Time for a new "Yet Another Mass Shooting Thread"

Last post old thread. . .

First post new thread . . .

And "mass shootings" are the one thing that no "supply chain" issue will ever disrupt in the U. S. of A.

 

The suspect, Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old White man, was given a warning and promised not to shoot people again before being released into the custody of Fox News. His weapon was unharmed.

 

Obama's been gone for 5 1/2 yrs. It's time to shift the blame to Biden.

 

Where are the parents?

 

Probably somewhere thinking they didn't really expect him to follow through

 

Can he find a Rittenhouse judge?

 

I'd be surprised.
I've liked Hochul so far,but I haven't heard any actual condemnation from her yet.

 

I don't like her as I don't trust Hamburg/suburban moms of her ilk. She approved the stadium sale which is an absolute fleecing. I miss Cuomo. He was the right kind of asshole for NY State.

 

His aides don't miss Cuomo.

The real question is - how NYC hasn't had a female mayor ever? Adams is a complete assclown and they could've had Maya Wiley

 

I'm Adams is a Bait and Switch. Once a Narc always a narc

 

Another edition of Harvard not sending us their best

Buffalo shooting came 8 months after NY newspaper warned of congresswoman's racist conspiracy theory - https://t.co/124cAyWf4q

— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) May 15, 2022

 

Must be nice to be able to kill with the keyboard. She knew someone would be reading her garbage.

 

More good people lost

She was unapologetic about making sure our community was not ignored," Grant said.

Kat Massey wrote for both the Buffalo Challenger and Buffalo Criterion and was a frequent letter writer to The News.

A year ago, she penned a letter in support of more federal regulation of firearms, in which she talked about both urban street violence and mass shootings.

"There needs to be extensive federal action/legislation to address all aspects of the issue," she wrote. "Current pursued remedies mainly inspired by mass killings – namely, universal background checks and banning assault weapons – essentially exclude the sources of our city’s gun problems. Illegal handguns, via out of state gun trafficking, are the primary culprits."

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/...cle_dba74fde-d472-11ec-b4dd-2316614c1f56.html

 

1 killed, 5 wounded in shooting at California church: Authorities (msn.com)

 

We’re on a roll!

NPR published this story today and by this evening it was already dated - We are now at 200 mass shootings in 2022 so far. https://t.co/xTCVg4WvJv https://t.co/Lst2NUBQxD

— Andrea Diaz (@Drea__Diaz) May 15, 2022

 

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) — A man who opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church on Sunday was detained by parishioners, according to a sheriff’s official who called their intervention an act of “exceptional heroism and bravery.”

One person was killed and four others were critically wounded at Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods, Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials said.

The suspect in the shooting, an Asian man in his 60s, was in custody and deputies recovered two handguns at the scene, Undersheriff Jeff Hallock said. A motive for the shooting wasn’t immediately known but investigators don’t believe the gunman lives in the community, Hallock said.

The majority of those inside the church at the time were believed to be of Taiwanese descent, said Carrie Braun, a sheriff’s spokesperson.

Between 30 and 40 people were gathered for lunch after a morning church service when gunfire erupted shortly before 1:30 p.m., officials said. When deputies arrived, parishioners had the gunman hog-tied and in custody.

“That group of churchgoers displayed what we believe is exceptional heroism and bravery in intervening to stop the suspect. They undoubtedly prevented additional injuries and fatalities,” Hallock said. “I think it’s safe to say that had people not intervened, it could have been much worse.”

 

Yeah, we don't believe in life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness in 'Merica.

And this is spot on

 

The fact that this man wasn’t white is going to upset a number of posters here.

You guys know I’m right.

 

Garbage poster = Garbage post.

 

And yet you repped the glib post right above mine, proving my point.

 

Point out the lie in it then

 

White Fear! At the end, it is all linked to their fear for losing power.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...acist-great-replacement-donald-trump-1353509/

Once you understand an obsession with racial composition and white fertility to be the driving engine of Republican politics, a number of seemingly disparate movements begin to fit together into an ugly whole. Some aspects are obvious: The anti-immigrant movement that has seen U.S. refugee admissions at historic lows and asylum seekers marooned in purgatorial camps in Mexico continues to dominate the right-wing airwaves. Historic levels of gerrymandering are ensuring that a diversifying populace remains beholden to the views of a white minority — alongside openly antidemocratic restrictions on voting and changes in election administration.

Other aspects are more veiled, but no less vitriolic. Years of fearmongering about transgender rights, and in particular their influence on youth, are linked to fears of waning fertility: anti-trans demagogues like Abigail Shrier describe trans bodies as “maimed and sterile,” and, as such, a chief motivation for the legion of anti-trans laws passed by state legislatures is the future fertility of trans children born female. The violent antifeminism of a far-right movement that sees women principally as vessels for breeding a new white generation expresses itself in a fixation on a return to “traditional” gender roles. And the culmination of generations of right-wing activism, which will secure the “domestic supply of infants,” as Justice Samuel Alito memorably put it, is poised to arrive in the form of the dissolution of Roe v. Wade. Payton Gendron, and those like him, are listening: like Brenton Tarrant, the mass shooter at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Gendron opened his manifesto with a screed on the supposedly apocalyptic consequences of “sub-replacement fertility rates” among white women.

In his manifesto, Gendron claims to have acted alone, while in the same breath admitting, “I’ve had many influences from others.” The 180 pages of the document reveal the breadth of those influences: it is largely pastiche, with page upon page of racist and antisemitic memes compiled in repulsive collages; collections of scientific studies of I.Q. differentials between racist groups; screenshots and links to news articles that confirm his prejudices; and segments of other manifestos, including Tarrant’s, bloat a thin line of racist scrawl. He may have, as he claims, become radicalized by over-enthused browsing of the Internet’s sewers, principally 4chan. But his fixations mirror those of the right wing more broadly, from violent transphobia to a loathing of immigration to a preoccupation with the possibility of civil war.

When the rhetoric of an entire movement devolves into Manichaean demonization of their political foes; when demographic shifts are represented as apocalyptic; and when a party can appeal to nothing but the consolidation of white power, it is an inevitability that such rhetoric will leave bodies in its wake. The Republican Party caters chiefly now to those who claim that to be born the wrong color is an act of genocide, and act with appropriate fervor. There has never been a lone wolf when it comes to racist terror in the United States; it suffuses every aspect of our politics and policy, and in latter years the mass howl of fear at change comes from a jaw that drips with blood. As long as we fail to recognize the wellspring of racial animus that animates the right wing in this country, the corpses will continue to accrue.​