Outsourcing my own research but is this one of the few shooters to come from a seemingly middle - maybe upper middle -class two parent home? I would say with the number of siblings it was a "good" catholic family though with the support of the lifestyle likely a rather progressive one.
Edit: never mind
Mary Grace and James Allen Westman, who divorced in 2013 after 25 years of marriage
Seung-Hui Cho 2007 Virginia Tech shooting seems to have had an intact family.
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4hr ago
After Nashville maintenance/security started open carrying at my old evangelical private school and some undisclosed number of teachers concealed carry. My church has many designated armed people as marked security and in the pews. Is that not allowed in Minnesota or the Catholics just not like guns?
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12hr ago
It was probably "the shooter was assigned male at birth". I was surprised at any acknowledgment.
Here's one of the videos. I don't know if the letter here is what people are calling a manifesto, it's more like a suicide note. He apologies to his parents, siblings, and friends says he's dying of undiagnosed cancer because of vaping and doesn't want to go out like that.
The panning over the writing on all the weapons are where things are weird.
List of phrases of weapons and magazines: https://x.com/talhagin/status/1960814311192059998
I heard NPR say he was born male yesterday.
Doesn't quite say that in the written story but very close:
In 2020, Westman's mother applied to change the name of her 17-year-old child from Robert to Robin. In court documents obtained by NPR, the mother, Mary Grace Westman, wrote, "minor child identifies as female and wants her name to reflect that identification."
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5d ago
It's not too unusual in Europe for strategic companies like Airbus and VW to have this.
And Germans are poorer than Mississippians.
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8d ago
From January 31, 2015 The Parable of the Talents
Every so often an overly kind commenter here praises my intelligence and says they feel intellectually inadequate compared to me, that they wish they could be at my level. But at my level, I spend my time feeling intellectually inadequate compared to Scott Aaronson. Scott Aaronson describes feeling “in awe” of Terence Tao and frequently struggling to understand him. Terence Tao – well, I don’t know if he’s religious, but maybe he feels intellectually inadequate compared to God. And God feels intellectually inadequate compared to John von Neumann.
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9d ago
This is also bad because it explicitly politicizes scientific research.
If it's paid for by taxes it's political.
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27d ago
Source got an econ-minor at a no name school. Econ major will know calculus. It's the business Majors that have to take econ classes beyond macro that struggle.
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1mo ago
Everyone always leaves out verse 5:
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
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1mo ago
Why aren't they charging men more then? Or do you believe women are less savvy than men?
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1mo ago
And the extra frustrating thing is the series has dealing with increasing diversity built right in! If they could have just been patient the could have had a few really heavy handed episodes on it, and they would have made sense.
Left out the one inadvertent right wing culture war. Female doc reveals that she had aborted a male doc's kid without him knowing (he of course totally understands) is now struggling with infertility, has a miscarriage on shift.
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1mo ago
Hey I know of a kid like that. Friend of a friend, parents are very wealth. Like tens of millions. Adopted a kid. "Please just go be a ski bum in the alps we'll pay for it all!" Nope! Got caught trying to file the serial number off a pistol in a fast food parking lot. Kid's dream is to be a gangsta!
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1mo ago
Advantage of being in a deep red state. They tried to diversify it by sending Muslims and Congolese but the state just doesn't have as much welfare as the blues so many left after the Fed resettlement money gets cut off, and trump cut off the refugee pipeline. I don't see nearly as many as I did 5 years ago. TitaniumButterfly commented on Sacramento, that's where a lot of our Muslims went. Thank you Blue states for your service.
Evidence of it not being a fed op like Malheur or the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping is the tend to not let the patsies actually get to the point of starting to shoot at law enforcement.
They used AR-15s, which are not, despite years of anti-gun campaigning, particularly good rifles for waging war (or insurgency). They discarded their AR-15s, leaving evidence behind in literal walking distance of the target. Some of the discarded AR-15s were found jammed, suggesting poor weapon handling... or, reported later, weapon modification attempts to increase rate of fire.
How good 5.56 vs battle rifle cartridges for war has been a debate forever. The reality is 5.56 has been used in war for decades. It 100% has the ability to kill people, and has killed a lot of people. Largely thanks to the legends at Palmetto State Armory AR-15s are relatively cheap, and practicing with 5.56 is much cheaper than full powered cartridges. Would I want take on US LEO with a 5.56 poverty pony? No. Will some of the best operators in the world take 5.56 into combat? Absolutely.
This theory of 'more bullets = better' is not actually better in general, since a good part of the value of a semi-automatic rifle for small teams is that the slower rate forces better shooting fundamentals for reliability per shot, rather than wasting ammo faster for less gain.
This is even debatable along certain lines.
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2mo ago
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Yes
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Red light yes, stop sign no. Very few people come to full stop at stop signs.
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No
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Yes, passing only, Cutting off and tail gating not fine.
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Depends but I'm more for an aggressive merge than stopping on the on-ramp. A general leave a space or two when approaching an onramp if I can't get over. So many times people don't accelerate into it.
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Same standards.
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Use the slow vehicle turn out no matter how fast you think you are.
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2mo ago
A number of question I have for people with this sentiment:
Do you have a yard?
Do you have a "nice" yard?
How much time do you spend on your nice yard?
Possible question: What climate zone are you in?
I do not define "nice" as being a perfect uniform lawn - there are some amazing "natural" or zero scaped yards - they take 4x the amount of time as my yard. I am not an HOA guy, I don't judge people who don't value a nice yard.
In my opinion the easiest most time efficient "nice" yard is grass. I don't want mud, I want to walk barefoot in my yard, I have a big dog. I don't care what exists in my yard as long as I get the utility I desire as efficiently as possible. Somehow I have ornithogalum umbellatum in my yard and I don't mind it at all. I have oaks from squirrels in my yard and I let those grow to see if I can get a nice one to replace the elms. I would love if I could do a clover yard but it will die in the winter and my yard will turn into a mud pit. Dandelions are not as bad but will still contribute to muddy spots that the dog will expand as he runs around during the winter.
I know a Mormon man, as queer as a three dollar bill. Married many kids, greatly enjoys child birth. His son came out and his response was "Get over it, I'm gayer than you are!"
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