mass shooting
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I Played Grand Theft Auto V Nightly for 3 Years. Here’s a List of Things I Never Did as a Result
In trying to shift the blame of white domestic terrorism from the actual white people committing it and the “president” who champions and enables it, there has been a lot of talk about the dangers of video games. Listen. I played one of the most violent video games, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V online, nightly…
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White Supremacist President Blames Media, Internet, and Video Games for Mass Shootings, Says Nothing About Guns
If you expected the tragic mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, by two white domestic terrorists (at least one of whom is alleged to be a white supremacist, but neither will be named here, because fuck them), that left some 29 people dead to sway the president to lay off his racist…
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#WhiteSupremacistTerrorism: Hashtag Takes Over Twitter After Latest Pair of Mass Shootings
With the encouragement of our President, America has gone to great lengths to paint minorities as criminals, parasites and in some instances, terrorists. But after the latest pair of mass shootings this weekend, in which a total of 29 people were killed, the fears and frustrations of American citizens have taken over Twitter, with the…
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Virginia Beach Shooter Resigned from His Engineering Job Before Rampage Despite Good Standing
DeWayne Craddock, the 40-year-old engineer who officials say murdered 12 people at the government building where he worked in Virginia Beach, Va., submitted a formal letter of regulation from his post as an engineer for the city, according to the Washington Post. Police arrived at the building within minutes of a call about shots fired…
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Suspect Identified in Virginia Beach Mass Shooting
Virginia Beach, Va., officials identified 40-year-old DeWayne Craddock as the lone gunman who opened fire on a municipal complex Friday afternoon, killing at least 12 people and injuring several others. The Wall Street Journal reports the shooting was in retaliation for being fired from his job with the city. According to the New York Times,…
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UNC Charlotte Becomes Latest School to Fall Victim to Mass Shooter
It was the last day of classes at UNC Charlotte. In classrooms around the campus on Tuesday night, students gave their final presentations or turned in the last projects of the semester. Others headed to the school’s nearby stadium, where a Waka Flocka Flame concert had been scheduled to celebrate the occasion. Instead, UNCC became…
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Shooter Kills 1, Injures 3 at Synagogue in Poway, Calif., Mayor Calls Incident ‘Hate Crime’ [Update]
Six months to the day an active shooter claimed 11 lives at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, 19-year old John Earnest has been detained by police in Poway, Calif., after a shooting at a synagogue has left one woman dead and three other people injured according to reports. Earnest drew inspiration from the…
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In the Aftermath of New Zealand Shooting, Trump Believes White Nationalism Doesn't Pose an Imminent Threat
While Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke spent his weekend acknowledging the myriad of advantages that white privilege has afforded him over the course of his life, our Commander-in-Tweet predictably spent his doing the complete opposite. In fact, if you let Trump tell it, white supremacy—the malevolent patriarch of the “I don’t see color” family tree—is…
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Murder-Obsessed Nazi Couple Indicted For Planning 'Upscale' Massacre
Since the day mass murderer and white supremacist Dylann Roof was arrested for killing nine worshippers at Emanuel Baptist Church in Charleston South Carolina, he has only responded to four people during his incarceration. One of those four was recently arrested and indicted after federal agents thwarted plans for a brutal massacre (Not like the…
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Gun Deaths in US at Record High. NRA Says Chill on Gun Control and Figure Out … IDK, Something?
If the gun-related deaths we write about started to give you broken-record vibes, it’s for a reason: recent reports indicate that gun deaths in the U.S. have reached an all-time high. From CNN: Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns last year, marking the highest number of gun deaths in decades, according…