Not even 24 hours later, there was a mass shooting in Ohio this morning, killing 9 and wounding 16.

Killing 9 despite being helpful enough to start shooting relatively close to some first responders, who shot him quickly. Even in a literal best case scenario with "good guy with gun," 9 people died.

It doesn’t do a lot of good for constructive dialogue, but I do chuckle guiltily every time I see it:

this shit is going to keep happening, and with increasing frequency. every shooting is an act of both terror and recruitment.

What in the fucking fuck is this?

Welp, I see you guys noticed what went on in my town. This city is pissed off.

"Stochastic terrorism" is a recent term describing public speech that can be expected to incite terrorism, without a direct organizational link between the inciter and the perpetrator. The term "stochastic" describes the random, probabilistic nature of its effect: whether or not an attack actually takes place, when, and by whom is not under the control of the stochastic terrorist, but their actions serve to increase the probability that it will.[26] The "stochastic terrorist" does not direct the actions of members of a group, rather, they are an ideologue speaking over mass media to individuals with whom they are not affiliated as part of any form of organization.[26] According to an anonymous blogger posting on the Daily Kos, the speaker, whether intentionally or not, incites those with a combination of personality traits that leads them to violence. Since the speaker only focuses animus towards the victim instead of directly participating, they may escape culpability and the perpetrator may be labeled a lone wolf by law enforcement.[27][unreliable source?] The term has mostly been applied to domestic American incidents of violence.[26][28]

In their 2017 book, Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism,[26] criminologist Mark S. Hamm and sociologist Ramón Spaaij discuss stochastic terrorism as a form of "indirect enabling" of terrorists. They write that "stochastic terrorism is the method of international recruitment used by ISIS", and they refer to Anwar al-Awlaki and Alex Jones as stochastic terrorists.[26]:157

Hamm and Spaaij discuss two instances of violence. In the 2010 Oakland freeway shootout, Byron Williams was said to be en route to offices of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Tides Foundation, planning to commit mass murder, "indirectly enabled by the conspiracy theories"[26] of Glenn Beck and Alex Jones. As a left-wing example, they cite the 2012 shooting incident at the headquarters of the Family Research Council.

The "stochastic terrorism model" is a stochastic process, a random, model of those terror attacks intended by the random nature of their timing and targets to excite a generalized fear.[29] Nonetheless, lone wolf terrorists are "indirectly enabled by the conspiracy theories"[26] circulated in the mass media, especially by high status political or religious leaders.
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We are so fucked I don't even know where to start detailing the ways.

I wanna move.

And I will.

The USA is fucked.

I don't see a solution within the time frame of the remaining portion of my life.

Pretty soon the rats will be jumping ship.

Where are you going to run to? When America drinks too much, the world gets a hangover. Better to stay and help us fix this mess. There are more of us, and there is strength in numbers.

(Also, are you calling yourself a rat? Not that there is anything wrong with that. Ben is great!)

I have places I can go to in order to ride out the storm. Only I'll probably die there.

If I thought we could fix this without violence I'd stay. But it is becoming increasingly clear that without it, we'll just be wallowing in shit for a long while until the whole thing blows up, and we become somalia. I can't see any non violent solution with fauxnooz and sinclair fanning the flames of bigotry and white supremacy.

Am I a rat? Could be. But in general I'd say that even rats can identify a sinking ship. People like dumpster, mcconnell, the asshole from ohio, and scores of others would probably bolt when it gets too hot and the boat is listing. Escaping responsibility and accountability.

Yeeeeeah I've been applying for postdocs and faculty positions in other countries. Figure I should get out before having a degree is made illegal for women in Gilead. Be nice to teach somewhere where colleges getting shot up isn't considered an acceptable risk of the job.

Great. Brain drain. Leave us dummies to fight to rescue the most powerful nation in the world.

America has been on a bumpy low-grade but definite ascent for much of the past 50 years. Trump is an anomaly that shouldn't be normalized. He was dealt a straight flush and people are assuming he's genius poker player. He is not. This can be overcome. No violence (as it is commonly understood) necessary.

There is no line anymore to cross. If Sandyhook didn't inspire political action, there is no red line to cross that will.

Eventually, we'll have another one of these - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4_wDQFky0

With someone who is smart, prepared and trained and it'll go really badly. But it won't cross any lines.

They're already deflecting the narrative towards AntiFa. That's going to be the new spin. Whatever happens now, somehow it's AntiFa's fault. Who is AntiFa? Anyone they want it to be.

But Governor, what about gun-wielding violent racists?

"Uh... sure... I guess they should stay of Texas, too. Hey, hey where all y'all going come back!"

The middle east has suicide bombers. America has suicide shooters.

Clearly there are some fine people being shot, and some fine people doing the shooting.

Don't you know...
Daddy Trump is going to cure AIDS and Cancer.
I'm sure he will be promising to raise the dead next week.

I'm in the pool for a Thursday shooting. - The NEXT one.

Also
Hopes and prayers.

Guess I lost.
What the fuck is WRONG with you people?

http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/7-wounded-in-shooting-near-chicago-playground

But gun control does work. Generally, states that have stricter gun laws have fewer gun homicides per capita. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If only there were some branch of government that would execute the laws. We could call it an "executive office". They could have officers to enforce the law. How does "law enforcement officers" sound? If we had those, they could make sure people breaking the law were apprehended.

But that's fantasyland talk.