Mass Shootings/Gun Control Reform Thread

[ZoWie]

I'm reserving judgment until more facts come out, but the timing is "interesting."

Sources indicate that the shooter was a teacher from the not-so-beautiful LA suburb called Torrance. He's not dead, so maybe he'll talk. So far the press I can see without subscribing for the rest of my life doesn't have much to say about him. It's Sunday, so LA nooz is either not on today or more interested in celebrity parties in Beverly Hills.

The NYT article, of course, is paywalled. I wonder... if the president had been assassinated, would you still have to pay for it?

BBC has stuff. It'll plant 15 trackers on your computer, or at least that was my count last time I deleted them. But it's free (at least here, where someone else's taxes pay for it). It also tells the story without the hysterical blood and thunder hype. It's from a different kind of oligarchy.

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At least 9 injured in mass shooting near Indiana University after 'Little 500' collegiate bike race

The Bloomington Police Department (BPD) responded to reports of gunfire just before 12:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, April 26, at a celebration following the “Little 500” collegiate bicycle race, according to Fox News, The Herald-Times and WTHR.

Upon arrival, officers found “multiple wounded individuals,” per WTHR. Nine people were subsequently transported to local hospitals, including five by ambulance.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/at ... ocialshare

[ZoWie]

So far most of the discussion coming out of the fracas at the WHCD concerns statements made by trump and his people about how this is why taxpayers must pay for a more secure ballroom at the White House. It sure didn't take long for this very serious incident to degenerate into more of the same old Washington same old, with everyone chanting the mantra of it all being the Democrats' fault that our money hasn't yet been spent on The Donald's gold-plated vanity project.

Except for being twice the age of most mass shooters, the guy who got charged with the attack left the usual Internet trail of weird and vaguely demented rants about authority in general. He's a computer science teacher with an advanced degree in the subject. He's written a couple of games that I've never heard of. He came across the whole US by train, presumably with his arsenal. One can see why he didn't want to go through the airport. He'd then booked a room in the same huge DC hotel where the dinner was happening. Not exactly a covert operation. I'm also struck by how much this large structure looks like the Watergate. Brrrrrrrrrr.

Judging from the general layout of the place, the would-be shooter ran down a long narrow corridor that was being guarded, sort of, by Secret Service. He blew through the magnetometer that was apparently turned off anyway, and by the time the many agents got their weapons out and pointed in his direction, he'd already been tackled before reaching a long stair descent down to the hotel's ballroom. This facility is not exactly minimum security itself, being essentially underground and reached by long narrow stairways. It's practically an underground bunker. In fact, it would survive a nuclear hit a lot better than The Donald's White House erection ever will.

They must have discharged their weapons, because many shots were heard in the ballroom. The rest, including the interrupted weird show by the famous mind reader, has been on the Nooz. People with military grade automatic rifles pop out of the woodwork and many guests in rented formal apparel duck for cover.

Most of what I've seen online about this particular shitshow has long since degenerated into the usual partisan ranting.

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Suspicious package at New York airport leads to seizure of 39 guns from CT home

Police seized more than three dozen firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition from a home in Branford after an investigation that began when a package containing a firearm suppressor was intercepted at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The package was intercepted on April 21 and was addressed to 46-year-old Alexander Oranzo of Branford, according to the Branford Police Department.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www. ... m-ct-home/

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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson rushed away when gunshots heard after news conference

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was escorted away from the end of a news conference Tuesday evening after gunfire was heard nearby, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) confirmed.

Wilson was announcing her proposal for Seattle Public Schools to offer free meals to all students at the Yesler Community Center. Multiple adults and children were in attendance at the press conference.

https://mynorthwest.com/crime-blotter/k ... -7/4233003

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A person of interest is in custody after 2 U.S. Bank employees were killed in a Kentucky robbery

BEREA, Ky. (AP) — A person of interest has been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shootings of two bank employees during a robbery, a Kentucky state trooper said Friday.

