[CW: Live local coverage ( has graphic images but blurred)]
spoiler
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live/
Possible suspect has been identified.
Suspect fled Brooklyn subway wearing construction vest, gas mask; at least 5 shot, 13 injured
https://twitter.com/1010WINS/status/1513879910783279121
[CW: Racism/Mental Illness] Frank R. James ID’d as person of interest in Brooklyn subway shooting, made threatening online rants
https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/frank-r-james-idd-as-person-of-interest-in-brooklyn-subway-shooting/
It takes everything in me to not be vehemently anti-gun after growing up in this country and seeing this slowly start happening all the time. I'm happy I live in a state that makes it harder to get guns. Is that the right analysis? Probably not, but it's how I feel safe specifically in this country
Statistics aren't very reassuring, but the rate of homicides has been declining steadily for decades.
I guess it does a bit, but I'm at the point where I don't even want to see a gun irl. I'll have to figure out those brainworms one day, but for now they just scare me
You already have a good head on your shoulders for fearing them. That is a really good attitude to have.
You see brainworms, I see thoughtfulness.
yeah people who aren't scared of guns should not be near guns same as how people who aren't scared of the sea shouldn't be working on boats
When the news says that they usually don't point out that it's gone down by around 50% since the 90s, and the more fear mongering they engender the easier it is to justify wildly inflated police budgets.
Totally correct. But it's important to note that the 'slight' rise has definitely been felt. It's important to remember it's not JUST fear-mongering, which I think certain defund-the-police discussions miss. The working class is bearing the brunt of the rise in crime. I think the Eric Adams election was telling.
Obviously defund the police and ACAB, but the majority of 2020 BLM messaging missed on this IMO.
It decreased steadily from the 90s and increased around 2016 and 2020 but not nearly high up as it was. I think. It's been a while since I looked at stats.
It's good to be anti-gun imo. There's no violent revolution happening now or anytime soon, but people are dying
People in power aren't truly upset about either. We got our work cut out for us
Tbh a large fraction of gun-owning reactionaries live in the exurbs, and it would be easier to starve them out with a chokepoint than to actually take the guns by force.
It is easy for these paper tigers to look tough when everything's functioning. But when the power is out and the treats stop flowing and the nearest traversable road is a mile from their house, things will look very different.
I think it's coherent to say that "arm the workers" and "indiscriminately arm everyone" are two different things. In the US guns are overwhelmingly owned by right wingers and cops, so repealing 2a and taking them would be a net positive.
It does leave the problem of what to do when you actually have a mass working class movement, but historically those movements have been able to arm themselves when the time came, usually by raiding a government armory.
This has become normalized for me. It's just another headline, something I fully expect to see every morning when I read the news.
:agony-deep:
Just for context, Sunset Park (where this attack took place) is NYC's second largest Chinatown. No idea what the motivaton here is but in a city that's seeing a massive increase of anti-Chinese attacks it doesn't feel great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2022#List
A Police Error May Have Contributed to the Brooklyn Subway Shooter’s Escape
sounds like they'll need another billion dollars to fix that error :joker-troll:
https://twitter.com/jaboukie/status/1513897646993326083?t=BxjB_tbfxb1cal9bn3-5Nw&s=19
Damn, the 25th street R was my subway stop for several years.
