The name of the lounge is Déjà Vu. Consdering our nation has mass shootings almost daily, that name is eerily appropriate.
10 people shot outside a lounge in Allentown, Pennsylvania
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/06/20/us/...ing/index.html
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The name of the lounge is Déjà Vu. Consdering our nation has mass shootings almost daily, that name is eerily appropriate.
10 people shot outside a lounge in Allentown, Pennsylvania
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/06/20/us/...ing/index.html
San Jose has had 19 homicides in 2019 and the year isn't even half over.
Five people killed, including suspect, in quadruple murder-suicide in San Jose
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/...urder-suicide/
The majority of men who get fired from a job start looking for another job. A few, such as this man, choose to look for a gun.
Gunman kills 2 at northern California car dealer, then kills himself
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...elf/ar-AADqY29
Two Americans are among the dead. For those of you who speak Somali: Argaggixisadu way waalan yihiin. Dunida oo dhan waa waalan!
Islamic extremist attack on Somali hotel leaves 26 dead, 56 injured
https://abcnews.go.com/International...el-18-64310927
Among the dead: the gunman's father and brother. Among the wounded: the gunman's mother. So often, anger + guns = murder. But how can anyone have so much hatred and anger that he would shoot his own parents?
LAPD catches suspect accused of killing 4, wounding 2 in San Fernando Valley
https://www.dailynews.com/2019/07/25...ing-of-mother/
A city council member asked, "How does such a beautiful and peaceful event become overshadowed by tragedy in seconds?" The answer: Too many Americans have too much anger, too much hatred and unlimited access to too many guns – and Republican Congressmen are in thrall to the NRA and do nothing about gun violence other than to offer their meaningless "thoughts and prayers."
1 killed, 11 wounded in shooting at community festival in Brooklyn
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brookly...le-playground/
Gilroy, south of San Jose, is "the garlic capital of the world" and since 1979 has held an annual garlic festival with food booths, vendors, live entertainment, cooking contests and a Miss Gilroy Garlic pageant. Today, unfortunately, the festival included a mass shooting. KTLA-Channel 5 is reporting the gunman was shot and killed by police. One of the dead was a 3-year-old boy. Just another typical day in the United States of America.
3 killed, 12 injured in mass shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-worl...-festival.html
Legan opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle purchased July 9 in Nevada. That's the weapon of choice for mass murderers. He was one of those white nationalists whom Donald Trump praises as "very fine people" and he had complained on Instagram about "hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats."
Gilroy gunman Santino William Legan, 19, cited Might Is Right white supremacist manifesto on Instagram just before shooting
https://www.newsweek.com/gilroy-shoo...tagram-1451586
The gunman is described as a "disgruntled" employee. In most countries, that word means "discontented; ill-humored." In the United States of America, unfortunately, it has come to mean "murderous."
2 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Walmart in Southaven, Mississippi
https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/ar...i-14247121.php
Today in an editorial referencing Sunday's mass shootings in Brooklyn and Gilroy, the Los Angeles Times observed, "The violence, of course, won't move President Trump or Congress to act. Trump said Monday we should continue to 'work together as communities and citizens' to prevent violence. But in fact he has done virtually nothing to address our national scourge. He has fallen into the full embrace of the National Rifle Association in ways no other recent President has done. 'You have a true friend in the White House,' he told the NRA two years ago, after the group spent $30 million to help him get elected."
The Gilroy gunman legally purchased his AK-47 in Nevada but such weapons are illegal to own in California. Speaking to reporters at Santa Clara Medical Center, Governor Gavin Newsom asked, "How is that possible? I have no problem with the 2nd Amendment. You have a right to bear arms – but not weapons of goddamned mass destruction."
Of course Trump, the Republicans and the NRA strongly disagree.
These women may not have been the intended targets – but, regardless, they're both dead. Just another typical day in the United States of America.
2 Chicago mothers who worked to stop violence killed in drive-by shooting
They volunteered with Mothers/Men Against Sensless Killings (MASK).
