A few people are dead! DEAD! Including the shooter.


More people were injured. INJURED!


Who knows the validity of this statement?!

7/23/2015 10:14:13 PM

supposedly only the shooter dead, supposedly

7/23/2015 10:25:19 PM

News here said 2 dead, including the gunman.


Gunman died of self inflicted wound.

6 others were shot

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/louisiana-theater-shooting/index.html



[Edited on July 23, 2015 at 10:31 PM. Reason : Older white man reported to be the shooter]

7/23/2015 10:29:14 PM

I still don't see anything about anyone else dying. Yet.

7/23/2015 10:31:47 PM

Why are we not declaring war on the whites?

7/23/2015 10:33:25 PM

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/07/reports-of-a-movie-theater-shooting-in-lafayette-at-grand-theater-115862.html

7/23/2015 10:34:11 PM

7/23/2015 11:35:39 PM

Shooter must have mistaken the theater for a NAACP meeting.

AM I RITE

7/24/2015 2:00:50 AM

^ in your racist shitbag dreams

7/24/2015 2:17:30 AM

So sad. #alllivesmatter

7/24/2015 7:34:10 AM

It wasn't me

7/24/2015 8:40:27 AM

It was a 59 year old "drifter" from Alabama, apparently.

7/24/2015 8:45:19 AM

This is gonna stoke the fire of the anti-drifter agenda

7/24/2015 9:22:39 AM

what a trainwreck

7/24/2015 9:36:59 AM

Bring back the firing squad for shitheads like this

7/24/2015 10:03:42 AM

^^

7/24/2015 10:07:35 AM

^^he shot himself

(sorry to bring politics into this, but it'll happen anyways... apparently he was a member of the Tea Party Nation)

[Edited on July 24, 2015 at 10:23 AM. Reason : ]

7/24/2015 10:14:41 AM

7/24/2015 10:58:31 AM

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lafayette-theater-shooting/louisiana-theater-shooting-gunman-john-houser-always-little-ex-lawyer-n397726

Seems like a nutter all around.

Quote :

" The page said he was a regular guest on a TV talk show in Columbus: "Invited political controversy on every one of them, and loved every minute of it." Calvin Floyd, who hosted the "Rise & Shine" television show on NBC affiliate WLTZ, said Houser had extreme views. "He was on from time to time because he was a very radical person with radical views," Floyd told NBC News. "He was a Republican and then I would have someone with a real strong Democrat view on." "

Maybe... just maybe... we shouldn't follow the AM radio trend of empowering right-wing nut jobs...

[Edited on July 24, 2015 at 12:36 PM. Reason : ]

7/24/2015 12:35:21 PM

Apparently, his ex wife was so worried about his volatile nature, she removed all the guns from their home

7/24/2015 12:38:09 PM

Quote :

""I represented somebody — maybe several people — he did not like, and he tried to hire someone to burn the law office," Swearingen said. "The man was a police informer, and they got it on tape.""

Quote :

""I would venture to say he was conspiracy theory-type guy," Hardin said on MSNBC. "He had an equal hatred for all politicians and all policies. Always wanted to discuss politics.""

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""The association I had with him was for entertainment," he added. "He was very entertaining. He made for good TV and when it was over, you would leave shaking your head.""

That's a hullva jump to go from being a political nutter to shooting a bunch of random people...I guess we'll hear more about mental illness soon

[Edited on July 24, 2015 at 12:49 PM. Reason : Guess he was doing a copycat thing since aurora has been in the news]

7/24/2015 12:43:06 PM

in other news, the ocean is salty


I'm so tired of seeing news like dis

7/24/2015 12:58:06 PM

https://medium.com/hatewatch-blog/lafayette-theater-shooter-fan-of-hitler-neo-nazis-and-antigovernment-conspiracies-38a16afc9643

Looks like he was a Golden Dawn supporter (greek neo nazi, anti-immigrant group).

He was a big KKK fan and David Duke supporter. Most likely a big Confederate Flag fan.

this is pretty nuts:

Quote :

"Last year, the SPLC released a report,White Homicide Worldwide, about Stormfront, which is the largest hate site on the Web. The report pointed out that more than 100 people were killed by extremists active on the site in the prior five years. "

7/24/2015 1:23:57 PM

Still relevant:

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

http://www.theonion.com/article/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-36131

[Edited on July 24, 2015 at 1:41 PM. Reason : .]

