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58 y.o. white guy shoots up theatre in LA

JuliefromOhio

President
Supporting Member
Lafayette, Louisiana.

At least 3 dead including the shooter, several movie-goers in hospital with gun shot wounds.

Tell us about this shooter, cons. I'm interested in his profile.
 

Drumcollie

* See DC's list of Kook posters*
Uh oh what did the democratic do now?

Or maybe you shouldn't jump the gun....funny hahaha get it? and wait for the evidence to come.
 

Dino

Russian Asset
Lafayette, Louisiana.

At least 3 dead including the shooter, several movie-goers in hospital with gun shot wounds.

Tell us about this shooter, cons. I'm interested in his profile.
A black 25 year old shot three teenagers in Baltimore. And he's still alive.
Are you interested in his story??
 

Dino

Russian Asset
Then why don't you look for yourself. How would we know anything about him?
The simple-minded will always feign interest and latch on to the man-bites-dog story. It's far easier than discussing actual issues or producing workable solutions.
This OP is exhibit A.
 

UPNYA2

Mayor
Lafayette, Louisiana.

At least 3 dead including the shooter, several movie-goers in hospital with gun shot wounds.

Tell us about this shooter, cons. I'm interested in his profile.
Oh come now, hon, EVERYTHING you really wish to know about this man you already posted.

He was a middle aged white male in the southern US, basically the root of all evil in the eyes of dems/libs, so what else could anyone present that would get you any more giddy, honestly?

We have all see people present you with stories of other tragic killings by other deranged individuals only to have them shrugged off because they do nothing to promote, many even contradict, your insane desire to view entire segments of our society as more evil than others based upon their race, age, sex and geographical origin.

Basically DOING each and every thing you whine and cry about others doing.
Please refrain. All of that pathetic feigned "moral outrage" you wish to express actually points out your sad assed liberal hypocrisy and you don't really want THAT now do you?
 

Drumcollie

* See DC's list of Kook posters*
What we do know is that he was born in 1951 in Alabama...who in 1951 wasn't a democratic in Alabama in 1951?
 

Drumcollie

* See DC's list of Kook posters*
Oh come now, hon, EVERYTHING you really wish to know about this man you already posted.

He was a middle aged white male in the southern US, basically the root of all evil in the eyes of dems/libs, so what else could anyone present that would get you any more giddy, honestly?

We have all see people present you with stories of other tragic killings by other deranged individuals only to have them shrugged off because they do nothing to promote, many even contradict, your insane desire to view entire segments of our society as more evil than others based upon their race, age, sex and geographical origin.

Basically DOING each and every thing you whine and cry about others doing.
Please refrain. All of that pathetic feigned "moral outrage" you wish to express actually points out your sad assed liberal hypocrisy and you don't really want THAT now do you?
No you are jumping the gun again...ignoring facts...stop being so giddy about your chance to use racism.....again!
 

Arkady

President
Lafayette, Louisiana.

At least 3 dead including the shooter, several movie-goers in hospital with gun shot wounds.

Tell us about this shooter, cons. I'm interested in his profile.
It's surprising to see a mass shooter that old. Murder rates decline rapidly in the 50s (with testosterone), and nearly all mass shootings are by younger guys. As a quick check, I looked through the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history. They were all committed by men, and the ages of the perpetrators were 26, 35, 23, 20, 42, 42, 28, 25, 42, 28, 20, 18, and 17. That's consistent with the correlation with testosterone, since the span there is 17-42. Of those, two were Asian and one black, and the rest were white.
 

Max R.

On the road
Supporting Member
Lafayette, Louisiana.

At least 3 dead including the shooter, several movie-goers in hospital with gun shot wounds.

Tell us about this shooter, cons. I'm interested in his profile.
White male, 59 years old, "drifter" named John Russell Houser who drove a blue 1995 Lincoln Continental and was estranged from his family. Murders two people, attempts to murder several others then shoots himself when the police close in.

How do you plan on stopping such a man from harming others, Julie?
 

