Nashville School Shooting - 6 dead, shooter is a woman

[Jolly]

I don't think they will publish her whole manifesto, but they let it out she had considered another target.

That target had armed people on the premises, so she decided not to attack that location.

https://www.newsweek.com/covenant-school-shooter-audrey-hale-eyed-second-target-police-say-1790702

[Mik]

You cannot possibly criticize the response.

[mark]

@Jolly said in Nashville School Shooting - 6 dead, shooter is a woman:

Then kill yourself, darling. Why kill innocent children?

+infinty

I think about all the crap that pisses me off in this life and it all pales in comparison to this.

[LuFins Dad]

Your worst headline of the day

[George K]

[89th]

@Jolly sorry didn’t know Reddit link/videos aren’t viewable without logging in, or maybe those flagged as mature content

Yes the police response definitely had an anti-Uvalde tempo to it. Good for them. Especially thinking that they are sweeping the building without knowing about the shooter the way we did. They are hunting room by room, could be an ambush, around any corner, any suspect, how brave you must be…but the lives of children certainly enhances the urgency to a whole different level.

As I told my wife today, these shootings will always continue. They seek headlines, and they get them. The name, the picture, the manifesto, it all sucks up the media oxygen, of which I’m guilty too. Further, parents worried about this happening to their child? Certainly understandable emotionally but statistically their child is 110x more likely to die while commuting to school than in the school. 110 times more likely. School shootings are ridiculously rare, relative to the cause of student deaths.

[Axtremus]

https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/28/23661164/nashville-school-shooting-tennessee-covenant-gun-policy-protest-legislature

"In 2021, [Tennessee] enacted a law that lets most Tennesseans 21 and older carry handguns without first clearing a background check, obtaining a permit, or getting trained on firearms safety. ..."

No background check, how is the seller to know whether a buyer is a risk to public safety? How can "red flag law" work without background check? How can you tell if there is a red flag if you do not at least check?

[Mik]

That applies to carry, not purchase.

https://www.tn.gov/tbi/divisions/cjis-division/firearm-background-checks.html

[Axtremus]

@Mik , OK that is an important distinction, thanks for calling that out.

[Axtremus]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-resolution/127

The police has yet to determine the motive and already Sen. Hawley has introduced a bill to condemn the shooting as a “hate crime”.

[LuFins Dad]

Twits twill tweet

[Horace]

Classic projection, for people who have already self-mutilated in service of their own suicidality. It's really no wonder they have weak behavioral limits, and they think the world is out to get them. Their own psychological universe really is out to get them.

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Nashville School Shooting - 6 dead, shooter is a woman:

Hawley has introduced a bill to condemn the shooting as a “hate crime”.

Other than symbolic import, does this really matter, considering the perp is dead?

[Horace]

@George-K said in Nashville School Shooting - 6 dead, shooter is a woman:

@Axtremus said in Nashville School Shooting - 6 dead, shooter is a woman:

Hawley has introduced a bill to condemn the shooting as a “hate crime”.

Other than symbolic import, does this really matter, considering the perp is dead?

I believe there is a score card being kept.

[Mik]

Are there any love crimes?

[Copper]

Because it would stop the next gal that wants to commit mass murder.

[Catseye3]

@George-K said in Nashville School Shooting - 6 dead, shooter is a woman:

Hawley has introduced a bill to condemn the shooting as a “hate crime”.

I have never understood the designation of 'hate crime' as a subcategory of crime. By definition, isn't any crime a hostile act against an individual, and therefore hate-ish? What difference does it make if the crime is committed out of irritation?

Seems like designating an act as a hate crime itself contributes to spreading the hate.

[George K]

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Nashville School Shooting - 6 dead, shooter is a woman:

I have never understood the designation of 'hate crime' as a subcategory of crime. By definition, isn't any crime a hostile act against an individual, and therefore hate-ish? What difference does it make if the crime is committed out of irritation?

Same here.

[Axtremus]

@Mik said in Nashville School Shooting - 6 dead, shooter is a woman:

Are there any love crimes?

The more common phrasing is "crime of passion."