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Yawn. Another active shooter at a university.

American universities should have drills on what to do when there isn’t an active shooter on campus.

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Says here they’ve arrested someone. Four people are being treated in hospitals.

Let’s see if we can’t draw a picture of the shooter. Male. Very young, like 19. Psychotic, has been undergoing treatment for years. Name either excruciatingly Mayflower (Randolph Higginbottom The Fourth) or way ethnic (Alfredo Ibn Gandhi).

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You remember, right? The last shooting at FSU?

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[A] student who lived through the Parkland shooting entered [a room where students were sheltering]. “He was like, ‘Man, I never thought this would happen again.'”

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“At least one dead.”

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Hoping against hope this is inaccurate: Five dead, four injured. Two shooters, one of them dead.

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Thinking of that gun billboard on the streets of Oakland. Suggested slogan: USE IT TO KILL EVERYONE BECAUSE YOU HATE THE WORLD.

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 “[N]ormal college dude” … a white man with light hair, wearing an orange t-shirt and khaki shorts.

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Apparently the five dead/two shooters report is incorrect.

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I was off by one year: The tyke was just 20. I was right about the funny name: Phoenix Ikner. His parents – they’re in law enforcement and have mucho guns at home, very convenient for their troubled son – gave him [I’ve corrected this; see a later post on Ikner] that wondrous, grandiloquent first name, regarding their babe I guess as a great beautiful mythic bird reborn from its own ashes. They probably didn’t anticipate that he’d reduce everyone around him to ashes. Maybe they were blinded by that name; maybe, less blinded, they would have made an effort to keep him away from guns. They may face prosecution.

Margaret Soltan, April 17, 2025 11:56AM
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