[FoxNews] California had the most active shooter incidents among US states in 2023, says FBI
A new report by the FBI documenting where "active shooter incidents" happened in the U.S. in 2023 reveals that open spaces – which include roads, neighborhoods, parks and outdoor venues – are the places where victims are most likely to be targeted.
Federal investigators say there were 48 active shooter incidents in total last year across 26 states, resulting in 105 deaths and 139 injuries.
California – which has some of the toughest gun control laws in the country – led the way with eight incidents, followed by Texas and Washington state, each with four.
The FBI says it defines an active shooter as "one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area."
Twenty-eight of last year’s incidents happened in open spaces, followed by 14 in commerce settings – which include retail stores and entertainment venues – three in education, two in health care and one in residential, the report says.
The deadliest shooting unfolded on Oct. 25, when 18 people were killed by a gunman at a bowling alley and bar in Lewiston, Maine, before he was found dead two days later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Of the 49 shooters involved in 2023’s incidents, all of them were males except one who identified as both female and transgender, according to the FBI.
The perpetrators were between the ages of 17 and 72 years old, and 43 handguns were used in the attacks, followed by 16 rifles and one shotgun.
The FBI says the release of the report Monday is to "provide an overview of active shooter incidents to help law enforcement, other first responders, and the public better understand the levels of threats associated with active shooter incidents."
"In 2023, the FBI designated 48 shootings as active shooter incidents. Although incidents decreased by 4% from 2022 (50 incidents), the number of active shooter incidents increased 60% since 2019 (30 incidents)," it also said. "The FBI designated 229 active shooter incidents from 2019–2023. This represents an 89% increase in active shooter incidents (121) from the previous five-year period (2014–2018)."
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Wait. 48 "incidents" last year? Not 4-5 a day like the lamestream media and the everytown for Napoleon Bloomberg moms screech?
Why, you could knock me over with a feather
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In a nation of perhaps 167,000,000 taxpaying adult citizens, who own something in the order of 393,000,000 guns, 48 in a year is, while tragic to the individuals involved, a minuscule number.
#5
"Mass shootings are widely classified as incidents in which a shooter kills at least four or more victims."
The Lurid Crime is how the FBI counts.
Gang shootings: 2-3 dead, 12 wounded don't count.
Murder/suicides: father kills wife and 3 kids, then self, doesn't count.
Home invasions, killing occupant, doesn't count.
Separate incidents: 44 shot over the weekend in Chicago, 11 dead, don't count.
Neighborhood: guy shoots neighbor for too much garbage can noise, doesn't count.
Softly filtered 'no news' for the masses.
FBI needs to get in print to maintain the image, like CENTCOM.
#6
Most "mass shooter" events are when blacks shoot other blacks.
The media only cares when they can frame whites for it and call us nazis or white supremacists. Like the Las Vegas shooter, who fired into a crowd of likely Trump supporters and the FBI could find no motive.
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"roads, neighborhoods, parks and outdoor venues – are the places where victims are most likely to be targeted." So ... stay off the road, don't live in a neighborhood, and stay out of crowds. Be afraid, everywhere but your own bed. Oh ... and don't look under there.
#10
Did I miss all the gang shootings in those counts?
That must be on a different spreadsheet.
From the report: the FBI defines an active shooter as one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area
So, an active shooter is someone who is actively shooting at people. Passive shooting would be where you just sit on the porch and take potshots at passers-by.
Excluded events are:
• Self-defense
• Gang violence
• Drug-related violence
• Residential or domestic disputes
• Barricade/hostage situations
• Shootings where the shooter’s actions were the result of another criminal act
• Crossfire* as a byproduct of another ongoing criminal act
In a nutshell, pretty much any time someone gets shot for some particular reason.
* especially at an low-rent, off-brand upazila at 0-dark-hundred
[MAIL] A 'quiet' couple who led a humdrum life in a sleepy suburb left friends speechless after it emerged that they were senior Russian spies operating a network of European informants for Vladimir Putin.
Ludwig Gisch would cycle to his IT start-up every day from the pastel-colored house he shared with wife Maria and their two young children on the outskirts of Slovenia's capital Ljubljana.
She ran an online art gallery, sent her children to the city's British International School, and was described by one neighbor as a 'gray mouse'.
In reality, he was Artem Viktorovich Dultsev and she was Anna Dultseva of Russia's foreign intelligence service the SVR, tasked with undermining Western energy security after Putin's invasion of Ukraine and she was his boss.
