Another day, another mass shooting in America

[jlw1980]

Another one in Texas. And they don't care.

[jlw1980]

A drunk man murdered five people, including two children. When the neighbors asked him to stop shooting (!!) late at night so their infant could sleep, he walked over to the house and shot five of them execution-style. Some children survived because their mothers covered them with their own bodies.

Just another day in the greatest country on earth! /s

💔😡

[JL25and3]

Well it did get 2 representatives kicked out for hurting the NRAs feelings with a mega phone.

And it’s registered very much with right-wing commentators, because it showed that the real problem is trans people.

[Yankee Tripper]

Nashville had dead children and even that barely registered. 😔

Well it did get 2 representatives kicked out for hurting the NRAs feelings with a mega phone.

[jlw1980]

Eh. Only five, and all adults. Doesn’t even register.

Nashville had dead children and even that barely registered. 😔

[JL25and3]

Five dead. Este pais es basura.

Eh. Only five, and all adults. Doesn’t even register.

[jlw1980]

Five dead. Este pais es basura.

[HfxBob]

I skimmed an article the other day that said one of the biggest sources of illegally owned guns in the US is guns stolen from parked vehicles!

The numbers are insane. It kind of says it all about how bad the situation is.

[HfxBob]

I wish like hell that I could leave. This country is never going to decide to step out of the trashcan and join civilization. It's never going to protect children the way "pro-life" people claim to do.

I do believe there are a lot of people who are both pro-life but anti-gun, like my wife.

But I am definitely coming around to the opinion that if you're pro-gun you're not pro-life.

[jlw1980]

Ah, got it. Had not seen that before.

According to a couple of sources, they were biologically female but identified as a man. CNN says their gender identity is "unclear." Most sources I read are still using she/her. It's still quite unusual since males, specifically cis men, commit the vast majority of mass shootings. The cops wouldn't discuss a motive, but I'm curious if it's related to gender identity and being a former student at a conservative, religious school. Not that it really matters. Six people, including three children, are dead.

I'm not trans, but I experienced a whole lot of misogyny at a southern baptist high school. "It's not less than; it's just different," they say. BS. Don't tell me that I must be submissive and then try to tell me I'm still an equal in the same sentence. Between that and growing up in Foursquare and AG churches, patriarchal institutions within a deeply patriarchal society, the trauma is very real.

Anyway, I can imagine that being a motive of sorts, particularly if the murderer faced that bigotry at the school. Obviously none of it is motive for gunning down children. Kids have nothing to do with the way right-wing, evangelical Christianity views people who aren't cis-het men. This incident was also unusual in the sense that it's really rare for this type of evil to occur at private schools.

Three 9-year-old babies are gone. The adults were in their early sixties.

As Tex said, this is a choice. There truly is a large, loud, contingent of the US population who thinks that their right to own semiautomatic firearms is more important than children's lives. My heart aches like hell for these babies' parents.

The cynic in me can't help but think, "I guess this has nothing to do with 'taking god out of schools,' does it? Maybe it's the guns."

I wish like hell that I could leave. This country is never going to decide to step out of the trashcan and join civilization. It's never going to protect children the way "pro-life" people claim to do.

[Yankee Tripper]

Police named the shooter, Audrey Hale. They identify as he/him.

Ah, got it. Had not seen that before.

[ClownPickle]

???

Police named the shooter, Audrey Hale. They identify as he/him.

[Yankee Tripper]

Not woman. He/him.

Police initially said the shooter appeared to be in her teens but later said she is a 28-year-old White woman who lives in Nashville. Police Chief John Drake said his initial findings showed she was at one point a student at the school. A vehicle was located nearby and gave clues as to the suspect’s identity, he added.

???

[ClownPickle]

Teenage girl joins the conversation as 6 dead including aforementioned shooter at Tennessee elementary school.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/27/us/co...see/index.html

Updated - not a teen, 28 year old woman.

Not woman. He/him.

[Texsahara]

Did you mean Lady-da?

But yeah just another depressing day in who we are in America.

Yep. It doesn't have to be this way. This is a choice.