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How closely mental health and employment administration are related like policing administration and mental health they are one in the same, how you employ people how you police people result in outcomes of mental health. If you mass mal-administrate these things you produce awful mental health for everyone involved and terrible traumatic results.

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Walmart gunman had note in phone railing against colleagues
The Walmart supervisor who authorities say fatally shot six colleagues at the store before taking his own life had a note in his phone that railed against people he perceived to have harassed or betrayed him and hinted at what was to come.......
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Motor City wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 2:45 am How closely mental health and employment administration are related like policing administration and mental health they are one in the same, how you employ people how you police people result in outcomes of mental health. If you mass mal-administrate these things you produce awful mental health for everyone involved and terrible traumatic results.

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At the end of his little manifesto...His Mother, cancer, bitter seed apricots> It says something about his internet use. He's talking about Amygdalin.....Laetrile.

From WebMD.....

https://www.webmd.com/cancer/cancer-apricot-seeds
Apricot Seeds for Cancer Treatment
Some people believe that the cyanide from eating apricot seeds can kill cancer cells. But there is no scientific evidence that this treatment works. In fact, they might be harmful.

It’s illegal to sell apricot products or extracts as drugs.
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Amygdalin was used in Russia as early as in 1845 to treat cancer. In the 1940s, an American doctor named Ernst T. Krebs Sr. patented a man-made version of amygdalin called laetrile and pushed it as an anticancer drug. He was convicted of selling laetrile illegally. The FDA has banned laetrile since the 1970s.

Krebs and others claimed with little evidence that amygdalin targeted only cancer cells, not healthy ones. But studies later showed it can lead to cyanide toxicity, whose symptoms are similar to cyanide poisoning. It can make you dizzy and nauseated, damage your liver, and cause a coma or even death.
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Sounds like the cheese slid off Bing's cracker......

https://news.yahoo.com/virginia-walmart ... 39595.html
Virginia Walmart worker who escaped shooting files $50M suit, says she complained of gunman's 'bizarre' behavior
A Walmart worker who was shot at during last week's mass killing in a Virginia store filed a $50 million lawsuit, saying she wrote a formal complaint about the shooter's "bizarre" behavior two months ago and nothing was done about it.
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The lawsuit alleges that Walmart should have known that Bing "was violent and could harm others" after the store got numerous reports about him, including a formal complaint Prioleau wrote on Sept. 10.
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The lawsuit details other incidents involving Bing, including one in which he is alleged to have asked Prioleau whether she liked guns. He also told colleagues and managers that he would retaliate if he were ever fired and repeatedly asked co-workers whether they had had their active shooter training, according to the suit.

"When coworkers responded that they had, Mr. Bing just smiled and walked away without saying anything," it says. "Upon information and belief, Mr. Bing had a personal vendetta against several Walmart employees and kept a ‘kill list’ of potential targets prior to the shooting."

Bing was demoted for "improper and disturbing interactions" with his colleagues but was later reinstated as a team lead, according to the lawsuit, which did not provide further details.
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'Next Mass Killer': Dropped Case Foretold Colorado Bloodbath - AP News

So many conservative families reproducing so much domestic violence, domestic terrorism, and death.
nderson Lee Aldrich loaded bullets into a Glock pistol and chugged vodka, ominously warning frightened grandparents not to stand in the way of an elaborate plan to stockpile guns, ammo, body armor and a homemade bomb to become “the next mass killer.”

“You guys die today and I’m taking you with me,” they quoted Aldrich as saying. “I’m loaded and ready.”

So began a day of terror Aldrich unleashed in June 2021 that, according to sealed law enforcement documents verified by The Associated Press, brought SWAT teams and the bomb squad to a normally quiet Colorado Springs neighborhood, forced the grandparents to flee for their lives and prompted the evacuation of 10 nearby homes to escape a possible bomb blast. It culminated in a standoff that the then-21-year-old livestreamed on Facebook, showing Aldrich in tactical gear inside the mother’s home and threatening officers outside — “If they breach, I’m a f----ing blow it to holy hell!” — before finally surrendering.

