This time it’s Louisville, KY with the shooter

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's taking them a long time to reveal the shooter's identity. All I've heard/read is that the shooter was an employee or former employee of the location.

Because social media shows he’s not conservative

He's a tall, attractive, white, college-educated man who was born on third base, extremely popular, a former varsity hoops star, and finance grad-turned-banker with a graduate degree. He's not some tragic incel in the basement or someone that was bullied as a kid. In other words the news media doesn't want to admit that the gun-toting maniac is just like them, or just like their kid. The problem is the guns. Not mental health issues, or bullying, or single parents, or social media - which every other developed country has and deals with. Guns. That's the whole issue.

The NY Post reports that someone who knew him said he experienced a lot of concussions. The effects of CTE on behavior are well known at this point. Not to deflect to mental illness - the fact remains that most if not all of these people would be alive if he did not have unfettered access to guns.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/louisville-shoo...ple-concussions/amp/

This does a better job of telling me this guy was white than a picture would.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's taking them a long time to reveal the shooter's identity. All I've heard/read is that the shooter was an employee or former employee of the location.

Because social media shows he’s not conservative

He's a tall, attractive, white, college-educated man who was born on third base, extremely popular, a former varsity hoops star, and finance grad-turned-banker with a graduate degree. He's not some tragic incel in the basement or someone that was bullied as a kid. In other words the news media doesn't want to admit that the gun-toting maniac is just like them, or just like their kid. The problem is the guns. Not mental health issues, or bullying, or single parents, or social media - which every other developed country has and deals with. Guns. That's the whole issue.

The NY Post reports that someone who knew him said he experienced a lot of concussions. The effects of CTE on behavior are well known at this point. Not to deflect to mental illness - the fact remains that most if not all of these people would be alive if he did not have unfettered access to guns.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/louisville-shoo...ple-concussions/amp/

Yep, it's those doggone concussions (and don't forget the "mental health" too), it is not, NOt, NOT the easy access to AR-15s.

Nothing to see here, move on! Thoughts and Prayers! NRA 4 Ever!

[Anonymous]

Shooter is white - discussion threads allowed on dcum

Shooter is poc/trans - discussions threads banned on dcum

Fair and balanced and democracy dies in darkness and all that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's taking them a long time to reveal the shooter's identity. All I've heard/read is that the shooter was an employee or former employee of the location.

Because social media shows he’s not conservative

He's a tall, attractive, white, college-educated man who was born on third base, extremely popular, a former varsity hoops star, and finance grad-turned-banker with a graduate degree. He's not some tragic incel in the basement or someone that was bullied as a kid. In other words the news media doesn't want to admit that the gun-toting maniac is just like them, or just like their kid. The problem is the guns. Not mental health issues, or bullying, or single parents, or social media - which every other developed country has and deals with. Guns. That's the whole issue.

Re: it’s the guns: Absolutely, 100%. Anyone who pretends they believe otherwise is obtuse

And I think you are spot on about the bolded

Its a simple case of unrequited love. This man loved the system, but it didn't love him back.

He spent his entire life accumulating good-boy points. In school, online and at work he carried water for the system and acted as one of its enforcers. Come some minor economic contraction, and he gets jettisoned from his cushy position. He literally can not believe such a thing could happen to him. He thought he was a made man, and he got whacked.

So he just snapped and took revenge the only way he knew how.

That's what is scary about this to so many people. If this guy was disposable to the system, how safe is anyone else? So many people have their worth tied up in having the fancy white-collar job they got because they repeated the proscribed opinions. What happens when they become disposable to the system?

This is a pretty extreme take. I’m not saying you’re not right about his mindset - I have no idea. But it sort of seems like you’re saying that’s the logical conclusion to losing your job…?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Shooter is white - discussion threads allowed on dcum

Shooter is poc/trans - discussions threads banned on dcum

Fair and balanced and democracy dies in darkness and all that

Here is an 89 page thread on one of those "banned" topics:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1122133.page

Here is another banned thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1095815.page

There is also a thread about the shooting at UVA that exists somewhere that apparently is also banned.

Apparently the only thing banned is your ability to use your brain. It's supposed to do more than take up space in your head you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shooter is white - discussion threads allowed on dcum

Shooter is poc/trans - discussions threads banned on dcum

Fair and balanced and democracy dies in darkness and all that

Why do you think the racial, ethnic, gender, or any other identity of the shooter matters? The outcome is the same—multiple dead people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's taking them a long time to reveal the shooter's identity. All I've heard/read is that the shooter was an employee or former employee of the location.

Because social media shows he’s not conservative

He's a tall, attractive, white, college-educated man who was born on third base, extremely popular, a former varsity hoops star, and finance grad-turned-banker with a graduate degree. He's not some tragic incel in the basement or someone that was bullied as a kid. In other words the news media doesn't want to admit that the gun-toting maniac is just like them, or just like their kid. The problem is the guns. Not mental health issues, or bullying, or single parents, or social media - which every other developed country has and deals with. Guns. That's the whole issue.

The NY Post reports that someone who knew him said he experienced a lot of concussions. The effects of CTE on behavior are well known at this point. Not to deflect to mental illness - the fact remains that most if not all of these people would be alive if he did not have unfettered access to guns.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/louisville-shoo...ple-concussions/amp/

Yep, it's those doggone concussions (and don't forget the "mental health" too), it is not, NOt, NOT the easy access to AR-15s.

