooting In The US' thread

[rjs246]

Aren't these types of things always white dudes? Seriously, other than drug/gang mass killings, isn't this random public killing spree thing a uniquely white male thing?

[Beermonkey]

They're reporting that he was a drifter with some drifter-ish criminal record. He wanted out and decided to make a scene, like an icehole.

I imagine there was a collective angry yell this morning when the shooter was identified as a white guy and not some brownish person.

[rjs246]

Oh yeah?

[Beermonkey]

It also takes a collective acknowledgement that sometimes people need help from the society that they live in. Americans don't like to think about people needing help. They like to talk about pulling up bootstraps and back to back world war championships. No money for the suffering. All the money for CEOs and war mongers.

I spent 3 innings at a Phillies game arguing about Obamacare with my mouth-breathing, far-right republican friend. After going back and forth, he just finally just yelled "farg the poor. farg the poor. i farging hate the poor". I think that pretty much sums up that whole side of the party's attitude about the poor, minorities and those with mental health issues.

[ice grillin you]

They're reporting that he was a drifter with some drifter-ish criminal record. He wanted out and decided to make a scene, like an icehole.

I imagine there was a collective angry yell this morning when the shooter was identified as a white guy and not some brownish person.

i laughed last week when a certain large segment of the population wanted to hang the chattanooga shooter because it was clearly isis influenced domestic terrorism two weeks after the same people wanted let the charleston shooting marinate for a while and for like three days it was "toon soon" to label it a hate crime

[Beermonkey]

They're reporting that he was a drifter with some drifter-ish criminal record. He wanted out and decided to make a scene, like an icehole.

I imagine there was a collective angry yell this morning when the shooter was identified as a white guy and not some brownish person.

i laughed last week when a certain large segment of the population wanted to hang the chattanooga shooter because it was clearly isis influenced domestic terrorism two weeks after the same people wanted let the charleston shooting marinate for a while and for like three days it was "toon soon" to label it a hate crime

I bet there were thousand of angry blog posts started about the dangers of blacks/muslims with guns, only to be filed away for the future. Those same people are now furiously typing away opinion pieces on how taking guns from the mentally ill is a slippery slope to Obama's jack-booted thugs raiding our homes.

[Rome]

http://news.yahoo.com/theater-gunman-built-reputation-angry-provocateur-064509522.html#

typically diseased right-wing paranoid nut-bag.  320 million americans and there's probably a good 10% or more who are just like this worthless piece of shtein.  too bad they can't just take themselves out and leave the rest of us in peace.

[ice grillin you]

"As many times as I had him on it was obvious he had a screw loose," Floyd said.

that ahole should be in jail with him...i obviously get and understand the first ammendment but speech matters...people get their shtein from fox to rush on down to the lokel yokel on the radio or the internet....it all matters

so this farg face knew the guy was spewing hatred and lies and "had a screw loose" yet continued to put him on the air dozens of times

[Beermonkey]

Hey, crazy is as crazy does. What are we supposed to do here? Ban gun sales to Muslims is fine but background checks for criminals or those with severe mental illness is crossing the line. All is fine here, move along.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/aurora-movie-theater-shooter-sentenced-life-prison-after-jury-cant-n406276

[MDS]

its thursday in america, that means

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/10/active_shooting_reported_at_um.html

[PhillyPhreak54]

Ho hum just another day in the good ol USA

The shooter apparently made victims stand up and state their religion before shooting

If it was a Muslim shooter wait for the assault on Obama...somehow this'll be his fault

[smeags]

Ho hum just another day in the good ol USA

The shooter apparently made victims stand up and state their religion before shooting

If it was a Muslim shooter wait for the assault on Obama...somehow this'll be his fault

of course it is, he didn't take der gunz

[PhillyPhreak54]

Barry went off in his PC and said we have made a political decision to allow this to happen

GOP and NRA response should be interesting

[PhillyPhreak54]

Glad I watched the video of his entire PC. His statement was very solid.

Not glad I read Twitter replies and article comments

"He chooses to politicize this"
"Bodies aren't even cold yet and this president is making it political"

We have a country full of dumb farging idiots

[PhillyPhreak54]

So this dude apparently hated organized religion and was a conservative republican?