Yet another shooting thread

[Jimmy Higgins]

Getting so normalized to school shootings, the death of one 6th grader after a 17 year old opened fire at a school kind of elicits a response of shoulder shrug... and ponders how to Onion up the incident.

• local authorities indicate suspect only performed half-hearted attempt at mass murder at local school, "He could have tried harder"
• Sandy Hook families scoff at "meager" school shooting in Iowa
• surviving children at Iowa school wonder just how traumatized they should feel relative to students at schools that had real school shootings
• GOP governor considers ways of senseless inaction to help prevent such senseless violence in the future
• is your gun violence traumatized child old enough to be told about the Gun Lobby's point of view?

 

[Elixir]

From link above:

A sixth-grade student was killed on Thursday morning and five other people wounded when a 17-year-old opened fire at an Iowa school on the first day of classes following the winter break, law enforcement officials said.

Obviously we need to arm sixth graders.

The suspect was identified as Dylan Butler, a student at Perry High School, officials said at a news briefing. He was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound by responding officers.

Okay, that's two people he killed including himself. And Wiki sez
"A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers kill or injure multiple individuals simultaneously using a firearm."
So posthumous congrats, kid. You made it to mass shooter status.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Several were injured as well.

 

[Shadowy Man]

From link above:

A sixth-grade student was killed on Thursday morning and five other people wounded when a 17-year-old opened fire at an Iowa school on the first day of classes following the winter break, law enforcement officials said.

Obviously we need to arm sixth graders.

The suspect was identified as Dylan Butler, a student at Perry High School, officials said at a news briefing. He was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound by responding officers.

Okay, that's two people he killed including himself. And Wiki sez
"A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers kill or injure multiple individuals simultaneously using a firearm."
So posthumous congrats, kid. You made it to mass shooter status.

“Simultaneously”??

 

[ZiprHead]

From link above:

A sixth-grade student was killed on Thursday morning and five other people wounded when a 17-year-old opened fire at an Iowa school on the first day of classes following the winter break, law enforcement officials said.

Obviously we need to arm sixth graders.

The suspect was identified as Dylan Butler, a student at Perry High School, officials said at a news briefing. He was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound by responding officers.

Okay, that's two people he killed including himself. And Wiki sez
"A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers kill or injure multiple individuals simultaneously using a firearm."
So posthumous congrats, kid. You made it to mass shooter status.

The reports I've seen say the shooter has been relentlessly bullied since grade school and the bullying recently increased. The school knew about it but did nothing. If true, I hold the school partially responsible.

 

[robnisch]

MSN

Isn't there court case about the NRA coming up?

 

[Derec]

“Simultaneously”??

Simultaneity depends on the frame of reference, so I guess the number of mass shootings does too.

 

[Derec]

A sixth-grade student was killed on Thursday morning and five other people wounded when a 17-year-old opened fire at an Iowa school on the first day of classes following the winter break, law enforcement officials said.

In the words of Matthew McConaughey, "those are rookie numbers in this racket".
Shootings of this magnitude happen all the time.

Okay, that's two people he killed including himself. And Wiki sez
"A mass shooting is a violent crime in which one or more attackers kill or injure multiple individuals simultaneously using a firearm."
So posthumous congrats, kid. You made it to mass shooter status.

There are several disparate definitions of mass shootings.

[I know it's Al Jazeera, but they do make a good-looking infographic]
As you can see, number of mass shootings varies by a factor of >100 just depending on the definition one uses. One of the more dishonest arguing tactics is to conflate these definitions.