But charges against Aldrich for the actions that day were dropped for reasons the district attorney has refused to explain due to the case being sealed and there was no record showing guns were seized under Colorado’s “red flag” law with similarly no explanation from the sheriff. All of it could be one of the most glaring missed warnings in America’s sad litany of mass violence because, just a year and a half later, Aldrich was free to carry out the plan to become “the next mass killer.”
Aldrich’s parents split up soon after their child was born. The father, Aaron Brink, pursued a career as a mixed martial arts fighter and porn actor when he wasn’t doing time for drug convictions or contesting other charges, including battery against Aldrich’s mother.

In an interview after the shooting, Brink told San Diego television station KFMB that he had lost track of Aldrich a decade ago and thought the child had died by suicide, until Aldrich reached out to him by phone last year. Brink said that when he first heard about the shooting, he was troubled the alleged shooter had gone to a gay bar, citing the family’s Mormon religion.

“We don’t do gay,” Brink said, adding that he now regrets having praised his child for violent behavior when younger. “Life is so fragile and it’s valuable. Those people’s lives were valuable.”
Yeah, well f. you.

Con.
Laura Voepel, the mother, has her own history of outbursts and trouble with the law, including an arson count in Texas reduced to a lesser charge. She reportedly was recorded in a July 2022 video in an airport hurling racial epithets at a Hispanic woman who she felt had been taking too long to get her luggage off a plane.

And according to a court record, Voepel was arrested just hours after the Nov. 19 nightclub shooting on resisting arrest and disorderly conduct charges. She had refused to leave the apartment where she lived with Aldrich, according to FBI records obtained by AP. She can be heard crying out for help as she is pulled by officers away from her home on video she asked neighbors to record.

Aldrich’s behavior on June 18, 2021, began, according to the sealed law enforcement documents, after the grandparents called a family meeting in their living room about their plans to sell their home and move to Florida. The grandchild responded with rage, telling them this couldn’t happen because it would interfere with Aldrich’s plans to store materials in the grandparents’ basement to “conduct a mass shooting and bombing.” The grandparents told authorities Aldrich threatened to kill them if they didn’t promise to cancel the move.

The grandparents begged for their lives as Aldrich told them of the plans to “go out in a blaze.” When Aldrich went to the basement, they ran out the door and called 911.

In the end, Aldrich holed up in the mother’s home, threatening to blow up the place as police swarmed and deployed bomb-sniffing dogs. “Come on in boys, let’s f----ing see it!” Aldrich yelled on the Facebook livestream before later surrendering with hands up and tactical gear swapped for a short-sleeved shirt, shorts and bare feet.
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Unannounced ‘active shooter’ drill at psychiatric hospital sparks panic in Northville Township
An unannounced drill simulating an active shooter situation at a psychiatric hospital in Northville Township sparked panic among residents and forced multiple police departments to respond.

Northville Township police received multiple calls at 10:29 a.m. Wednesday (Dec. 21) about an incident at the Hawthorn Center on Haggerty Road.

Residents called 911 to report that an announcement had been made inside the facility stating that two men armed with assault rifles had entered the building......
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Leafs' Victor Mete’s grandfather among victims of Vaughan condo shooting

It was revealed on Tuesday that Vittorio Panza, identified as one of the victims of a Vaughan, Ontario condo shooting that left five dead and a sixth in hospital, is the grandfather of Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Victor Mete.

Panza was 79.

https://sports.yahoo.com/vaughan-condo- ... 19798.html
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Paris gunman kills three in attack on Kurdish cafe

PARIS, Dec 23 (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire on a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in central Paris on Friday, killing three people and wounding three others, and prosecutors said they were looking into a possible racist motive for the attack.

