Another active shooter in MD.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I have an oooooold friend who works at the paper. He's ok, thank goodness.

Keep an eye on him. The collywobbles can set in hours or days later.

[rexbeccarox]

I have an oooooold friend who works at the paper. He's ok, thank goodness.

Keep an eye on him. The collywobbles can set in hours or days later.

I don't get it...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Keep an eye on him. The collywobbles can set in hours or days later.

I don't get it...

The shakes, delayed panic reaction, total freak out. Seen it too many times. Happily the delayed reactions allowed my guys to finish their jobs before losing it.

[Rev. Rye]

All this says to me is that there are 72 million people who don't have a reason to own a gun.
Take their guns away and what would happen? Nothing.
Take their cars away and what would happen? Nothing?

Well, there are hunters (I have an uncle in Wisconsin who's one of them) and (a bit less defensible) people who use it more as a security blanket that just happens to be volatile and capable of killing people, keeping it on the off chance that a criminal who could do them harm could be deterred from doing so by the gun (preferably, they would hope that the mere sight of the gun would scare them into submission and not just go in guns a-blazing, and I say this is a bit less defensible because, well, the scenario they mention is very rare.)

Another thing to note: of those 72 million gun owners, about 7.7 million actually own half of the guns in America. I suspect they might be the ones to look out for.

Take their guns away and nothing would happen? Whenever someone in Congress proposes a law to restrict gun purchases (or even gun accessory purchases) and the NRA goes into action, doing their hardest to make sure the bill in question doesn't pass, and on the off chance that it's passed into law, they make sure that there's no money allocated to enforce it. Laws that allow for taking guns away from people exist, but they apply only to convicted felons or people law enforcement consider a threat to themselves and others (and it can only happen if judge consents to it within 24 hours of the original request). And guess what? The NRA still fights against it tooth and nail. The Republican Party may not actually have a vested interest in keeping these mass shootings going, but the NRA suits who pay our Congressmen (in some cases, more than American tax dollars) do almost certainly do, and if they don't, they do a really bad job of acting otherwise.

You can see why there's very little chance of anything actually being done to stop these massacres from happening, especially when the party in control of all branches of the government is in their pockets, right?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

People usually get attacked when they piss someone off.  So if you don't want to get attacked or shot don't piss people off.  And if you see someone piss a person off stay away from the person who pissed the person off, otherwise you might become collateral damage.  

Despite the vast number of guns in America the average person really doesn't have to be worried about getting shot as long as he doesn't go around pissing people off.

You really piss me off.

Do what will make you happy.

[LostLocke]

People usually get attacked when they piss someone off.  So if you don't want to get attacked or shot don't piss people off.

So if we don't want to get attacked by Muslim terrorists then don't mock Muhammad?
Getting "pissed off" is not justification for killing someone. If it is, then we need to have a police state here in the US, along with suspension of the rights provided by the Constitution and it's Amendments.
The responsibility is on the person to not "be a snowflake" about their feelings, just like the Trumpsters like to push. They might have actually gotten that right, only they like blame the liberals for it when in reality it's an American issue, regardless of party.
This is just victim blaming.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

People usually get attacked when they piss someone off.  So if you don't want to get attacked or shot don't piss people off.

So if we don't want to get attacked by Muslim terrorists then don't mock Muhammad?
Getting "pissed off" is not justification for killing someone. If it is, then we need to have a police state here in the US, along with suspension of the rights provided by the Constitution and it's Amendments.
The responsibility is on the person to not "be a snowflake" about their feelings, just like the Trumpsters like to push. They might have actually gotten that right, only they like blame the liberals for it when in reality it's an American issue, regardless of party.
This is just victim blaming.

There was a tv show on about road rage incidents in the Denver area.  Some people really flip out over insignificant incidents when driving and will even kill people.  If you haven't seen such incidents in person there's a ton of them on the internet = https://www.google.com/search?client=saf...8&oe=UTF-8.

Now imagine how a person will fly into a killing rage when he thinks that he has a real reason to do so.  The average person who flips out and kills someone is venting his rage against a specific person or several related people.  He's different from the serial killer and he would never kill anyone unless the specific victim really pissed him off on a particular bad day.  So be nice to everyone you meet or at least don't be a prick toward them.  

The particular killer in this incident had been simmering for years over a preceived injustice.  So one day he woke up and decided to resolve it.  The victims didn't have anything to do with him other than they worked at a place he had really grown to hate.  So he killed as many people there are he could.  We could have been his victims as well if we had been there.  But if we had ran across him elsewhere he wouldn't have bothered us at all.

[LostLocke]

So be nice to everyone you meet or at least don't be a prick toward them.

Yeah, I believe in and follow that idea. But it's due to manners and human decency, not fear for my safety.
Again, the only complete way to avoid "ragers" is the show no emotion and avoid giving your opinions or ideas or beliefs about anything. You could say you're an atheist with complete civility, calmness, and a smile on your face, and there would still be people who would want to kill you just for saying that, not because you were mean when you said it. I'll bet if i publicly said "I don't like the Beatles", no matter how nicely, somewhere out there there is a person that would kill me for saying that.

Plus, I can't imagine every single person that was shot, or shot at, at that paper pissed him off individually. I'll bet some were, or would have been, completely nice to the guy. So here, being a nice person did shit for them.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So be nice to everyone you meet or at least don't be a prick toward them.

Yeah, I believe in and follow that idea. But it's due to manners and human decency, not fear for my safety.
Again, the only complete way to avoid "ragers" is the show no emotion and avoid giving your opinions or ideas or beliefs about anything. You could say you're an atheist with complete civility, calmness, and a smile on your face, and there would still be people who would want to kill you just for saying that, not because you were mean when you said it. I'll bet if i publicly said "I don't like the Beatles", no matter how nicely, somewhere out there there is a person that would kill me for saying that.

Plus, I can't imagine every single person that was shot, or shot at, at that paper pissed him off individually. I'll bet some were, or would have been, completely nice to the guy. So here, being a nice person did shit for them.

The last restaurant that was shot up had no interaction with the shooter, right? The Vegas shooting, total strangers. In the words of the ancient sage Garfield, "Shit happens."

[Minimalist]

So it seems the shooter was just another right-wing fucktard.  No surprise.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/accused...alt-right/

The accused Annapolis mass shooter left a trail of evidence that ties him to the alt-right

The WLB will probably give him the Medal of Freedom.