Shooter is dead. He was in a gun battle with police at some point. Unknown if he died from police action or took his own life.

confirmed dead according to reports

Just heard, he was shooting people who answered "christian" in the head,, others got it in the leg

I am going to speculate for a minute on this Oregon shooter.

1) all the news reports are stating this was a "20 year old male"

I speculate that he is NOT a white male.....

2) media outlets are saying that he asked everyones religion before he opened fire...

I speculate there were no Muslims in that class.

3) this is the same college that Alex Skarlatos (subdued the train shooter in france) goes to....

I speculate this is not a coincidence.

So from that, I will speculate that this was a deliberate attack on a college where a US service member attended as retribution for the foiling of the train shooter in France a couple months ago... probably not white and most likely a Muslim.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-deliver-statement-mass-shooting-220704047.html

The comments at the bottom is the best part.

Wonder why it takes so long to id the dead bad guy?

(could it be they have to weave the story in order to be politically correct)

My condolences to all the families of victims.

Ummm...yeah...because that'll work. **rolleyes**

Worked for Heroin and Cocaine!!

Looks like the shooter posted about his plan yesterday on 4chan:
https://archive.moe/r9k/thread/22785073/

The takeaway for me is there WERE plenty of red flags that were not taken seriously......and THAT should be the emphasis in analyzing the incident.

More will come out in the days ahead about warning signs.

You'll never be able to stop people from wanting to do stuff like this....but sometimes they can actually be stopped.

This is what has become of the State of IL, yet daily shootings and murders in Chicago. Most of you probably didn't hear how many were shot just this past weekend.

Chicago saw a big increase in fatal shootings last month, which was the deadliest September in more than a decade.

Compared to the first nine months of last year, murders were up 21 percent through the end of September. Shooting incidents were up 19 percent, and the number of shooting victims was up 14 percent. Overall crime – including robberies, burglaries, and thefts – was down 7 percent.

The rise in murders so far this year is due in large part to an especially violent September. At the end of August, murders were down 7 percent compared to the first eight months of 2014.

The Chicago Tribune reports last month was the deadliest September since 2002, with at least 60 murders citywide.



Commonplace. >>>>

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1443747541.jpg

All of the talking heads on TV are spouting about how this could have been prevented if we had gun control, as if outlawing certain guns will keep them out of the hands of people like this.....Uh, NO !

Wouldn't that qualify this as a terrorist attack, or do Christian lives not count anymore?

Sad situation, and a sad society we live in...

-Z-man

Oregon shooting: Umpqua Community College in Roseburg site of deadly rampage - CBS News

http://www.drudge.com/news/191986/oregon-shooter-idd-chris-harper-mercer

Shooter was Chris Harper Mercer, 26 y/o. Some pictures of him online. Looks like a white or mixed race skinhead. No, not like a stereotypical "Muslim". Edit: he was born in England, moved to the US as a young child, father white, mother black, raised by mother in a middle class existed in California, moved to Oregon and was living with mother who was a nurse. Reportedly had a blog, wrote about how unknown people got famous through killing. Also reportedly had a dating site profile identifying himself as "mixed race", his views as "conservative Republican", and listing "organized religion" as one of his "dislikes". And reportedly (actually, I've just looked at it) had a MySpace page with pictures of IRA fighters. May or may not have posted about his plan on 4chan, a forum I've never heard of before that seems to be populated by idiots. Not a student at the school, it seems. Unclear if he had any connection to the school. Used an AR and one or more pistols. Edit: body armor too.

Oregon Community College Shooting: Shooter Identified - Hollywood Life

Can't really tell. Looks like a normal geek.

Columbine killers were crackers. Charles Whitman was as white as they come. The guy in the link below was white and fell on hard times and killed nearly 40 school kids in the 20's with bombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kehoe

Beyond disturbing. How about being charged as equal perpetrators?

Edit: As jyl mentions, the killer's participation in the thread may not be confirmed. If fabricated, still scary.

My wife and I were talking about the drug angle tonight. There's got to be some connection between all the late teen and early 20's shooters in these incidents (besides the easy answer of a gun), and I'd bet it has to do with the various medications that have been prescribed and dosed to them.
Why are today's kids regulated with the help of pharmacology? Is society just producing angry, messed up kids? I certainly don't remember this **** going on with anyone I grew up with at that age.

Very sad stuff. My condolences to the victims and their families.

Early facts are not trending in your favor . . .

Exactly.

Locally, years ago, we had a suicidal guy on a city bus take over the bus (full of passengers) and drive it off the popular suicide bridge. He didn't get it over a really dangerous spot and the apartment building below cushioned the impact.

But still, I hope that all of you will join me in condemning the use of buses in every city, every where. --yeah, that last part was sarcasm.

Oh, and that pilot in Germany who flew the plane purposely into a mountain. ...we need a ban on planes.

It's not clear what he did. He may have wanted to kill anyone who professed any organized religion. See above about his apparent dislike for organized religion. In rural Oregon, you'll have to question many people before finding a religious person who self identifies as anything other than Christian.

[QUOTE=Gogar;8818430]I know I say it every time, and it's only my opinion, ...............but........Watch and wait until tomorrow when we learn of the shooter's history with SSRI drugs.
QUOTE]

Your opinion is wrong.

Sometimes, in severe depression / mental illness, you are so unmotivated / disorganised that doing anything is hard.
As the mental pathology is treated, this apathy / disorganisation can begin to lift BEFORE the mental pathology entirely resolves. The suicidal patient who was so amotivational that they couldn't be bothered to take action now regains some motivation before their depression lifts. This is the danger window when the risk of suicide paradoxically increases as the patient begins to improve. The risk of dangerous behaviour is actually a marker of efficacy of treatment.

Also, SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) are now very commonly prescribed for a range of mental illnesses. This is not because doctors are getting kick-backs :rolleyes:, or because the SSRI drug reps are the prettiest :rolleyes::rolleyes: it's because the stuff works.
Does it work for everyone?
No.
Does ANY drug in existence for ANYTHING work for everyone?
No.