Not an active shooter, just the kind of idiotic shit that happens when people walk around with guns on all day.
Also, the sheriff has the most Louisiana name ever. https://t.co/HjNb6ZUhla— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 6, 2019
From local paper The Advocate:
A man who visited Walmart to buy his child a lunchbox Tuesday morning got caught in the middle of an altercation between two other patrons and was injured in the shooting that resulted, authorities said.
East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said there was never an active shooter situation despite initial reports that suggested otherwise. He said investigators believe two Walmart patrons got into an altercation while standing in the store’s customer service line and both pulled guns out on each other.
Gautreaux said investigators believe only one fired his weapon, striking the victim who was waiting to purchase the lunchbox and was not involved in the altercation. The incident occurred late Tuesday morning at the Walmart on Burbank Drive and the victim was brought to the hospital in a private vehicle.
He’s being treated at Baton Rouge General Medical Center and is currently in fair condition, according to hospital spokeswoman Katie Johnston. Gautreaux said the man was hit multiple times by gunfire, but they believe his injures are not life threatening…
Look, all I said is that I want fries with it https://t.co/gIgWhRpt6U
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 6, 2019
(Update: Looks like no shots were actually fired — people panicked when an Active shooter! alert sounded, and someone was hurt badly enough to go to the hospital. Horrible that everyone’s so on edge, but it makes the gunfondlers’ defenses even more mockable.)
I, for one, plan never to let them forget it. https://t.co/zHG6vssTNX
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 6, 2019
Chetan Murthy
If it wasn’t so godawfully tragic, it’d be hilarious. What mooks, deez guise.
Adam L Silverman
This will get out of hand…
Cheryl Rofer
A frightened populace is a manipulable populace.
Lamh36
Because of course…
Adam L Silverman
@Lamh36: Always be selling.
mrmoshpotato
I say we give the Florida mangrove swamps to the ammosexuals. Have fun shooting each other for food. Oh, and you’re no longer part of the United States.
Jay
Jay
Timurid
@Lamh36:
Trump in El Paso is going to be a Nixon in Venezuela level shitshow. I’m guessing they just hold the speech at the airport and bring in the VIP’s, first responders, etc… because getting him across the city is going to be impossible unless they bring Marine One.
Jay
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.dailydot.com/layer8/kaitlin-bennett-robbed/%3famp
Adam L Silverman
@mrmoshpotato: That’s where my mom lives. So maybe you want to work on a new plan?
Sasha
An armed society is not a polite society … it is a cowed society.
mrmoshpotato
@Adam L Silverman: In the swamps? I’m talking about the literal swamps, not the land near them.
Adam L Silverman
@mrmoshpotato: She lives in a cyprus swamp.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Hey, AL has a church in Glendale.
mrmoshpotato
@Adam L Silverman: Ugh. Sorry. Ok, we give them the bottom of the ocean.
Lamh36
@Adam L Silverman:
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: And don’t forget Betty Cracker.
Adam L Silverman
@Lamh36: Yep. You’re going to get people hurt as others try to flee because they think shots are bing fired or bombs are exploding. And you may also get people who conceal carry draw their weapons and fire back because of the same sounds. Either way, nothing good will come of it.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You never see her and my mom together. Coincidence?//
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: Some of the commenters here took an internet survey that indicated that they were sea monsters. Try something else.
The Dangerman
I hear Tucker Carlson has said that White Supremacists being a threat is a hoax. I bet Trump calls it a hoax before the weekend.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus:
LOL When was this survey?
Well, you’ve taken away 70% of the Earth’s surface. Giving them an active volcano to live on is bound to bother someone. I don’t know.
ETA: Congrats on the win tonight.
Anne Laurie
@Sasha:
Back in the 1980s, when the sf glibertarians were using it as a rallying cry (pace Heinlein), those of us of sound mind wore buttons with the tagline… Ask any [civil war enduring] Lebanese citizen!
Adam L Silverman
@The Dangerman: Tucker has only been pushing the great replacement crap at least three times a week for well over 18 months. Perhaps he should watch his own show?
Adam L Silverman
@mrmoshpotato: Scientologists. Something in Hubbard’s teachings about Xenu and a volcano.
