re: Update: 13 Dead in Mass Shooting - Thousand Oaks, California

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Suspect is middle eastern with a beard. 

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How true is this

Weird shite



From local ABC reporter:

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Just spoke with a man who was at the front door of the bar when the shooter began firing. Says he had a handgun, shot the guard at the door, threw several smoke bombs inside, and then continued firing. Described shooter as middle eastern looking with a beard. More to come…

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What the frick... how did this thread end up on an avocation for Jim Crow

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First day on Tigerdroppings?

Ian David Long (shooter)

He posted information about his military service on a special forces forum called ShadowSpear in March 2017. Long said he had served in Afghanistan, was an infantry machine gunner in the Marine Corps for 4½ years, and was an instructor in Okinawa in Japan.

A neighbor of Long’s also told ABC News that Long suffered from PTSD, and that they had “no idea what he was doing with a gun.”

Another neighbor, Richard Berge, told The Wall Street Journal that an incident with Long and his mother happened several months ago where he was throwing furniture and even fired a bullet through the wall. He was not arrested.

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man. looks like a normal dude

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He certainly wasn't:

The sheriff said that there were “several contacts” with David Long over the years. In the April incident, Ian David Long was described by a neighbor as screaming and banging on the walls in the home where he lived, NBC reported. The neighbor called 911 in April thinking that Long was violent and possibly trying to hurt himself.

The sheriff described Long as irate, irrational, and said it was believed he might have been suffering from PTSD from his military background. Although mental health professionals evaluated him, they did not take him into custody, the sheriff revealed in a news conference.

“We’ve had several contacts with Mr. Long over the years…. In April of this year, deputies were called to his house for a subject disturbing. They went to the house they talked to him. He was somewhat irate, acting a little irrationally,” the Ventura County sheriff said. “They called out our crisis intervention team, our mental health specialists.”

The sheriff said those specialists “met with him, talked to him, cleared him. They didn’t feel he was qualified to be taken” into custody. “He was left at that scene last April.” He added, “The mental health experts cleared him that day.”

It’s not clear whether the gunman committed suicide at the scene in Thousand Oaks. “It’s well too early to know if he took his own life,” the sheriff said. He did not have further details on Ian Long’s service record. The sheriff said he was found dead “inside an office just adjacent to the bar.”

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He certainly wasn't:

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no kidding

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no kidding

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Yeah, Obvious statement but I was alluding to the fact that people knew this guy was off. The signs were there and we as a society have to do better addressing it

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There's no reason the military can't fund the VA and treatment for it's veterans from it's astronomical slice of the budget pie.

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Unfortunately, soldiers are thought of as disposable. Once their usefulness is over, they are forgotten refuse. Been that way for many many years.

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It's time the public demands the military budget get slashed.

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soldiers used as the workforce

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This will come in handy when Russia/China take over