Another active shooter in MD.

[*Deidre*]

This is so terrible. I heard on the news that until some gun law issues can be worked out, the type of environment we're in now, we need to learn how to deal with active shooter situations.

And teach your kids. 

When I have kids someday, I will. It’s a scary world. :/

[Brian37]

Access, the ease at which these shooters are able to obtain the firearms they use in shootings.

I thought you were talking about a database program.

Glad you find this funny, I don't. 

Having had my drunk father shoot his 38 with me in the room as a kid, I am really tired of hearing about all the firearm violence in America. Having a high school yearbook with a picture of a mass shooting in it from 1984, yea I am extremely tired of it.

[Foxaèr]

Well, that's the problem right there.

Don't drink and shoot.

[Rev. Rye]

Eh?

Really?

Holy fucking crap. We make firearms like candy and hand them out like candy. 

I am tired of "motive". It does not fucking matter to me that it is mentally ill, workplace grudge, rejected lover, disturbed teen, religious, they all got access to firearms. 

And these mass shootings that make national news are a FRACTION of firearm injuries and deaths. Most are suicide, second is domestic murder, and third is accidental.

That said, I should point out that there are about 72 million gun owners in America. Combined total of gun injuries and deaths in America in 2013: 107,141. This includes murders, suicides, accidents, and people who just got shot. This is a ratio of 1 incident per 672 gun owners (assuming that each incident is attributable to one person, fat chance of that being the case). This statistic implies that gun ownership is not, in and of itself, a factor. The talk about motives is actually necessary to factoring what causes this one gun owner to do what the other 671 don't do.

Make no mistake, easy access to guns is, at best, a factor that isn't helping the national climate of fear. Naturally, we'd have a lot fewer of these shootings if we made it harder for them to actually get the guns, but then, we'd have a lot of other factors that could potentially lead to other, different types of massacres. Potential terrorists have finally caught onto the fact that a car can be a perfect killing machine, even if you don't have spy movie gadgets or even armor modifying it. My own car weighs about a ton and a half and can reach 60 miles per hour in 8.4 seconds.

And the sad thing is I'm not even sure what else there is to do. To quote David Wong on the 2016 Munich shooting):

Well, Germany already has strict gun control laws which include mandatory psychological testing -- he got his gun illegally. No point in talking about getting tough on ISIS -- this had nothing to do with them. You can talk about stopping Muslim immigrants, and the irony is that Ali David Sonboly would apparently agree with you. You can talk about mental health, but he was already getting treatment.


You can say that the coverage of the 2011 Norway attack inspired this copycat, but what would you do differently, coverage-wise? Report the event and conspicuously leave out the guy's name, background, and motivation? That just makes him more mysterious and intriguing to people like Sonboly, and adds to the public's ignorance about what causes tragedies like this.

[Ravenshire]

While I agree that stricter gun laws may help, we need to provide funding to the appropriate authorities to enforce the laws currently on the book before we think passing another law that will be crippled by lack of funding to enforce it.

It is already illegal for a convicted felon on parole to purchase a gun. All he has to do is duck across a state line and visit a gum show where collectors* ate allowed to sell. The biggest reason cited for this loophole is funding.

*Collectors at the shows, by a vast majority, are usually shop owners looking to quickly dump excess inventory and/or circumvent costly permitting.

[Brian37]

CNN just put a stupid subtitle at the bottom of the screen, "Targeted attack".

NO FUCKING SHIT, if the shooter didn't want a target nobody would be dead.

Does it really matter if the shooter singled someone out, or picked them at random? How does either make the TARGET less dead?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I thought you were talking about a database program.

Glad you find this funny, I don't. 

Having had my drunk father shoot his 38 with me in the room as a kid, I am really tired of hearing about all the firearm violence in America. Having a high school yearbook with a picture of a mass shooting in it from 1984, yea I am extremely tired of it.

I lived firearms violence for years. Never really got tired of it.

[Minimalist]

Obviously this guy can't be a terrorist.  White guys are never terrorists it seems.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/annapol...ramos-abc/



And this young woman understands reality perfectly.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/thanks-...interview/

Thanks for your prayers but I couldn’t give a f*ck about them’: Annapolis survivor drops live F-bomb in CNN interview

Prayers don't do shit.  No wonder republicunts rely on them.

[Rev. Rye]

Obviously this guy can't be a terrorist.  White guys are never terrorists it seems.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/annapol...ramos-abc/

Maybe we should wait and see if there's some sort of political aim he's aiming for. If not, he's just a homicidal dickwad. And apparently, it seems he had a grudge against that paper, but there isn't any indication of an agenda beyond that.

Also, I looked at it and he looks a lot like a Youtube reviewer I watch occasionally.





Fortunately, Bobsheaux's real name is not Jarrod Ramos.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

CNN just put a stupid subtitle at the bottom of the screen, "Targeted attack".

NO FUCKING SHIT, if the shooter didn't want a target nobody would be dead.

Does it really matter if the shooter singled someone out, or picked them at random? How does either make the TARGET less dead?

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.

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It seems that the shooter has held a grudge against the newpaper for 8 years.  

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-court...on-n887626

Imagine how long he's going to be pissed now.