Arkady

President
A black 25 year old shot three teenagers in Baltimore. And he's still alive.
Are you interested in his story??
It's probably both racist and classist, but the fact is shootings get more attention when they seem to your average news consumer like something that might have happened to them or to someone they love. So, they pay attention to shootings of random strangers in settings that they or their loved ones might frequent (restaurants, workplaces, movie theaters, schools). They're less likely to pay attention to killings where the reasons were very personal (e.g., guys killing their own family members), or where they were in the kinds of settings the typical news consumer can't picture himself or his loved ones visiting (e.g., a predominantly black and poor, crime-ridden neighborhood in Baltimore.) The only major exception are crimes involving celebrities.

For-profit news relies on drawing an audience, and if you want to drive them with crime stories, you are going to want ones that scare them. And the richer the people it scares, the more valuable the audience it draws is to advertisers. That's why, for example, plane crashes get vastly disproportionate attention in the news, relative to their actual importance in mortality statistics. Rich people fly on planes a lot, so tales of spectacular and random death that could hit them will draw a valuable audience for advertisers. That's capitalism for you.
 

Max R.

On the road
Supporting Member
We need to do something to identify these lunatics.

Scary days...
What's so scary? You're more likely to die driving to work or Walmart.

The authoritarians will place all of their faith in government to protect them, give up all civil liberties and be treated like cattle in order to feel "safe".

 

NinaS

Senator
Supporting Member
Lafayette, Louisiana.

At least 3 dead including the shooter, several movie-goers in hospital with gun shot wounds.

Tell us about this shooter, cons. I'm interested in his profile.
I just read about this. The movie was "Trainwreck" Very fitting, huh?
Sounds like there's at least one more in critical condition. Scary as hell when you can't go to a movie without some John Wayne wanna-be shooting up the place.
 

PhilFish

Administrator
Staff member
It's probably both racist and classist, but the fact is shootings get more attention when they seem to your average news consumer like something that might have happened to them or to someone they love. So, they pay attention to shootings of random strangers in settings that they or their loved ones might frequent (restaurants, workplaces, movie theaters, schools). They're less likely to pay attention to killings where the reasons were very personal (e.g., guys killing their own family members), or where they were in the kinds of settings the typical news consumer can't picture himself or his loved ones visiting (e.g., a predominantly black and poor, crime-ridden neighborhood in Baltimore.) The only major exception are crimes involving celebrities.

For-profit news relies on drawing an audience, and if you want to drive them with crime stories, you are going to want ones that scare them. And the richer the people it scares, the more valuable the audience it draws is to advertisers. That's why, for example, plane crashes get vastly disproportionate attention in the news, relative to their actual importance in mortality statistics. Rich people fly on planes a lot, so tales of spectacular and random death that could hit them will draw a valuable audience for advertisers. That's capitalism for you.
So its capitalism at the fore? As opposed to the extremely disturbing actions of some crazy killing others in a theater?
 

Dino

Russian Asset
It's probably both racist and classist, but the fact is shootings get more attention when they seem to your average news consumer like something that might have happened to them or to someone they love. So, they pay attention to shootings of random strangers in settings that they or their loved ones might frequent (restaurants, workplaces, movie theaters, schools). They're less likely to pay attention to killings where the reasons were very personal (e.g., guys killing their own family members), or where they were in the kinds of settings the typical news consumer can't picture himself or his loved ones visiting (e.g., a predominantly black and poor, crime-ridden neighborhood in Baltimore.) The only major exception are crimes involving celebrities.

For-profit news relies on drawing an audience, and if you want to drive them with crime stories, you are going to want ones that scare them. And the richer the people it scares, the more valuable the audience it draws is to advertisers. That's why, for example, plane crashes get vastly disproportionate attention in the news, relative to their actual importance in mortality statistics. Rich people fly on planes a lot, so tales of spectacular and random death that could hit them will draw a valuable audience for advertisers. That's capitalism for you.
The funniest part of your post is where you presume that Julie is an "average news consumer" and not what she actually is- an impressionable political propagandist.
 

PhilFish

Administrator
Staff member
What's so scary? You're more likely to die driving to work or Walmart.

The authoritarians will place all of their faith in government to protect them, give up all civil liberties and be treated like cattle in order to feel "safe".

Id rather define means to identify these crazies and remove them from society. That or blast em.
 

Max R.

On the road
Supporting Member
Id rather define means to identify these crazies and remove them from society. That or blast em.
A good plan. What do you propose? Mandatory psychological exams for 320 million people every day? Every week? Every six months?
 
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