The American mass shooting thread

[Diamond]

Rumours are that the shooter was a ftm trans person.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Rumours are that the shooter was a ftm trans person. Don't know about trans.

Nashville police chief says it was a former student. I'd wait for more information before suggesting someone who is trans. There's a lot stirred up angst at the moment over cultural issues like that.

 

[Pickman's model]

Rumours are that the shooter was a ftm trans person.

And

 

[8ball]

And

… a former student?

 

[Pickman's model]

… a former student?

The four words that leapt to mind were diamond is a twat, but close

 

[Ax^]

hmm MTG saying more guns would be the only thing to sort this out

 

[Nylock]

Rumours are that the shooter was a ftm trans person.

Ofc they are . And even if it gets categorically proven to not be the case, these rumours will likely persist. Such is the toxicity of civic discourse over there now....

 

[Pickman's model]

Ofc they are . And even if it gets categorically proven to not be the case, these rumours will likely persist. Such is the toxicity of civic discourse over there now....

Diamond loves to share tittle tattle

 

[Diamond]

Audrey Hale is the name apparently.

 

[Ax^]

was she also on antidepressants

was another tack of the right to blame something aside from the easy access to guns for being the problem

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I'm unfamiliar with private schools, but this looks like a high-end school with at 6 to 1 student/teacher ratio. It costs almost $20K a year to attend. Public elementary schools run anywhere from 20-1 to 35-1. If you have 2-3 kids, that's going to amount to more than the yearly income of a lot of people.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm unfamiliar with private schools, but this looks like a high-end school with at 6 to 1 student/teacher ratio. It costs almost $20K a year to attend. Public elementary schools run anywhere from 20-1 to 35-1. If you have 2-3 kids, that's going to amount to more than the yearly income of a lot of people.

Frankly you'd expect a higher end shooter

 

[Yossarian]

was she also on antidepressants

was another tack of the right to blame something aside from the easy access to guns for being the problem

Dozens and dozens of cis mass shooters, then one comes along who allegedly may have been trans and these far-right shitheads are all "guns don't kill people, hormones kill people'

 

[Ax^]

oh i'm not saying its the hormones or know if the shooter is trans

more mocking the right tendency to look for any reason for the main reason for the school shooting be so popular in the states because of any fucking reason

aside from easy access to guns




have explained before why i tend to remark "more guns will sort this out" and this is the reason

 

[editor]

So fucking depressing this. And no doubt some right wing cunts will use this as an another excuse to attack any transgender people they come across.

A heavily armed woman who gunned down three children and three staff members at a Nashville school on Monday appears to be a former student of the private Christian campus, police said.

“At one point she was a student at that school,” Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters hours after the shooting at The Covenant School. “But unsure what year ... but that’s what I’ve been told so far.”


The shooter was identified as Audrey Hale, 28, of Nashville, according to the chief, who said she identifies as transgender.

There were no answers on Monday afternoon at multiple phone numbers listed for Hale’s mother and brother.

According to police, Hale was armed with two “assault-style rifles and a handgun” when she was confronted by five officers. Two of those opened fire and killed her, police said.

The kids were all aged 9, FFS.

Police chief tells NBC News a sense of ‘resentment’ may have fueled Nashville shooter’s attack at former school

The shooter, Audrey Hale, 28, of Nashville, may have planned to attack multiple locations, Police Chief John Drake told Lester Holt in an interview.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[editor]

Female mass shooter is rare, female school shooter even rarer, not sure if there's been a female elementary school shooter before

Very rare indeed:

Women make up just 2% of mass shooters across the country, according to the Violence Project database, and Monday’s shooter is just the fifth female mass shooter in US history.

Everything we know about transgender Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale

The 28-year-old female gunman who stormed a private Christian elementary school in Nashville and opened fire Monday was a former student at the school.

nypost.com

 

[Diamond]

There was a manifesto, according to the police.

 

[Yossarian]

American conservatives seem to have decided that it was mostly the fault of hormones but partly Biden's fault for sending weapons to Ukraine instead of deploying them to protect schools

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

American conservatives seem to have decided that it was mostly the fault of hormones but partly Biden's fault for sending weapons to Ukraine instead of deploying them to protect schools

They might have been able to run over a school shooter if they had a HIMARS parked outside

 

[Orang Utan]

Sadly, this is is gonna be just another opp for genderfascists to shit on innocent trans folk

 

[Ax^]

aye its trans hormones that made this school shooter 100%


99% of school shootings are cis males but its the hormones


same we are importing this sort of shite in to europe because of fuckwits

 

[spring-peeper]

American conservatives seem to have decided that it was mostly the fault of hormones but partly Biden's fault for sending weapons to Ukraine instead of deploying them to protect schools

If they want to protect the school then lock all the external doors!!!

A large number of school shooters entered by an unlocked door.

Why haven't they figured this out yet?

 

[two sheds]

That and severely limiting the huge supply of guns throughout society.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Heard on the radio, during coverage of this most recent incident, that there has already been 100 mass shootings (in schools?) so far this year, which is insanely high.

100 in three months.

 

[8ball]

Heard on the radio, during coverage of this most recent incident, that there has already been 100 mass shootings (in schools?) so far this year, which is insanely high.

100 in three months.

Just did a quick check and it’s roughly 22% down on the combined average for 2021 and 2022 in terms of shootings per day (1.72 on average so far this year).

Could be ahead for the time of year, though, since we obv haven’t reached the peak period for the summertime traditional mass shooting frenzies yet.

Mass Shootings in 2021

massshootingtracker.site

Scary to be thinking about whether or not such a number of shootings is “normal, under the circumstances”.

 

[chandlerp]

Deleted fake news

 

[chandlerp]

sorry savoloysam turns out it was fake

 

[danny la rouge]

Christ. It’s hit me like a ton of bricks again. I used to live in Dunblane and had relatives in the school the day of the massacre and I had friends who lost children, knew kids who survived. A friend of mine was a nurse who was on the scene off duty and ended up being part of the first response because he was there. He hasn’t recovered. I remember that morning so vividly, waiting for the news if my young cousins were among the dead or the living.

Every so often one of these incidents just brings it all crashing home again. It is what informs my view of guns, and I can’t see it any other way. How often does this have to happen before American attitudes to guns change? I don’t get it.

 

[Spymaster]

How often does this have to happen before American attitudes to guns change?

It's not going to happen within our lifetimes.

Most have effectively accepted that daily mass shootings are a reasonable price to pay to protect their flawed interpretation of 2nd amendment rights. Those who object are simply not strong enough to overturn the gun lobby/industry.

 

[Flavour]

How often does this have to happen before American attitudes to guns change? I don’t get it.

It doesn't matter how many times it happens. The culture is pro-guns, no matter what. Much of the radical left in the US is pro-guns, too. It's hopeless. They will never be banned.