'Now we will see how important these people really are to Russia,' one official told the Guardian. 'This is big game now; it's clear that Slovenia is just a proxy here.'
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Kids? The kids were props. What happens to them?
Yeah, the Netflix series delves into that issue in great depth.
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Now mind you, the Slovenian's rolled this couple up in Dec 2022, but it's a story now.
I guess Moscow doesn't want to negotiate for them, so the Slovene's are upping the ante. Then again, they sent all the Russian diplos home, so who do you talk to?
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who do you talk to?
The Swiss are a frequent go between for those situations.
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[SURFER] A wave of shock and sadness has swept over Hawaii and the surf world at large, as news that Tamayo Perry, longtime Pipeline specialist, died on Sunday, June 23rd. Perry was surfing Goat Island off Oahu at the time of the attack; he was 49 years old.
Perry, a freesurfing standout in the North Shore scene around the new millennium, was beloved for his ever-present smile and casual poise under heaving, terrifying Pipeline barrels. The hard-charging goofy-footer was a frequent sight in surf magazines, surf flicks, and even making an appearance in the 2002 Hollywood hit, Blue Crush.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Florida rapper Julio Foolio has been shot dead at the age of 26 during his birthday celebration in an 'ambush' style attack in Tampa.
The death of the up-and-coming rapper, who has one million followers on Instagram, was confirmed by his attorney Lewis Fusco.
'Foolio,' whose real name is Charles Jones, was celebrating his 26th birthday at an Airbnb with friends before he checked into a Holiday Inn, where he was 'ambushed' in the parking lot.
Tampa Police responded to a 911 call regarding a shooting at 11606 McKinley Drive at approximately 4:40 am.
One person was reportedly killed and three others injured in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn.
This wasn't Foolio's first time being shot. The popular Jacksonville rapper has been a target of numerous shootings in the past with the latest occurring just eight months ago in October 2023 in another 'ambush' style attack.
Before that, he was injured in a shooting on November 8, 2021.
#2
^ *snort* Apparently, he wasn't universally liked: This wasn't Foolio's first time being shot. The popular Jacksonville rapper has been a target of numerous shootings in the past with the latest occurring just eight months ago in October 2023 in another 'ambush' style attack.
Before that, he was injured in a shooting on November 8, 2021.
Go figure
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So tragic that Michelle Pfeiffer (and Annie Potts, apparently) couldn't reach the boy. Speaking of Weird Al and all.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Shocking images have laid bare the world's biggest garbage dump - comprising 100,000 metric tons of everything from discarded fridges to children's toys.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch spans 620,000 square miles - an area twice the size of Texas - with the majority of trash coming from China, Japan, Korea and the US.
The aquatic trash-heap was first detected 1,200 miles west of California in 1997, and has since sprawled across the ocean - threatening marine life while releasing toxic microplastics into the atmosphere.
However, since 2019, the Ocean Cleanup nonprofit has been on a mission to change this through an $189 million project aiming to conquer the artificial floater over the next 10 years.
'We're taking it out of the ocean while we still can,' the charity's head of environmental and social affairs Matthias Egger told DailyMail.com. 'Really what we are doing is we are preventing an ecological time bomb.'
He said that a whopping 80 percent of the trash is discarded fishing equipment from developed countries - mostly China, Korea, Japan and the US.
'We used to think most plastic you find in the ocean comes from the land,' Egger told DailyMail.com.
'But what we do find is that most of the plastic coming from the land into the ocean stays very close to the river and on the beaches.'
'Sometimes you hear in the media that plastic pollution comes from developing nations that lack the infrastructure to properly dispose of things,' he added.
'But we're finding the majority of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of items from highly industrialized nations'.
Egger said the majority of the plastic removed from the ocean can be recycled - and the Ocean Cleanup has partnered with Korean car producer Kia, which uses the trash to build EVs.
He said in future the huge-scale data collection effort behind the scenes of the cleanup could help hold countries accountable for their green pledges by tracking their waste output, while 'biding us time' in the climate crisis.
Recently, an international group of scientists discovered a water-borne fungus chomping through the trash, which has been detailed in a new study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
The fungus was discovered among the whispery layers of other microbes which live in the suspended plastic pile, and it's only the fourth known marine fungus capable of consuming plastic waste.
QFT: Of all the fabricated narratives about the environment, this one takes the cake. Yes, there is plastic in the oceans, mostly discarded fishing gear, but there is no island of plastic waste twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.. Because the average person cannot see the middle of the Pacific for themselves sensationalist activists, media, and politicians just make this up.
