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Just now, Sbbruin said:

 

CSB: had a buddy a year older than me who went to USC.  I went and visited him spring break of my senior year of high school.  One of the things we did was go to a USC-UCLA baseball game (someday, I'll wax poetic for a page or two about how gorgeous the bat girls were).  When we got to our seats, I noticed that they were named after particular donors.  I sat in the Al Campanis seat, and jokingly asked my buddy if I was now obligated to make racially insensitive observations about the players for the afternoon.  We thought it was funny.  Some of the old farts sitting around us didn't.

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3 hours ago, BurgleBro said:

Terrible story.  

 

And creepy that this kid wrote so much in Russian.   Getting harder to ignore the conspiracy crap these days. 

The kid wrote mostly in English transcribed into a Russian-Cyrillic and had a few very simple phrases, words, and slogans in actual Russian. It’s clear that he was marinating in some Z corners of the internet, but noting at all suggests beyond that and the whole picture is just a jumble.

I think we are living in an era of politically adjacent but not actually politically motivated, mental illness fueled violence.  The atmosphere and inchoate rage is very reminiscent of the late 60s and 70s when the whole nation was at a permanent simmer. There’s no clear-cut political motive or thought here, but you do have a very disturbed and angry person who is clearly impacted by the overheated rhetoric and environment. 

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4 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Absolutely grotesque stuff especially considering the strategic omission of the killer’s clear Russia-curiosity. This crew makes me want to vomit.

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I mean, this could be worse, honestly. Seems like a statement of fact, but maybe not complete facts. It's still too early to know anything, really. In no way giving cross-eyes mcgee a pass here, but I don't see alarm in what he wrote.

Interestingly no mention of the shooter being trans, but I guess we're just going to let those accusations go unfettered and unpunished around here.

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1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I mean, this could be worse, honestly. Seems like a statement of fact, but maybe not complete facts. It's still too early to know anything, really. In no way giving cross-eyes mcgee a pass here, but I don't see alarm in what he wrote.

Interestingly no mention of the shooter being trans, but I guess we're just going to let those accusations go unfettered and unpunished around here.

He made sure to call him the “male subject” (which, whatever but it is noticeable) and he made sure that all the facts released align with a narrative that the kid was anti-Trump and anti-MAGA. And it’s all well before any responsible investigator should be making these types of leading comments, and it’s missing other key elements here.  You can see the narrative shaping and it’s very manipulative. 

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Just now, 956 Worldwide said:

He made sure to call him the “male subject” (which, whatever but it is noticeable) and he made sure that all the facts released align with a narrative that the kid was anti-Trump and anti-MAGA. And it’s all well before any responsible investigator should be making these types of leading comments, and it’s missing other key elements here.  You can see the narrative shaping and it’s very manipulative. 

fair enough. it just doesn't rise to the level of alarm as some other things going on, I guess, for me

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Just now, Mo Horn said:

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-annunciation-catholic-school-shooting-08-28-25#cmevrwvqu00003b6sbidzl9pp

116 rounds fired. Why the fuck does anyone need the capacity to fire this many rounds, in any situation, other than a battlefield? Anyone who believes they should can go fuck themselves

Look, it’s very important that regular citizens be armed to take action in case the government ever becomes fascist. You’ll be grateful to your armed neighbors once the military is patrolling the streets, banners praising the dear leader appear, and the government starts taking control of private companies. 

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https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-annunciation-catholic-school-shooting-08-28-25#cmevrwvqu00003b6sbidzl9pp
116 rounds fired. Why the fuck does anyone need the capacity to fire this many rounds, in any situation, other than a battlefield? Anyone who believes they should can go fuck themselves

Gun apologists should be along to explain why. I guess they are busy with their prayers.
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40 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Look, it’s very important that regular citizens be armed to take action in case the government ever becomes fascist. You’ll be grateful to your armed neighbors once the military is patrolling the streets, banners praising the dear leader appear, and the government starts taking control of private companies. 

Surely that will never happen. 

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"It's not guns, it's people." - my contrarian uncle who has never shot or owned a firearm. 

Well yeah, humans created the firearm. Should we have the ability to restrict access as well, or just succumb to our own inventions? Apparently guns have more agency than we do? Fuck off. The world has gone mad. 

 

 

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Jesus.  My wife and I just watched a CBS Sunday morning segment by Steve Hartman on the empty bedrooms of the victims of these shootings.  So many of them left completely untouched 3, 5, 10 years later.  Parents struggle with repurposing the rooms and losing the connection to their child.  It was gutting to watch.  We both had tears streaming down our faces.  I recommend finding that segment.  I think they said they are making a Netflix doc out of it.  This fucking country.

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2 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

Jesus.  My wife and I just watched a CBS Sunday morning segment by Steve Hartman on the empty bedrooms of the victims of these shootings.  So many of them left completely untouched 3, 5, 10 years later.  Parents struggle with repurposing the rooms and losing the connection to their child.  It was gutting to watch.  We both had tears streaming down our faces.  I recommend finding that segment.  I think they said they are making a Netflix doc out of it.  This fucking country.

Sounds like emotional libtard bullshit.  Why do you hate alpha males who care about what really matters -- lots of guns?

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If this is painful to watch for those of us who have not yet been personally affected by gun violence, can you imagine the agony of these parents?

 

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2 hours ago, Satchel said:

If this is painful to watch for those of us who have not yet been personally affected by gun violence, can you imagine the agony of these parents?

 

It was gutting to watch.  I just can’t fathom that loss.

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On 8/28/2025 at 2:38 PM, Mo Horn said:

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-annunciation-catholic-school-shooting-08-28-25#cmevrwvqu00003b6sbidzl9pp

116 rounds fired. Why the fuck does anyone need the capacity to fire this many rounds, in any situation, other than a battlefield? Anyone who believes they should can go fuck themselves

I guess we should be thankful that the typical mass shooter is a terrible shot.  Seems like a lot of these incidents should have much higher body counts based on the number of rounds fired.

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12 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I guess we should be thankful that the typical mass shooter is a terrible shot.  Seems like a lot of these incidents should have much higher body counts based on the number of rounds fired.

We can probably thank human biology for that, as it's not as simple as pointing and shooting.

Engaging any large living target to kill causes a massive adrenaline rush, even with training. I don't know if you've ever been a deer hunter, but "buck fever" is real and very difficult to suppress even for the most seasoned hunter.

I hate to even give the impression that I'm drawing a comparison between game hunting and mass shooters, but the point is I imagine that the flood of adrenaline in your system that makes you jittery and makes your hands shaky as fuck sometimes when you're hunting is amplified tenfold in a situation like this, unless you have had A) a complete psychotic break in which your brain is not functioning/producing hormones normally, and/or B) extensive military training.

Someone like Charles Whitman would be a good example of both.

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3 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I guess we should be thankful that the typical mass shooter is a terrible shot.  Seems like a lot of these incidents should have much higher body counts based on the number of rounds fired.

A lot of the decrease in the homicide rate in America is due to better trauma care and not fewer shootings. We started getting good in the gang land 1990s and the GWOT experience made us excellent. 

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51 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

A lot of the decrease in the homicide rate in America is due to better trauma care and not fewer shootings. We started getting good in the gang land 1990s and the GWOT experience made us excellent. 

Reminds me of a story my dad told me when he had ER surgery duty in Miami back during the days of the cocaine cowboys. Someone pulled up to the ER with a guy in the trunk riddled with bullet wounds. They dumped him on the drive and drove off. 
 

He survived. 

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