Unbelievable photo of gunman in Dallas courthouse shooting

Whatcha want to bet he was using a Bushmaster?

 

By definition he was a "good guy with a gun" until he fired the first shot.

 

Look closely and you can see the Spartan warrior sword he was wearing in his belt. I really don’t get the fetishization of those guys. Damn pederasts.

 

Nice headline.

Usually it is "An Officer Involved Shooting Occurred..."

 

This was nuts. This guy was armed to the teeth. He has at least four ammo clips. We had a discussion about whether the photo “glorified” the shooter. I didn’t think so, but perhaps I was in the minority. We didn’t run it online.

 

He had access to mass killing weaponry but only a flip phone? No wonder he failed at his mission. Thank Tebow.

 

Exactly, but you just knew somebody would have to bring in some other problem to try to draw attention away from the gun issue.

 

I believe those are magazines, not clips.

 

Anyone else surprised that the story didn't get that much play? I realize nobody was seriously hurt (except the gunman) - but you would think someone attacking a federal building armed to the teeth would be a big story regardless.

 

Back when 72 pt. extra black was the heaviest hed in the type drawer, there was usually a bit of debate about how big a story was before it was used.

Now, almost every event gets bigger play.

In a world freed from the constraints of the press and page, it’s not easy to turn the volume up beyond 11.

Stories that might rate an 8 or 9 seem to get drowned out in the din.

 

I am.

When that photo popped up in my feed, it was around noon Pacific. I read the caption and my first thought was, "this must have happened several months back and I forgot about it..." because I'd yet seen no mention of a possible mass killing in Downtown Dallas. Of course, if he'd been Muslim....

 

I don't think you clicked on it. I don't know why that weird pic was there. He's talking into his phone the whole time on the youtube