Yay! YEEHAW, it's Shootin' Time

[Jolene Benoir]

Holy shit. The Washington Post has a 3 part article, published today showing the results of some major AR-15 shootings in America. This includes descriptions, images and words of survivor's and first responders. This includes 11 shootings between 2012 and 2023, including among them Uvalde, Vegas, Sutherland Springs Aurora, etc...

They do not include images of victims, rightfully so (with the exception of the Vegas shooting), but they do show the devastating aftermath, including one where the Uvalde monster wrote LOL in blood on a whiteboard.

It goes without saying, NSFW, and don't read/look if you don't believe you can stomach it or it would otherwise harm you. I, personally, think that the highest of the highest NRA leaders, politicians who are paid off by them should be forced to clean said scenes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-force-mass-shootings/?itid=co_ar-15_1

Accompany article explaining why they are showing graphic images involving AR-15 weapons:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/11/16/about-ar-15-graphic-content/

Story about the concealment/restriction of access to records documenting the destructive nature of these shootings/weapons, as well as the feelings of the family members of some of the victims, regarding publishing of such images/documents:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/mass-shootings-graphic-images-public-records-debate/?itid=co_ar-15_2

ETA: A reaction of one of the parents of the slain children in Uvalde, Brett Cross, father of Uziyah:

 

[Free]

A deep, searing report from ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and PBS Frontline on the school shooting in Uvalde. The kids and teachers and police had all received training on what to do during an active shooter event. Basically, the kids and teachers did as they were trained to do. The cops, not so much...

In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not.

Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.

www.propublica.org

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

It's a truly sad statement of affairs when schoolchildren have to train for active shooters. And, yet, nobody - particularly the GOP - will just remove fucking assault rifles from the equation.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Yet another active shooter incident, this time on the campus of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV). No word that I've seen of the number of any injuries or deaths aside from the shooter.


Police: Suspect dead amid reports of multiple victims in shooting at University of Nevada, Las Vegas - APNews

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A deep, searing report from ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and PBS Frontline on the school shooting in Uvalde. The kids and teachers and police had all received training on what to do during an active shooter event. Basically, the kids and teachers did as they were trained to do. The cops, not so much...

In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not.

Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.

www.propublica.org

Documentary from Frontline:

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yet another active shooter incident, this time on the campus of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV). No word that I've seen of the number of any injuries or deaths aside from the shooter.

Police: Suspect dead amid reports of multiple victims in shooting at University of Nevada, Las Vegas - APNews

According to the AP the shooter was an ex-professor from North Carolina who had tried to apply for a job at UNLV but didn't get it.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

It's a truly sad statement of affairs when schoolchildren have to train for active shooters. And, yet, nobody - particularly the GOP - will just remove fucking assault rifles from the equation.

Why would they? By doing nothing they basically nourish acts of domestic terrorism against people on the left. They don't see it as being in their best interests to go against it.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

According to the AP the shooter was an ex-professor from North Carolina who had tried to apply for a job at UNLV but didn't get it.

I can't imagine why. He seems so stable and well-grounded.

 

[detrius]

Why would they? By doing nothing they basically nourish acts of domestic terrorism against people on the left. They don't see it as being in their best interests to go against it.

As far as I can tell, the last time Republicans supported gun control was when they passed the Mulford Act in California in 1967. It was signed by a Republican governor, some babbling idiot named Reagan.

That law was of course a response to black people walking around on the streets while holding guns.

 

[Free]

Fuuuuuuuuuu

No charges filed after police shot an 11-year-old who called for help, officials say

A grand jury in Mississippi determined that there was no criminal conduct on behalf of the officer who shot and wounded an 11-year-old boy in his home who had called authorities for help.

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch says her office will take no further action against Sgt. Greg Capers, the officer who shot Aderrien Murry.

In a statement released Thursday, Fitch says her office completed its review into the May 20 incident involving Capers in Indianola, Miss, and presented it to the grand jury in Sunflower County, Miss., on Wednesday — which then handed up the decision.

"As such, no further criminal action will be taken by this Office in this matter," Fitch said.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Fuuuuuuuuuu

No charges filed after police shot an 11-year-old who called for help, officials say

Reading about that AG...just um...well, she is behind taking the Dobbs case to the SC to overturn Roe v. Wade, she joined the lawsuit which attempted to overturn the 2020 election...

Her website hosts the "Parents Bill of Rights" which is just what you would expect it to be.

Parents' Bill of Rights - Attorney General Lynn Fitch

attorneygenerallynnfitch.com

So...pro-life until such time as the child is actually born, then well..

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Police fatally shoot Black woman who called 911 for domestic violence | The Guardian

Guilty of needing police help while black.

 

[Free]

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

Authorities knew Maine shooter was a threat but felt confronting him was unsafe, video shows

Police who declined to confront an Army reservist in the weeks before he killed 18 people in Maine’s deadliest mass shooting feared that doing so would “throw a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas,” according to video released Friday by law enforcement.

