US mass shootings megathread

[merithyn]

I assumed Meri was referring to the ritual where any white guy shooter is asserted to be suffering from some unspecified "mental illness" as an excuse for doing nothing about gun control.  Gun nuttery not being a recognized diagnosis yet.

^^This^^

[PDH]

Gilroy is about 30 miles from Santa Cruz, over the coastal mountains.  Smaller farming (now San Jose bedroom) community, the thing I most associate with Gilroy is the smell of garlic and onions, and the roadside cherry stands to the south of the town.

One of my student workers was at the Festival yesterday, I got an email at 1am today that he might be late coming in...the crazy is being normalized...

[The Minsky Moment]

Step 2 in the ritual is that all calls for gun legislation are fobbed off by claims that we need to improve our detection and treatment of mental illness.

Step 3 is that absolutely nothing is done about detecting and treating of mental illness.  The exception is if Republicans control Congress, in which case public funds for mental health treatment are cut in the next budget cycle.

[Grey Fox]

Nowadays, all I hope for is that my country stays sensible towards guns ownership.

[mongers]

A impressionable youth sent off-balance by the Trumpian hate agenda?

[Josquius]

Step 2 in the ritual is that all calls for gun legislation are fobbed off by claims that we need to improve our detection and treatment of mental illness.

Step 3 is that absolutely nothing is done about detecting and treating of mental illness.  The exception is if Republicans control Congress, in which case public funds for mental health treatment are cut in the next budget cycle.

Then comes step 4, when a brown person sneezes in a bank and sends the entire country into melt down screaming for tighter immigration controls.

[merithyn]

Step 2 in the ritual is that all calls for gun legislation are fobbed off by claims that we need to improve our detection and treatment of mental illness.

Step 3 is that absolutely nothing is done about detecting and treating of mental illness.  The exception is if Republicans control Congress, in which case public funds for mental health treatment are cut in the next budget cycle.

Then comes step 4, when a brown person sneezes in a bank and sends the entire country into melt down screaming for tighter immigration controls.

It's like you know us or something.

[The Minsky Moment]

Ha like facts or actual events are needed for immigrant bashers to bash immigrants.  Who can forget the tragic and bloody massacre of Bowling Green?

[Valmy]

Step 2 in the ritual is that all calls for gun legislation are fobbed off by claims that we need to improve our detection and treatment of mental illness.

Step 3 is that absolutely nothing is done about detecting and treating of mental illness.  The exception is if Republicans control Congress, in which case public funds for mental health treatment are cut in the next budget cycle.

Then comes step 4, when a brown person sneezes in a bank and sends the entire country into melt down screaming for tighter immigration controls.

That part of the country constantly screams for that.

[crazy canuck]

Did the President bother with the thoughts and prayers preliminary to step 1 or no need to bother with the preliminaries any more?

[merithyn]

I haven't seen him even acknowledge that it happened.

[Valmy]

Did the President bother with the thoughts and prayers preliminary to step 1 or no need to bother with the preliminaries any more?

He called the shooter a monster I think. He said something about it.

Anyway Trump is not really a thoughts and prayers kind of dude, if you hadn't noticed.

[Syt]

I think a tweet was entered into the Presidential record, yes.

[Valmy]

I think a tweet was entered into the Presidential record, yes.

I am so glad I will not be one of the historians who will have to analyze all these tweets.

[Syt]

FWIW my sisters don't mention it on Facebook, but shared the memorial post of a far right site for an 8 year old kid that was pushed in front of a train by an Eritrean in Frankfurt.