The All Time Greatest Random Mass Shooting Thread

Gov Youngkin tweets out a nonsensical response that omits the words gun or shooting. He's a lifetime NRA member. His Lt Gov posed with an AR-15 in her campaign. They both oppose gun regulation AND mental health resources.

@Lanzman is making cum stucco on the ceiling.

Libertarianism is cool because I get to be the animal I always want to be. How about joining the civilized peoples of humanity so we can have nice things like schools, bars, walmarts, and holidays with far less gun tragedy? Even your fucking churches are getting shot up. Isn't it time you realize we do not come out of the uterus with the guns? Even if people made zip guns and bullets they are far less effective than the ones they can easily buy. Let some fucked up dude try to go on a mass shooting with something he made in his basement instead of something he ordered online or bought at a gun show or corner pawn shop/walmart.

Four shot in Philly. https://www.denver7.com/news/national/4-philadelphia-teens-shot-in-drive-by-near-high-school

Those Black Friday sales are a killer!

(Too soon?)

Drive by. But near a school. Will it count as gang activity, or a "school shooting?"

The answer is 'Yes.'

He really hates Black Friday.

Anyone who’s worked retail on Black Friday has felt the same impulse. Doesn’t make it right of course.

Will your response count as an actual question or yet another public showing of how much of a cunt you are?

VA cop shoots three people and tries to kidnap a teenager. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...led-shootout-deputies-murdering-fam-rcna58903

I wouldn't consider this a mass shooting, but WTF?

Mass shooting is anything that has three or more victims.

That's a rather loose definition.

It is similarly loose with the term "school shooting."

I assume they do this to fudge the numbers on shootings so they can push a narrative to ratchet up support for gun control.

FTFY.

Would you prefer that they reserved it for shootings that are in the triple digits or higher?

Mass shootings are typically some nut job that shoots up a school because they were bullied or a religious nut or something like that. This incident was different. If it’s gang related, then it’s targeted and innocent people die in the crossfire. Different context matters.

I wasn't aware of that, wow you are really high tech with those smart bullets which behave differently based on the motivation of the shooter! What do they do, just pass through a person harmlessly or not penetrate them at all?

Well we do know that Arlen Spector came up with the term magic bullet so who knows?

I assume you know, since you were talking about how the context matters on if a mass shooting counts as a mass shooting.

You fuckin' leftist

I do have to sort of take @Bill Carson 's side oin this particular one. The compilation of all shootings of three or more people into the term of mass shooting was made as an effort to illuminate how many of those events were out there to try and show that this is a bigger problem than people were realizing because they were not seeing as big a number associated with multiple killing incidents. I think there was a good purpose for doing that because it should be noted that incidents with three or more killings are so much more likely because of guns over other mass killing incidents. His purpose of trying to discount these events is very intellectually dishonest, but from the perspective of prevention it is good to identify the cause.

I do not know why this should not be a mass shooting incident just because a cop was involved as this was not an on duty police action and the motivations seem to align with the normal criminal acts of hatred that mass shooters go for. There is a high volume of multiple murders involved with domestic incidents where the male ends up killing the family of the female he feels he owns. That seems to be a far more common factor in one of these incidents than bullying or even right wing terrorism. Stalking, rape, and romantic relationship killing of multiple people are highly common and much more likely to effect any of us and our close ties than a school shooting.

For dipshit carson and people like @Lanzman who want to just hand out guns to every lonely incel out there, there is a pandemic of killings by emotionally disturbed males who feel they deserve to own a woman and will kill to make sure their infatuation is never allowed to be with anyone else, or even exist on her own. Federal fuckup himself should not be allowed to have a gun for his attitudes regarding women and how he is clearly an emotionally disturbed alcoholic and abuser. It is terrible that people like Lanz fight so hard for animals to get guns so they can more easily harm women who have the nerve to say no, and the families and friends who try to protect them. Domestic bullshit like that happens in every town in america right fucking now.

more oft than not, disgruntled white dude.

why is it loose?

seems pretty clear and straightforward, and differentiates the act from "multiple homicide".

although in looking up the definition (to see if there was a competing definition) it was noted that the US has 5% of the world population yet 31% of the multiple shootings/murders (along with being second to Brazil for overall gun deaths and Greenland for gun suicides).

Hey, whaddya know? For once, it’s not us having the mass shooting, it’s Italy!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/world/europe/italy-shooting.html

Italians shooting people? What the fuck has this world come to?

Six dead in Canada.

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/20/headlines/mass_shooting_leaves_six_dead_in_toronto_suburb

I'd say that's a pretty good argument for getting rid of the whole condo corporate structure and coming up with something that doesn't cost tenants and arm and a leg and gives power to a select few.

Too soon?

between this, and the guy who was staying at the shelter getting thrill killed by a bunch of grade 9s... yeah, the housing crisis is creating a type of asymmetric class war.