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The cousin of the Uvalde shooter was arrested for making a threat to commit a school shooting.

https://www.facebook.com/SanAntonioPD/posts/pfbid01PNMb1Xa4sgJHu5RuyMfdLUTp7XNcTf6JEfVZTzhsL6KpYspHEFbwkWqqnQyC4T6l

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192671563/uvalde-shooter-cousin-arrested-threat-school-shooting-san-antonio

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The cousin of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter was arrested in San Antonio after threatening to commit a school shooting.

Nathan James Cruz, 17, was arrested on a felony charge of making a terroristic threat to the public and a misdemeanor charge of making a terroristic threat against a family member, according to Bexar County Central Magistrate records.

It was Cruz's mother who called the police and reported threats that her son had made, Officer Nick Soliz of the San Antonio Police Department tells NPR.

Soliz confirms that Cruz is a cousin of Salvador Ramos, the 18-year-old who killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde last year.

 

  • 3 weeks later...

 

 

Bollywood Trump is on Meet The Press blaming the "woke left" for the shooting. 

More and More extremists are being radicalized towards violence by Trump and White Supremacy groups. Just like Isis.

23 hours ago, Gannan said:

 

 

Despicable.

So nobody got my Ernest Rutherford joke yet?

mass shooting?

  • 2 months later...

Audrey Hale, the Nashville Christian school shooters manifesto finally leaked.  About what you'd expect from a mentally ill radical left wing whack job

 

  • 3 weeks later...

So it turns out another mass shooter was inspired by the non-stop hatred and fear mongering coming from the Democrats. 
 

 

Mass shootings started being a thing in the 90s, about twenty years after we started shutting down state hospitals en mass. 

21 minutes ago, Bill said:

Mass shootings started being a thing in the 90s, about twenty years after we started shutting down state hospitals en mass. 

Yessir. It’s such a tough issue though, locking someone away against their will. And the conditions many were forced to live in were less than ideal.

10 minutes ago, The_Omega said:

Yessir. It’s such a tough issue though, locking someone away against their will. And the conditions many were forced to live in were less than ideal.

I mean so long as decisions are made with due process then it’s no problem with me. 
 

Locked in a mental institution after proper due process? Yup. 
 

Firearms taken away after proper due process? Yup. 

2 hours ago, Bill said:

Mass shootings started being a thing in the 90s, about twenty years after we started shutting down state hospitals en mass. 

I mean, they go back pretty far, into the 1940’s at least. I’d be curious if they are more common on a per capita basis now than they were 50 years ago.

I think mass media and the increase in population has a lot to do with it. They’re sensational so they get a lot of coverage they wouldn’t in the pre cable news days.

3 minutes ago, TEW said:

I mean, they go back pretty far, into the 1940’s at least. I’d be curious if they are more common on a per capita basis now than they were 50 years ago.

I think mass media and the increase in population has a lot to do with it. They’re sensational so they get a lot of coverage they wouldn’t in the pre cable news days.

Not to the level they are now. For example, in schools the number of shootings started up ticking in the 90s, which is in spite of youth access to firearms actually significantly decreasing since decades before. 
 

The argument can be made that during the 80s is when the phenomenon started with the whole going postal thing. 

The LA Times did a breakdown of shootings here: 

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-25/mass-shootings-monterey-park-half-moon-bay-age-suspects-victims-profile
 

My assumption is that a lot of it has to do with leaded gas. Either from personal exposure or a parents (high lead levels can lead to birth defects, particular neurological). 

10 hours ago, Bill said:

Mass shootings started being a thing in the 90s, about twenty years after we started shutting down state hospitals en mass. 

Yeah, deinstitutionalization hasn’t worked out too well. On the other hand, the way some of the hospitals were being ran was pretty barbaric and lead to their closing.
 

For some reason the other night the wife and I were talking about the homeless and the state hospital closings came up, which reminded me of Pennhurst . 
When I was still in the Guard, I had to go to an Armory near Philly for a class. It that was in one of the old buildings on the old Pennhurst grounds. I stayed over night by myself the first week end. I don’t believe in ghost or ish like that but being in one of those buildings overnight is pretty freaky. It’s a major Halloween attraction now. 

3 hours ago, Tnt4philly said:

Yeah, deinstitutionalization hasn’t worked out too well. On the other hand, the way some of the hospitals were being ran was pretty barbaric and lead to their closing.
 

For some reason the other night the wife and I were talking about the homeless and the state hospital closings came up, which reminded me of Pennhurst . 
When I was still in the Guard, I had to go to an Armory near Philly for a class. It that was in one of the old buildings on the old Pennhurst grounds. I stayed over night by myself the first week end. I don’t believe in ghost or ish like that but being in one of those buildings overnight is pretty freaky. It’s a major Halloween attraction now. 

Yeah those places are some scary ish. I think it’s the old af brick architecture and the knowing what happened there. 
 

I think the motivation should have been "make them better” versus "tear them down”. 
 

Anyone who is a habitual drug user, is a habitual criminal, or habitually homeless obviously has some severe mental health issues. I don’t want to throw them in a cage, but they need mental health help and confinement. Hopefully they could be rehabilitated, but if not keep them confined. It doesn’t need to be five star resort, but I don’t see why it can’t be some kind of tiered accommodations ranging from an assisted living type of accommodation to straight up confinement. Patients get the needed meds and therapy sessions. 

  • 2 weeks later...

Suspect dead after mass shooting at UNLV

The suspect in a mass shooting Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is dead, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said.

The shooting was reported around noon at the campus a few miles from the Las Vegas Strip.

"We are responding to preliminary reports of an #ActiveShooter on the campus of UNLV near Besn Hall," the LVMPD said in a statement on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, posted around noon. "There appears to be multiple victims at this time. "

 

Suck on that, old record of killings!

Not all mass shootings, but an interesting look at all the school shootings in 2023:

 

 

30 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

 

Good lord, imagine what a brainwashed sheetlib you have to be to be impressed by that commercial lmao.

On 12/6/2023 at 6:51 AM, Toastrel said:

US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/05/mass-shootings-record-year

WE'RE #1

USA

USA

USA

Congrats to President Biden for another new high in the U.S. being reached under his leadership!  

22 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

Congrats to President Biden for another new high in the U.S. being reached under his leadership!  

sarcasm detector alert. 

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