Anne Laurie
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I tell you: I can honestly sympathize with all the kids named ‘Daenerys’ or ‘Khalessi’, because the strangers they meet will never get tired of Game of Thrones jokes…
The Dangerman
@Adam L Silverman:
He sounds like Kevin Bacon in Animal House, “all is well”, while he fans the flames.
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: I hope this helps.
mrmoshpotato
@Adam L Silverman:
Don’t want NotMax to show up saying, “Don’t send them to Hawaii, even if you’d give them lakefront property – a lava lake.”
Anne Laurie
@Adam L Silverman: TBH, some optimistic part of me stubbornly hopes this might be a tipping point. I mean, Second Amendment blahblahblah, but if the terror of the populace starts interfering with commerce, then The People in the Towers are going to have to take steps, right?
(Only problem, of course, being the steps they decide to take… )
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: Any family named Jackson who named a son Michael after, let’s say, 1972, should suffer unspeakable horrors. Also, when I was at WI election agency during during recalls, we found that there is at least one Michael Mouse in WI, and a guy named Joe Stalin preemptively called in to let us know that “Yes, that was his real name, and, yes, he did sign the Walker recall petition.”
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m not a sea monster apparently. (Was really hoping all answers would point to sea monster)
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus: “But that name’s been in the FAMILY for, like, ever!”
(P.S. Not my name. My old man won the Monopoly game after they realized they hadn’t picked out a girl’s name, so mom had to wait another decade to name my baby sister Barbara Ellen.)
Suzanne
TRUE. ASS. FACTZ.
Shame.
Shame.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: I gotta go with Driftglass and Bluegal here – they’ll stop long enough to burn their uniforms while running away from Berlin.
George W. who?
Donald who?
Or as Bluegal put it – Trump who?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Anne Laurie: A bit of interesting trivia about that chapel at Forest Lawn Glendale, a future President married his second wife there.
prostratedragon
Types of volcanic eruptions include the Plinian, the Surtseyan, and the ¡Ptui!ian, first observed in the early 21st century in the Aleutian Islands.
Chris T.
An armed society is a polite society … because enough people shoot everyone so that everyone is dead, and the dead are so, so polite…
Omnes Omnibus
@Chris T.: Do they stand when a lady walks into the room? They do not. Of course the ladies would be dead too so they wouldn’t walk into the room, would they?
SectionH
@Anne Laurie: I was ? about the Scots vs the Irish…
My first husband’s name and mine were, to put it mildly, a source of amusement for a lot of people with, um, puerile senses of humor. We’d generally just “smile.”
Chris T.
@Omnes Omnibus: Perzackly.
J R in WV
@Lamh36:
But really, we all know Trump care not a whit about healing El Paso, and even if he did, is wholly incapable of doing so.
I hope everyone just stands up and turns their backs to him, and stands silently until the dirtbag shuts up. Alternatively, calls of Go Home Nazi, or of Go Back Where You Came From with their backs turned. Even if it’s only a large percentage of the crowd, would be unmistakable point about how they feel about Trump. Would infuriate him, also…
Shalimar
@J R in WV: “SEND HIM BACK!!! SEND HIM BACK!!! SEND HIM BACK!!!”
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You’ve been to the future and you know who will be the president?
Seriously though, did you mean Ronald Reagan?
SectionH
@J R in WV: Sigh, that’s my fantasy too. Stand silently, and then turn their backs. I think the shout him down wouldn’t be anywhere near as cutting to that asshole.
I don’t know if you have occasion to go through El Paso when you’re… oh never mind. (sorry, the million+ miles on 3 cars we owned sometimes confuse me about geography for most people). We got stranded in EP years ago when our “only” ~255K Voyager which actually had had an engine replaced suddenly lost its alternator. Luckily, we knew the Marriott there from previous, and Chrysler dealer was just down the street. But we were stuck for 4 days (weekend, they had to fly the part in from Denver). At some point, we asked a desk clerk for “what’s close by?” And she recommended the Cielo Vista Mall. (Hint: if you’re on foot DO NOT plan to walk there from the Marriott at the airport. It was December, and I was so cold it wasn’t funny. Never mind what it would be like in the summer…)
But yeah, just another public venue we didn’t die in. Mr S didn’t die in the waiting room in the train station in Bologna which he used frequently when the Red Brigade blew it up in the ’70s. They patched it up and people kept using it. The cool thing about the Italians back then, and basically all the Europeans, and esp. the Brits really (IRA) was that they didn’t freak out. The Italians esp. remembered their fascist episode and weren’t having with that shit.
