Gunman who was killed by Yellowstone rangers had planned a July 4 mass shooting, park reveals
Gunman who was killed by Yellowstone rangers had planned a July 4 mass shooting, park reveals
Yellowstone National Park officials say a gunman killed by park rangers as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at the entrance of a dining facility with 200 people inside had told a woman he planned to carry out a mass shooting
Yellowstone National Park officials say a gunman killed by park rangers as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at the entrance of a dining facility with 200 people inside had told a woman he planned to carry out a mass shooting
The warning from a woman in Yellowstone National Park came in just after midnight on July Fourth: She'd just been held at gunpoint by a man who said he planned to carry out a mass shooting — a random attack common in the U.S. these days but not in the Yellowstone region, let alone the park itself.
Rangers spent the next several hours trying to find the gunman before he showed up outside a dining area with 200 people inside. He shot a barrage of bullets with a semi-automatic rifle at a service entrance.
The rangers — including one who was wounded — shot back. Their rounds hit the attacker, Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner, 28, of Milton, Florida, who died at the scene in the busy Canyon Village tourist lodge area near the scenic Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.
She’d just been held at gunpoint by a man who said he planned to carry out a mass shooting — a random attack common in the U.S. these days
I don't have anything to add beyond repasting that. It speaks for itself.
Yeah that worries me a lot. I am heading to that same campground today my third year in the park. I had worried about bears, Bison, or falling or getting injured in a hike. This first year I worry about getting shot just trying to enjoy a vacation. Sick of the gun violence in this country. That no one in the GOP will acknowledge.
he planned to carry out a mass shooting — a random attack common in the U.S. these days
Well they're not wrong, but it's kind of surreal to see it plainly said like that.
gunman
*DOMESTIC TERRORISTYeah, that's a strange use of words. I was like "oh, he just had a gun where he wasn't supposed to," but no, he was in the act of performing terrorism.
"Stand On Zanzibar" by John Brunner won the Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 1969.
The story is set in the early 21st century; one of the problems caused by the rapid changes of the times is 'muckers.' A mucker is someone who has 'run amok' and is out to kill as many people as possible. In the book the preferred weapons were knives and swords.
Brunner based his novel on the works of sociologist Alvin Toffler, who coined the phrase 'future shock'
The only shock from the future is how hard someone has to work to survive. Not thrive, not live, but just get by. The shock is learning that this hardship is caused by 4700 people on the planet who have more money than they can spend in their lifetime and want to ensure the system that grants them privilege at our expense. The shock is learning that the entire societal system is rigged against anyone and almost everyone.
The shock isn't the future itself. It's the state of the present.
It's often useful to know what a term means.
In this case, 'future shock' meant that there would be people who couldn't/wouldn't adapt to the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era. People who were fine with Tom Hanks wearing drag in his TV show lose their minds over drag forty years later. People who grew up getting vaccines in school suddenly decide that all vaccines are poison.
That was basically Orwell's 1984 though. The Proles worked hard all their lives just to scrape by and the Inner Party lived like kings and the Proles weren't able to stop them even if they wanted to, which they didn't because they were brainwashed into maintaining the status quo through control of the media.
Sounds quite familiar, doesn't it?
I think life was a lot harder in the past
Yup humans are shit, I know that, but it doesn't make me wanna kill a bunch of random strangers. That's just insane.
Sounds like you've given up.
"Amok", incidentally, is a Malay word referring to a seemingly random killing spree that would take young men sometimes. Americans occupying the Philippines would sometimes be attacked by Muslim swordsmen insurgents in a berserker state, which led to the concept of "stopping power" and the development of the Colt 45
In the book they specifically say that a 'mucker' isn't a 'mugger.' A mugger only wants your money; a mucker wants to kill you.
I remember having read that book but I absolutely don't remember the contents
I think it's worth re-reading. He uses a lot of cute writer tricks
Wyoming resident and frequent Yellowstone patron here. Everything about this screams suicide. The man did everything possible to announce his intentions, then chose to shoot at a service entrance. He knew that there is a 100% chance that someone, patron or ranger, in the parking lot would have a high caliber weapon handy.
You can't carry a gun in a national park.
Edit: I'll be darned, you can carry in national parks.
Per the National Park Service Website. You are allowed to carry a gun in national parks; but notably you’re not allowed to take it into government facilities: “government offices, visitor centers, ranger stations, fee collection buildings, and maintenance”. Additionally, it is not allowed to discharge the weapon unless you have specific hunting licenses.
I don’t know what bearing this has on this tragedy, if any, but to facilitate civil discussion it’s best to have a shared understanding of the law.
You can indeed carry a gun in a national park. The law was changed in 2013.
Edit: I am wrong. It was 2010.
I know it's just personal experience, but I'm surprised I didn't hear about this sooner than today.