Nothing to see here, move on! Thoughts and Prayers! NRA 4 Ever!

Not to mess with your narrative, but it’s possible to support gun control 100% and still see how mental illness may have played a role in mass shootings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: I ALSO THINK THESE MASS SHOOTINGS ARE A RESULT OF OUR COLD, CALLOUS SOCIETY.

The U.S. is the only country that has anything like this level of problem. We're not that much more cold or callous than most other places - in some cases, we're warmer and more welcoming. Where we really, really differ is the number of guns per capita that we have in private hands. I'm all for making this a kinder, gentler nation -- but, really, the guns are the biggest problem.

I think PP is referring to that lack of a social safety net, mental health services are for the rich because insurance isn’t taken by most practices and the ones who do take insurance have long waitlists. We live in a dog-eat-dog society. Inequality is sky high.

If we can get a bipartisan agreement for massive public funding of mental health care infrastructure, I'd call it a win -- even if I think that guns are the larger part of the mass killing problem. Independent of these shootings, we need better mental health care in this country.

It’s not just mental health care. That’s important, but it’s treating a symptom, not the cause. The cold, callous society is also inadequate and expensive health care, child care, elder care, support for families, and public schools. It’s a system that values people based on profitability and views those that are not profitable (kids, old people, poor people) as unimportant and bordering on expendable. We view what should be normal breaks as weaknesses and reward people for working to the exclusion of all other things in their lives, and then disregard them when they’re no longer able to produce at that level for whatever reason.

Sure, maybe we’re “friendly” to tourists, but as a country, our actions show that we don’t give a crap about each other. Dog eat dog.

[Anonymous]

I have not read the entire thread--in fact, I have read only a few posts.

The 25 year old shooter suffered multiple concussions in basketball. He suffered so many basketball related concussions that he wore a special helmut to prevent further brain injury during 8th grade basketball. His father was his high school basketball coach.

[Anonymous]

Can you imagine a society where people were dying in drove from a poison we made readily available? And we spent all of this time analyzing why they would take this poison, why they would force other people to take this poison, studying the different doses of this poison, all the while never thinking that maybe we shouldn't sell this poison at Walmart. Instead we turn ourselves into pretzels to make arguments about how to keep this poison readily available. It just makes no sense.

People who are mentally ill aren't unique to the United States. Our mass availability to guns is unique to the United States. Someone's decision in a moment of mental health crisis to go legally purchase a gun is unique to the United States. It's literally the one thing that sets us apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine a society where people were dying in drove from a poison we made readily available? And we spent all of this time analyzing why they would take this poison, why they would force other people to take this poison, studying the different doses of this poison, all the while never thinking that maybe we shouldn't sell this poison at Walmart. Instead we turn ourselves into pretzels to make arguments about how to keep this poison readily available. It just makes no sense.

People who are mentally ill aren't unique to the United States. Our mass availability to guns is unique to the United States. Someone's decision in a moment of mental health crisis to go legally purchase a gun is unique to the United States. It's literally the one thing that sets us apart.

We literally do that with High Fructose Corn Syrup.

[Anonymous]

Louisville, Nashville, Uvalde, Buffalo, Las Vegas... Sandy Hook... Columbine... etc. etc.

Assault weapons, all bought perfectly legally.

But the REAL problem is those doggone "criminals" with their "mental health issues," not the easy purchase of AR-15s and the like, right folks?


btw, get in on Super Spring Savings for AR-15s now! Don't Delay! https://www.primaryarms.com/ar-15/rifles


p.s. When (and where) is the next mass shooting scheduled for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you imagine a society where people were dying in drove from a poison we made readily available? And we spent all of this time analyzing why they would take this poison, why they would force other people to take this poison, studying the different doses of this poison, all the while never thinking that maybe we shouldn't sell this poison at Walmart. Instead we turn ourselves into pretzels to make arguments about how to keep this poison readily available. It just makes no sense.

People who are mentally ill aren't unique to the United States. Our mass availability to guns is unique to the United States. Someone's decision in a moment of mental health crisis to go legally purchase a gun is unique to the United States. It's literally the one thing that sets us apart.

Yeah, I put up a FB post after the Las Vegas shooting that said something like “guns are killing .001% of the American population every year, can you imagine how hard we’d work to stop a disease that was doing that?”

Turns out, not so hard.

Related: Gun deaths among kids in the U.S. increased 50% in TWO YEARS between 2019 and 2021.
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Louisville, Nashville, Uvalde, Buffalo, Las Vegas... Sandy Hook... Columbine... etc. etc.

Assault weapons, all bought perfectly legally.

But the REAL problem is those doggone "criminals" with their "mental health issues," not the easy purchase of AR-15s and the like, right folks?


btw, get in on Super Spring Savings for AR-15s now! Don't Delay! https://www.primaryarms.com/ar-15/rifles


p.s. When (and where) is the next mass shooting scheduled for?

Today, about a 15-minute drive from me and many others here.

[Anonymous]

One of his communications:

“They won’t listen to words or protests. Let’s see if they hear this”