[anarchist23]

US police are investigating a shooting at a local newspaper in Maryland, where several people have been shot.
Police said there were multiple injuries at the scene, and that a suspect was now in custody.
The shooting occurred at the Capital Gazette newspaper building on Thursday afternoon.
One reporter has said a gunman shot through a glass door at "multiple employees" but police told the BBC they could not confirm details.
Some US media are quoting law enforcement officers as saying that there were multiple fatalities and injuries.
But county police Lt Ryan Frashure said during a televised news conference that there are injuries, but could not give any further details.
Lt Frashure said police did not anticipate this would be an event with "major casualties".
He also could not confirm whether the shooting took place in the newsroom, and said police are still evacuating and securing the building.
Maryland governor Larry Hogan said on Twitter he was "absolutely devastated" and was in contact with authorities.
President Donald Trump has been briefed on the shooting, the deputy press secretary told reporters.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44645986

[Suntzu]

Shooter adult White male using long gun.

[anarchist23]

* The victims: At least five people were killed, officials said. More were injured, but the number of wounded victims and the nature of their injuries is unclear.
* The suspect: A law enforcement source said a suspect is in custody and initially refused to cooperate.
* The weapon: A source says a shotgun was used in the shooting.
* The reactions: President Trump, who was briefed on the shooting, tweeted his "thoughts and prayers" were with the victims, and he thanked first responders. Maryland's governor and both of its US senators have also made statements.

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/ma ... index.html

[SpecialOlympian]

I am genuinely afraid of white men. You never know what might set them off. Someday I hope the threat that white males pose can be dealt with, but until then we have to live this violent, lawless group walking among our population as if they belong here.

[Prosthetic Conscience]

Police have identified Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, as the suspected gunman who opened fire Thursday at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland — shooting five dead and wounding others, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Ramos, a resident of Laurel, Maryland, sued the newspaper in 2012, accusing a former reporter of defamation following a piece about criminal harassment charges Ramos pleaded guilty to, the Capital Gazette reported in 2015.

The article Ramos sued over ran under the headline “Jarrod wants to be your friend,” according to court records. The piece covered how Ramos was accused of reconnecting with an old high school classmate on Facebook and then harassing her with “months of emails in which Ramos alternately asked for help, called her vulgar names and told her to kill herself,” according to excerpts from the article cited in court documents.

That article was published in July 2011, about a week after Ramos had pleaded guilty to criminal harassment charges, court records said. He was put on probation, required to attend therapy and couldn’t reach out to the victim and her relatives.

Ramos’ lawsuit accused the newspaper of defaming him and “exposing him to public scorn, hatred, contempt, and ridicule.” But the complaint didn’t come with any supporting documents, court records said.

Months later, Ramos filed another complaint — this one 22 pages long and alleging invasion of privacy, according to court records.

In court, a judge asked Ramos to point out a single false statement in the story, court records said.

“He could not do so,” according to court records.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... 37109.html

So, another misogynistic sociopath. Six years later, he decides to take revenge on the newspaper who wrote the truth about him. What pushed him into that this year, I wonder?

[Zagadka]

Clearly a member of MS-13, the yuge threat to every decent citizen.

[Negotiator]

Actually there are female shooters, they are just very rare.

Its the same as with almost any other crime, though.

[Suntzu]

He was a White Hispanic using an assault shotgun.

[skinster]

[anarchist23]

Of all the mass shootings since 1982, only three have been committed by women. While women comprise about 50 percent of the victims of mass shootings, female mass killers are “so rare that it just hasn’t been studied,” according to James Garbarino, a psychologist at Loyola University Chicago.
If basically all mass shooters were women, I can assure you we’d be talking about that.
So let’s start talking about the culture of toxic masculinity that makes men believe they should get a gun and shoot people with it.
We live in a culture that worships men with guns. You can probably think of many off the top of your head—John Wayne, Indiana Jones or James Bond come immediately to mind. They’re all men who get what they want. Women are all eager to have sex with them. They have the respect of their peers and their communities.
Most of the men who commit mass shootings were not those widely admired men. They were men who felt they were owed something, and that the world was not providing what they were owed.
In many of these mass shootings, the desire to kill seems to be driven by a catastrophic sense of male entitlement. In some cases, the perpetrators seemed to feel that if people did not give them precisely what they wanted, then those people did not deserve to live. The only just world, in their minds, was a world they were the center of.

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/p ... sculinity/

[Finfinder]

I am genuinely afraid of white men. You never know what might set them off. Someday I hope the threat that white males pose can be dealt with, but until then we have to live this violent, lawless group walking among our population as if they belong here.

who should be afraid of whom ?

This is why white people need to die and why they are a threat to our society. They simply can not be entrusted with any power, and will gladly hand over the keys to government to someone who is, somehow, dumber and more authoritarian than Trump. White people are a threat to every AMERICAN.

