Red Mosquito

simple schoolboy wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Double plus good newspeak

It certainly wasn't a typical school shooting where the objective is the highest possible body count.

Those are the rarest, but most sensationalized form. It's usually small groups fighting and a group member gets a gun and fires at the opposing group on school grounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... ted_States


This one in particular is probably going through message shaping due to other events across the country.

Bi_3 wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Double plus good newspeak

It certainly wasn't a typical school shooting where the objective is the highest possible body count.

Those are the rarest, but most sensationalized form. It's usually small groups fighting and a group member gets a gun and fires at the opposing group on school grounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... ted_States


This one in particular is probably going through message shaping due to other events across the country.

Small groups fighting sounds like a euphemism for something.

Somebody said something to the effect that there are two types of mass shootings (per whatever terrible definition you want, 4, 5 victims, whatever).

1) Mass shootings with relatively few dead and more injured where the shooter hopes to get away.

2) Mass shootings with the shooter confirming the kill and relatively few injured making it. Shooter ends up dead or captured.

These probably should be labeled differently. Scenario one happens all the time. Scenario two is something like "high profile mass shooting with tons of nation press coverage and copycats down the line".

simple schoolboy wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Double plus good newspeak

It certainly wasn't a typical school shooting where the objective is the highest possible body count.

Those are the rarest, but most sensationalized form. It's usually small groups fighting and a group member gets a gun and fires at the opposing group on school grounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... ted_States


This one in particular is probably going through message shaping due to other events across the country.

Small groups fighting sounds like a euphemism for something.

Somebody said something to the effect that there are two types of mass shootings (per whatever terrible definition you want, 4, 5 victims, whatever).

1) Mass shootings with relatively few dead and more injured where the shooter hopes to get away.

2) Mass shootings with the shooter confirming the kill and relatively few injured making it. Shooter ends up dead or captured.

These probably should be labeled differently. Scenario one happens all the time. Scenario two is something like "high profile mass shooting with tons of nation press coverage and copycats down the line".

I just based that on the details in the link above, no offense meant.

And another.

I don’t want to live In America anymore

Strat wrote:And another.

I don’t want to live In America anymore

It just doesn’t make any sense. When is Mars opening again?

24 instances in April 2021

At least the shooter is no more.

At least 8 people killed in shooting at Indianapolis FedEx facility; suspect also dead

Stickman wrote:At least the shooter is no more.

At least 8 people killed in shooting at Indianapolis FedEx facility; suspect also dead

Seems pretty common.
My town the other day a few hundred feet from the apartment I lived in.

Almost another?

https://nypost.com/2021/04/16/man-with- ... y-station/

oasisfan35 wrote:

Stickman wrote:At least the shooter is no more.

At least 8 people killed in shooting at Indianapolis FedEx facility; suspect also dead

Seems pretty common.
My town the other day a few hundred feet from the apartment I lived in.

My youngest brother lives very close, says there were roads near him blocked off. Wild story for a place like Branford!

It's increasingly obvious, again, that collectively as a nation we don't care when these things happen.

Biff Pocoroba wrote:It's increasingly obvious, again, that collectively as a nation we don't care when these things happen.

thoughts and prayers!

I guess it’s gotten to the point where there are two groups of people, those who want to do something to stop this from happening again, and those who say “sure as long as you don’t take my guns”. Seems as though owning guns is a more important right than life right now.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I guess it’s gotten to the point where there are two groups of people, those who want to do something to stop this from happening again, and those who say “sure as long as you don’t take my guns”. Seems as though owning guns is a more important right than life right now.

I wouldn’t say “right now” is a necessary qualifier. Lots of people have felt that way their entire lives and always will.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I guess it’s gotten to the point where there are two groups of people, those who want to do something to stop this from happening again, and those who say “sure as long as you don’t take my guns”. Seems as though owning guns is a more important right than life right now.

"Taking away guns" is logistically impossible. It's baked in at this point.

So are the mass shootings it seems. Just something we have to live with i guess?

We have to make sacrifices for our rights and freedoms, right? Not many wars going on so i guess the sacrifice is innocent lives so we can have guns.

I blame the internet.

verb_to_trust wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I guess it’s gotten to the point where there are two groups of people, those who want to do something to stop this from happening again, and those who say “sure as long as you don’t take my guns”. Seems as though owning guns is a more important right than life right now.

"Taking away guns" is logistically impossible. It's baked in at this point.

It’s been done before.

spike wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I guess it’s gotten to the point where there are two groups of people, those who want to do something to stop this from happening again, and those who say “sure as long as you don’t take my guns”. Seems as though owning guns is a more important right than life right now.

"Taking away guns" is logistically impossible. It's baked in at this point.

It’s been done before.

Not here. You are truly delusional if you think it's possible in America.