Shock: Obama Makes Political Appeal for Gun Control, Before Finding Out If Any Gun Control Would Have Stopped the Shooting
Update: Nation's Top Douchebag to Address Nation at 6:20 PM

The President likes talking about some deaths, but not so much about others. The President, who has yet to say the words "Kathy Steinle," will agitate for his political wish list at 6:20 eastern, 3:20 Pacific, or whenever he feels like it.

If this kid had no record or officially reported psychiatric condition, what "gun control" would have stopped him, apart from full confiscation, which the left claims to not desire?

But of course they actually do favor that; they just won't say so, and their media enablers won't ask questions which could provoke them into confessing it.

Reportedly, the killer advertised the coming massacre, in a general way ("the northwest," etc.) on a message forum. One anonymous guy seems to have encouraged him and given him tips.

I would resist the urge to blame all the people on the message board -- what one guy says is not the fault of anyone else.

A local newspaper in Rosenburg is reporting this:

Kortney Moore, 18, from Rogue River, was in her Writing 115 class in Snyder Hall when one shot came through a window. She saw her teacher get shot in the head. The shooter was inside at that point, and he told people to get on the ground. The shooter was asking people to stand up and state their religion and then started firing away, Moore said. Moore was lying there with people who had been shot.

A Twitter user claims her "grandma" works at the school and she says the shooter was specifically asking if they were Christian or not -- with Christians being shot, non-Christians being either shot in the legs or spared. But note that is just a Twitter user going by the name @BodhiLooney claiming that; we have no idea who this person is, if she actually has a "grandma" at the school (a grandma?), or what.

I put up a post noting this before putting it back into draft before I realized that these two strands of information -- 1, that the killer asked about religion, and 2, that he was specifically targeting Christians -- are on completely different planes of reliability. The former is being reported by a newspaper and they attribute it to a named witness they assumedly spoke with; the latter is being claimed by twitter user "@BodhiLooney."

So I would not put any stock at all in that claim until a named witness clarifies this point. She could be totally on the level, or she could not be, or this could be a game of telephone where words get botched along the line.

Gun Free Slaughterhouse: Of course.

My, these gun-free zones work so well!

For murderers, I mean.

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I only hear Obama talk like that about one particular motivation.

If a Tea Partier, hypothetically, were behind this, he would not be doubting that that Tea Partier murdered in alignment with his vicious beliefs.

posted by Ace at 05:40 PM

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