Posted on 10/01/2015 6:18:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The gunman in Thursday's shooting at an Oregon community college was a 20-year-old male, Gov. Kate Brown said at a press conference broadcast by KOIN. Police and the superintendent of the state also said the gunman exchanged gunfire with police and that he is dead, though it was not revealed whether he killed himself or was shot by authorities. Police recovered three pistols and one long gun from the scene, CNN reports. At least 10 are dead in the shooting.
A source tells CNN that investigators are looking into social media postings from Wednesday night that are believed to be between the gunman and others. When the gunman revealed his mass shooting plans, some called him a loser, some called him a "twisted hero," at least one person urged him not to go through with it—and others egged him on with suggestions about what to do. The suspected gunman allegedly wrote, "This is the only time I'll ever be in the news. I'm so insignificant." Click for stories of horror from the scene.
Atheist and gay.
Chris Harper Mercer Photos: Pictures of Umpqua Shooter
My thought, too.
What in the world is wrong with these creeps looking for fame in killing innocents! Our schools have armed and ready to go police on duty. Thank God!
“Click for stories of horror from the scene.”
Ooooooo! Stories of horror! Oh wow! I must click! It is all spectacle, all entertainment! It is just like a video game! Click for more! Gotta have horror entertainment!
Maybe that is the problem?
And that’s why they do it. To become a legend.
Probably his handler.
So much for “see something, say something”.
That is what I think.
Conservative Republican? I think I’d take this stuff with a grain or two of salt.
Of course, we need gun control, to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever.
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
We are all “entitled” to our 15 minutes of fame, ya know, no matter what it takes to get them!
Serious???
Probably the motto of our age.
That’s what his “profile” said at the link.
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