EARN YOUR MAN CARD
COMPILATION AND COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER
NOVEMBER 15, 2017

CLEARLY SOME MEN JUST DON’T FEEL POWERFUL ENOUGH UNTIL THEY GET A SEMI-AUTOMATIC WEAPON. FOR AWHILE THEY’RE HAPPY WITH JUST ANNOYING THE NEIGHBORS BY FIRING OFF A HUNDRED ROUNDS OR SO IN THEIR BACK YARD, BUT THE JOY IN THAT WEARS OFF. THEN THEY GO FOR LIVING TARGETS. THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THIS IS A MAJOR PART OF THE MASS KILLINGS WITH THESE WEAPONS. FOR THE SENSELESS KILLING OF THE DAY, GO TO CBS BELOW.

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Bushmaster Firearms, Your Man Card Is Revoked
Hamilton Nolan
12/17/12 03:00PM

Filed to: Sandy hook shooting

When Adam Lanza shot dozens of people at Sandy Hook Elementary last Friday, he used a military-style Bushmaster .223 rifle. As America debates whether such weapons even have a place in our society, Bushmaster is running a hilarious ad campaign.

Bushmaster rifles, you see, make you a real man. That is why acquiring a Bushmaster rifle will get you your "Man Card Reissued," as you can see in this ad. (The ad agency responsible for this campaign is Oklahoma-based Brothers Co.) Bushmaster even has a web site, Bushmaster.com/mancard, where you can put in your friends' name and send them a comical note about why their Man Card is being revoked. Ever since the massacre in Newtown, the site has been subjected to a running list of sometimes furious and sometimes mordantly funny hijackings of its Man Card-generating system. The site still appears to be working.

Bushmaster has been running this "Man Card" campaign for more than two years. It should not have taken a mass shooting for us all to realize that the connection between guns and masculinity is ridiculous. The fact that gun companies are still pimping that false connection to attract buyers speaks for itself.

Bushmaster, your man card is revoked.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rancho-tehama-school-shooting-elementary-students-hospitalized-following-deadly-calif-shootings-officials/
By CRIMESIDER STAFF CBS/AP November 14, 2017, 1:43 PM
5 dead in California shooting spree, elementary students among wounded

Photograph -- Crime tape blocks off Rancho Tehama Road leading into the Rancho Tehama Reserve south of Red Bluff, Calif., following fatal shootings on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. AP

RANCHO TEHAMA, Calif. — At least five people are dead, including a suspected shooter, and students are among the injured after shootings at several scenes in rural northern California including an elementary school, according to a Tehama County sheriff's official.

Three local hospitals have confirmed to CBS News they have received a total of nine patients from the incident. It is not clear if patients were brought to other hospitals. Jeanine Quist, an administrative assistant with the Corning Union Elementary School District, says no one was killed at the Rancho Tehama Elementary School Monday morning but a "number" of students were shot and wounded.

Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston, who according to CBS affiliate KHSL addressed reporters near one of the scenes, said deputies were first alerted to a shooting in Rancho Tehama Reserve at around 8 a.m.

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"That evolved to multiple victims and multiple shots at the school," Johnston said, adding that he's been told the suspected shooter was shot and killed by law enforcement.

Johnston says the gunman had a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns and was randomly picking targets.

About 100 law enforcement personnel are currently working at least seven crime scenes in the area, he said.

"I know that we have Medivaced a number of students," Johnston said, referring to the use of helicopters for the emergency transport of victims to hospitals. Johnston said the school had been cleared by 10 a.m. but he did not have any information about the victims there.

All other students have been brought to a safe location, he said.

"It's a really sad day for us in Tehama County, really," Johnston said, choking up as he finished addressing reporters.

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BREAKING: At least 3 dead in shooting in Tehama Co. it started at a home and moved to the school. Shooter shot and killed by police.
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At least three children and one adult were transported to Enloe Medical Center, in Chico, California. Three people were transported by ground and one by helicopter. It's not clear whether all three children were students at the elementary school.

St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff, California received two victims. One is continuing to receive treatment at the hospital and the other was stabilized and transferred to another facility, according to Amanda Harter, the communications manager for Dignity Health North State. The company also operates Mercy Medical Center, which received three patients, one who was stabilized and transferred, and two others who are still undergoing treatment. It is not clear if any of the patients at St. Elizabeth or Mercy are children.

Brian Flint told KHSL that his roommate is among the victims and that his neighbor was the gunman. He said his neighbor, whom he knows only as Kevin, also stole his truck.

He said he and his roommate told authorities that their neighbor was acting "crazy" and threatening them.

Flint said the neighbor had been shooting "hundreds of rounds" from large magazines.

The community is located about 130 miles north of Sacramento. The FBI confirmed to CBS News they are sending agents from Sacramento, Redding, and Chico to assist with the investigation.

California Gov. Jerry Brown issued a statement about the shootings late Tuesday morning.

"Anne and I are saddened to hear about today's violence in Tehama County, which shockingly involved schoolchildren," Brown said. "We offer our condolences to the families who lost loved ones and unite with all Californians in grief."

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