Active shooter in an Oregon HS

[nadinbrzezinski]

Breaking on msnbc.

Outside of Portland, Reynolds HS, troadale I think


I wish I were shocked or surprised at this point. And now time to go downtown for a packed city council meeting

[djean111]

1. Yes, the daily shooter has become quite business as usual, hasn't it!

Kudos to the NRA.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Yup, going to the store

Milk, eggs, apples, proper cover

[Aerows]

5. I'm updating to

a fashionable assault helmet and bullet proof vest for when I go to the movies.

It's awful. Thank goodness I don't have kids, though my sister is a teacher and I have nieces.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Because of what we do,

We have been looking at one of these



With ballistic helmet of course

[villager]

2. Congrats gun nuts and blood-soaked apologists -- you have "won" again

Sick fucks.

[randys1]

4. I would hold all gun defenders civilly and criminally liable every time this happens

Unless you are on record for major gun legislation (I know my mature, adult dream of eliminating guns cant happen in my lifetime so I have pivoted) that would greatly limit access to guns and types of guns based on a variety of criteria, you are personally responsible both civilly (money or damages) and criminally.

I fear for my life everyday now as an outspoken liberal, for my wife's life.

I can see right here at DU people hate me for my positions, can you imagine what righty thinks when he sees what I write?

I am in deep trouble, not gonna shut up though

[FSogol]

18. "I fear for my life everyday now as an outspoken liberal, for my wife's life."

I seldom wade into gun issues/threads, but the type of fear you are describing is not healthy. Please get some help dealing with it.

Yes, there are shootings, senseless violence, etc, but statistically, it is unlikely to happen to you or your family.
Yes, we (society) need to stop it, but retreating into fear isn't the right way to deal. Good luck.

[randys1]

19. The only help I need is to get guns away from anybody who really wants one

that would be the sign of someone who would be dangerous owning a gun

But your response is a good one, to UNPRECEDENTED gun violence, I express fear and you mock me...

If you only knew how out of touch that makes you look..

Let me help this along, dont respond to me and I wont ever to you again, problem solved

[FSogol]

20. I in no way mocked you. Fear is unhealthy and kills people.

I urge you to find a medical professional to talk to.

[randys1]

21. Keep it up, keep making the rational people the target, you are doing great work for the liberal

cause...


oops, i responded to you again, i can fix that

[aikoaiko]

26. "UNPRECEDENTED gun violence"

Fatal gun violence is down as well.

Not to unprecedented rates, but still low rates compared to the peak of the early 1990s.

[djean111]

6. Initial reports say semi-automatic weapon.

I can assume that, for some, the most important thing will be getting the type of gun and ammo just right.

[villager]

10. Who gives a shit about dead kids? Time to snark at posters for getting numbers in gun models wrong!

Hah hah, snark snark, cruel wildly unfunny joke, etc., et al

[BrotherIvan]

27. Ask meaningless questions to derail discussion...

Post graphs about how gun deaths are down...

[villager]

30. Exactly. All of them so well-programmed by the NRA's industry lobbyists...

n/t

[BrotherIvan]

31. And yet, still here..

The best part is when they say, "I would agree to that." As if they, as gun owners, have the final say in regulations. As if those who do not want their loved ones killed, or those who have lost them have less of a say.

Perhaps because they fight tooth and nail against them. Well they own these deaths, just as if I fought against safety nets and food stamps would own those. Their fear has consumed them.

[villager]

32. Also true. They have a share in every gun death that comes after their "successful" fights

...against each new piece of common-sense "hand-held weapons of war" legislation...

[BrotherIvan]

33. They will lose this fight

Or we all have lost.

[underpants]

8. I wonder if there is an increase in school shootings near the end of the year

[ProdigalJunkMail]

11. cnn reporting site secure

no deaths... no word on wounded.

sP

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Take it away folks

I got a city council meeting to cover.

And I need to catch a trolley, after getting proper bait that is. (Fare).

I just love my trolley...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. Live stream

http://www.katu.com/news/live

[doxydad]

14. # 75 shooting since Sandy Hook...and counting

STOP THE MADNESS.

[SoCalNative]

15. Shooter dead

Per NBC news

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shooter-portland-oregon-high-school-confirmed-dead-police-n127401

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Thanks, not surprised

[WorseBeforeBetter]

23. “This shouldn’t happen in Troutdale,”

“This shouldn’t happen in Troutdale,” Max Maydew, a grandfather of two Reynolds High School students, told The Oregonian. “You don’t expect something like that to happen in your hometown.”

Maybe it was his shock talking, but it shouldn't happen anywhere, Mr. Maydew. Sadly, I do expect it to happen anywhere.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. This should not happen in (insert town here)

is like standard with these stories. And until it happens in backyard, people have trouble comprehending the enormity of it.

[applegrove]

17. We need to not report these stories in the news. They just get copycats going.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Disagree, fully

But the media has to go on to the full horror of them. And I mean bloody bodies and all.

Not reporting will only create the illusion that they are not happening

[applegrove]

28. So maybe not use the names of the

Monsters? Because these events are happening with increased frequency and in clusters.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. They are happening, but perhaps we need to ask WHY?

and not try to hide our collective heads.

That is part of the problem. They are treated by both policy makers and media as isolated events. I personally think they are tied to the anomie that has been rising in the country.

[napkinz]

24. the solution: more guns!