This year is the deadliest year ever in terms of mass shootings. In a political climate of polarization, it becomes harder to suss out legitimate information from the misinformation propagated by those with political agendas. Complicating this more is the continual resistance of 2nd amendment advocates to allow for political talk surrounding these massacres. This will involve political discussion to see if there are ways we can all agree might be good ways to prevent mass shootings.
This discussion should involve the details of any current, or future mass shooting, and how they compare to past mass shootings. How are they the same? How are they different? Do gun laws have an impact? Does the race of the shooter affect how we treat them? What makes one a hate crime and one an act or terrorism? Are these shootings the price of freedom?
Teamamericaf*ckyeahgerhoffen?
/ cynicalsarcasm
There has to be some long-ass German word that captures the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you find out that one of the survivors of Sandy Hook is now old enough to be in college and they just so happen to go to Michigan State University...
It is ridiculously possible that a student could conceivably have attended Sandy Hook, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, and MSU for all three shootings.
Do republicans even bother with "thoughts and prayers" now or do they just ignore these things?
At least 3 children killed in school shooting, hospital confirms
At least three students are dead from gunshot wounds suffered at the Covenant School in Nashville, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt tells CNN affiliates, WTVF, WZTV.All three of the students were pronounced dead after arrival at the hospital.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed the shooter was dead earlier.
Can't wait to hear how the shooting is because Democrats took god out of this *check notes* private Christian school.
Girl shooter this time. That’s different.
Last year's Christmas card photo for Andy Ogles, the new U.S. Representative for the freshly redistricted Tennessee 5th District (went from D+7 to R+9) where the shooting happened.
Yes. Rep Andy Ogles who is now over that district because Tenn gerrymandered the sh*t out of Nashville for 2022.
Also, his family Christmas card:
Can't wait to hear how the shooting is because Democrats took god out of this *check notes* private Christian school.
Already seeing tweets about it being a soft target because of no school resource officer. But if you've watched John Oliver you know that SROs are only there to harass minority students.
3 adults were killed too apparently.
Covenant School shooting updates: 3 children, 3 adults dead after woman opens fire in Nashville
Yes. Rep Andy Ogles who is now over that district because Tenn gerrymandered the sh*t out of Nashville for 2022.
there are your "thoughts and prayers," at least.
The only prayer to be given in this instance is in relief the body count was *only* 6. Shooter apparently had 2 ARs and a pistol. Could have been much worse.
Anyway as an outsider to the US gun discussion I've become apathetic to US gun murder apathy. It's basically at a point where I just wouldn't holiday in the US on the remotest possiblity of getting swept up in gun violence.
Looks like we have a name Audrey Hale.
Reports now emerging that the shooter was a transgender man. I am sure that the right wing folks will use that in some really unsavory ways.
Hard to think of anything more angry white dude than shooting up a school.
Reports now emerging that the shooter was a transgender man. I am sure that the right wing folks will use that in some really unsavory ways.
I'm already worried enough about how LGBTQ+ communities and members are treated. This makes me even more concerned for their welfare.
Paleocon wrote:Reports now emerging that the shooter was a transgender man. I am sure that the right wing folks will use that in some really unsavory ways.
I'm already worried enough about how LGBTQ+ communities and members are treated. This makes me even more concerned for their welfare.
Any legit sources for this? Because the 4chan/rDonald types have tried to blame most of the recent mass shootings on the same trans woman.
*Edit* Have now seen legitimate reporting on this.
From sources other than the police?
The Covenant School Shooter and Right-Wing Disinformation
The following is a piece that boils out the current known facts about the shooting at the Covenant Christian school in Nashville, TN, on Monday, March 27th. The shooting has become fodder for a right-wing culture war, and disinformation is rampant, so we felt a text-based piece would be useful to accompany the podcast episode on the subject.
Here is the story in brief: Audrey Hale, 28, entered a private Christian school in Nashville this Monday morning and killed three nine year old students and three adult staff members in their 60s including the “Head of School” Dr. Katherine Koonce. Hale shot through a side door to gain entry into the school and was armed with at least two “assault-style rifles and a handgun,” according to Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron. Some reports suggest one of the rifles was actually an AR-15 style pistol (both weapons are close to identical in this situation).
As the shooter made their way through the first and second floors of the school they fired multiple shots, seemingly at random, before being killed by police on the school's second floor.
Police statements following the shooting were varied and inconsistent. Initially police claimed the shooter was a teenager, but minutes later changed course and described them as a 28 year old woman. Nashville Police Chief John Drake eventually identified the shooter as Audrey Hale, 28, of Nashville. The chief added that Hale “identifies as transgender.”
Both police and most media continued to refer to the shooter as a woman, with NBC printing “Nashville police said the accused Covenant School shooter was a transgender woman,” possibly based on a statement by Police Chief Drake that he gave while answering a question regarding if the shooter was a transgender man or woman.
Some time later, USA Today revised their coverage and reported, “Police identified the attacker as Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, a transgender man who was assigned female at birth.”
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