The person is “believed to be involved” in the bank robbery in Berea on Thursday, Trooper Justin Kearney posted online.

https://apnews.com/article/berea-kentuc ... dium=share

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Bato dela Rosa now under immigration lookout order

MANILA, Philippines – Senator Bato dela Rosa has been placed under the Bureau of Immigration’s lookout order, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday, May 15.

An immigration lookout bulletin order (ILBO) is used to monitor a person’s movements. It, however, cannot prevent people from leaving the country.

https://www.rappler.com/philippines/bat ... y-15-2026/

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What we know about the San Diego shooting victims, suspects, possible motive and more

Two teenage gunmen are believed to have killed three people at a San Diego mosque Monday, authorities said.

Investigators are working to determine a motive of the attackers, who are believed to have later died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, but San Diego’s police chief said the violence was being investigated as a possible hate crime.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sa ... rcna345805

[ZoWie]

The war comes home.

Earlier this year, multiple Republican politicians posted anti-Muslim messages to their social media accounts after the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran.

(same link)

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White House shooting: Gun-wielding suspect killed by Secret Service

Two people were wounded, including a suspect, in a shooting near the White House Saturday evening. The incident began when reporters heard what sounded like possible gunfire near the North Lawn, prompting the U.S. Secret Service to move members of the media indoors.

Approximately 20 shots were heard just after 6 p.m. Eastern Time, appearing to originate from the side of the White House complex that contains the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, multiple local and national reporters who were at the White House at the time said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/wh ... ngNewsSerp

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California high school shooting: Teen killed and 3 injured - including 11-year-old - at graduation ceremony

One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting following a high school graduation ceremony in northern California, police have said.

Gunfire erupted in the parking lot of Fairfield High School - one of the three high schools in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District - at around 7.15pm on Wednesday evening. The school had been hosting a graduation ceremony for Sem Yeto High School, local authorities said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ca ... ocialshare

[ZoWie]

Several panics have broken out in L.A. after many shots rang out and military helicopters flew low over residential neighborhoods. Seems that the military decided to hold an urban warfare exercise in the most crowded residential parts of the city, and not bother to tell anyone about it. When people asked what the hell were they thinking, the answer was, "That's classified information." War means never having to say you're sorry.

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Police search for suspects after at least 12 people shot near a festival in Toledo, Ohio, authorities say

Police are searching for suspects after at least 12 people were shot, two critically, near a festival in the historic district of Toledo, Ohio, that is home to one of the largest neighborhoods of Victorian houses in the country, authorities said Saturday.

There appear to have been two shooters who were “probably shooting at each other,” and neither is in custody, Toledo Police Deputy Chief Joe Heffernan told reporters at a Saturday night news conference.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/us/old-w ... o-shooting

[ZoWie]

Yes, that shooting was on the Nooz for about three minutes yesterday afternoon (LA time). They had no facts, and since it was the weekend there was no one around to run out and get them any. They just blabbed the usual hyped-up bang-bang-bang mass-panic, undisclosed-number-of-ambulances-called type headlines, and now back to our scheduled programming of weekend sludge, podcasters dumping on trump, and commercials for drugs that take 20 of the 30 seconds to list the side effects.

Right now, a day later, is the first time I've seen a word about what who the shooters were, and what they were actually up to.

Now that it's Sunday, there are even fewer people at the studio, and the ones that are there seem awfully worked up about the World Cup.

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Suspect killed after active shooting in Midland, Texas; multiple victims, at least 1 dead: Officials

MIDLAND, Texas -- At least 11 victims were reported in an active shooter situation in Midland, Texas, on Friday morning, with at least one victim dead, according to Midland Mayor Lori Blong.

The suspected shooter is also dead following a standoff with police, Midland city officials said.

https://abc7ny.com/post/active-shooter- ... /19282326/

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Shooting in South Carolina mall leaves multiple people injured as cops swarm scene

Multiple people have been injured during a shooting at a South Carolina shopping center on Saturday.

