Running shooting thread 2023

Authorities responding to a shooting incident with multiple victims in Half Moon Bay, California | CNN

It's like 9/11 every day in America.

 

So many thoughts and prayers. We need to merge with the religion thread.

 

Or, pretty much, ban guns.

The second amendment needs to be, um, amended.

 

A bit morbid, but was that 72-year-old the oldest mass shooter/killer? I was floored when I heard 72.

 

I know! Doesn't exactly seem to fit the profile, does he? When that shooting first happened, I also was expecting a lot of speculation about how racist the shooter must be, and I know I was floored when he turned out to be of Asian heritage, much like most (all?) of the victims, too.

 

Update on those Second Amendment freedoms exercised at Half Moon Bay.

7 Dead in Shootings in Half Moon Bay

 

Northeastern University keeps a database on mass killings and I believe this guy was the third oldest ever. It's extremely rare to have a mass killer over 60. By that time murderers are usually one-offs of their partners.

 

Some people on Twitter say the media downplayed it because the shooter wasn’t white, but it hardly seemed downplayed to me.

 

That aspect of it did seem downplayed to me, but perhaps that was just because it seemed so unusual that, literally, no one knew what to make of this situation, and so, just skipped it, didn't ask about it, or look into it, etc. And yes, I do think that sometimes, racism, or the possibility of it, is overplayed in shootings, even ones where it might seem obvious that racism must have played a part.

People doing things like this are, I think, oftentimes, just angry, depressed, uncaring people in general, and they've gone off, in the worst possible way. That's it. Sometimes, I think, that's all there is to it. There's no motive, there's no reason, other than anger that they cannot handle/contain, and it finally explodes, and they weren't stopped, and don't have the moral fortitude to stop themselves.

It really is a question of "What is wrong with these people?" And there's not really any answer, even though we're desperate to find one.

But who knows? The next day, this guy might've just been that "quiet little guy" that some neighbor described on TV again. Instead, now, he's another mass murderer.

 

I think I get what you mean, but comparing repeated mass shootings to 9/11 doesn't work, at all.

Totally different things, reasons, results and impacts.

 

The main difference being is that there is no concerted effort to respond to the violence with action at the national level.

 

It led every newscast, topped every news website and was on every front page in the world.

C'mon.