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...oting-n1036221
Letter from Frank Ferrone of El Cajon in today's Los Angeles Times:
"What could be more American than the Gilroy Garlic Festival, an annual rural food fest put on by a community celebrating the fruits of its labor? And what could be more symbolic of America than to have this quintessential Norman Rockwell moment be permanently scarred by a mass shooting? But the National Rifle Association and the gun owners of America need not worry. Nothing will be done. The NRA and its subsidiary, the GOP, led by President Trump, will offer their thoughts and prayers to the victims. The Democratic majority in the House might pass common-sense gun control legislation, only to be blocked by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Senate. Before the bodies are buried, the next law-abiding gun owner of automatic weapons is locking and loading his arsenal for the next mass shooting in a town to be named later."
Two hundred forty-eight mass shootings in 212 days. That's an awful lot of meaningless "thoughts and prayers" for the Republicans to offer. They must be growing weary.
There have been more mass shootings than days in 2019
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-h...-days-in-2019/
A 21-year-old man with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire today at an El Paso Walmart. KTSM-Channel 9 is reporting 18 fatalities. Twenty-two wounded, including a 2-year-old and a 9-year-old, have been admitted to local hospitals and 11 are in critical condition. Just another typical day in the United States of America.
Multiple people dead in shooting at El Paso Walmart
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/el...say/ar-AAFhWaz
Here is an update from NBC. Have the Republicans offered their meaningless "thoughts and prayers" yet?
El Paso shooting: At least 19 dead, 40 injured in Walmart attack
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nati...516373781.html
Two hundred fifty mass shootings in the first 216 days of this year. The El Paso shooter had posted an anti-immigrant manifesto. The Dayton shooter killed nine people, including his sister, in less than a minute. Democratic Presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke told reporters, "Trump is a racist and he stokes racism in this country. It fundamentally changes the nature of this country and it leads to violence." Trump, of course, calls himself "the least racist person in the world" – but he is the sole resident of Trumpworld, the Land of Delusions.
9 dead, 27 injured in mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/08/04/us/...ter/index.html
This morning, Beto O'Rourke told reporters we need to enact universal background checks, end gun-show loopholes, ban "assault weapons and weapons of war" and make it harder for people to get a gun when they "shouldn't have one in the first place." He added, "We also have to acknowledge that the open racism and intolerance and hatred we are seeing throughout this country being echoed and trafficked in by the President of the United States who encourages this kind of hatred."
Biden, Warren, Sanders, Castro, Harris, Booker, Delaney, de Blasio, Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Tim Ryan and many other Democratic leaders have spoken out about the El Paso and Dayton shootings and denounced white nationalism, emphasizing the urgency to stand up to the gun lobby and take action to combat what Warren calls the "gun violence epidemic."
The Republicans' response: *Crickets*
Remember, this is the man who, shortly before his inauguration, told the NRA, "You have a friend in the White House." For Donald Trump and most Republicans, the right to own lots of guns is far more important than any American's right to life.
After pair of mass shootings, Trump remains out of sight
The Associated Press, Aug 4 2019 2:34 PM
As the nation reeled from two mass shootings in less than a day, President Donald Trump spent the first hours after the tragedies out of sight at his New Jersey golf course, sending out tweets of support awkwardly mixed in with those promoting a celebrity fight and attacking his political foes.
Trump will return to Washington this evening and will likely address reporters, but the nation did not glimpse the President in the immediate aftermath of a shooting in El Paso that killed at least 20 people and, hours later, one in Dayton that claimed at least nine lives. Never seemingly comfortable consoling a nation in grief, Trump will be carefully watched for his response to an anti-immigration manifesto that police say the El Paso shooter left behind, again inviting comparison to his predecessors who have tried to heal the country in moments of national trauma.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...ight/23787109/
What did I just say about Republicans and their love of guns? At least 29 Americans were killed in two mass shootings in a 14-hour period and Kevin McCarthy blames video games. Nothing will change until Democrats regain control of the Senate.
The top House Republican is blaming video games for the weekend’s mass shootings
"The idea that these video games that dehumanize individuals, to have a game of shooting individuals, I’ve always felt that it's a problem for future generations and others," said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
https://www.vox.com/2019/8/4/2075372...s-gop-mccarthy
"Accused shooter." Really? Patrick Crusius isn't just the "accused shooter." He's the shooter. Period. A police spokesman told ABC News that Crusius said he "wanted to kill as many Mexicans as possible." Lovely.
El Paso shooting: Death toll rises to 22 as investigators put together timeline of accused shooter's movements
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/el-paso...trick-crusius/