Authorities shot a man after they say he fired shots at a Jewish school in Memphis, Tennessee, Monday afternoon.
The shooter was also Jewish and a former student for anyone that didn’t read the article and is about to jump to conclusions.
Lowers pitchforks
Well damn there goes my misguided outrage. Now all I have left is sympathy for the children.
I mean how else do you think the shooter was stopped by the police properly?
So it is just the normal daily school shooting?
I can sympathise with a former student at a Jewish school wanting to get rid of it. Obviously not with such violent means, but those places are horrible.
I bet I can guess who he voted for.
Hint: The fat guy.
Taft?
Of course. Who else?
It’s funny-sad to me that Taft was known for being obese, but compared to modern people, if you saw him on the street today, you wouldn’t even think twice.
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He’s a chonk, but he’s still able to stand.
Not really, he’s dead.
It looks like it’s really uncomfortable though. I saw an older guy shaped like that in line at the bank the other day. He kept squatting down to rest each time the line advanced. It was odd to see someone squatting at the bank and odd to see an old man so able to squat and get up from a squat, but his body shape made it make sense.
I saw a guy so large riding in a chevy pickup yesterday that he was listing the truck
Might be the angle, but his ass looks wider than his shoulders. I don’t know of a medical term for such a thing, but he looks rotund for his time.
Bruh this man is not obese, he’s just slightly larger than usual what the hell
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Compared to other people of the day, he was pretty large, though not morbidly obese. It’s really a comment on modern people that this is considered slightly larger than usual.
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It’s sad to me how many people don’t recognize morbid obesity, or downplay being overweight in general because other people are also that size.
Even there he looks fatter than he is due to the old-timey way of pulling your waistband over the belly, rather than letting it all hang down like a big meat apron.
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As much as I despise the fat man and his tribe I can tell you did not read the news. It’s personal in nature it’s an ex-student of that school a Jewish person himself.
I still say he did it on behalf of Grover Cleveland.
If we’re talking fat presidents doesn’t Taft take (and eat) the cake?
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They meant Trump and his voters.
Oh. Sigh. Phew. Thanks.
Article says he was driving a Dodge Ram when he was pulled over and shot. Maybe it’s because I live in California, but I don’t know any Dodge Ram drivers that didn’t vote for trump.
Can you not?
I’m just saying, there is a very specific personality type that chooses to drive a Dodge Ram.
And apparently it has nothing to do with trump.
HAHA did not expect empirical evidence to be produced, bravo
are you yes?
Do Jewish people not vote for the fat man?
80% didn’t
why would being jewish mean you vote for him, a majority of jews lean democrat and about half claim their political views to be liberal (according to pew research). a majority of jews also disapprove of trump. are you just trying to be racist?
Bruh. My inlaws are Jewish, and they love Trump and DeSantis. It happens.
Boomers are full of lead.
Okay but he’s implying that because they’re Jewish, they would have voted for Trump. Which is more uncommon than not. It happens, but he’s saying that as a group Jews surely do it.
That’s not at all what I’m saying.
I’m saying just because you are Jewish does not mean you would not vote for trump.
Some US Jews are conservative because of their stance on Israel.
Chris Christie?
This is a big win for doors nationwide
I remember sitting in a college cattle class of 200+ students and the only thing on my mind was how that room needed more than one door.
There is no way a 200 capacity room had one door. Surely that would be a fire code violation. The other doors are probably kind of hidden so people don’t leave out them on the regular.
“Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said, “I am proud of the vigilant and quick response of MPD officers who mitigated a potential mass shooting situation today.””
I feel like the cops are giving themselves too much credit here. Mitigating the potential mass shooting event to me means preventing the shooter from shooting at the school… I mean good on them for catching him quickly though, that is good work and I try to give credit where it’s due despite generally not appreciating cops, but mitigating the attack is not what they did there…
At least by my layman definitions. Does mitigate mean something else in cop talk?
I guess they could be saying there was potential of him going somewhere else and doing a mass shooting there, so maybe that’s what they mean?
Mitigating doesn’t mean you prevented it from happening. I would say mitigate is a reasonable word for exactly what they did.
That’s fair, but then in this context, how does mitigating apply?
Is it because they made it less severe somehow? Or this is just from a pure risk assessment standpoint? As in, they mitigated a potential threat to the public?
Ok, yeah I think that last one makes sense if that’s what you’re meaning. (I think my issue may be pedantic af but this is what it looks like when I’m intentionally trying to not be a definition stickler lol)
Based on what I read, they mitigated the situation by shooting the guy outside which resulted in zero injuries inside the school, rather than doing an Uvalde where the shooter was given free reign to continue shooting.
They shot the guy far away from the school, after they identified the car… They did nothing to mitigate the school situation, that was 100% the school worker who did the mitigating by somehow not letting this person in. The mitigation happening in this story does happen, but the cops aren’t the ones doing it, and then taking credit for it is weird, is what I’m trying to get at.
Though let me go read it again, it sounds like you and I almost read different articles…
Yeah, no, the cops weren’t at the school until well after shots were fired.
In a letter to families, obtained by CNN affiliate WHBQ on Monday, the Margolin Hebrew Academy said the suspect tried to enter their school, had a “brief confrontation” with a contract worker and fired two shots from the gun he was carrying, “while retreating from this worker.”
A short time later, Memphis police officers found a vehicle matching the description and stopped the driver. The suspect got out of the truck with a gun in his hand and was shot by an officer, Crowe said.
It’s no Uvalde for sure but this is… Just weird behavior on the cop’s part, I don’t understand it tbh. It’s splitting hairs but I still don’t like them patting themselves on the back using those words because that’s not what happened…
But like my opinion on how mitigation the word should be used, ultimately, this doesn’t matter. Good job to the cops, thank goodness the kids are safe, and hopefully one day I’ll figure out how to be more chill about shit that doesn’t really matter lol
obligatory comment turning a tragedy into a talking point that justifies stripping citizens of the right to self defense
You are literally making the comment that you are apparently trying to lampoon. In much the same way that you apparently NEED guns to defend yourself from… guns?
You are an ouroboros of ironic stupidity.
Who said anything about needing a gun?
Rights aren’t need based.
You do not need free speech, freedom or religion, right to vote, etc, etc. You are guaranteed to not have them taken from you or have your access to them limited… for any reason. That’s how rights work.
There are actually tons of laws that limit or revoke those rights. Nevermind the fact that the constitution was LITERALLY made to be changed and amended when appropriate.
Fair point, moral superiority is generally sufficient to stop a mass shooter
Actually, the best way to stop mass shootings is to not have guns every fucking where. More guns = more potential tools for mass murder.
Antisemitism is not just a tragedy.I assumed this was about antisemitism, because it reminded me of the Halle attack.Literally in the article:
US Rep. Steve Cohen, who represents the Memphis area, said his office has learned the shooter is Jewish and a former student of the school.