The video, which was released to the Portland Press Herald and then sent to The Associated Press, documents a Sept. 16 call between Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Skolfield and Army Reserve Capt. Jeremy Reamer. Skolfield was following up with Reamer about the potential threat posed by Robert Card, 40, who carried out the Oct. 25 attacks at a bowling alley and a restaurant. He was found dead two days later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Military officials alerted police in September that Card had been hospitalized in July after exhibiting erratic behavior while training, that he still had access to weapons and that he had threatened to “shoot up” an Army reserve center in Saco, a city in southern Maine. The sheriff’s department responded by briefly staking out the Saco facility and going to Card’s home in Bowdoin for what Reamer described as a “welfare check.

But the kicker...

Skolfield mentioned Maine’s yellow flag law, which can be used to remove guns from potentially dangerous people, after Reamer said Card had refused medical treatment after his hospitalization.

“So that, obviously, is a hurdle we have to deal with. But at the same time, we don’t want to throw a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas, either — make things worse,” he said.

Yeah, sure. Don't want to do anything rash. Don't want to fan the flames. Don't want to exacerbate the situation, which could lead to a horrible, distressing outcome. Better to just let the sleeping dog, with recent documented instances of mental instability and known to be amassing his own personal arsenal - which even THE FUCKING ARMY said he should not own, and the reason police were sent to check on Card was because another soldier informed them he thought he could "snap and commit a mass shooting," lie.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I have no words.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-joplin-missouri-st-louis-children-24e0b91f63d83011e1f938c8cb587786

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House on Wednesday voted against banning minors from openly carrying firearms on public land without adult supervision.

The proposal to ban children from carrying guns without adult supervision in public failed by a 104-39 vote. Only one Republican voted in support of it.

Only one Republican voted in support of the ban.

Only one Republican.

Only one.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I have no words.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-joplin-missouri-st-louis-children-24e0b91f63d83011e1f938c8cb587786

Only one Republican voted in support of the ban.

Only one Republican.

Only one.

We can also thank Gerrymandering for why my state's legislature is so heavily dominated by republicans... It would be a repug majority anyway, but not nearly so much. It definitely seems like a lot of rural conservatives in particular believe in the slippery slope idea that if they give any ground on this, all the guns will be taken away....

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

all the guns will be taken away....

I have a friend who lives her guns and voted Trump first time because Biden would take her guns away.

in 2021 or so we had a frank discussion about that where I was like: “Just like Obama took your guns? B Clinton? Carter? How many goddam times in a row were you gonna fall for this utter bullshit? You see what your SCOTUS looks like now? Congrats, hou have your guns, would have anyway, but you, girl, lost So Much Shit.”

And she be like “I knoooooooooooow!”

She was ridin with Biden 2020.

The needle and the damage done.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I have a friend who lives her guns and voted Trump first time because Biden would take her guns away.

in 2021 or so we had a frank discussion about that where I was like: “Just like Obama took your guns? B Clinton? Carter? How many goddam times in a row were you gonna fall for this utter bullshit? You see what your SCOTUS looks like now? Congrats, hou have your guns, would have anyway, but you, girl, lost So Much Shit.”

And she be like “I knoooooooooooow!”

She was ridin with Biden 2020.

The needle and the damage done.

Yeah, it is a political and pragmatic impossibility that America will get rid of all the guns anytime soon. ...but almost everyone knows on some level that maybe we shouldn't let violent convicts and small children buy them and carry them around....

An ex of mine who grew up in a very rural community was gifted a shotgun when she was 5... it's so messed up but treated as normal to much of our country.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I mean, I don't have an issue with children learning how to properly use a firearm. I don't even have an issue with them practicing in a controlled environment, like a firing range. But ALWAYS with direct adult supervision, and maybe no younger than 9 or 10. Allowing a child of any age to just go around carrying a gun around unsupervised is grossly irresponsible.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I mean, I don't have an issue with children learning how to properly use a firearm. I don't even have an issue with them practicing in a controlled environment, like a firing range. But ALWAYS with direct adult supervision, and maybe no younger than 9 or 10. Allowing a child of any age to just go around carrying a gun around unsupervised is grossly irresponsible.

Remember this in 2018? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/16/sacha-baron-cohen-guns-children-toddlers-who-is-america-reality

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I mean, I don't have an issue with children learning how to properly use a firearm. I don't even have an issue with them practicing in a controlled environment, like a firing range. But ALWAYS with direct adult supervision, and maybe no younger than 9 or 10. Allowing a child of any age to just go around carrying a gun around unsupervised is grossly irresponsible.

My dad thought about buying one of those younger-kid Red Ryders for me, but after hearing me talk about what some other kids did with theirs, decided to wait till I was older. That was when I was at least 14 and he bought me one of those nice Daisy 880 pneumatics, which being more powerful he taught me to treat it like I would a firearm. He told me right off that if I didn't use it properly, he would take it away, but that he trusted I wouldn't. The first few times using it he was there to watch, once he was assured I followed the rules, I could use it alone.

And trust me, after seeing that thing punch a hole through both sides of a heavy can with ease at full 10 pump power, I never wanted to point that thing at anything I wasn't supposed to. Unlike some of my schoolmates who showed off the BB's in their arm sometimes. The thing was utterly lethal to Starlings, who would drive songbirds away from their nests, and hole digging ground squirrels. The 880 could do more than shoot someone eyes out I think.