victims at two hospitals…coroner has been called.
so sad. so angry.
Female shooter. Self inflicted fatal wound is what they are thinking.
My daughter was talking two days ago about how she has shooter nightmares. In her school system they held drills every year.
Gun violence in our country is a societal cancer
D2 has a friend who works there. Friend reported she is safe. But probably scarred, too, as how can people not be after something like this?
Yet again, we have thoughts and prayers from politicians when we need policy change. Our county has had 30 threats of mass school shooting since Parkland. Every one of those took police and school officials time and resources to investigate, which could have been devoted to actual education instead
CA has strict gun laws. Shooter was white female Muslim with anger at Yahoo. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Suspect-in-You-Tube-Shooting-Posted-Rants-About-the-Company-Online–478711713.html
I read that she was unhappy about how YouTube was treating her videos. It seems surprising to me that she could just walk into the campus like that. Most corporations you have to badge in to get access. But maybe open campuses in warmer weather climates like California have more free access, too.
Getting kind of hard to profile: add Persian, vegan, animal-rights activist women to the list of those to duck when you hear shots.
Not compared to those of any other country in the world, @barrons, no, they are not strict. And obviously, not strict enough to prevent these frequent tragedies.
She approached an outdoor patio area where people were eating lunch and began shooting.
No other country in the world has our overall level of freedoms either.
Or violent deaths.
And another failure of authorities to see a problem when clearly warned. https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/03/youtube-shooters-father-says-she-was-angry-at-company/
You might want to check Africa, Central America, Middle East, and parts of South America and Mexico. Europe will be joining soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_death_rate
Nothing in that article remotely suggests authorities had any warning of violence or would have been able to do anything more than what they did-notify her family that a missing woman had been found. Millions of Americans are annoyed at retail and other companies every day, the police can’t act upon that. So due to current laws, we have the “freedom” to live in fear of being massacred at school, church, work, concerts, etc
No @barrons, I am not particularly afeared of the suicide rate-very sad, but We both know the violent homicide rate, and that of child homicides, in the US is unmatched anywhere in the world, and creates the current climate of fear in our children.
I don’t know what could have been done to prevent this. Perhaps the police or her parents could have warned YouTube that she was in the area and had a vendetta against them. I don’t know if the outdoor area was open to anyone or if a person had to enter it with a security card. We haven’t heard yet how she got in, whether she bought the gun legally, whether she’d ever been diagnosed with a mental illness, etc.
@roycroftmom Here’s an interesting article about “the awareness heuristic." We may be doing a disservice to our children by perseverating on school shootings.
Keep in mind that in 2015 there were 553 citizens under the age of 18 murdered by a firearm.
There were also 578 Juvenile Gang Killings by firearm in 2015.
Our suburban kids are as safe as they’ve ever been, statistically speaking.
I’m not aware of any ‘freedom’ that is not available to me in Canada that would be available in the U.S.
It’s an odd feature of the human mind that we are afraid of dying from things that are statistically minor, but not as afraid of dying of things that are major causes of death. It’s like the difference between being killed in a car accident and an airplane crash. We are far more likely to be killed in a car accident, but many people are more afraid of flying than driving. A bad diet is more likely to kill a person from heart disease but we are not afraid of junk food.
It’s the factor of control. We are not as afraid of things we control. The factor of control supercedes the statistical odds of being killed.