The American mass shooting thread

[Sue]

you knew it

Wtf is a 'worthless check'?

 

[Pickman's model]

Wtf is a 'worthless check'?

A cheque that bounces

 

[Sue]

A cheque that bounces

Oh. I was thinking it was a check on someone's inherent value or something. Bloody US English.

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh. I was thinking it was a check on someone's inherent value or something. Bloody US English.

So few people use cheques now it's a very confusing phrase esp in us english

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

That kid never had a chance with these two as parents.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Odds on Trump claiming they're "very good people"?

I wouldn't be surprised if the NRA starts a fundraiser for these unfairly prosecuted gun owners.

 

[two sheds]

With their encouragement of it all they should be done for conspiracy to murder (if the US has such a thing).

 

[Nylock]

I wouldn't be surprised if the NRA starts a fundraiser for these unfairly prosecuted gun owners.

Tucker Carlson will want to do a documentary....

 

[petee]

Both now taken into custody - what the fuck were they hoping to do, claim asylum in Kentucky?

The Crumbleys were found hiding inside and were "distressed" White said.

James and Jennifer Crumbley caught, arrested after vehicle is found in Detroit

Detroit police, other officers swarmed near east side in search for James, Jennifer Crumbley, parents of Oxford High School shooting suspect.

www.freep.com

 

[krtek a houby]

Good to see Republicans showing some sensitivity

 

[Poot]

In all these photos of families holding guns at Christmas, I always wonder what would happen if, due to some hilarious mix-up, the dad didn't get the biggest gun.

 

[gentlegreen]

That little girl has the barrel of her Uzi aimed at her mum's head FFS
And mum at her son - and with fingers on triggers...

An American on Paltalk said the dad's weapon alone cost 10s of thousands ..

 

[krtek a houby]

Gun wankers

 

[spitfire]

That little girl has the barrel of her Uzi aimed at her mum's head FFS
And mum at her son - and with fingers on triggers...

An American on Paltalk said the dad's weapon alone cost 10s of thousands ..

Just had a google and they can be incredibly expensive, $85,000 for this shiny new one!

Broadhead Armory M-60E6 NIB From Desert Ordnance

Broadhead Armory M-60E6 NIB From Desert Ordnance Available at OTBFirearms. We have a large inventory of Transferable Machine Gun in stock. 954-545-1312

otbfirearms.com

 

[Chilli.s]

Good to see Republicans showing some sensitivity

That's just not Christmassy

 

[krtek a houby]

That's just not Christmassy

Praise the lord and pass the ammunition

 

[Pickman's model]

Good to see Republicans showing some sensitivity

not sure anyone really needs an m60 general purpose machine gun

strange none of them seem to have a magazine for their weapons

 

[krtek a houby]

not sure anyone really needs an m60 general purpose machine gun
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strange none of them seem to have a magazine for their weapons

Showing restraint?

 

[Pickman's model]

Showing restraint?

perhaps the christmas before when more people came they were photographed with loaded weapons and it ended badly

 

[existentialist]

perhaps the christmas before when more people came they were photographed with loaded weapons and it ended badly

And let's face it, a medium-sized family shooting wouldn't even have made the local papers...

 

[DaveCinzano]

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strange none of them seem to have a magazine for their weapons

They've all got one in the spout and are aiming for a family rapture

 

[DaveCinzano]

Someone has shopped it into something less offensive

 

[pogofish]

That's just not Christmassy

Royal Marines:

Errr:

Hmmm:

 

[NoXion]

Hmmm:

"We expect the following demands to be satisfied, or Father Christmas will not see out the year..."

 

[likesfish]

The M60 is a really shit beltfed machine gun.
But America banned new fully automatic weapons built after 1986 so even a sten gun that’s possibly worth £25 is now worth $2000 minimum.

 

[two sheds]

That's actually a possible solution to the gun laws. Just ban anything made after Independence in 1776 No need to alter the Constitution.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Every mass shooting in the US – a visual database

A normal day in the US involves a mass shooting. Here, we track the incidents since 2014

www.theguardian.com

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

This is kind of an old story, but it supports my theory that a lot of this is anti-feminist violence instead of just random violence. If you look closely at most shooters, they're men who deeply hate women and any power they might have, even just the power to say "no" to sex with them. This shooter in Denver last week is another example. He railed against the rights that "the weak" and "women" had in our society. He was angry that anyone had power who couldn't violently grab it for themselves and went so far as a write a novel of his fantasies of overturning this structure by going on a mass shooting:

"We are aware of the books written by the suspect under a pseudonym, which are a component of our investigation," a spokesperson for the Denver police department confirmed to AFP Thursday.

McLeod wrote a trilogy called "Sanction" between 2018 and 2020, under the name Roman McClay.

On photos posted to his social media accounts, McLeod has a long beard, brown hair, and tattoos across his neck and chest.

The plot of the series is described in an online review as following "a politician/billionaire (who) wants to use gene editing tech to rewrite the DNA of criminals. Think serial killers and just generally violent people."

According to US media reports, McLeod wrote in his first book about a character named Lyndon MacLeod, who goes on a mass rampage, killing 46 people in one night.

The first person the character kills is a former business associate named Michael Swinyard, in an apartment in Denver.

Denver authorities confirmed that one of McLeod's real victims had that name and lived at the same address as in the book.

In another volume, the author describes the murder of a woman named Alicia Cardenas -- the same name as a woman killed on Monday night.

US shooter had written about plans in books: police

A Colorado man who allegedly killed five people this week had self-published novels in which the main character shoots people very similar to his real...

www.dailymail.co.uk

My question is: Why didn't someone throw a net over him before the mass shooting. He was openly writing about killing people, using their real name and address. That would constitute a threat, wouldn't it?

 

[hitmouse]

Colorado Springs Antifascists have a big thread on this stuff, including the gofundmes for funeral expenses, some particularly noteworthy bits:



Got to be some questions asked about Jack Donovan inviting him onto a podcast to discuss his mass-shooter-fantasy books as well:

 

[A380]

Take your toddler out into the countryside to meet the ducks. Let them blow the lure to get them to come closer. Let him play with your shotgun so they get used to it. Post pictures all over Facebook.

Not sure a. What I feel about this. B. The wisdom of letting a toddler play with a firearm as if it were a toy.



Uk and US countryside types, what’s your views?