Police swarmed the Hayward Mall in Greenville around 1pm on Saturday after reports of an active shooter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/sh ... b61c&ei=16

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At least 12 shot after SUV pulls up and opens fire on a crowd, Chicago police say

CHICAGO (AP) — At least 12 people in a crowd on a Chicago street suffered gunshot wounds after an SUV pulled up and two people inside started shooting, police said.

The SUV drove away from the South Side neighborhood, leaving two people, both male, in critical condition following the shooting late Friday, police said in a news release. One suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh.

https://apnews.com/article/chicago-shoo ... dium=share

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Manifesto laden with incel ideology linked to Côte-des-Neiges shootings

Seth Hatfield, the man responsible for a fatal shootout in Côte-des-Neiges on Monday, appeared to have written a manifesto filled with rhetoric associated with the “involuntary celibacy” — or “incel” — movement and advocating for the use of terror.

The 104-page document points to feminism, liberalism and capitalism as causes for what the author says is male suffering, outlining steps to create a “new order” that would curtail the economic and sexual freedoms of women.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local- ... -shooting/

[ZoWie]

At least he gets it for 1/3 of the problem. Capitalism doesn't work, though admittedly neither do any of the alternatives that have been tried with disastrous results by various revolutionaries. There's been a lot of thought put into making capitalism work for everybody, but the people who it works for now won't have any of that.

We'll just keep having this kind of political violence until underlying struggles are dealt with.

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Man fatally shot in Walmart parking lot following dispute over parking space: Authorities

A man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Walmart in Florida following a dispute over a parking space, according to authorities.

The woman who pulled the trigger is claiming self-defense, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the shooting.

https://abcnews.com/US/man-fatally-shot ... =134422575

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2 men killed in ‘exchange of gunfire’ at Toronto street festival

A “complex” investigation is underway into a shooting at a popular Latin street festival in Toronto that left two men dead and at least four others seriously injured on Saturday night.

Thousands of people, including families, children and seniors, were enjoying the first night of this year’s Salsa on St. Clair when gunshots rang out shortly after 8 p.m.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/ ... -festival/

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Appeals court says NJ’s AR-15, high-capacity magazine bans violate Second Amendment

A federal appeals court invalidated New Jersey’s ban on “assault” firearms and high-capacity magazines in a 10-5 vote on Friday, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment.

The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hands gun rights advocates one of their biggest legal victories yet on the issue as the Supreme Court gears up to provide a nationwide resolution next term in a separate case.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-ba ... azine-ban/

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8 people, including 6 children, found dead in Michigan residence on fire, some with gunshot wounds

Eight people, including six children, were found dead inside a Michigan residence on Friday, some with gunshot wounds, after emergency crews responded to a house fire, authorities said.

Ottawa County Sheriff's Office Capt. Jake Sparks called the scene "complicated" and "complex" amid the ongoing investigation into the deaths.

https://abcnews.com/US/8-people-includi ... =135068868

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2 killed, 5 wounded in shooting near Seattle's Space Needle, authorities say

Two people were killed and five others wounded in a shooting at a food festival near Seattle's Space Needle on Sunday evening, the Seattle Fire Department said. A suspect was in custody, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said.

According to the fire department, two people were pronounced dead at the scene after life-saving efforts failed. The department said a 56-year-old woman was taken to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition. Three other victims were brought there as well, including a two-year-old boy, all in stable condition. A fifth injured victim who had minor injuries chose not to go to the hospital.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2-kil ... ngNewsSerp

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'Shooting at random:' Witness saw Twin Falls In-N-Out shooter firing into traffic and drive-thru window

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — A witness of the In-N-Out shooting in Twin Falls said he saw a young worker shot in the chest, and the shooter firing "aimlessly."

Four people are dead, including the shooter, and five more were injured.

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime ... d0a098c8d9