At least 4 dead from several shooting sites by the same shooter. He had 2 handguns and a semiautomatic rifle. Small town in the country. I almost don’t want to know the details, but so sad…
Oh, he “seemed mentally unstable” and there was some kind of domestic incident too. One of the shooting sites was an elementary school.
I was going to post a thread about this and then realized- what’s the point? It always devolves into a gun debate and nothing changes anyway. RIP to those innocent people- especially the children.
But just another day that ends in y.
Yeah, I understand that but I feel the need to not let myself forget. To not let myself overlook the “small” killings. Those people deserved better too.
He had stabbed a woman and was out on bond.
There’s another case in the LA area where a gangbanger was arrested for murder but his wealthy parents got him out on bond and he went back to his high school. The other parents objected to having a suspected gang bang murderer in the school for fear their children would be targets of him or other gang members. He was removed.
The point is: seems like it’s too easy to get out of jail on bond. Murderers, attempted murderers…out on the street.
Any ethnic background or nationality on the shooter yet? I have to know which outrage to pick 
Ho hum another day - another mass shooting.
Maybe we should have a sticky thread called “mass shooting of the day.”
Well, we were due — it’s been at least a few days since the last one (that made headlines, anyway).
Fox news has identified the shooter:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/15/california-gunmans-mother-says-was-frustrated-by-ongoing-feud-with-neighbors.html
Currently on their homepage there is a photo http://www.foxnews.com/ with the title Murderous Mama’s Boy.
From the article linked above:
“Police said surveillance video shows Neal unsuccessfully trying to enter a nearby elementary school after quick-thinking staff members locked the outside doors and barricaded themselves inside when they heard gunshots.”
Oh, white man. We need to do something about mental health in this country.
His neighbors said he would shoot at things in his yard and it had escalated recently. They had some kind of protective order but he still had his guns.
He has a history of mental illness. He tried to kill his neighbor by stabbing her. He continued to make threats against people and yet, he was let out of jail on bail. He then kills the neighbor he attempted to kill earlier. He should have had such a high bail that he would still be in jail or he should have been involuntarily commited to a mental hospital. California has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. How he got the guns is not in the news stories.
How he got them is one factor. How he was allowed to retain them is another. A person who is out on bail for assault or involved in domestic violence should be forced to surrender any firearms until the matter is cleared up. I found guilty, he never gets them back and any gun license he has is permanently revoked.
Thank doG that evil sicko was prevented from effecting another massacre of little children.
Right. I’d like to know how he got them too. The stabbing was last January and his court date wasn’t until some time in 2018. How do you let someone out like that, for that long, and not worry about what he might do in the meantime?
crossposted - they could have made it a condition of his bail that he surrender all firearms.
And another domestic violence/abuser who kills his wife before taking his act on the road. Literally.
Thank God that school locked down, the account of him circling, trying to get in, shooting in walls and windows is terrifying.
Here is the article that mentions that he killed his wife the night before the rampage:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/15/us/california-tehama-county-shootings/index.html
I am in awe of the man who called out to the shooter to draw his fire away from the school and toward himself.
^ and the mom who doubled back to the school after dropping off her daughter, to warn them.