7/24/2015 1:41:06 PM

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/louisiana-gunman-was-a-confederate-flag-flying-tea-party-kook-who-hated-obama-and-admired-hitler/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/07/24/lafayette-shooter-had-tea-party-page.html

http://www.teapartynation.com/profile/JohnRussellHouser

Yes he was in fact a far right nutcase.

7/24/2015 3:38:20 PM

So what was this guys deal? Anti-feminist?

Not that it matters because we can conclude from the picture that it was a simple case of mental illness and not terrorism or thuggish behavior.

7/24/2015 4:16:33 PM

^^ i was completely guessing with the confederate flag thing, but looks like he fit that stereotype.

Quote :

" The first argues that “Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America [members not brainwashed].” "

Wow, i didn't realize anyone literally supported WBC. That's fascinating.

7/24/2015 4:26:28 PM

If only everyone in the theater were armed!!!! This tragedy could have been avoided with more guns!!!

7/24/2015 4:55:01 PM

Movie theater ushers should be armed

7/24/2015 5:00:07 PM

He's got the nose of someone who's had a whole lot of fun in their time.

7/24/2015 6:00:07 PM

Apparently, he was denied a concealed carry permit

7/24/2015 6:03:33 PM

White American Terrorist.

7/24/2015 7:31:27 PM

We need to declare war on the tea party.

7/24/2015 8:07:37 PM

Quote :

" Quote : " The first argues that “Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America [members not brainwashed].” " "

I just needed to quote this again.

7/24/2015 8:49:15 PM

Quote :

"Bring back the firing squad for shitheads like this"

Fuck that.

7/24/2015 9:00:44 PM

i feel like life in prison would be way worse than any type of death

7/24/2015 9:04:09 PM

Thank goodness the puke did save us taxpayers some money to not support his ass. Folks, if public hangings were still legal, we would cut out a lot of this crazy crap, have a surgical team on standby to take their organs after they die that way someone could get some good out of the sorry bastards.

7/24/2015 9:05:42 PM

There has been an average of 1 mass shooting (4+ people shot in one event) so far this year (204 in 204 days).

7/24/2015 9:20:03 PM

1 mass shooting so far this year lol

7/24/2015 10:02:57 PM

haha - guess i left out a "per day" - i'm exhausted

7/24/2015 10:40:39 PM

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/louisiana-gunman-was-a-confederate-flag-flying-tea-party-kook-who-hated-obama-and-admired-hitler/

surprise it was a tea partier

7/24/2015 11:47:13 PM

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/08/narcissism-terrorism-violence-monis-breivik-lubitz-jihadi-john

7/25/2015 11:40:13 AM

Might be an absurd idea, but maybe there needs to be better gun control in the USA

7/27/2015 2:32:39 AM

Actually, better enforcement of existing laws could have potentially stopped this. No additional laws would have.

7/27/2015 12:49:05 PM

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"surprise it was a tea partier"

because an obama supporter has never killed anyone amirite

7/27/2015 1:12:13 PM

More drunk driving victims than shooting victims, but people seem far more apathetic in response to the former...

Also, better enforcement of existing laws could have potentially stopped this. No additional laws would have.


This isn't a "one year" thing. Its pretty consistent for the last decade at least.

Quote :

"in 2013, 10,076 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States"

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html

Quote :

"in 2013, Total firearm related deaths: 8,454"

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2009-2013.xls

[Edited on July 27, 2015 at 4:04 PM. Reason : ..]

7/27/2015 3:55:47 PM

Quote :

"Also, better enforcement of existing laws could have potentially stopped this. No additional laws would have. "

Currently if a bg check takes longer than 3 days, it seems like the purchase is approved, this should be changed so that the bg check has to come back. This would have impacted the Charleston shooter and this guy. Also BG checks should include more information than they currently have.

These all fall under "current laws" but these are still things that would require legislative action, so "new laws". Therefore, it doesn't seem correct to say "no additional laws" would have changed this.

7/27/2015 4:08:18 PM

well in that case...

[Edited on July 27, 2015 at 4:15 PM. Reason : .]

7/27/2015 4:14:59 PM

http://gawker.com/rick-perry-we-need-more-guns-in-movie-theaters-1720397099

7/27/2015 4:32:30 PM

shoot em up

7/27/2015 4:37:35 PM