Assassination and mass shootings are different but I do think it’s interesting that the Kirk shooter also left the scene.

The majority of mass shooters are actively suicidal at the time of the shooting and want to die (by cop or by their own hand). So escape isn’t typically part of the “plan.” However, there could be a lot of reasons the shooter left the scene…there just isn’t enough info yet.

Black and white photograph of Alice Notley in Bolinas, California, early 1972.

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

Sufjan Steven's Illinois with Robert Prevost over the Superman drawing in the original album cover

Abundant Life shooter's plans, manifesto details revealed in case against Florida man Police believe Natalie Rupnow and Damien Blade Allen, 22, communicated for months, including about her plans, and have used their TikTok exchanges to help build the case against him.

Police believe Natalie Rupnow and Damien Blade Allen, 22, communicated for months, including about her plans, and have used their TikTok exchanges to help build the case against him.

Fellas, this is peak performance.

FSU shooting suspect used mom's service weapon and had white supremacist views, police and classmates say The 20-year-old is the son of a sheriff’s deputy who had access to one of her weapons, officials said.

NEW: Classmates of the FSU shooting suspect say he harbored white supremacist views: “He espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric and far-right rhetoric," one classmate says.

It provides a lot to think abt in terms of how exposures to stressors or trauma line up with/or precede antisocial behaviors and preparation behaviors exhibited by mass shooters. Hits home that both acute and past events should be considered and that trauma inter./prev. has something to contribute.

A Behavioral Sequence Analysis of Mass School Shooters Examining Stressors, Antisocial Behaviors, Mental Health Issues, and Planning and Preparation Activities This study examines all completed mass school shooting offenders (1966–2021) using a behavioral sequence analysis of their stressors, antisocial behaviors, mental health issues, and planning/prepar...

This article examines the sequential occurrences of stressors (incl. traumatic ones), mental health issues, and mass shooter behavior leading up to a shooting. Provides an interesting picture from birth to an attack of when traumatic events happens or follow previous trauma doi.org/10.1080/0163...

It might be that trauma has a role in the rejection sensitivity / injustice collecting shooters can demonstrate, could be impacting their social functioning/social isolation…these are just two possibilities

Talking about it can feel like a suggestion of empathy for a person who has caused SO much harm. Further, lots of ppl experience trauma and don’t do this. But there is something here and whatever it is, it’s complex.

Trauma is just one of many complex, interacting factors that impact a trajectory to violence, but we really need to learn more abt its role in mass shooter behavior.

FSU shooting suspect was at center of years-long custody battle, documents show In 2015, Phoenix Ikner’s birth mother was charged with kidnapping, and Ikner filed a domestic violence case against her for physical abuse.

Don’t like that the lead image for this includes the shooter’s name and image but this articles provides the comprehensive details of the traumatic childhood events that the shooter was exposed to.

There are multiple ways in which survivors of this shooting could be double survivors of mass shootings. I find that very intense to realize.

This is also not the first mass public shooting at FSU or in Tallahassee. In 2014, a shooter attacked students and staff in the library. In 2018, a shooter motivated by misogyny/incel ideology attacked a yoga studio (that I took classes at when I lived there).

Thinking abt the articles noting that survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas attack are now survivors of a *second* school shooting.

To be clear: I don't know what the reality is. *But* the more likely reality is that they fought to keep the documents from being publicly released because the shooter intended for them to be instructive and helpful to future shooters.

For instance, I wonder if the general public assumed, at least in part, that the parents did not want the documents authored by this shooter released bc it would contribute to the right wing narrative.

Which is to say that that misinformation about shooters and shootings prevents productive public conversation and understanding of them.

Madison and Nashville School Shooters Appear to Have Crossed Paths in Online Extremist Communities A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and en...

Namely, that the Covenant shooter was driven by a desire for notoriety. This has always been a driver, but the recent uptick in juvenile shooters fixated on previous shooters and focused on achieving fame is alarming. www.propublica.org/article/madi...

There's no manifesto. The shooters' grievances had nothing to do with the Covenant School, with Christianity, and had *very* little (if anything) to do with the shooter's gender identity. I'm still learning, but to me, it's remarkable how similar this event and this shooter are to recent shootings.

All in the name of escalating anti-trans rhetoric and violence against the trans community.

The Nashville police released a report on the 2023 Covenant shooter and there's a lot to say. It's incredible how much false information has been used to create a story about this shooter and this event that is just *not true.*

This is extremely correct and helpful 💙

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I have fostered a billion kittens but these freaks are so much better

They have the glower and nervous systems of cats who have made major life decisions outside but their joy and playfulness when they feel comfy and safe is a rare gem that will change your life.

Disgusting, frankly, that my beautiful ass foster cats have not had a single adoption application. www.petfinder.com/search/pets-...