[Subjectivist]

https://youtu.be/DbG7uFxVfnY

[Gorm]

sucky for them, great for youtube. but not special or gamechanging I would guess

[Tanada]

Breaking news, both reporter and cameraman are dead, person who was being interviewed is in emergency surgery and may also die. Police are searching the area for the murderer, white male dressed in dark clothing.

[GoghGoner]

Wow, what kind of gun was that?

[Tanada]

Someone claiming to be the killer is live tweeting footage of the shooting from his perspective from what they just said on the news.

[Tanada]

BBC Breaking News ‏@BBCBreaking 3m3 minutes ago

Police name Virginia gunman who shot TV journalists as Vester Lee Flanagan, ex-employee of TV station http://bbc.in/1K2nMoX
169 retweets 39 favorites

[Apneaman]

What's the big deal? Just another day in the exceptional empire if one looks at the stats. Oh right, it's a couple of middle class whiteys and one of them is an attractive blonde- now I get the hype. If this is a typical day just imagine what it will be like after a major economic hit? How about total collapse? Get out if you can.



There have been 204 mass shootings — and 204 days — in 2015 so far


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk ... 15-so-far/



Missing white woman syndrome


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_w ... n_syndrome

Killed By Police 2015

http://killedbypolice.net/

[Subjectivist]

Other than ISIS very few killers film their acts of violence and put them up on social media.

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gorm', 'n')ot special or gamechanging I would guess

[onlooker]

Ap, interesting links and commentary. In regards to the link about missing white women syndrome. Well it sort of makes sense. White meaning the top race, woman meaning the more fragile vulnerable sex, and upper class speaks for itself. So what is the common denominator. The privileged classes being afraid and outraged that life can be so wantonly and capriciously nasty as in the back of their mind they are aware of the big bad wolf which are the unfolding events in this world. As for your commentary well ties precisely to this as one reporter was just that a white woman. I guess what is so disturbing is that nobody can predict, prepare for or anticipate who will "explode" and do something like this. Oh well guess that is divine justice for those in the US for evading so far the less sensational but more prevalent and chronic problems of most of the world related to poverty, violent conflict and now environmental upheaval.

[AgentR11]

What bothers me more, is the special significance we give these "mass" killings, but we kill thousands every year in the US on our roads, and it barely rates a 3rd page, imageless, comment.

The only thing unique or outrageous is the posting of the video. Yet similar video posted of vehicle deaths is treated almost like humor.

[onlooker]

Or for so many years Agent, cigarette deaths being sort of taken for granted or if not simply seen as inevitable. I chalk all this as part of the toll for being part of this large world-wide consumerism oriented civilization. Though in regards to cigarettes and car fatalities the role of addiction is prominent.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', 'W')ow, what kind of gun was that?

[Oneaboveall]

Sounds like something was going on with this guy:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he 24-year-old TV reporter who was shot and killed by the disgruntled ex-employee on Wednesday somehow angered him by using terms like 'swinging' by an address or going out into the 'field' while she was an intern at WDBJ.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oneaboveall', 'S')ounds like something was going on with this guy:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he 24-year-old TV reporter who was shot and killed by the disgruntled ex-employee on Wednesday somehow angered him by using terms like 'swinging' by an address or going out into the 'field' while she was an intern at WDBJ.

[sparky]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', 'W')ow, what kind of gun was that?

[Cog]

A Glock 19 to be more specific.

[PrestonSturges]

These various shootings really show the difference between a 9mm and the .40