Thoughts and prayers, I wonder what could have been done to avoid this?
Is anyone else not surprised and completely numb to this stuff by now?
Not surprised?
Dude, I straight up expect it, now. I get on CNN every day wondering how many mass shootings will be reported. Same for a gun-murder in my city. Every. Single. Day.
nobody cares about mass shootings in ghetto areas, which is the majority of mass shootings. today, there was a mass shooting at O Block in Chicago. 5 wounded, none dead so far. I can, with 99.9999% certainty, tell you that it was gang members shooting other gang members.
nobody cares about mass shootings in ghetto areas, which is the majority of mass shootings. today, there was a mass shooting at O Block in Chicago. 5 wounded, none dead so far. I can, with 99.9999% certainty, tell you that it was gang members shooting other gang members.
Pointing out that blacks commit an insane amount of murders and an overwhelming majority of mass shootings is racist. You have to remember that this is a chance for the media to rile up the gullible pearl clutchers ("Only in America!! What ever shall we do!!!") and the righteously angry ("Those darn 2nd Amendment idiots!! Look how mad I am!!") and right on cue everyone plays their parts.
well it's the truth. I know that "13/50" has been memed often, but that doesn't make it false
The 13/50 meme actually is false. These days it's much closer to 13/60 if not higher. The meme only accounts for known murderers and when cities with large black populations have murder clearance rates sometimes under 25% the latter part of the meme fraction is skewed downwards.
I am from this town. Schools are excellent - beyond compare for public schools. My aunt insisted we move to a small duplex there to go to the schools - a surprise because my brother and I were expected to go live with my grandparents to run for Joe Newton at York. Where I lived you could go to the high school in Highland Park right near this shooting - or go to the sister high school in the same district which was marginally better at sports. Highland Park had the indoor track, and the lake, bu I chose the latter school, and the schools and the two towns were incredibly safe, to the point of making jokes (accurate ones) about how the police in the towns - who I liked by the way and had a good vibe with teenagers - had the cushiest jobs in the nation. A big case was investigating someone getting eggs thrown at their house. I am no gun guy at all but there is a gun culture here which is apparently intractable.
The shooter is apparently an 18 -20 year old male. One could generate a hypothetical profile and likely be very accurate. No father around, desperate mother at wits end, drug use, mental history and so on. If one was compelled to commit such a crime, Highland Park unfortunately is easy pickings. The downtown is centered around the commuter rail station, and the building are no more than 3 stories high, and the citizens and the police are simply not used to this kind of thing. The shooter is at large, and if he had access to a vehicle, he could be in Green Bay by now. 41 is down the hill from downtown Highland Park, and points north don't involve much traffic and with no tolls or cameras on 294. A tragedy, and no way to know if the shooter will strike again. My lifelong friend is a teacher, and she and her twin grandsons were at a park today three miles west of Highland Park (the site of my first race, a 50 yard Jaycee event). The police came and evacuated the entire park, no small thing on July 4th, probably shooing away thousands. All residents in the area are being told not to leave their houses. She is predictably scared to do death, and is sending updates to me every 15 minutes.
We can have a country where there are no mass shooting or we can have a country where people are free to by all the guns and ammo they want to satisfy their sick gun fetish. We cannot have both.
nobody cares about mass shootings in ghetto areas, which is the majority of mass shootings. today, there was a mass shooting at O Block in Chicago. 5 wounded, none dead so far. I can, with 99.9999% certainty, tell you that it was gang members shooting other gang members.
There’s a very large difference between violence happening in areas where violence typically happens and violence happening in areas where violence does not typically happen. Lots of people care about black on black violence, but the main news audience is more concerned about their personal safety than anything which is why there’s more interest in the violence closer to home. If it can happen in Highland Park, it can happen anywhere.
nobody cares about mass shootings in ghetto areas, which is the majority of mass shootings. today, there was a mass shooting at O Block in Chicago. 5 wounded, none dead so far. I can, with 99.9999% certainty, tell you that it was gang members shooting other gang members.
There’s a very large difference between violence happening in areas where violence typically happens and violence happening in areas where violence does not typically happen. Lots of people care about black on black violence, but the main news audience is more concerned about their personal safety than anything which is why there’s more interest in the violence closer to home. If it can happen in Highland Park, it can happen anywhere.
The fact there are areas where violence is typical is a problem. The fact you are unconcerned about it is an even bigger problem.
that's what I meant. any loss of life is a tragedy, but (let's be honest) literally nobody cares about gang murders that take place in "bad" areas with no bystanders hit