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Mass shooting at San Diego pool party, 7 shot, one fatally.
- Thread starter theignoramus
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NoblesseOblige
Banned
As I was reading it sounded like the one fatality was the gunmen. But then learned one of the victims was killed.
Awful.
Awful.
Turbo Killer
Member
He was facing crushing debt, this is the obvious reaction to that, duh. True economic anxiety.
Chuckie
Member
My first guess (but I could be wrong) is that he was depressed and wanted to commit suicide-by-cop but he was also a filthy racist piece of shit.
So to hit two birds with one stone he started shooting people of color and got killed in the process.
the_batman
Banned
meanwhile Trump and the NRA want to make it easier for people to own guns.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Christ, they even offered the total stranger some food and drink and his response was to unload a clip on them.
Crushing debt + seeing people of color having a good time. Sounds like maximum financial anxiety to me.
Shit likes this makes me so mad. It's so fucking cowardly.
theignoramus
Member
Dont miss that section of the report that mentions he was offered refreshments by the partygoers before he shot them up. This man was a stone cold killer who repaid their hospitality with bullets.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Even my most optimistic outlook is there being a serious debate among policy makers in maybe a decade...
I don't think it's going to get better really:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/trump-nra-speech/
this is racially motivated as well it seems, double whammy
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Fucking hell...
RIP
Nothing happened after Sandy Hook. Nothing will happen now.
If people don't organize wide spread protests and keep it up for years the NRA will never be challenged.
RIP
Nothing happened after Sandy Hook. Nothing will happen now.
If people don't organize wide spread protests and keep it up for years the NRA will never be challenged.
I wouldn't be surprised if he held them directly responsible for his misfortunes.
Yeah but Sandy Hook wasn't real.
Or is it?!
WOW, I'm speechless... this world man.
DontBeThatGuy
Member
Sigh.
Hopefully everyone else makes a full recovery, physically and mentally.
Hopefully everyone else makes a full recovery, physically and mentally.
Nemesis121
Member
America's way of population control...
GrizzleBoy
Banned
Fixed that for you.
Dylan Roof 2.0.
I thought of him immediately. The coward looked for a group of people at their most vulnerable.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Fucking seriously?
Don't be surprised that the news media is in on the economic anxiety bullshit.
Subpar Scrub
Banned
I thought it was trying to give a possible reason for him developing a mental illness or something, but I haven't been following the US news skew in a while.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
this made my heart drop
i've been around that area a lot and would have never expected something like this to happen
i've been around that area a lot and would have never expected something like this to happen
SolarPowered
Member
Economic anxiety
And I think if he was black we'd already know how many unpaid parking tickets he has. The American news media has a certain way of reporting on different kinds of people.
Nemesis121
Member
Yes...
If you are Black, you are a terrorist.
White Mass shooters are considered good people gone crazy.
chromatic9
Member
The gun people will fall back to the 2nd amendment like it's be laser etched in their brain and this idea of defending against a tyrannical government. The pros outweigh the cons in their view.
Subpar Scrub
Banned
True that
BudokaiMR2
Member
This.
I was considering starting a family when that happened (now have two kids) and that was the point when I decided I was not going to return to the US to live again. Maybe if I was offered a 6 figure salary but I would still have to think about it.
I don't care if chances of actually being shot are low and you are more likely to die in a car accident or whatever bullshit my gun-loving relatives will try to spin as if we should just accept it as a reasonable risk.
It's pretty obvious that nothing is going to happen in the way of serious gun law reform for decades. I will happily eat crow if that's not the case, but until then I will happily continue living in a much safer country.
sixteen-bit
Member
this is so horrible, RIP
RPGCrazied
Member
He's white. It was just a mentally ill person that needs help. /s
paradise_circus
Member
My condolences to all victims, but is this really crazy though?
theechrisfox
Member
The right will probably view this guy as an undercover ICE agent just doing his job and thus god's work, and that he was sadly killed in the line of duty by the local police who must be descendants of immigrants.
I'm not kidding when I say this, but there could be one every single day and it would not move this country.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Wasn't there a study showing that there is at least one happening every day of the year?
RumblingRosco
Member
My guess is not until a group of conservative lawmakers are shot and killed. I don't want that to happen by any means, but that's the only scenario I envision for the gun lobby to back down.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls
Shows about an average of slightly less than one per day over the last several years, they use this as a definition:
JetBlackPanda
Member
Never. It will never change.
A person walked into a gradeschool and cut down children.
Nothing changed.
Wait
Assault rifle sales skyrocketed.
Fail State
Banned
64 percent of mass shootings in the US are committed by whites. 13 percent by blacks. In other words, proportionate to the racial makeup of the country, which is 64 percent white and 13 percent black. Latinos are way underrepresented in the statistics while asians are way overrepresented apparently. That's all from a study down last year by Mother Jones.
supermarioworldE
Banned
R.I.P. to the victim. Naturally the shooter was a financially unstable white male while the victims were hospitable people of color. Somehow we're always to blame.
Dude brought a gun to a fucking birthday pool party. What the fuck?
So he was invited to the party by a friend, was offered hospitality, and was probably left alone because people knew he was going through rough times and wanted to cheer him up.
And his response is to shoot the people who invited him. Because he's a racist piece of shit.
Dude really should've just shot himself if he was going through such rough times. Wouldn't have hurt anyone else if he did that.
So he was invited to the party by a friend, was offered hospitality, and was probably left alone because people knew he was going through rough times and wanted to cheer him up.
And his response is to shoot the people who invited him. Because he's a racist piece of shit.
Dude really should've just shot himself if he was going through such rough times. Wouldn't have hurt anyone else if he did that.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Just a sidenote to this. Mother Jones doesn't consider mass shootings like this with many injuries and only one fatality to be mass shootings. They used "indiscriminate rampages in public places resulting in four or more victims killed by the attacker" as their criteria and excluded robberies, gang violence and domestic situations.