But..... This headline

[scheming daemons]

wow

[Wellstone ruled]

1. The new normal

that should have not happened. Thanks to the hate crowd we now have a Reality that our leadership is using for their own ends.

[brush]

2. That's CRAZY. Going to school is now dangerous. Fu_k the NRA.

[Initech]

15. Going pretty much anywhere is dangerous. Fuck the NRA!

Just stay home and play video games.

[JI7]

3. this is why we need to build the wall

[Hugin]

4. Interesting...

During my daily involuntary exposure to Faux & Frauds yesterday morning the scroll said it was the first of the year. An outright lie. Why am I not surprised.

(Note: My daily exposure to Faux is due to my life here in Trumptopia. It is impossible for me to go through my daily routine without a Faux sighting. I've tried. Dystopian stories have their "Big Brother", we have Faux. )

[LuckyLib]

5. Your fellow DUers offer our sympathy. On the

rare occasions when I catch even a few minutes (every two or three years, maybe) I am simply amazed. It is drivel combined with talk overs. Reminds me of when we would watch Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker for entertainment because they were so outrageous it was as if they were from Mars. And now Faux is a daily diet of millions.

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. Is it possible there was a unique aspect to this one?

The shooter, or all the victims being white, for example? The only one recent enough to still reside in their tiny, tiny collective forebrain?

[Hugin]

13. Faux reports are never completely un-true. That's what makes them so dangerous and misleading.

I'm sure if someone were to call them on it, they would reveal some fine point which went unstated in the bumper stickers they call reporting.

Like "The first shooting this year in KY" or "The first shooting in an Eastern State". Total nonsense and hair splitting.

But, the effect they are seeking is pure misinformation and propaganda. Designed to mislead viewers and create a desired narrative, instead of informing of events.

These are exactly the type of shenanigans which are addressed in the oath, "I swear to tell the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing, but, the Truth".

Now, I realize Faux has had themselves declared as "Entertainment". However, I find nothing entertaining about their representation of the facts.

[AtheistCrusader]

17. They probably couched it as 'mass shooting', wherein there are 3-4+ victims.

[Bob Loblaw]

6. Too soon...

[progressoid]

7. Yup...

The town of Benton, Kentucky, is mourning the loss of two 15-year-old high school students, Bailey Nicole Holt and Preston Ryan Cope, shot dead Tuesday at Marshall County High School by an unidentified 15-year-old classmate who also wounded 12 other people and caused a stampede in which five other students were injured. It is America's worst school shooting of 2018 — only 23 days old — but it is also at least the country's 11th school shooting since Jan. 1, The New York Times reports. There were two on Monday, for example, in Italy, Texas, and New Orleans.

There have been about 50 school shootings in the U.S. this academic year (some were suicides, and some resulted in no injuries), and about one shooting a week since 2013, the Times says. "We have absolutely become numb to these kinds of shootings, and I think that will continue," Katherine W. Schweit, a former senior FBI official, tells the Times. She coauthored an FBI study of 160 active-shooter situations between 2000 and 2013, and a quarter of them were in educational settings, the number growing as the study went on. You can read more about how schools and states are responding at The New York Times. Peter Weber

http://theweek.com/speedreads/750513/tuesdays-kentucky-school-shooting-11th-school-shooting-2018

[Stuart G]

9. Has Trump said anything about this shooting yet?...just asking

[nolabear]

10. Of course not. It would require compassion.

[tclambert]

11. His silence tells me it was a white kid who did the shooting.

They haven't told us his name or ethnicity yet, but I'm sure Trump asked, "Was it Muslims? Or Illegals?" "No, sir. Just a white kid."
"Then never mind. Let's go golfing."

[malaise]

18. Google the demographics for the community

close to 99% white.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Yep! Nothing to see here, just a bunch of god-fearing white people.

He's so predictable.

[bdamomma]

22. of course not

it doesn't involve him. Did he ever say anything about those mudslides in California??? Despicable POS.

[Toorich]

12. Sara Huckleberry Sanders sez...

White House thoughts and prayers etc etc blah blah blah ad nauseam.

[keithbvadu2]

29. thoughts and prayers

[Scalded Nun]

14. I would expect them to also employ the ever-popular chained solution

Buy more guns, say some prayers and set up a fresh 'Go-Fund-Me' victim site.

[malaise]

16. And there is barely a whisper on M$Greedia

Don't even see the thoughts, prayers and flowers folks these days.

Fuck the NRA and all who support their murderous terror.

[pwb]

19. Our Russian funded NRA. Highest paid non profit ceo in America.

Comrade Lapier.

[bronxiteforever]

20. Thank you for posting. A sad K & R.

[KG]

21. yay. guns.

[LiberalArkie]

23. I think there has only been 13 school days this year...

[shenmue]

27. Mercy

[Initech]

25. Sigh... it's gonna be a long year.

Fuck the fucking rat bastards at the NRA. God damn them to hell.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Scalia interpretation of the 2nd is a joke...not remotely accurate or legal.

[panader0]

28. One of them, the suicide of a 14 year old boy,

was at Coronado, where my kids went to school. About two miles away.

[keithbvadu2]

30. Why is Trump 'allowing' violence done to our students?

Why is Trump 'allowing' violence done to our students?

When Trump accepted the GOP nomination:

"I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said. "Beginning on January 20th, 2017, safety will be restored."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/21/politics/republican-convention-highlights-day-four/index.html

[Algernon Moncrieff]

31. "Thoughts and Prayers", "If only the teachers were armed" "Gun free zones are to blame"

"Once kids stopped saying the Lord's Prayer and the Pledge, our schools went to Hell"
"It's an anti 2nd Amendment plot -- just like Sandy Hook"
"It was part of a wider terror attack that took place, but the other attacks are being covered up"
"If it wasn't a gun, he'd have used a knife or run people over with his car."
"The conversation shouldn't be about guns, but it should be about mental health"
"This is why we home school. America is crazy."

[Chemisse]

32. I'm actually glad they are not getting much publicity anymore.

As a high school teacher, I fear the copycat crimes following a shooting that is highly publicized. The more the kids hear about school shootings, the more some think of it as an option. If life gets too awful, go shoot up the school.

[Wounded Bear]

33. Yeah, so much this...

[eppur_se_muova]

34. Hey, it's not like we're having one every other day ! nt

[IronLionZion]

35. It's all Hillary's fault