This isn’t even a rant, but damn.
edited for (typo) and the conclusion, which is that I really really don’t want this country to have to learn the hard way.
Never mind that the planet doesn’t have time for that shit.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne:
Yes.
Amir Khalid
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
If I’m not mistaken Reagan and Trump are the only POTUSes (POTi?) married more than once.
opiejeanne
@Amir Khalid: Yes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: They’re the only ones that were married more than once due to divorce, off the top of my head Teddy Roosevelt was married twice(his first wife died giving birth to Alice).
Patricia Kayden
@Jay: Why would she have $1500 with her at a hotel? Who does that? I don’t believe her story. They lie so regularly that I don’t believe their claims without corroboration.
opiejeanne
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I didn’t know that.
Amir Khalid
@opiejeanne:
If she is elected, Elizabeth Warren would be the third.
different-church-lady
@Adam L Silverman: Your mother is an alligator?
Patricia Kayden
@Chris T.: And before they kill each other, they can live in fear and terror of each other knowing that the smallest slight can result in the drawing and shooting of guns.
p.a.
@Patricia Kayden: IIRC, in states w open carry/stand your ground, the death rate for whites is up a statistically significant amount, and up only for them. Too early for internet search. Think the number was ~4%.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: Hey now, I know some very nice vent worms that live at the bottom of the ocean.
PST
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Woodrow Wilson’s first wife died while he was in office. So Edith Wilson, who is said to have been the effective acting POTUS after Woody’s strokes, didn’t even have the benefit of FLOTUSing for the full first term.
SRW1
@Amir Khalid:
Careful with all things Latin! What about P(s)OTUS?
trnc
@mrmoshpotato:
I say President Harris or Warren call every one of them up for duty and send them to boot camp because that is the explicit reason given in the constitution for allowing civilians to have firearms. Deploy them to Afghanistan or Yemen after that.
trnc
@Jay: Is that her fiance in the picture with her?
Kay
LOL. Beto should aspire to project the quiet dignity of Donald Trump and his bottom of the barrel, sleazy hires.
boatboy_srq
@Anne Laurie: Let Those Other People° start packing heat and watch how fast gun control becomes policy.
Kay
It’s sad that people are scared, but honestly it’s past time the general population started to feel the affects of this- public school children have been dealing with it for a decade. The adults will get better at capitulating to the demands of the terrorists. They’ll be obediently lining up and periodically evacuating or “sheltering in place”, just like their children already do. The current crop of school children will be well trained by the time they’re adults. People must change their behavior to accomodate gun nuts, and they will, because of course it’s impossible to even imagine that gun nuts would ever change anything or compromise in any way.
opiejeanne
@SRW1: It’s not Latin, it’s an acronym. So probably POTUSes.
evodevo
@Jay: I know that area reasonably well – my husband worked there for years in the school system….the motel is near the Aquarium, in a newly gentrified district, but still…downtown NEWPORT??? And, yes, why would you leave FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS in your motel room? Sounds fishy to me….
evodevo
@mrmoshpotato: No no no no….mangroves are valuable estuarine environments essential to the health of the fishy community ….NO REDNECKS!!!!
russell
Read the Tom Nichols Twitter thread, saw “Boats & Hoes” picture. Somebody needs to break it to that guy that the thing he’s holding is not a gun, it’s a fish.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Is there something you want to tell us,
MichaelOmnes?SFAW
@boatboy_srq:
Amazingly enough, St. Ronaldus Magnus seemed to have anticipated your suggestion, when he was governor of California. I wonder what led him to pursue that “idea.”
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: Dayum, 5 out of 5!
What am I doing up here in the mountains?? No wonder I feel like a fish out of water sometimes!
Mo MacArbie
@Omnes Omnibus: Reggie! Reggie! Reggie!