LA - Two killed, 9 injured in Lafayette movie theater shooting, 23 July 2015

[Ragamuffin]

Is there some kind of statistical correlation between widespread media reporting of one mass murder/shooting/massacre and an increase in similar incidents in the weeks that follow?

I know there is about widely-reported suicides.

*I'm assuming a white male with "issues" at this point. Domestic violence/right-wing beliefs/that old PTSD canard (PTSD is linked to suicide FAR more than random violence), and I may well be very wrong.*

 

[bluesneakers]

What a crazy thing for LE to say -- to have ISIS on the table at all. Odds would be strongly against it being related to ISIS -- it's far more likely to be a far-right wing white male, as many recent studies have shown.

A lot of people don't like that fact. Also a lot of people get vicious if you suggest this might have something to do with gun culture.

IMO asking about ISIS in this situation is sensationalism.

I'm very sorry for everyone in the theatre. I can't imagine how terrifying it was to be sitting there hearing shots and people screaming, and then thinking it was just like Aurora.

 

[TweekTweak]

Megyn Kelly is interviewing a Police Sgt. who says between 2-3 fatalities and between 6-10 injured. The shooting began at 7:30 CST. Police Sgt not prepared to say if gunman is among the dead. "It's too early to tell if it is related to ISIS"

Ah, Fox News. They never drop their agenda, do they?

WTF.

 

[Peliman]

"In this new environment" where? Oh -- on Fox.

Yeah, the culture/environment of fear, paranoia, xenophobia, and Islamophobia is hardly new in North America.

Apparently people in this country are not allowed to view various news sources or form their own opinions.

 

[La Louve]

What a crazy thing for LE to say -- to have ISIS on the table at all. Odds would be strongly against it being related to ISIS -- it's far more likely to be a far-right wing white male, as many recent studies have shown.

BBM and many recent events, too

 

[Montjoy]

Apparently people in this country are not allowed to view various news sources or form their own opinions.

Where do you get that? From other people expressing opinions with which you disagree? I don't see anybody posting anything here that says that people are 'not allowed to view various news sources or form their own opinions', and I challenge you to show me any post in this thread that says as much.

 

[KEVINinTO]

LIVE local news stream

http://klfy.com/live-stream/

 

[La Louve]

another thread on WS http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?286145-LA-Mass-shooting-in-Lafayette-movie-theater

Good catch Daisymae! I've asked the mods to merge the two threads.

 

[Peliman]

Where do you get that? From other people expressing opinions with which you disagree? I don't see anybody posting anything here that says that people are 'not allowed to view various news sources or form their own opinions', and I challenge you to show me any post in this thread that says as much.

Challenge me what? To the tone of comments in this thread?

 

[corundogs]

Shooter 58 years old, per CNN

 

[KEVINinTO]

The president of Acadian Ambulance is being interviewed on KLFY "this is personal for me...my daughter was in the theater in the SAME ROW as the shooter...she ran home and that is how I heard about it"

 

[CARIIS]

suspect 58 years old

 

[CARIIS]

suspect 58 years old 3 in critical

 

[bluesneakers]

Challenge me what? To the tone of comments in this thread?

Where did anyone say you aren't allowed to view whatever news sources you want? What does tone have to do with anything?

 

[popsicle]

Is there some kind of statistical correlation between widespread media reporting of one mass murder/shooting/massacre and an increase in similar incidents in the weeks that follow?

I know there is about widely-reported suicides.

*I'm assuming a white male with "issues" at this point. Domestic violence/right-wing beliefs/that old PTSD canard (PTSD is linked to suicide FAR more than random violence), and I may well be very wrong.*

There is this from earlier this month.

[h=1]School shootings are 'contagious,' study finds[/h]http://www.wesh.com/health/school-s...=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wesh

 

[CARIIS]

Cornor inside theatre with suspect

 

[CARIIS]

They closed another theatre nearby all this cnn

 

[CARIIS]

Movie was Train Wreck

 

[La Louve]

Challenge me what? To the tone of comments in this thread?

How is this any different than pervasive complaints about the liberal media? Who exactly is stopping you?

It's ok to agree to disagree here. Scroll and roll if you need to. There's always the ignore button too, but that goes both ways

 

[corundogs]

58 year old white man.

WTF? That is such a strange age for something like this, isn't it? Not to say that older men aren't capable of crimes. Just seems so weird!!!

Some of y'all follow true crime much more than I do...and have for much longer. Does the age of this killer surprise you too??