#2
Been using World Winds SAT pics and 2 other Geo sat imagining apps NASA included and their variors display modes . Nothing has been showing up even 1/10th the scale the climate MSM liars claim.
#3
Strange how it doesn't show up on Zoom Earth.
Also strange how, if it's a non moving mass, that the shoes of 'overboards' from SE Asia float into bays in British Columbia.
I'm sure there's an explanation that involves White Supremacy and MAGA.
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Shocking images show the world's biggest garbage dump
[HILL] The nation is bracing for a high-stakes Supreme Court decision that could come as soon as this week on former President Trump’s arguments that he is immune from prosecution as a former commander in chief.
The case could have significant impact on how former presidents may be held to account for any criminal actions they take while in office, and it is among 14 cases the court must still decide this term.
While it’s possible the decision could be delayed until early July, a decision this week would fall as the first presidential debate is scheduled for Thursday and just weeks before the GOP’s convention in Milwaukee.
WHAT IS THE SUPREME COURT WEIGHING?
The case leaves the high court considering the extent presidential immunity can shield a former executive from conduct during their time in office.
Trump during the April arguments asked the court to embrace a sweeping immunity argument, asserting that a president has absolute immunity for official acts while in office, and that this immunity applies after leaving office. He and his counsel argue the protections cover his efforts to prevent the transfer of power after he lost the 2020 election.
Special counsel Jack Smith has argued that only sitting presidents enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution and that the broad scope Trump proposes would give a free pass for criminal conduct.
[USAWatchdog] In a stunning new CV19 vax lawsuit filed this week by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, there is new hope to finally bring down the CV19 bioweapon vax industry. AG Kobach filed a lawsuit against Pfizer, the biggest maker of the CV19 so-called "vaccine" with more than 60% of the market globally. Kobach is alleging "unlawful misrepresentation" of the efficacy of the injections and "censoring public discussion" of the disastrous effects of the injections. On top of that, it is reported by Kobach that four other states are going to join the Kansas AG’s lawsuit. This is big, and biotech analyst Karen Kingston, who has warned from the beginning of the murderous and disabling effects of the CV19 injections, explains why, "I am overjoyed to share this. Again, AG Kobach is suing Pfizer for ’fraud and unconscionable acts.’ Ten counts have been brought against Pfizer, including conspiring with Health and Human Services (HHS), the (legacy) media, social media, other agencies and even the lobbying group ’Bio.’ Even bigger than that, Kobach announced four other states will be joining this lawsuit and potentially even more. . ."
[Breitbart] Icelandic officials are pulling back on their former support for Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n migrants colonists, and deported 180 immigrants colonists who had only recently arrived in the Nordic country.
The about face comes on the tail of moves by the Icelandic parliament to change policy on immigration to be more in line with that of other Nordic countries, according to Icelandic Monitor.
The bill was wildly popular — even among the left-wing Green Party — and among its internal provisions allows Iceland to ignore the U.N. and its open border-styled immigration policy demands.
The legislation reportedly sets stricter conditions for residency, family migration, and other measures.
With the mood shifting against Venezuelans, especially, authorities deported 180 recent Venezuelan migrants colonists all at once. The deportations were carried out by Iceland’s Directorate of Immigration and the European border agency Frontex, according to Iceland Review.
[RUMBLE] Yale Law professor and Constitutional lawyer Jed Rubenfeld sits down to explain to me the truth about Trump’s indictments, the weaponisation and bias of the legal system, the Hush Money trial, Hunter Biden’s felony conviction, the Biden vs Missouri case, now named Murthy vs Missouri in which he is a lawyer representing RFK Jr, and Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction.
Is there a double standard? Did Hillary do the same exact thing and get away with it?
Professor Rubenfeld tells me what was legitimate and not legitimate about the cases, what the judges got wrong, what happens next and what it means for the Presidential election.
[Breitbart] NASA astronauts have been left stranded in space as the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that they traveled to orbit on is facing several issues.
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are currently stuck aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after engineers discovered the Starliner was experiencing five thruster malfunctions and five helium leaks, according to Live Science. The astronauts were initially slated to return to Earth on June 13, however, NASA said on June 18, that they were shooting for a June 26 return date.
“We’ve learned that our helium system is not performing as designed,” Mark Nappi, the program manager for Boeing’s Starliner said. “Albeit manageable, it’s still not working like we designed it. So we’ve got to go figure that out.”
