Active Shooter in FL High School

[mofo]

If they can’t handle their own finances, they should not be allowed to handle a firearm.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...mental-n727221

President Donald Trump quietly signed a bill into law Tuesday rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun.

The rule, which was finalized in December, added people receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database.

[Bouncer]

If they can’t handle their own finances, they should not be allowed to handle a firearm.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...mental-n727221

agree. trump definitely being a hypocrite here.

[Keiser]

Keiser would you call hickok45 on YouTube a nut job? That old man absolutely loves guns but he's never hurt a fly. As a matter of fact he was a teacher for like 30 years. There are millions of legal gun owners just like him. They love their guns but have zero intention on hurting innocent people. Just because guns are a hobby and you find them interesting absolutely does not mean you are some kind of nut that belongs on a list.

I don't know. I need to think about this some more.

[Keiser]

agree. trump definitely being a hypocrite here.

So this guy trained with white supremacists and wore a Trump hat to school. There are also photos of him wearing a MAGA hat.

We need to be much more focused on these guys than the nerdy Antifa dorks.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nikola...-says?ref=home

[lipripper]

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/new...say/341751002/


No link to white supremacists reported by police

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[Keiser]

Disgusting. Fuck these Russian Trolls.

https://www.wired.com/story/pro-gun-...land-shooting/

Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting

Each new breaking news situation is an opportunity for trolls to grab attention, provoke emotions, and spread propaganda. The Russian government knows this. Fake-news manufacturing teenagers in Macedonia know this. Twitter bot creators know this. And thanks to data-gathering operations from groups like the Alliance for Securing Democracy and RoBhat Labs, the world knows this.

In the wake of Wednesday’s Parkland, Florida school shooting, which resulted in 17 deaths, troll and bot-tracking sites reported an immediate uptick in related tweets from political propaganda bots and Russia-linked Twitter accounts. Hamilton 68, a website created by Alliance for Securing Democracy, tracks Twitter activity from accounts it has identified as linked to Russian influence campaigns. As of morning, shooting-related terms dominated the site’s trending hashtags and topics, including Parkland, guncontrolnow, Florida, guncontrol, and Nikolas Cruz, the name of the alleged shooter. Popular trending topics among the bot network include shooter, NRA, shooting, Nikolas, Florida, and teacher.

On RoBhat Labs' Botcheck.me, a website created by two Berkeley students to track 1500 political propaganda bots, all of the top two-word phrases used in the last 24 hours—excluding President Trump's name—are related to the tragedy: School shooting, gun control, high school, Florida school. The top hashtags from the last 24 hours include Parkland, guncontrol, and guncontrolnow.

Ash Bhat, one of the project’s creators, says the bots are able to respond quickly to breaking news because they’re ultimately controlled by humans. In contrast to the Russia-affiliated Hamilton 68 bots, Bhat would not speculate on who is behind the bots that RoBhat Labs tracks. In some cases, the bot creators come up with hashtags, and use their bots to amplify them until they’re adopted by human users. “Over time the hashtag moves out of the bot network to the general public,” he says. Once a hashtag is widely adopted by real users, it’s difficult for Twitter to police, Bhat says. RoBhat Labs’ data shows this happened with the hashtag MemoDay, which bubbled up when House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’ controversial memo was released.

In other cases, the bots jump on existing hashtags to take control of the conversation and amplify a message. That’s likely what is happening with the Parkland shooting and the hashtag guncontrolnow, Bhat says.

While RoBhat Labs tracks general political bots, Hamilton 68 focuses specifically on those linked to the Russian government. According to the group's data, the top link shared by Russia-linked accounts in the last 48 hours is a 2014 Politifact article that looks critically at a statistic cited by pro-gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. Twitter accounts tracked by the group have used the old link to try to debunk today’s stats about the frequency of school shootings.

Another top link shared by the network covers the “deranged” Instagram account of the shooter, showing images of him holding guns and knives, wearing army hats, and a screenshot of a Google search of the phrase “Allahu Akbar.” Characterizing shooters as deranged lone wolves with potential terrorist connections is a popular strategy of pro-gun groups because of the implication that new gun laws could not have prevented their actions. On Thursday President Trump tweeted as much: “So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior.”

