Only in America

[Tero]

News don't list the race in these shootings. Some of the names suggest it might be a black neighborhood.
"Neighbor Shierea Owens..."
"Police said Saturday that 17-year-old Malik Ballard was identified as the youth found slain on the sidewalk, while 18-year-old Khalif Frezghi was found slain on the front porch and 14-year-old Salah Fleming was found just inside the doorway of the residence."

[Tero]

People hearing shots tried to drive out of the lot, creating traffic jam. Instead of hiding behind car or running away.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/07/us/allen ... index.html

[Tero]

Governor puzzled?

How could this happen? Perhaps that mental health! Or lack of faith.
Dismissed: guns,poverty.

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-08/ ... /102315608

United States President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass gun control bills after yet another mass shooting that left nine people dead, including the gunman, at a Texas mall on Saturday.

The Democratic president renewed calls for Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as to enact universal background checks and end immunity for gun manufacturers.

His words are, of course, purely a ritual, just as much as right-wing commentators offering thoughts and prayers for the victims...

[Tero]

We only need two more presidents. Then we will ban AR-15s. For anyone under 15.

[Tero]

Texas shooter failed to leave a manifesto.

CNN
Investigators have unearthed an extensive social media presence, including neo-Nazi and White supremacist-related posts and images that authorities believe Garcia shared online, according to the source.

[Tero]

Ameicans now shooting trepassers who are clearly going away. They are obviously just getting reiforcements!

"Doyle told detectives that he “observed shadows outside his home, at which time he went inside and retrieved his firearm. He then advised detectives he went back outside and observed people running away from his property, at which time he began shooting at them,” according to a release from the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Doyle was charged with aggravated battery; four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm; and illegal discharge of a firearm, the department said."

[Woodbutcher]

Back in the late sixties while going to high school I used to go hunting after school in the fall when the small game season opened around September 15. I went with two of my friends practically every day. We brought our guns to school, I had a twelve gauge, one guy had a sixteen gauge pump action and the third fellow had a four-ten. We brought our guns to school every day and stored them in our lockers during classes, and sometimes between classes people would ask to see them, even some teachers who were interested. Nobody was scared, nobody thought anything of it. Imagine doing that now! And after school we hitchhiked carrying our weapons to the sideroads in the bush where we hunted, and we always got rides. The world today is totally fucked! I blame it on fucking TV programs and computer games.

[JimC]

I certainly enjoyed hunting rabbits with my trusty Ruger .22...

[rasetsu]

[Brian Peacock]

[L'Emmerdeur]

... fucking TV programs and computer games.

TV programs like pretty much all the programming on Fox News* and their wannabes. For a secondary influence I'd say gangsta culture rather than games.

If one insists on ignoring the ridiculous availability of semi-automatic weapons including rifles designed for warfare.

* '... fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.'

[Tero]

Standard protocol: shoot every black male at any crime scene you are called to
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/us/missi ... index.html

[pErvinalia]

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[Tero]

Gunman fails to use AR-15. But does clever shooting at school. When all the people are outside.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/us/richm ... index.html