*sighs, turns over "DAYS SINCE LAST MASS SHOOTING IN AMERICA" sign to 0*
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GasBandit
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BTW, you hear about this Hitler guy? Someone should really stop him!
... Yes? They cheer every single anti-social that comes through the /b/-like boards. They cheer on when people talk about committing suicide. They cheer on when people plan bomb threats. They cheer on when people dox and harass random targets. It's not unique to 4chan, or to *chan boards, or even English boards. Remember Marcus Jannes and Flashback? Elliot Rodgers and PUAHate? So on so forth.
GasBandit
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It's also not new.
Mass shootings are being reported more, but aren't increasing in actual number, really.
Granted, the measurement ends in 2010, but it's not like the whole "huge surge in mass shootings" rhetoric is only 5 years old or less.
Some context:It's also not new.
Mass shootings are being reported more, but aren't increasing in actual number, really.
Granted, the measurement ends in 2010, but it's not like the whole "huge surge in mass shootings" rhetoric is only 5 years old or less.
Dave's graphic claims nearly 300 mass shootings (4+ injured or killed by gunfire) this past year. A resource for historical numbers (2.75 years' worth) according to this definition here: http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Main_Page
USA Today (and the FBI) have a different definition, by which we're at around 18 shootings this year. This has data for the past decade (up to today): http://www.gannett-cdn.com/GDContent/mass-killings/index.html#explore
Looks like GasBandit's graphic (http://www.boston.com/community/blogs/crime_punishment/2013/01/mass_shootings_not_trending.html) uses the FBI definition, so the website above should allow you to see the continuation of that trend (select shootings as method, and type year in filter):
2006 24
2007 20
2008 27
2009 24
2010 19
2011 24
2012 22
2013 24
2014 18
2015 18 thus far
Years overlapping with GB's graphic match, at least from where I'm standing.
It's already a meme, here's a derivative announcement about shooting up the University of Edinburgh:
Police have already been contacted, it looks like. You can google "4chan 22808326" for relevant chatter. Edgy edgelords gonna edge. Hope they can v& the OP.
Police have already been contacted, it looks like. You can google "4chan 22808326" for relevant chatter. Edgy edgelords gonna edge. Hope they can v& the OP.
GasBandit
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My knowledge of anon lingo is years out of date, but I'm assuming v& is like b&, but instead of getting banned from the messageboard, you're banned from life because the cops put you in a van?
Aye. It's pretty old jargon. From what I can recall, it originated back when the FBI PARTY VAN meme was beginning to get stale... I'm guessing late 'naughts? Fuck I feel old.
The POTUS has weighed in on the shooting. It's fairly meta, and for good reason.
Phew. I'm glad we're just steadily consistent in having this happen more than any other developed country.It's also not new.
Mass shootings are being reported more, but aren't increasing in actual number, really.
Granted, the measurement ends in 2010, but it's not like the whole "huge surge in mass shootings" rhetoric is only 5 years old or less.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
I could swear the Onion has published this same article 10+ times, and just changes the blurb on the first paragraph about the specific shooting referenced.
It's not even worth commenting on any more. Because barring taking action none of us have the authority to take, and no one in in actual power has the balls to, nothing of substance will be done.
And the inevitable WARGLBARGL will spiral into the usual "Enough already!" "We need guns to fight the big bad gub'mint!" "No more dead kids!" "You're all suckers in a target rich environment!" "FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT!! FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT!!" carousel.
And the inevitable WARGLBARGL will spiral into the usual "Enough already!" "We need guns to fight the big bad gub'mint!" "No more dead kids!" "You're all suckers in a target rich environment!" "FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT!! FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT!!" carousel.
GasBandit
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Apparently the shooter asked victims if they were christians, and if they said yes, he shot them in the head... otherwise he aimed to wound.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ans-for-killing-in-horrific-act-of-cowardice/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ans-for-killing-in-horrific-act-of-cowardice/
If the 4chann story gets out, it will cause the media to refer to Anonymous as a terrorist organization.
I'm pretty sure they've done that in the past already.
GasBandit
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Oh it's out, Megan McCain was all over it last night on her radio show.
Pretty sure the people who were shot because they were Christian weren't too keen on getting killed, either.
Killing Christians is likely as true as it was at Columbine. This guy had 8 minutes to question and shoot 30 people.[DOUBLEPOST=1443810854,1443810819][/DOUBLEPOST]
But in the past they were branded terrorists for ordering pizza.
When 60 minutes debuted to huge ratings and made giant piles of cash.
GasBandit
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I tend to agree with this.
Yeah, I think we're all in agreement: the 24-hour news cycle made it so you didn't have time to research anything... if you weren't talking about it already, you weren't getting views and thus not getting paid. It doesn't help that they have to fill time whether there is news or not, so we often get crap disguised as news.
I do not want my news providers censoring themselves at the direction of the police and the government.. I'm surprised, GasBandit, that you are even implying that CNN should do so. You're slipping
Not that CNN even approaches the journalistic standards of FYI.
National News reporting on mass shootings increase the chances of whither mass shooting happening in the next two weeksI do not want my news providers censoring themselves at the direction of the police and the government.. I'm surprised, GasBandit, that you are even implying that CNN should do so. You're slipping
Not that CNN even approaches the journalistic standards of FYI.
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Would you limit free speech to protect against gun violence? Gassy doesn't even want to limit gun ownership for that cause.
GasBandit
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Free speech doesn't mean you aren't a shit for what you choose to say. And I never said to censor CNN, I said they were shit. But I know you're just straw manning my argument because you think it's funny to pull at my political strings.