Meanwhile, some accounts with large bot followings are already spreading misinformation about the shooter's ties to far-left group Antifa, even though the Associated Press reported that he was a member of a local white nationalist group. The Twitter account Education4Libs, which RoBhat Labs shows is one among the top accounts tweeted at by bots, is among the prominent disseminators of that idea:



Bret Schafer, a research analyst with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, says the spike in shooting-related posts from Russia-linked bots is in line with what his group observed after last year's shootings in Las Vegas and Texas. The Russia-linked bots weigh in on any attention-grabbing news event, but seize on shootings particularly. "Because of the politicized nature of them, they are perfect fodder to take an extreme position and start spreading memes that have a very distinct political position on gun control," he says.

The use of pro-gun control hashtags like #guncontrolnow, along with the spread of anti-gun control links like the Politifact article, appear at first to show the Russian strategy of promoting discord on both sides of a debate. Russian-linked Twitter accounts have attempted to spread confusion and angst on topics ranging from police violence against black people, to NFL player protests, to Al Franken’s sexual misconduct accusations. (On other topics, like special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election, the bots have worked in concert to further the Kremlin's agenda.)

But in this case, Schafer suspects the use of pro-gun control hashtags like #guncontrolnow are being used sarcastically, particularly since they're often paired with the anti-gun control links. Since the Twitter accounts Hamilton 68 tracks often target right-wing audiences, Schafer believes the trolls are using the message to attract more eyeballs. "That allows them to then push content that is more directly related to the Kremlin’s geopolitical agenda," such as the Nunes memo, he says. "I don’t think the Kremlin cares one way or another whether we enact stricter gun control laws," he adds. "It's just being used as bait, basically."

Public awareness that antagonistic bots flood the Twitter debate hasn’t stopped them from achieving their goals of ratcheting up the vitriol—even amid a live tragedy like the Parkland shooting. The goal, after all, isn't to help one side or the other of the gun control debate win. It's to amplify the loudest voices in that fight, deepening the divisions between us.

[Bouncer]

i think the white supremacy thing might be fake news as well. nobody of authority has confirmed that. people said the same shit about the Vegas shooter at first. just because some nut claims the shooter as one of their own doesn't make it so. if the police or investigators confirm it then i will believe it.

[Bouncer]

Gun restraining order might have thwarted Florida shooting

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-f...-idUSKCN1FZ30X

[ROCKETS REVENGE]

My friend is the football coach and does security there. Supposedly he saved a girls life but got shot. He is in critical condition.

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that dude is a fucking HERO bro you should be proud as fuck to call him a friend. I can only wish to have balls like him if I ever end up in something like this.
RIP to your friend

[redback]

Interesting stat I heard today. Since 1968 more Americans have died from guns than in all US wars combined. I think the figure was 1.5mil.

[Bouncer]

Interesting stat I heard today. Since 1968 more Americans have died from guns than in all US wars combined. I think the figure was 1.5mil.

Mostly black on black crime in the hood. Seriously.

[redback]

Mostly black on black crime in the hood. Seriously.

Ahh...That's ok then.

[lipripper]

Shit like this is uncalled for... I hope they lock this little fuck up for a long long time. set an example out of this little fuck.

South Carolina HS student who allegedly posted 'Florida Round 2,' tells cops it was a joke | Fox News

[lipripper]

gotta love how the news keeps pushing this race deal...white supremist bullshit..

Public defender puts arm around shackled and cowering Florida gunman at his first court appearance: 'White supremacist' is silent as he is ordered to be held without bond for killing 17 people.


FUCK these lawyers...

Another member of the defense team, Gordon Weeks, was brought to tears as he addressed reporters, telling them that Cruz 'recognizes' what he has done and is 'deeply sad'.

'He is dealing with the shock of all this that's going on,' Weeks said.

McNeill and Weeks said that Cruz suffers from autism, depression and has dealt with significant psychological problems - all without the sort of support system that most people have.

'When your brain is not fully developed, you don't know how to deal with these things,' McNeil said. 'That's the child I'm sitting across from.'

Weeks added: 'The child is deeply troubled and he has endured significant trauma that stems from the loss of his mother.'

[lipripper]

mass shootings started a log time ago unfortunately...

https://www.courierpostonline.com/st...ool/343716002/