White people are so deranged, so made inferior by their inbreeding, and so degenerate that you can extract the teeth from their head in the name of capitalistic efficiency just so long as you promise them one thing: even the dumbest, poorest town drunk is superior to a N*****.

White people are so incredibly stupid, so incredibly addle brained that they will allow the gears of capitalism to grind them into dust just so long as a person who doesn't pass the paper bag test is forced to step off the sidewalk when they pass by.

In summary: anyone who proudly identifies as white is a cheaper date than the most syphilitic whore.

[SpecialOlympian]

I don't see how any of my statements are inconsistent. If anything, our latest deranged white male shooter only proves my point. Someday I hope you will be able to think critically and realize that white men are the real threat.

[Suntzu]

I don't see how any of my statements are inconsistent. If anything, our latest deranged white male shooter only proves my point. Someday I hope you will be able to think critically and realize that white men are the real threat.

This shit happens every weekend in Chicago but no one notices because everyone involved is Black.

[ThirdTerm]

The woman who shot three people at YouTube headquarters in Northern California has been identified as Nasim Aghdam, two law enforcement sources told CNN.

The woman took her own life after the shootings. She was found at the scene and appeared to have killed herself with a handgun, but the investigation is just beginning, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said.
"We know very, very little right now, and we probably won't know more until tomorrow morning," the chief said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/03/us/y ... index.html

The YouTube shooter was a woman and nine of the 220 incidents (about 4%) had female shooters, according to the FBI list from 2000 to 2016. I think women can be as dangerous and deadly as men.

[skinster]

(about 4%) ...female shooters

I think women can be as dangerous and deadly as men.

[Albert]

I think we all know women and men are different, hence feminism is wrong.

[Suntzu]

Never fuck with a woman with PMS!

[One Degree]

I am dumbfounded. What could have possibly happened in human history to result in men being more physically violent than women? I can see why we need to debate this mystery, since we have no written history.

[Prosthetic Conscience]

When the identity of the apparent gunman in the massacre of five journalists in Annapolis, Maryland, was revealed, area resident John Hutson, a retired Navy admiral who is now a prominent consultant and writer, had a shock of recognition. The suspect, Jarrod Ramos, had contacted Hutson in March 2015, taunting him about his role in alerting law enforcement and thwarting a potential mass killer who threatened schoolchildren and Jews in far-away Montana.

That first individual in Montana, David Lenio, overflowed with hyperbolic threats, and Hutson’s efforts to stop him succeeded, as I reported at Salon, just after it happened. Ramos was more cryptic less overtly demonstrative—but in the end, far more deadlier. Both were somewhat enigmatic, angry loners, with an unmistakable affinity for the racist alt-right.

“Jarrod Ramos was a lone nut who was not politically motivated, but he was politically influenced by the alt-right,” Hutson told Salon.

Researcher Fred Clarkson agrees. “Ramos and David Lenio seem to have been drawn into the orbit of far-right visions of anti-democratic violence, even as they seem to have ultimately acted on their own,” said Clarkson, a senior research analyst with Political Research Associates, a progressive think tank in Somerville, Massachusetts.

The only two politicians Ramos had tweeted about, according to Hutson, were Donald Trump and Michael Peroutka, a wealthy neo-Confederate funder turned Maryland county councilman. Hutson has written about Peroutka, as have I. Peroutka had major funding ties to former Alabama judge and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, as well to the League of the South, whose leader, Michael Hill, had written approvingly about plans to form paramilitary groups to fight a militarized “fourth generation” culture war, one of whose targets would be the media.

“To oversimplify, the primary targets will not be enemy soldiers;” Hill wrote, “instead, they will be political leaders, members of the hostile media, cultural icons, bureaucrats, and other of the managerial elite without whom the engines of tyranny don’t run.”

Ramos first contacted Hutson through Twitter, the latter recalls, after "the Capital Gazette published a piece about how I had alerted the FBI about mass shooting threat suspect David Lenio,” Hutson said.

After Hutson tweeted about the story, Ramos tweeted a couple of disturbing responses, first asking “Were any school children intimidated?” then claiming that Lenio “had won”:



“The piece highlighted the fact that I was also researching and writing about Michael Peroutka, for example, in the pages of Huffington Post,” Hutson noted. “I documented Michael Peroutka’s support for the League of the South [here], a right-wing group that advocated death squads, assassinating journalists, elected officials, and other members of the elite,” he explained. He questioned and challenged Peroutka "about his support for the League of the South, and that led to a lot of public attention,” which he also wrote about for Huffington Post.

Although Ramos didn’t contact Hutson at the time, he was clearly not pleased with the critical coverage of Peroutka, fusing his own lawsuit-fueled enmity toward the Capital Gazette with his enthusiasm for the pro-Confederate candidate:



Ramos was also given to self-inflation, putting on both literary and moralistic airs. In court documents, Hutson noted, he referred to himself as a crusader. Like his hero, Peroutka, this would effectively place himself above ordinary human law.

