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Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by DoingIsLearning » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:40 AM UTC

hoten wrote: post #102

Miner49er wrote: post #65

Might be fake, but looks like he may have had a dead man's switch upload a YouTube video: https://youtu.be/bdhs9g3Wwg0

Apparently his other social media doesn't link to this YT account. Also there's an active "live premiere" which I don't think you can automate. random comment on said live premiere: > the account is fake. the video wouldve been made public instantly. there would be no premire time. you can change your youtube handle. this account isnt linked to his x account

> Apparently his other social media doesn't link to this YT account.

But according to another comment in the thread YT confirms they removed the fake account AND _three_ real accounts associated with the guy.

Begs the question of why did they remove those? What content was in the real accounts to grant removal?

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by hellweaver666 » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:40 AM UTC

In one of the BBC articles when talking about the ghost gun in his possession, they have added "possibly 3d printed". This is the only place I have seen this mentioned and it's really annoying because there is already enough rhetoric about 3d printed guns and various groups trying to regulate 3d printers, the last thing we need is something as big as this for them to attach to!

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by agilob » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:41 AM UTC

fhub wrote: post #434

Keeping a lot of the incriminating evidence on him (including, it seems, the jacket) can't be a careless mistake (in my opinion). So what are some of the possible reasons? - He committed the crime and had another target in mind - He committed the crime and really didn't think he'd get away with it so he kept it to keep some unknown options open. - He committed the crime and didn't want any doubt that he was guilty wh…

> (including, it seems, the jacket)

Just 2 days ago, the police reported they found his backpack with jacket inside and a veterinary gun nearby... now he had the same jacket, backpack and another unlicenced gun with him. His eyebrows and nose are different, can clearly see it from the few released pictures.

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by ithkuil » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:44 AM UTC

rob74 wrote: post #527

jjallen wrote: post #502

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you wanted to get caught then why not just stay at the crime scene or surrender a few days later? But maybe he knew it was inevitable so he spent his last few days living life normally.

I imagine a person who stays at the crime scene after shooting someone several times is in much higher danger of being shot himself than if he flees and is captured later.

Another option is to flee and shortly after turn yourself in into a police station unarmed

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by eastbound » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:45 AM UTC

griffzhowl wrote: post #360

aorloff wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only part I don't get now is the cell phone I assumed he had some help with the timing via the burner phone But this all looks very lone wolfish now

Yeah, the timing is a question I still have. At first it sounded like he was only there a few minutes before the CEO appeared. Later information sounds like he might have been hanging around outside for longer. I haven't seen a knowledgable evaluation of how plausible it is that he would have known where Thompson was going to be based only on public information.

Yes, how do you know the whereabouts of a CEO?

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by rightbyte » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:47 AM UTC

Uptrenda wrote: post #457

I find that the gun and silencer were 3D printed really quite fascinating (also maybe why people were saying the gun jammed -- less reliable?) I knew you could 3D print guns (not sure if the whole thing can be 3D printed.) But it would seem that most parts (including the ammo) can be easily moved. That would make it trivial to bypass firearm restrictions the world over? Though I imagine getting caught with a ghost gu…

I don't get it. Why would an American need to make the gun himself? Just go to Walmart. Was he on psychopharmaca maybe.

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by tomlockwood » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:47 AM UTC

tomlockwood wrote: post #321

hi41 wrote: post #252

It’s one thing to be upset and angry about capitalism and businesses. How does a person go from there to being able to commit premeditated murder because it means seeing a human being die in agony. That’s a jump of several magnitudes. It’s terribly sad.

I wonder how many denied claims both pumped up his yearly bonus and resulted in an innocent person dying in agony? This CEO may as well have pulled the trigger.

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Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by DoingIsLearning » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:53 AM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #484

Animats wrote: post #383

A few days ago, HN had "The pitchforks are coming for us plutocrats."[1] I wrote, no, otherwise the US wouldn't have elected a billionaire as a populist president. Maybe that was wrong. The US has historically been a safe space for the rich. There's never been anything like the French Revolution, or the Russian Revolution, or the Maoist revolution. The people in charge of the American Revolution were mostly well off.…

Unlikely. Here’s what will happen instead: Corporations will beef up security and keep doing what they were doing before. Police and government will increase surveillance budgets, citing this event as reasoning. And no one will interpret this act of violence as anything other than a random event to prevent. You don’t get structural change by extreme singular events. That’s not how it works.

> You don’t get structural change by extreme singular events.

The word _singular_ is doing a lot of work there.

Historically 'propagande par le fait' has had a massive effect on policy.

The implication that you have to not only focus on EBITDA but also on social responsibility (in a real non-PR way) is ever lasting if this propagates to more than a single occurrence.

Which is why mainstream media and authorities are so worried about controlling the narrative of the events (depicting Brian as a loving father etc.)

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by kombookcha » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:58 AM UTC

testplzignore wrote: post #6

DebtDeflation wrote: post #4

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Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by rightbyte » Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:59 AM UTC

ranger207 wrote: post #489

Uptrenda wrote: post #457

I find that the gun and silencer were 3D printed really quite fascinating (also maybe why people were saying the gun jammed -- less reliable?) I knew you could 3D print guns (not sure if the whole thing can be 3D printed.) But it would seem that most parts (including the ammo) can be easily moved. That would make it trivial to bypass firearm restrictions the world over? Though I imagine getting caught with a ghost gu…

The only parts that really need to be metal are the barrel and bolt to contain the burning of the powder, and springs. Although, you can get by with plastic barrel and bolt if your design is sufficiently strong, and you don't have to have non-manual reloading, obviating the need for springs. The silencer's important parts are simply pressure baffles that don't need to be metal (although it helps significantly). In th…

How do you make the 'spike' that sets of the primer in plastic? Does that work?

Edit: Maybe only rifles have those?