unclevlad Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Some whackjob just walked into the Table Mesa King Soopers and shot up the place. At least 6 dead, IIRC. Including one police officer. They have a suspect in custody. It's even a little more freaky cuz...it's less than 2 miles south of the CU campus, and I graduated from CU. So, while it's been a long time, I've been there. I just hope with all my heart that this isn't the start of another Really Bad Year for shootings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Damn it. I don't know what else to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted March 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Yeah. I don't recall hearing much about incidents like this last year...and I was concerned we would...but Covid Rage might've been swallowed up and channeled into other things. Cuz the crazies are coming out now. Another story: a man tackled a 12 year old kid at a Micky D's, and inflicted a critical wound. The kid is listed in stable condition now, thankfully, but geeze. Story from a local station makes me think the attacker's rather NOT right in the head, but that to me just suggests he's probably easier to send over the edge...it doesn't consider what sent him over the edge...and whether similar factors are just starting to create a sick trend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Yep, life is getting back to normal. 😢 Dean Shomshak mattingly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Any bets on what the “motive” was? Workplace shooting? Voices in my head? Proud Boy initiation? Jewish orbital mind control lasers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 If it's Boulder, gotta be the robot sea monsters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Cancer said: If it's Boulder, gotta be the robot sea monsters. Not Nessie-cerily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 5 hours ago, Old Man said: Any bets on what the “motive” was? Workplace shooting? Voices in my head? Proud Boy initiation? Jewish orbital mind control lasers? I gather that because it was a Rothschild space laser, and the family is all intermarried, it was, crucially, not a Jewish space laser. I'm sure we're all glad to have the troubling clouds of anti-Semitism dispelled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 10 hours ago, Old Man said: Any bets on what the “motive” was? Workplace shooting? Voices in my head? Proud Boy initiation? Jewish orbital mind control lasers? The Atlanta thing was easy. The early front runner appears to be "getting rid of temptations". The guy was a member of the Crabapple (city) First Baptist Church's youth group. And the police are saying that it's related to the guy's sex addiction. The places were all massage parlors (which are historically often thinly-veiled sex shops) and the majority of the victims were Asian employees. So apparently the 21 year old kid was killing the beautiful Asian women who were "tempting him into sin". The Boulder grocery store shooting is tougher to analyze. According to the editor of the CU-Boulder campus newspaper who was a witness from her apartment across the street, the incident started with multiple shots fired in the store's parking lot. By the time the witness made it to her window, she could see the shooter waving his gun around wildly like he wasn't very familiar with using it or was very panicked. Then the shooter moved into the store and started shooting while shoppers and employees came pouring out the door. That's weird for a workplace shooting unless the guy just happened to see a hated employee in the parking lot. I'd chalk it up to voices in his head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Yeah crazy evil people. Last time some freak who was angry at the hookers he visited, and this week a lunatic Muslim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 But God bless the second amendment...😑 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 44 minutes ago, Dr. MID-Nite said: But God bless the second amendment...😑 Dr. MID-Nite and Lawnmower Boy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 Looks like “violent incel nutjob” this time. Weapon was likely an AR-15, specifically a Ruger AR-556 “pistol” with an “arm brace” (wink wink nudge nudge). Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted March 23, 2021 Report Share Posted March 23, 2021 This just in, the suspect has a very Middle Eastern sounding name: Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. I wonder how big a deal that's going to be in certain quarters in the next few weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 31 minutes ago, Pariah said: This just in, the suspect has a very Middle Eastern sounding name: Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. I wonder how big a deal that's going to be in certain quarters in the next few weeks. Wall to wall coverage on my neighbor's eternally-on Fox News monitor. And on right wing online sites like Daily Beast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 From what I have seen on TV the fellow was out of it. Someone recorded inside the store while hiding and he sounded like he was babbling and taking shots. I am sure we'll here more later this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 Everyone now loves to talk about "mental illness" (mostly as a defense mechanism) in the wake of a mass shooting, but virtually no one talks about a specific form of mental illness: the obsession with firearms. Scratch that: the obsession with firearms and this Wild West mentality where every man (or woman) with a piece is a gunslinger/sheriff/marshal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted March 26, 2021 Report Share Posted March 26, 2021 The suspected shooter in Monday’s attack at a Boulder supermarket that left 10 people dead purchased his firearm at a local gun store after passing a background check, according to authorities and the shop owner. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/545122-store-owner-says-that-boulder-suspect-bought-his-gun-after-passing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 ...and now we can add Orange County, California to the list. And this particular piece of human fecal matter made sure the exits were locked before he began shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 3, 2021 Report Share Posted April 3, 2021 And today (last night, technically) we've had 4 fatalities and 3 injuries at a party in Wilmington, NC. Where does it end? How does it end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 I’m thinking “It doesn’t end”. We have had a dozen or more multiple shooting events in 2 weeks. Seven in the week between Atlanta and Colorado. These are just the ones making the news cycle. It happens regularly and has a long time. Current restrictions due to COVID exacerbating the situation, if that’s what is happening, is unsurprising. People all over the nation are very upset, from all walks of life. But who really can say definitively? I’m glad they’re reducing the media coverage of the shooter themselves. That’s consistent with guidelines. So “thoughts and prayers”, I guess. Don’t expect to experience meaningful change on this issue personally. Maybe some relatively minor firearms regulation, maybe not. It’s very sad we cannot meaningfully address this. We cannot as a nation even meaningfully agree on the problem. Let alone a solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 33 minutes ago, Iuz the Evil said: It’s very sad we cannot meaningfully address this. We cannot as a nation even meaningfully agree on the problem. Let alone a solution. You'd think we could at least end the government ban on even collecting gun violence data. But the issue is so polarized that it's become dogmatic to many. In another forum, I mentioned that the grocery store shooter used an AR-pattern firearm that fired assault rifle rounds, and the pro-gunners jumped all over me because there's no such thing as an "assault rifle round". Because they'd rather words have no meaning than debate the issue at hand. You can't have a meaningful discussion with people who are going to go full disingenuous right off the bat, and I'm sure that was the entire point. (They also pointed out that the round is only good for varmint hunting, hours after the shooter killed ten 'varmints' in a grocery store. I found that to be remarkably insensitive even for a gun regulation discussion.) Iuz the Evil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 The central problem with American society/culture is that it's nearly impossible to have a real dialogue on *any* meaningful subject. The polarization is almost complete. Dr. MID-Nite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 2 hours ago, unclevlad said: The central problem with American society/culture is that it's nearly impossible to have a real dialogue on *any* meaningful subject. The polarization is almost complete. I was considering this just this past month. In any reasonable context I find myself easily identifiable as a 100% dyed in the wool liberal. Traditional liberal positions on most all major positions. But there’s couple I just do not agree with. I find several popular positions of the party poorly supported by logic. Or an appeal to emotion vs logic. Or not the role of government. But that is intolerable these days. You are all in, across the entire party line, or you are a political enemy to be destroyed. It’s a bit pathetic really. There’s no room for political nuance in either party... Lee and Starlord 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 4, 2021 Report Share Posted April 4, 2021 9 minutes ago, Iuz the Evil said: It’s a bit pathetic really. There’s no room for political nuance in either party... First past the post voting virtually guarantees that there will be only two parties (effectively) to choose from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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