Running shooting thread 2023

Double dman @doctorquant. That encounter is eerie. I hadn’t kept up with the story today and didn’t understand the “22 letter” reference until I had a chance to catch up. Triple damn.

Thanks for sharing.

 

Wow, it's been two whole weeks since this thread was at the top of page one.

 

Two questions: Da faq? And why the hell is the SRO using the student bathroom?

 

America's latest export.

 

Awful.

Sounds like Charles Whitman at Texas years ago.

How Prague bloodbath unfolded: Lone gunman armed with a sniper rifle killed his father then picked people off from roof top during hour-long rampage that ended when elite cops stormed university and found student dead | Daily Mail Online

 

There's never a mass shooting where we really need one, like at a CPAC conference.

 

A record DROP in homicides in 2023. So in addition to the economy - people just prefer to think things are worse than they are.

Homicide numbers poised to hit a record decline nationwide. But most Americans think murder is on the rise

 

I wonder if the steady stream of diarrhea from CNN, Fox News, etc. telling them how awful things are has anything to do with it.

 

"If it bleeds, it leads" has been the universal local TV news mantra for half a century. And many more people watch it than watch cable news.