“His defense of Michael Peroutka is particularly interesting, since his views seem to echo Peroutka, a local politician and think tank leader, and other elements of the theocratic far right,” Clarkson added.

When Peroutka did manage a narrow victory that November — with signs that illegal robocalls helped put him over the top, Ramos’s tweet seemed over the top as well:



In fairness, none of Ramos' tweets overtly screams “potential mass murderer.” They’re indicative of someone stewing in resentment, but that’s hardly unusual in this day and age. Except for his Twitter avatar — that’s a whole different story.

“The image used in Ramos' Twitter profile is an image not of himself," Hutson observes, but of former Capital Gazette columnist Eric Hartley, against whom Ramos held a grudge against. “He placed a symbol on Hartley’s forehead and the symbol is a brand of sacrifice, marking a target for ritual murder,” Hutson explained. “It may have Celtic origins, but it is used in a Japanese manga series, called ‘Berserk,’ and it’s called ‘the brand of sacrifice.’

“For years Ramos stewed in his embitterment, over the newspaper's coverage of his unsuccessful defamation case and the newspaper's coverage of his stalking by Facebook of a woman with whom he had gone to high school. But he didn't act,” Huston summed up. “So the question is, what triggered him?”

Several things are worth considering, Hutson suggested. “Ramos tweeted about only two political figures, Trump and Michael Peroutka -- but he also tweeted to me after the Capital Gazette had written about me.”

The content of that story was significant. That was when Hutson wrote about Peroutka's ties to the League of the South, and its support of "death squads to assassinate journalists." These were all pieces of a puzzle Ramos had been playing around with for years, Hutson believes.

“So what happened this past week?” Hutson asked. “On June 25, Trump – at his South Carolina rally – pointed to members of the media, and called them the enemy of the people. This is a phrase that throughout history has been used by autocrats to incite violence,” from ancient Rome to the French Revolution to Nazi Germany.

That's not all that occurred last week, Hutson noted. On Tuesday, Peroutka, an Anne Arundel County councilman, was defeated for re-election, losing in the Republican primary to a female challenger. That may not be coincidental, Hutson suspects.

There are also darker long-simmering elements that may have helped prepare the way. Hutson sees an “overall pattern" of "homicidal ideation," starting with Ramous replacing the bloody severed head in a famous Charlie Hebdo cartoon with the face of Garrett Hartley, the Capital Gazette columnist:



Ramos was actually recycling an even earlier image, which was even less coherent:



Ramos also tweeted at Capital Gazette editor Rick Hutzell, criticizing him for relegating coverage of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris to page 2. Then he wrote, “je suis CapGazNews.” a direct reference to the hashtag that followed the Charlie Hebdo massacre. As Hutson reads this, Ramos was already thinking of a mass shooting at Capital Gazette in the context of his reflections on Charlie Hebdo:



These aren’t the only such messages, either. As early as September 2014, there’s this one, citing the Capital Gazette's Annapolis address:



But after the Charlie Hebdo attack, Ramos' obsession appeared to become more intense, combining political and religious overtones. “Ramos had a website in which he published court documents from his unsuccessful defamation suit,” Hutson said, and the material reads more like psychodrama than legal briefs:

In the court documents Ramos referred to himself as an agent of the Inquisition, and a crusader who cannot be killed. The Inquisition was a holy inquiry, where church authority superseded that of the civil authority. A crusader is the hand of God, waging a holy war, in the same way that the Charlie Hebdo massacres were. [In the documents] Ramos appeals to "higher authority," and he capitalizes "Higher Authority." This is similar to the way that the violent wing of the anti-abortion movement has appealed to "Higher Law," which they capitalize, to justify homicide against providers of safe, legal abortion, as well as judges and political figures who support the right.

Clarkson sees this tying back to Peroutka’s old allies at the League of the South. “Ramos came to see himself as some kind of vigilante for righteousness, casting himself for example as a 'crusader' and gunning down innocent people in a newsroom," Clarkson said, which "is not unlike the militaristic, millennial vision of Michael Hill, president of the League of the South.” Clarkson said. “Last year [Hill] rallied what he calls the Southern Defense Force, which he envisions as not just a modern Confederate army but the ‘Army of the True Living God.’ This is the group that played a prominent role in the Unite the Right march on Charlottesville.”

Hutson links these violent longings to Ramos' aristocratic pretensions. “His writing style is very arch. He appears to be writing what he conceives of as literature. His speech is highly stylized and idiosyncratic, and uses the metaphors of a holy war. A sense of embitterment and homicidal ideation comes through clearly. He writes about literal carnage, making clear that ... he means this in a literal sense. So it's not for nothing that you think about people like the Army of God.”

Ramos wasn’t acting on anyone’s orders, and despite his apparent linkages to white supremacy never expressed any clear political ideology. But there's little doubt he was influenced and shaped by some of the darkest forces in our society.

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/30/exclus ... alt-right/

[Suntzu]

Most of the shooters as well as most of the victims in the U.S. are young Black males.