Moments before a 17-year-old unleashed gunfire at Iowa’s Perry High School, killing a sixth grader and wounding five other people, the student is believed to have posted a foreboding TikTok video.
On the morning shooter Dylan Butler opened fire, a TikTok post believed to be from the shooter shows him the inside a school bathroom posing with a blue duffel bag, captioned: “Now we wait.”
The song “Stray Bullet,” by the German band KMFDM, accompanies the post, which has been removed from the platform; the student gunmen who carried out the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado also had cited the group’s lyrics, CNN has reported.
Butler – who also died amid Thursday’s horror, a law enforcement official told CNN – “made a number of social media posts in and around the time of the shooting,” said Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation. “Law enforcement are working to secure those pieces of evidence,” he added.
Terrific. Now we have people with dreams of being ‘influencers’ gaining notoriety by attempting mass murder.
Posting ominous stuff on social media before committing a mass shooting has been happening for decades. This is nothing new.
I could see this on a Season 2 of Squid Game.
“It doesn’t feel real,” student Rachael Kares told CNN. “This is like one of those things where you see on TV and you’re like that never gonna linger its way toward my community, but it does happen. It’s really real.”
And it will continue happening again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again because the US has zero interest in actually addressing the problem.
We all know these will continue until the second amendment is repealed and guns are banned. No, it won’t ever happen. Most places won’t even bother to do basic gun control. So it will continue, and we will pretend to be shocked every time.
Hey America!. Still Killin it?
2020 - S05E05 - TikTok, Bang Bang
Moments before a 17-year-old unleashed gunfire at Iowa’s Perry High School, killing a sixth grader and wounding five other people, the student is believed to have posted a foreboding TikTok video. On the morning shooter Dylan Butler opened fire, a TikTok post believed to be from the shooter shows him the inside a school bathroom posing with a blue duffel bag, captioned: “Now we wait.” The song “Stray Bullet,” by the German band KMFDM, accompanies the post, which has been removed from the platform; the student gunmen who carried out the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado also had cited the group’s lyrics. Butler – who also died amid Thursday’s horror, made a number of social media posts in and around the time of the shooting.” - TV-MA, 57 mins
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Of course someone who thinks that shooting up a school is a good idea completely misses the messages that KMFDM espouse. Sure, all industrial music has a sorta implied violence cos of the nature of the music (which I guess you could say about metal in general. Not power metal though. I defy anyone to listen to that genre and not say “wow, this music is uplifting and inspiring”), but if you listen to the lyrics…
