Ongoing Mass Shooting Thread #3... that's right, a third thread. Because 'Murica.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Two law enforcement officials told The Washington Post that the suspect in the case, Payton Gendron, was investigated less than a year ago by state police after they received a report he’d made a threatening statement at his high school. A state police spokesman didn’t confirm the name, but said that a student at the high school was taken into custody on June 8, 2021, and evaluated at a mental hospital. He was not charged.

And yet he owned a gun.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

https://twitter.com/OCSheriff/status/1525944252726845441?t=hfy0rIPniLskiPC5TY-nAg&s=19

America.

 

[BEAL]

Don’t forget two dead and more injured in a TX flea market.

 

[DaveC]

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1846975039

 

[Diemen]

I wish news outlets would stop using the word manifesto in reference to the insane conspiratorial rantings of racists.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

But communists

 

[U2inUtah]

Goddammit. 14 children dead in Texas

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/24/hospital-dead-shooting-at-uvalde-texas-elementary-school.html

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Awful. Sad reality of America: there is no such thing as a good child with a gun.

 

[Irvine511]

I hope the guns and any fetuses are safe.

 

[Hewson]

Well since it's Texas, I suppose we don't have to worry about Alex Jones and his ilk calling it a hoax perpetrated by crisis actors.
But It wasn't because the 18 year old had a gun, cause guns are safe and only used for hunting and protection in the great state of Texas. The kid would have otherwise clearly strangled those 14 kids instead, and just as quickly.

Can't imagine what the families of those kids are dealing with. Just horrible.

 

[BEAL]

In 2021, TX made it legal for 18 year olds to purchase hand guns

 

[phanan]

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1529215918374813696?cxt=HHwWgIDU-dHx7rgqAAAA

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

The entire GOP can burn in fucking hell. All this blood is on their hands.

ETA:

https://twitter.com/dpakman/status/1529208965522829312

 

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/w7voa/status/1529239706214481920?s=21&t=yta5Qt311faDqBXKoDE_EA

Then only way to change this illogical, cynical, and apathetic way of thinking is to vote them out.

They will never change. They are bought by the NRA, and they actually enjoy the bloodshed cause it gives them another reason to troll the libs

 

[HeartlandGirl]

I'm a teacher, and I'm just...I don't even know how to finish that statement.

I read somewhere that maybe people are wearing maroon to school tomorrow to support the school in Texas. Not sure what else to do. Voting and protesting and donating don't seem to be working.

 

[cobl04]

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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[MrsSpringsteen]

https://youtu.be/vPvf5RgCU08

I have had enough too Steve Kerr. Fucking GOP who just care so much about the unborn, but once you're born and a little kid going to school...well your life just doesn't matter nearly as much. Thoughts and prayers.

It's sickening beyond any words.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2022/05/24/ruben-gallego-twitter-ted-cruz-uvalde-school-shooting/9916120002/

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Good on him. Let's just say fuck it and rip the gloves off once and for all, and go after guns the way the GOP is gleefully going after reproductive rights.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Eva Mireles



Xavier Lopez

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Uziyah Garcia




Nevaeh Bravo

 

[MrPryck2U]

What's really fucked up is that we have a Mass Shooting thread #3.


...and soon to be #4.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

On Tuesday morning, Texas fourth-grader Amerie Jo Garza, 10, beamed for a picture as she held up a colorful school certificate naming her to the honor roll at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.

Taken at around 10 a.m., it was the last picture of her alive, her grandmother, Berlinda Irene Arreola, told The Daily Beast in an emotional interview in which she said the girl—“super-outgoing” and a “teacher’s pet” who liked doing well in school—was fatally wounded dialing 911.

“My Granddaughter was shot and killed for trying to call 911, she died a Hero trying to get help for her and her fellow classmates,” Arreola wrote in a text message to The Daily Beast.

 

[Jerry Dunk]

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The solution from those in power will be to arm more people and fund more police.

 

[gump]

Cops seem uniquely cowardly and incompetent as a general rule. And yet, we will continue to invest on them.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i mean shit - let's maybe wait to confirm that this story is actually true before we start calling them cowardly?

these kind of events often have reports tied to them that end up being bullshit

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

The gunman who carried out Tuesday's mass school shooting in Texas barricaded himself inside one an elementary school classroom, officials have said, adding that all of the victims were found in that room.

Speaking to CNN this morning, Lt. Chris Olivarez from the Texas Department of Public Safety said that officers responding to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday morning were "at a point of disadvantage," because the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, had already hunkered down inside the classroom.

Initially, a lack of "sufficient man power" at the scene prevented police from engaging the shooter, Olivarez explained to CNN. So, instead, in order to save as many lives as possible, officers started breaking classroom windows to evacuate students and their teachers.
Later, when officers did exchange gunfire with the shooter, one officer was struck by a bullet, sustaining a non-life-threatening wound.

Eventually, police were able to shoot and kill the gunman.

Olivarez told CNN all of the victims from Tuesday's shooting — those dead and injured — were in the same classroom.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

nm-posted twice

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

and that may be bullshit as well - which again is why we need to wait until the full story comes out.

the incident is bad enough on its own without trying to force it into fitting your preferred political narrative. it's bad enough when it comes from the nut jobs on the right.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I am not trying to force anything into my political narrative. Was merely posting one article I had read. Never said it was the truth, no one knows the truth yet.

This is one reason I no longer wish to participate here and had just come here as a place to vent in about this

Martina seemed to have left here a while back too for things that were said to her at the time. She always had much to offer here. I will join her again.