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The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

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Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

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And We Have an Active Shooter/Mass Shooter in Knoxville

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Cheryl indicated in comments that there was an active shooting at a school in Knoxville.

From The Knoxville News Sentinel:

Multiple people have been shot, including a Knoxville police officer, at Austin-East High School on Monday afternoon, the Knoxville Police Department posted on its Twitter account.

Two sources with knowledge of the situation who are not authorized to speak about it also told Knox News the shooting had occurred. One source said the situation is no longer “active.”

Police and emergency workers flooded the neighborhood around 3 p.m., and have blocked off access to the school and parts of the neighborhood.

The school has been locked down, according to Knox County Schools spokeswoman Carly Harrington.

Knox County Schools has established a reunification site for parents to connect with their children who attend the school. It is at the baseball field behind the school near Wilson Avenue and Hembree Street.

Not a lot of information/reporting on this yet. I’ll update as/if/when information comes in.

Updated at 5:30 PM EDT

Open thread!

 

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43Comments

  1. 1.

    Mary G

    It is so sad that schools have to plan for “reunification” sites on a regular basis. I cannot even imagine the horrors parents go through, sitting around together in dread, feeling joy when their child is found to be alive, but terrible guilt that some of the people who you bonded with during the nightmare got or will get the worst news of their lives. It also keeps them away from the press, which is it good because the press are insensitive ghouls or bad that you can’t go on camera and scream at America that this has got to stop?

  2. 2.

    raven

    My buddy with a high school aged son in Knoxville checked in and this school is across town. Last time he was here was when the church shooting happened there.

  3. 3.

    geg6

    I thought being taught at home via Zoom was the biggest danger ever known to students in K-12. Apparently, TFG was wrong about that. Huh.

  4. 4.

    CaseyL

    Jesus.  FUCKING.  Christ.

    The intransigence on any kind of gun control has made me an absolute gun-grabber.

    Get rid of them all.

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    Crap.

    Covid spared us of school shooting sprees for a year. And now we return to our regular programming, except for the fact Covid is very much still with us. This is not the combination I was hoping for.

    And now we’ll have a new group of students and teachers and staff with PTSD for god knows how long.

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    @Mary G:   I think that is going to be a factor in cracking down on guns.

    Mass shootings happen constantly; it could be your kid next; little kids have to drill for this now as part of their in-person education.

    American Mom is fed to the teeth with paranoid American Dad.

    The only thing that paused school shootings was having the schools closed by a pandemic.  Enough unnecessary death.  Enough.

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    You can bet Southern states will take the very wrong conclusion here and now mandate teachers be armed.  Just you wait.  By the end of the month those bills will appear all over the Red South.

  14. 14.

    fancycwabs

    Four days ago, Tennesee’s “governor,” Bill Lee, signed “permitless carry” legislation that he’d personally championed.

    Four days ago.

  19. 19.

    LeftCoastYankee

    There is a feedback loop between the police training Adam mentions in the previous post (and how it manifests itself with police shootings), and these mass shootings.

    It’s like watching a drunk decide more booze will cure their hangover, except their liver damage kills other people….

  24. 24.

    Mary G

    Adam’s friend is signal-boosting:

    So, here, from smart Adam Silverman, the best analysis of what happened in Brooklyn Center. This officer made colossal. inexplicable mistakes; looking at pictures of the yellow Taser and the Glock, it is impossible to imagine she mistook one for the other. t.co/faVrLqL6eT— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 12, 2021

  25. 25.

    Mike in NC

    In 2016 the NRA spent some $30M to help put a sadistic sociopath in the White House, and for four years he championed white supremacy and police brutality. That’s why we have out of control cops and mass shootings, and the random murder of non-white citizens. The Orange Clown gave that behavior two thumbs up.

  26. 26.

    Mary G

    Twins baseball cancelled for tonight:<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>The <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/MNTwins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#MNTwins</a> issued the following statement regarding the decision to postpone today's scheduled game against the Red Sox. <a href=”https://t.co/7U1S2P928j”>pic.twitter.com/7U1S2P928j</a></p>&mdash; Minnesota Twins (@Twins) <a href=”https://twitter.com/Twins/status/1381675819735597060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>April 12, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Another mass shooting, another day ending in “Y” in America.

    This ammosexual insanity must end.

  28. 28.

    Ken

    @Mary G: Now I’m wondering if it will turn out one or more of the officers knew the victim, like Chauvin and Floyd.  And what was that case where the officer claimed she thought she was in her own apartment? Was there some connection there?

  30. 30.

    Geminid

    @fancycwabs: Ohio Republicans introduced permitless concealed carry legislation two weeks ago. It’s passage is not certain, as some Republican legislative leaders are understandably skeptical. While Republicans have a large majority in the state legislature because of gerrymandering, this is a law that concerted public opposition might stop.

  34. 34.

    Roger Moore

    @Mike in NC:

    In 2016 the NRA spent some $30M to help put a sadistic sociopath in the White House, and for four years he championed white supremacy and police brutality. That’s why we have out of control cops and mass shootings, and the random murder of non-white citizens.

    Look, the NRA is evil and so is TFG, but out of control cops, mass shootings, and random murder of non-white citizens did not start in 2016.  The big thing that has changed is that everyone has a networked video camera in their pocket, so those things are getting more public attention and scrutiny.

  35. 35.

    Geminid

    @debbie: I’m  just saying it might be stopped, based on a quick look at local reporting that indicated that Republican legislative leaders were not all on board yet.

    Some advocates of this law said that because of a pending reform affecting gerrymandering, this might be their last chance to push permitless conceal carry through. I took that as an admission that they know they lack majority support, and may be relying on apathy on the part of citizens to make this lousy proposal law.

  39. 39.

    Denali

    I went to high school in Knoxville and have a family reunion scheduled for the fall. After the Governor signed the permitless concealed carry, I do not feel safe travelling there. This does not even take into account all the people who will refuse the Co-vid vaccine and masks. While the south is especially culpable,  my son went to the University of Colorado in Boulder and regularly shopped at the store where their mass shooting happens just a few weeks ago. When is this madness going to stop?

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