To your roles, everyone!

Media: REPORT EVERYTHING, SECONDS AFTER YOU HEAR IT. Can't let KOIN hog all those juicy, school shooting page views.

Liberals: RUSH TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO DECRY GUNS. Next, do literally nothing outside of social media to advance anti-gun policy.

Conservatives: IF YOU HAVE HALF A BRAIN, STAY QUIET (CONFIDENT IN THE KNOWLEDGE NOTHING WILL CHANGE), OR PLEAD FOR PATIENCE. If you have less than half, either get all self-righteous about politicizing tragedy, or go full Joe the Plumber.

Far Leftists/Far Rightists: EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW THIS IS A GOVERNMENT PLOT.

Politicians: NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE STATEMENTS WHOSE CLARITY IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO HOW SAFE YOUR SEAT IS. Note: it is always this time.

Commenters: RESPOND WITH CALLOUS, CYNICAL DICKERY (i.e. stay the course.)

Oh shit, some white person got shot. Better crank the media coverage to 11 and ride that shit hard.

EDIT: "Update, 11 am: Not multiple gunmen, according to the O, just a couple students who happened to be packing when police patted them down."

No big deal. Seriously, "just a couple of students who happened to be packing".

HAHA "No big deal. Seriously, "just a couple of students who happened to be packing". That's funny man.

The shooter will eventually be revealed to be a follower of Satan and medicated by physician prescribed uptake inhibitors containing Fluoride.

CC, as always you know exactly what to say. Bravo.

wtf media.... The kid walked in with a rifle and shot. Why is there a picture of a pistol. Because you want to take away guns... That's fucked up! Report instead of being so fucking bias. OK liberal haters jump on board.

"Right when parents are reflexively hugging their children"

I think you mean "right when politicians are reflexively politicizing a tragedy to advance their ideological agenda." Get it right, now.

This is horrible. A student was shot dead at school and you dipshits are having a clever comment contest.

Merc, please be the one media outlet in ever to not post the shooter's name and life story. Mourn and remember Hoffman, don't glorify the shooter.

Seriously, stop erasing Emilio's Latino identity too you fuckshits.

Since you brought up the White thing why don't you fucking acknowledge how the overwhelming majority of these shootings have been perpetrated by White men and yet when Black or brown men commit crimes its a "culture of violence" but nooooo when White men do it it's about mental health. Choke on that for a fucking minute.

What's compelling is how just after the shooting, Jared Michael Padgett's sister had asked where her brother was, expressing nervous concern, as if she had a premonition that the shooter might just be her brother, whose facebook wall is littered with likes for military groups, guns and anti establishment groups. Strangely the youth even expressed sympathy for another mass shooter last year... had he then come to plan this all along?

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2014/06/ja…

Seriously, no one is talking about this:
Basically, the situation was static and resolved before any Rambo/SWAT/ Militarized thugs arrived to put on their show for the media. If their were any heroes here, it was a couple of school cops & maybe a local cop or two early to arrive on the scene. The media and police state pour so much energy into cop propaganda trying to convince us that the cops are in control and there for everyone's safety.

I think it's pretty clear that they only contributed to kaos making a tragic situation much worse, and victimizing already traumatized students further with their ridiculous antics and TV Drama bullshit. Students were unnecessarily detained, kept from uniting with their families for hours. They were illegally searched and had their possessions seized; BackPacks, Wallets, Purses, Cars Etc. Packpacks were seen strewn across the road where bomb and drug sniffing dogs searched them.
Where there also a bomb threat?? No there wasn't. One shooter, one victim and a lot of TV Drama Bullshit, childish, cowardly, authoritarian cop shit going on. In retrospect, it really looked like a rehearsed, drill, meant to soften up the public to the idea of a total
suspension of all civil rights and a test to see how compliant and how much resistance they might meet encounter when stepping way over the line. One can only say that as always, the corporate media was totally complicit in delivering the message that that the Militarized Police are your friends and here to keep you safe. I'm not sure if i have ever been so disgusted.
One can only speculate on whether or not this was another government, false flag, MK Ultra Psyop, but taken in it's context, it would certainly seem that we are under siege and that there is a big push to disarm the American people before the economy and empire crumbles..

One of the sad things here is how pertinent facts completely disappear from the media to never be explained or mentioned again. The thing that most makes this look like a psy-op is the changing narrative, secrecy, and misinformation fed to the public all day long as the story unfolded. The Oregonian and KATU, along with most other outlets reported up to three shooters for many hours, and both reported all day long into the evening that the deceased student was a female freshman. This is part of the psy-op as used with 9-11 and Sandy Hook. Confuse and wear people down with lies and contradictory I formation until they don't want to hear any more facts or ask any more questions.
Anyone willing to work around these obstacles and stick with perusing the truth will soon learn that most of the official story is a complete fabrication and makes no sense at all.
The very day Ferdinand Marcos took power in the Philippines, he announced that all citizens had two weeks to turn in all firearms under the threat of the death penalty if they resisted.

The one thing most clear and impotent here is the need for very thorough background checks on people most connected to this like Troutdale Police Chief Anderson and the big fat guy from MCSO that acted as authoritarian information officer. We need to know their military back grounds and any connections they might have with FBI/CIA/ NSA, etc. we need the same info on the shooters family. Ties to Military operations, psychiatric programs etc. there is really no journalism left any more and those that ask questions are usually demonized.