Mass shooting on campus in Oregon

#UCCShooting

 

The NRA has won. I am in the office and busy. I have a TV in here and usually have it tuned to CNN. But today, like I said, I'm busy, so it's been off. Normally, I'm a breaking news junkie. A little while ago, I got the CNN Breaking News alert in my email, thought "oh, another shooting" and went back to work without even thinking about putting on the TV. These things are now so commonplace that I shrugged it off. #ugh

 

Yeah, sounds like you guys are really broken up over these deaths.

 

Price of freedom.

Can't wait to see what the Oregonian desk does with it.

 

Just wait until somebody suggests that something actually be done to prevent such murders in the future.

 

This is from last year, but it's pretty useful.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

 

If we got rid of guns, these people would just fly planes into schools. We've seen it before.

 

So long as local, state and federal law enforcement officers are busy playing war with all manner of weaponry for routine patrols, I don't see there being any compelling movement from the citizenry to change anything.

It has to start with disarming the police on a day-to-day basis. We're in a postmodern age. It's learned behavior for these disaffected assholes.

And you will never - and I mean ever - figure out who all the disaffected assholes are, round them up, treat them, and then make that treatment work 100 percent, and then somehow pay for all that treatment in a way that doesn't infringe on the right of the 1% to buy another yacht. Short of Minority Report, that isn't happening.

The guns are the weapons of mass murder. They're what make the killing easy, and that makes killing worth it, the ease and celebrity of it.

Oh, and the day we stop publicizing these events, these mass deaths that with American tolls routinely higher than that of Benghazi, we become a house organ pretending Chernobyl didn't happen.

 

That nails it. It's maddening how we willfully ignore the glaringly obvious question of why this happens so immensely more here than than the rest of the developed first world. Gee ...what's different between us and them? t's a mystery....

 

Your tax dollars at work:

 

Oregon college shooting: Shooter asks students their religion, report says

Shooter apparently asked people to stand up and state their religion.

 

Do any Vegas books have a line on what religion the shooter might be?