Multiple gunshots were fired on Rue d'Enghien, sowing panic on a street lined with small shops and cafes in the capital's busy central 10th arrondissement, or district. Authorities said they had arrested a 69-year-old man and the incident was now over.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/se ... 022-12-23/
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2 arrested in electrical substation attacks in Wash. Search for suspects in nationwide attacks continues.
Two men have been arrested and charged with vandalizing electrical substations in Washington state, attacks that left thousands without power over the holidays, and one suspect told authorities they did it so they could break into a business and steal money, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, both of Puyallup, were arrested Saturday and set to appear in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Tuesday.

A newly unsealed complaint charged both with conspiracy to damage energy facilities, and it charged Greenwood with possession of a short-barreled rifle and a short-barreled shotgun. Cellphone location data and other evidence tied them to the attacks on the four substations in Pierce County, the complaint said.

The attacks on Dec. 25 left more than 15,000 customers without power. Officials have warned that the U.S. power grid needs better security to prevent domestic terrorism and after a large outage in North Carolina last month took days to repair.

According to the complaint, Greenwood told investigators after his arrest that the two knocked out power so they could burglarize a business and steal from the cash register.......

.....“The substations are spread out over dozens of miles; the attacks occurred early in the morning and in the evening; and the first and fourth attacks were separated by over twelve hours,” the complaint said. “This makes it at least unlikely that an individual would simply happen to be at all four locations around the times they were each vandalized.”.......
https://www.scribd.com/document/6177146 ... Complaint#
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Virginia school district where 6-year-old allegedly shot teacher has had three school-related shootings in 17 months

The Virginia school district where a 6-year-old allegedly intentionally shot a teacher on Friday has had three instances of gun violence on district property in the past 17 months.

Before Friday's incident at Richneck Elementary School, where police say a 6-year-old boy seriously injured a teacher when he opened fire in a classroom, there were shootings at two other schools within the Newport News Public Schools system that shook the community.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vi ... -rcna64638
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Democratic officials’ homes, offices shot up in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Bullets flew through one home’s front door and garage. At another home, three bullets went into the bedroom of a 10-year-old girl in a series of shootings that had at least one thing in common: They all targeted the homes or offices of elected Democratic officials in New Mexico.

Nobody was injured in the shootings that are being investigated by local and federal authorities. Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said they’re working to determine if the attacks that started in early December and were scattered around the state’s largest city are connected.

https://www.kbtx.com/2023/01/06/democra ... ew-mexico/
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1 killed, several injured after mass shooting at club parking lot in NW Harris County, deputies say

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- One person was killed, and four people were hospitalized after more than 50 shots were fired at a club in northwest Harris County, according to deputies.

On Sunday at about 2 a.m., deputies responded to a shooting in the parking lot of Touch Lounge near FM 1960 and Greenwood Forest Drive.

https://abc13.com/houston-club-mass-sho ... /12705051/
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Failed Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians’ homes

Albuquerque police on Monday arrested the man they say is the “mastermind” behind a recent string of shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers’ homes.

The suspect, Solomon Pena, is a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for office in November, has made repeated claims that the election was rigged and appears to have attended the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in Washington, D.C.

https://www.abqjournal.com/2565117/solo ... homes.html
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Baby, teen mom among 6 killed in shooting at California home

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Six people — including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby — were killed in a shooting early Monday at a home in central California, and authorities are searching for at least two suspects, sheriff’s officials said.

Deputies responded around 3:30 a.m. to reports of multiple shots fired at the residence in unincorporated Goshen, just east of Visalia, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said.

https://apnews.com/article/crime-califo ... ee35944575
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Shortly after a 6 year old shot his teacher at school.

Man arrested on US TV after toddler filmed waving gun
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64301137

His 4 year old was waving it around in the hallway.

Fortunately, at least the gun was unloaded. :|
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Downstate judge temporarily holsters assault weapons ban — for 865 gun owners and one gun shop

An Illinois state judge temporarily blocked the state’s assault weapons ban Friday, finding that the state government likely violated procedural regulations for passing legislation.

A lawsuit against the measure was filed days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed it into law, banning the sale and distribution of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and parts that convert handguns into assault weapons.

