They’ve long held the national Number One spot for murders, but when murders happen, they mobilize a whole nothing to see here protocol. Even the NYT plays along, insisting on how isolated and rare a recent massacre at a restaurant was, its neighborhood “hushed” with shock.
Toward the end of the piece the writer does allow as how the restaurant “is within walking distance of the city’s French Quarter … — the site of an attack that killed 14 people a year ago,” but most of the article maunders on about the restaurant’s history – strikingly irrelevant to a mass shooting. Nowhere does the writer note that this sort of carnage is something of a banality in gun-loving LA.
Some witnesses said he said nothing. There are some that say he made a barking noise.
How easy, in the USA, for an absolute lunatic to get a gun and kill Brown U. students and an MIT professor.
The motive is also easy: Loser Kills Winner. Graduated from the same school in Portugal as a man who went on to lead a lab at MIT, while this guy went nowhere. Ditto for the Brown students – he dropped out of Brown; they were succeeding there. All had to die.
[The economics instructor] said he hid behind a desk with about 20 … students, and that one was shot in the leg.
About 20 other students ran out of the room’s side doors, he said. The students who were sitting in the middle row had a harder time escaping the gunfire. “The students in the middle were impacted the most,” he said. “Many of them were lying there and they were not moving. I have no idea how many.”
No one knows much of anything yet, but there’s apparently been an active shooter on campus for some time, and there may be multiple victims.
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Two dead, nine critical. So far.
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‘Gov. Dan McKee of Rhode Island described the shooting as “an unthinkable nightmare”…’ How tone deaf can you be. Not only thinkable — same old same old.
Yes, same old, same old.
Wow! Fatal shooting (a second student was injured) on a university campus in Frankfort KY! Just wow! Second such incident on that campus in four months! “Kentucky’s gun laws are among the worst in the country, and the state has one of the higher rates of gun violence in the nation,” but wow Guv says it’s an isolated incident! SOOOOOOO shocking! In Kentucky of all places. School is so shocked they’ve cancelled classes for the rest of the semester cuz man things like that just don’t happen around here.
Gun Recovered Friday during Northwood High Lockdown, No Threat to School Community, Police Say
At a high school minutes away from UD‘s house, two students get in a fight and one pulls out a gun. But it’s certainly no threat to the school community that this little fucker plus plenty of others carry weapons on campus. Relax!
Friday was the second time this school year that Northwood High has been placed on lockdown. In September, administrators ordered a lockdown and secure status after reports of a weapon on campus. During that incident, a gun magazine, BB gun and a live 9 mm round were recovered from students.
No metal detectors? Why not? And why nothing about expulsion of arms-bearing assholes? Waiting for them to kill someone before you ask them to leave?
Sing it!
Into us is thrust a gun
Glock of squire dipsomal
See the carolers run-run-run
As they sing of Mary's son
As they sing of Mary's son
… sounds like the first line of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song:
When shooting rats with a pellet gun
Watch out for Temple Ben Zion.
And also something else the matter:
Windows hit by bullets shatter.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
Come gather, childen, pack the heat,
In winter’s cold and snow and sleet.
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree,
How lovely are your branches!
Good ol’ DC. Neither kid was the shooter, but they were both carrying firearms without a license. A little peek into life here.
On NY’s Upper East Side, a twenty-year old, probably suffering the onset of schizophrenia, gets hold of a gun and staggers about here and there, pointing it at random people.
There are many ways to freak out, but in the US – even in states with some gun-control – it’s just so easy to scare the shit out of the world as you go down.
He eventually fired the gun at the police, which ended the incident and his life.