Two things:
"For the 40th time this year, the 141st time since the Sandy Hook massacre, a gunman had opened fire in a school."
Surely this number can't be right. 40 THIS YEAR ALONE?!! Are you fucking serious??? And people are still worried about hanging on to their precious guns???
And regardless of the number, for certain individuals to privilege their right to bear arms over the lives of innocents is nothing short of sociopathic, selfish, and evil. Period.
And to rebuff Raymond's (predictably racist) assertion that the gunman was a Muslim....
Umpqua Gunman Chris Harper-Mercer Hated Religion Online
The 26-year-old gunman showed a disdain for organized religion online, then allegedly asked victims about their faith before shooting them.
Police have identified the gunman who killed 10 people at an Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Thursday as Chris Harper-Mercer.
A MySpace account belonging to Christopher Harper-Mercer is registered to Torrance, California. Harper-Mercer and his mother previously lived in Torrance before moving to an apartment in Winchester, Oregon, where neighbors tell The Daily Beast there is a heavy police presence.
An online dating profile, linked to Harper-Mercer?s email address and featuring another photo of him, says the 26-year-old was living with his parents and searching for the ?yin to my yang.? It identifies his views as ?conservative, republican? and lists ?organized religion? as one of his ?dislikes.?
According to a student at Umpqua, Mercer demanded to know his victims? religion before killing them.
The MySpace page features a photo of Harper-Mercer holding a gun and smiling into the camera. The profile includes images of pro-Irish Republican Army propaganda.
Lithium_Love was another online identity linked to Harper-Mercer?s email address. Under this username, he posted on torrent upload sites, sometimes asking people to donate to his email address to support the file-sharing work.
In a blog linked to that identity, Harper-Mercer expressed admiration for Roanoke shooter Vester Flanagan.
People ?like him have nothing left to live for,? Harper-Mercer wrote on Aug. 31. ?On an interesting note, I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are... A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more you?re in the limelight.?
Gary Evans, 62, who was married to Harper-Mercer?s aunt, told The Daily Beast in a phone interview that when Harper-Mercer came into the world, his birth father was not in the picture.
?They were separated when I first met them, and I don?t believe they ever were married,? Evans said.
The father is Caucasion, Evans said, while Harper-Mercer?s mother, Laurel Harper, is African-American.
Laurel was the second-oldest of four sisters and was raised in Torrance, California, in what Evans described as a ?very upper middle class? household. When Evans married Laurel Harper?s sister Maribeth back in 1990, Harper-Mercer?s mom was just starting to become a nurse.
?I know she went from career to career and then settled on nursing,? he said. ?She was working full-time and taking [nursing] classes part-time.?
For a self-identified mixed-race conservative Republican, aren't Muslims the "enemy?"
Ultimately, a sad situation all around.
Peace!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/01/umpqua-gunman-id-d-as-chris-harper-mercer.html