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Why police and residents shouldn't have these type weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1R75v1tGPI

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At least 10 dead in a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California

The gunman from the Monterey Park, California, mass shooting "remains outstanding," Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a news conference Sunday.

"We are here to tell you that we are utilizing every resource to apprehend this suspect, in what we believe to be the county's most heinous cases. Our local state and federal law enforcement agencies are working together to better serve the residents here of Los Angeles County and to apprehend this attacker," the sheriff said.

https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/lo ... index.html
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Cue the thoughts and prayers.

A quick and cursory look at the Nooz seems to indicate yet another shooter with unlimited access to military-grade firepower, probably with plenty of links in his cell phone where he traded deranged macho fantasies with other whackos, limited or no access to psychological help (which after all is for the weak in Murka), and a grudge against well, whoever.

There are also indications that he might also be the one who caused a similar incident in the same time frame in an adjoining community, but that remains to be investigated.

It happened in LA Sheriff jurisdiction, so it's a good thing that someone besides the incompetent clown that we voted out is now running that department.

Let's see, it's January 22nd. We have plenty of time for 15-20 more of these before the year ends.

Nothing changes.
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ZoWie wrote: Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:46 am Cue the thoughts and prayers.

A quick and cursory look at the Nooz seems to indicate yet another shooter with unlimited access to military-grade firepower, probably with plenty of links in his cell phone where he traded deranged macho fantasies with other whackos, limited or no access to psychological help (which after all is for the weak in Murka), and a grudge against well, whoever.

There are also indications that he might also be the one who caused a similar incident in the same time frame in an adjoining community, but that remains to be investigated.

It happened in LA Sheriff jurisdiction, so it's a good thing that someone besides the incompetent clown that we voted out is now running that department.

Let's see, it's January 22nd. We have plenty of time for 15-20 more of these before the year ends.

Nothing changes.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/repo ... s-shooting, there have been 25 mass shootings since the start of 2023. At this rate, there we have around 415 by the end of the year. Or in republican vernacular "FREEDOM!"
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Saw that. So bump my estimate up a bit... maybe we'll have 200. Nothing will change.

Nothing changes until Americans get as angry about this phenomenon as they seem to be about face masks. Authorities will count the bodies and give pressers from the disaster area du jour, and politicians will do nothing.

LA is even weirder than usual right now. The LA Sheriff SWAT has secured two, not one but two, white vans within about of a block of each other in Torrance. For those who aren't up on SoCal geography, that's nowhere near the shooting scene. It's 30 miles to the southwest, out by the beach south of LAX and the Space Ghetto, and known mostly for oil refineries and endless streets of the vacuous retail areas that SoCal does on a larger and more mind numbing scale than anybody else.

White van #1 apparently has a dead body in it, but no one will say for sure and the Nooz apparently has valid legal reasons not to point a camera lens in the door, even though the place is crawling with Nooz. So far everything they've taken out of white van #1 looks more like some homeless lived in it. White van #2 just got broken into by LASD SWAT and they're pointing rifles in various directions, but the van actually looks like your basic commercial vehicle that was unattended.

All of this is bizarre even by LA standards. If they're going to send SWAT to investigate all of the white vans in LA, we'll be at this until Christmas.
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Impossible to get a straight story out of anybody, but it appears that the driver of white van #1 did indeed shoot himself. Judging from the position of white van #1, it might have been driven into the parking lot, and was then stopped by the cops, because the driver never parked it.
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Still no word on the identity of the dead guy in white van #1, but the LA Times has already posted a list of celebrity reactions to the original mass shooting. (They're appalled.) This is what we consume as nooz in LA.
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Presser in Torrance. They're not allowed to say much, holding out until LASD gives their presser in an hour and a half. Sounds like LASD put out an APB on the van, and Torrance PD stopped it and called in Sheriff SWAT. It sounds very much like they cornered the bad guy, who did indeed drive into the parking lot and shoot himself. Not confirmed though, so you didn't get that from me.
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Why do all police pressers begin at least 45 minutes after the announced time?
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They're still gathering facts and information?
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