Mass Shootings

[O Really]

Coverage of shootings is a lot like coverage of missing girls. Cute blonde soccer players get national coverage; First nation and Black girls not so much.

[Vrede too]

There have been five more mass shootings since Kansas City.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/repo ... s-shooting

Now 6 Indianapolis Waffle House shootout

Coverage of shootings is a lot like coverage of missing girls. Cute blonde soccer players get national coverage; First nation and Black girls not so much.

That's an awful thing to say about our responsible and unbiased media. 23 football fans of all races get covered, too.

What we know about Audrii Cunningham, the missing Texas girl who vanished after she left for school



"Audrii is White with blond hair and blue eyes. She stands about 4 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs about 75 pounds, the sheriff’s office said."

[Vrede too]

Police Chief, and others, plead "this is not Kansas City." Well, it turns out, it is. In 2023, KC had it most ever homicides at 182 or about one every other day all year long. Mostly with guns; mostly Black males. And that's just people that were killed. Couldn't find a number of shootings without deaths, but I'm guessing there's probably in excess of one/day. Nothing unusual about the shooting at the SB celebration, and the only difference was that there were a lot more people accidentally in the line of fire of the "good thugs with guns."

Yet nobody will admit that it's gun culture and of guns that make these things so commonplace.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/kansas-city-c ... 00324.html

... When police asked Mays why he "advanced" on the other group in the first place, Mays "replied, 'Stupid, man. Just pulled a gun out and started shooting. I shouldn’t have done that. Just being stupid,'" the probable cause affidavit said.

"When reminded that the person Lyndell Mays was shooting at was running away from him, Lyndell Mays replied, 'I know,'" the probable cause affidavit said....

Yep, "Stupid, man," individual, availability and culture

[Vrede too]

Just a boring city in a red gunhugging state:

At least 7 shot, all under age 17, in mass shooting near Indianapolis mall

"One victim was in critical condition, and the six others were stable."

... Last Sunday, five people, including an officer, were killed in a shooting in the east side of the city, the station reported. An officer shot and killed the suspect in that case.

And one person was killed and five other people were injured in a shooting at a bar on March 16, according to The Indianapolis Star....

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What about the many many mass shootings in red misogynist states?

Maine Republicans Censured For Linking Mass Shooting To God’s Anger With Abortion Law

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Fox News, Far-Right Podcasters Sued For Linking Wrong Man To Neo-Nazi Shooting
Podcasters Tim Pool and Steven Crowder and Infowars host Owen Shroyer are listed as defendants, among others.

Other defendants:
Pool’s company, Timcast Media Group
Newsmax
entertainment blog Hollywood Unlocked
TelevisaUnivision, the parent company of Spanish-language broadcaster Univision
foreign policy news site Today News Africa

Bleed them dry.

[Vrede too]

Coverage of shootings is a lot like coverage of missing girls. Cute blonde soccer players get national coverage; First nation and Black girls not so much.

Yep.


My hometown, Rockville, close to your old hood, not my high school, Wootton instead, not my elementary school:

Maryland high school student arrested after authorities discovered a 129-page document detailing school shooting plan, police say

[O Really]

For once they caught one before he shot anybody. Hope they'll be able to put him away for a while. Even if it's the loony bin.

[Vrede too]

For once they caught one before he shot anybody. Hope they'll be able to put him away for a while. Even if it's the loony bin.

Suburban DC, again :

5 teens injured in shooting at senior skip day gathering in Maryland park: Police
"To have something like this occur is just maddening," the police chief said.

... Three victims were released from the hospital and the sole victim listed as critical has been upgraded to stable condition, Greenbelt Police said Saturday....

The students had initially gathered in Bowie, Maryland, for senior skip day and were asked to disperse by local law enforcement, a Greenbelt Police Department spokesperson told ABC News. Many of those students then moved to Schrom Hills Park, where they participated in a large water gun fight prior to the shooting, police said....

Super Soakers are a slippery slope