Just Another Restaurant Mass Murder By Gun
4 killed at Tennessee Waffle House as police search for seminude suspect
"Nashville police are asking residents to lock their doors and stay alert after a seminude gunman killed four people at an area Waffle House.
"Keep your doors locked, keep your eyes open. If you see this individual -- if you see a nude guy walking around this morning -- call the police department immediately," Metro Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said.
Police are asking for the public's help in finding suspect 29-year-old Travis Reinking of Morton, Illinois. Authorities said the gunman arrived in a vehicle registered to Reinking, though the gunman was last seen walking away from the scene nude.
BREAKING: Travis Reinking, 29, of Morton, IL, is person of interest in Waffle House shooting. Vehicle the gunman arrived in is registered to him. Gunman last seen walking south on Murfreesboro Pike. He shed is coat and is nude. See Reinking? Pls call 615-862-8600 immediately.
Police say the gunman was naked except for a green jacket when he opened fire at about 3:25 a.m. (4:25 a.m. ET) in Antioch, part of the Nashville area.
A customer managed to grab the weapon away from the shooter. "The man who wrestled the gun away is a hero," Aaron said.
Police said the assailant shed his jacket and fled on foot. By later Sunday morning, the suspect may have put on black pants.
"A man believed to be Travis Reinking was last seen in a wood line near Discovery at Mountain View Apts. on Mountain Springs Drive near the Waffle House," police tweeted. "The man was seen wearing black pants and no shirt."
So far, the motive for the shooting appears to be random, police said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/us/tennessee-waffle-house-shooting/index.html
Bullshit that's a non-partisan post! Nor is it even slightly an "objective" interpretation of our current situation. An objective interpretation of our current situation would look at why people are snapping and deciding to go on killing sprees on a routine basis. We didn't have this shit 25 years ago except on an extremely rare occasion, yet guns were just as plentiful then and gun laws were FAR more lax and access to guns was FAR FAR easier.
An objective view of our current situation would look first at what has changed and lament and focus on those things. There is nothing about any current "interpretations" of a 200 year old amendment has done anything to change the access to gunz. No SCOTUS ruling has made gunz easier to get. Gunz are FAR harder to buy legally NOW than they were when I bought my first AR-15 in 1984.
Look instead to the breakdown in social norms that once frowned on violence but now glorifies it. Look to the breakdown in social norms that once discouraged interpersonal conflict but now encourages and even celebrates it now. I'm sorry but the root cause, yet again, is not gunz or other toolz . It is a breakdown in society and our little liberal dystopian experiment in "anything goes", no one has any personal responsibility for their actions, its always someone else's fault, everyone gets a trophy for fogging a mirror, and all conflicts must be resolved with violence because that what we see on TV and movies and music and CNN all day and every day has come back to bite us in the ass.
So congrats..... gunz are not to blame here because we've always had gunz in our society and they were not a problem in our recent past. What has changed is society is fucked and people are getting fucked daily and finding various ways to cope. Huge numbers of people are killing themselves with Opioids, others put a gun in their mouth or a rope around their neck and check out, others are killing other people for the fun of it. All of those things have a root cause in a decayed and failing society. Gunz are not causing that.
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