The issues with the Starliner were reportedly discovered by engineers during the 25-hour flight after the spacecraft had taken off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida this month.
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...It's hard to avoid the thought that NASA is getting ready to announce the worst: that StarLiner is not safe for the astronauts to return to Earth.
The good news: they're safe at the ISS, and Space X can get up there to get them. It'll be a 6 or 7 rescue on the summer blockbuster movie epic scale, all the more so if Space-X plays it right. The bad news: NASA will be embarrassed beyond words, and Boeing may well be out of the spaceship business.
But in the meantime, if they're stuck up there in Earth orbit and unable to return for a while, let's send them cheesy movies - the worst we can find. ;)
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Boeing with never get out of the spacecraft business. They get those wonderful barrels of govt money, and don't have to deliver anything useful, except jobs in selected congressional districts. And PR points.
Why would they stop?
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Well, Boeing will mend itself or it won't. If it doesn't, it certainly won't be around forever.
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Boeing needs to rid itself of a leadership chain that is all CFO driven. Aviation is a safety business and profit center second. Once you weigh profit against safety, risk becomes a different animal. Boeing now takes all the risks their share holders can afford...
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Just as a moron could have seen more middlemen would not make health-care cheaper, the guy who graduated last in his aeronautical engineering program could have told you anything that had nothing to do with aeronautical engineering had no business being added to the process of building aircraft.
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And, while Boeing has definitely earned every mote of skepticism people have about their current operations, is it really necessary to root for American austronauts lives to be at risk or for an American spacecraft to fail?
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Ah, yes, the classic astronauts stranded in space movie. We seen this! Only this time, the plot twist is WWIII breaks out at home while they are stuck on the space station.
[Gateway] A previously censored paper from The Lancet has now undergone peer review and is available online.
The study, titled "A Systematic Review of Autopsy Findings in Deaths After COVID-19 Vaccination," analyzed 325 autopsy cases and found that a staggering 73.9% of deaths were either directly due to or significantly contributed to by the COVID-19 vaccination.
The paper’s lead author, Dr. Nicolas Hulscher, faced significant opposition in bringing these findings to light. After initially being downloaded over 100,000 times, The Lancet removed the paper within 24 hours, according to Dr. William Makis.
According to The Daily Sceptic, the reason given at the time was, "This preprint has been removed by Preprints with the Lancet because the study’s conclusions are not supported by the study methodology."
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Thank goodness it was finally published
Australia’s government simply ignores dissenting science such as this which is also never mentioned in the media
Many who cheered these products on are now claiming to be vax injured eg Chris Cuomo
And in Australia, politician doctor Kerryn Phelps who is beating the long covid drum (vax injured is what long covid mostly is)
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COVID, J6, broken pipe voting pause, the laptop, Epstein, Ukraine, Russia-Russia-Russia, open borders, replacement people, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis..... it all means something.
#3
A serious historian could use Rantburg.com to lay out the VAX timeline and write a FACTUAL Timeline and Research paper.
06/02/2020 - Even 4 Years ago, RANTBURG was already noting the Big names involved in producing the Clot-shot.
June 05, 2020 "Lancet retracts large study on hydroxychloroquine" As the DC Swamp and elite organized efforts to discredit all NON-mRNA working solutions.
2021-01-30 China-Japan-Koreas
WHO Covid study team makesfirst site visit to Wuhan hospital
2021-01-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Thoughts on the COVID vaccine
#4
We searched PubMed and ScienceDirect for all published autopsy and necropsy reports relating to COVID-19 vaccination up until May 18th, 2023. All autopsy and necropsy studies that included COVID-19 vaccination as an antecedent exposure were included.
Yes. It means our government and the media lie all the time about everything.
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It seems that deceit by government is a leading indicator of corruption, either financial or political, but in any case, intended to hide incompetence, misbehavior and/or policies not serving the public interest. By that standard, given the widespread nature of governmental dishonesty, the best we can hope for is massive incompetance?
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I have another tally for my Died Suddenly column
As always, anecdotal. Older, but not elderly, male, so with that in consideration, but parents lived to an elderly range. Healthy lifestyle, even did a triathlete relay bicycle leg competitively.
Got sick with the Covid, and it wasn't too long ago you couldn't even go into a hospital without getting a jab, nevermind going in with the Covid. Also a flaming liberal; he wouldn't need to be bribed with a bee jay and a doughnut to be at least in fashion with his peers.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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