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barbtries

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27. i don't care about his name.
Fri May 31, 2019, 09:11 PM
May 2019

but i want to know. was it domestic, was it work-related, was it a white supremacist or an islamic radical?

it appears this killer worked there. i really don't care about the name as much as i want to know the motivation. if the motivation is notoriety, fine. let's not say his name. but i still want to know where on the mass shooting spectrum this falls. is it another young white man? an old disgruntled POC? A suicidal jihadist or a nazi wanna-start-a-race-war shooter? an angry husband/ boyfriend? Maybe it's a woman. That would be news and I want to know it.

these are happening almost daily. sometimes i don't hear about them until the next day. there are undoubtedly mass shootings I don't even know happened, because i don't have live news. I have twitter, fb, and DU. I follow a lot of common sense gun law advocacy groups and that's where the initial news usually comes from.

i want to know when the shooter has been active on social media and possibly radicalized online. i want to know when there were warning signs, when maybe it didn't have to happen if there had been an intervention and if the guns weren't available to the shooter.

i mean these occurrences don't HAVE to happen. they didn't used to be an almost daily occurrence. there are issues in our society and the prevalence of guns is an issue to me. how are we going to fix it if we don't learn these details?

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Please, #NoNotoriety. eggplant May 2019 #1
Personally I prefer to know what's going on. Who did what with what to whom ... marble falls May 2019 #2
Preeeeetty sure eggplant was referring to the obsessive media coverage of the shooter. Jedi Guy May 2019 #24
It is important to know about the incident. eggplant May 2019 #25
i don't care about his name. barbtries May 2019 #27
"At least one dead and at least six injured" Va Lefty May 2019 #3
Multiple people hurt. CNN Vibes to them and their families. applegrove May 2019 #4
Oh, yawn. Just another day in this wonderful country. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #5
"Several" fatalities. Another day in America Va Lefty May 2019 #6
I live in Virginia Beach. nocoincidences May 2019 #7
6 people brought to hospital. Vibes to your city. applegrove May 2019 #8
thanks... Blue_Tires May 2019 #11
11 fatalities. 6 in hospital. Press conference right now. So sorry. applegrove May 2019 #12
The municipal center usually has a heavy police presence Blue_Tires May 2019 #17
Local news people nocoincidences May 2019 #9
11 fatalities. 6 in hospital. applegrove May 2019 #10
Next briefing at 9:30 Blue_Tires May 2019 #13
6:34 update says he was terminated yesterday csziggy May 2019 #20
There are 11 victims dead, but the shooter is also dead. nocoincidences May 2019 #14
Make it stop. Glimmer of Hope May 2019 #15
FUCK THE NRA and I weep for the dead, the injured and their friends and families Celerity May 2019 #16
More here bronxiteforever May 2019 #18
He went from floor to floor... BigmanPigman May 2019 #19
Yes all horrible! And the fact that our Country bronxiteforever May 2019 #21
Another example of why we need to confiscate every gun in America. It's time to end these massacres. LonePirate May 2019 #22
Some guy on TV said that we could do that BigmanPigman May 2019 #23
Every decade we do nothing puts another 100 million guns on the street. Might as well start now, Hoyt May 2019 #26
Agree! BigmanPigman May 2019 #29
My personal opinion and I've said it before, Quackers Jun 2019 #34
Exactly. Seems pretty easy to define "weapons" to encompass all that, if we don't let the lobbyists Hoyt Jun 2019 #36
You can't "buy back" what wasn't yours to begin with. appal_jack Jun 2019 #32
Solutions based in reality will be more effective hack89 Jun 2019 #31
The days for milquetoast solutions are over. Go bold or go home, as they say. LonePirate Jun 2019 #33
It will never happen so it is kind of hard to call it a "solution " hack89 Jun 2019 #35
+1000000. Those who need guns to enjoy life aren't going to give up easily, so gotta be "bold." Hoyt Jun 2019 #37
My outrage is long gone jpak May 2019 #28
Agreed. Aussie105 Jun 2019 #30
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