As you know I watch the reports on mass shootings fairly closely for the obvious reason that the media fixates on the term “mass shooting” and breathlessly reports the latest figures from the leftist Gun Violence Archive (GVA) but never seems to notice who is doing the shootings. I wouldn’t especially care if blacks shoot each other, although I wish they were more accurate, but blacks shooting other blacks is used as a pretext to disarm Whites. The media intentionally focuses on the firearms instead of the shooters and victims. The rule of thumb:
Media coverage of gun violence is all about the “how” and never about the “who”.
There is an exception to this rule of course, and that is on the rare occasion when a mass shooter is White. Based on the stats recorded by the GVA there have been around 223 mass shootings in America to date and as far as I can tell none of them were committed by a White guy. That changed this weekend.
Rochester Hills splash pad shooting: What we know about victims, suspect
Rochester Hills, or Crotchester Hills as some call it, is a suburb of Detroit in Oakland County, not as ritzy as West Bloomfield or Troy, but a whole lot nicer than Detroit proper or Pontiac. According to Wikipedia, Rochester Hills was ranked the safest city in Michigan for the last seven years. It is also around 80% White, almost 13% Asian and less than 4% black. You can draw your own conclusions from that. From the Detroit Free Press….
An active shooter opened fire at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in Rochester Hills on Saturday, unleashing 28 rounds on families, including children, enjoying a warm summer day.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said 9 people were injured, some in critical condition. The suspect, he said, was found in a Shelby Township home, dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was identified as Michael William Nash, 42.
Detectives are investigating the motive of the suspect, who Bouchard said had no connection to the victims and did not live in Rochester Hills. The shooting has been described as “random.”….
….Nash pulled up to Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad around 5:11 p.m. Saturday, exited a vehicle, walked up the stairs to the splash pad’s platform, and opened fire, Bouchard said. Nash was about 20 feet away from the victims, he said.
Nash then reloaded his weapon, fired again at the victims, reloaded once more, and calmly left the scene, Bouchard said.
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Mr. Nash is something of a unicorn.
Police described the suspect, Michael William Nash, as a 42-year-old white [sic] male who lived with his mother. Bouchard said the man had no criminal history, but was believed to have had mental health challenges.
Nash died by suicide after being “contained” at a Shelby Township home for several hours following the attack, Bouchard said. Bouchard said after attempts to contact the suspect failed, drones were deployed to examine the home, where Nash was found dead.
Three named White guy alert. A 42 year old guy living in a trailer park according to some reports with his mother. Sounds like a guy with a boatload of issues, and in this case an *actual* mental illness. It appears to be completely random, no word on the demographics of the victims but given the demographics of Rochester Hills it is likely they are mostly White or Asian.
I point this guy out in the spirit of being even-handed in coverage so I can’t be accused of only focusing on black mass shootings but also to point out that this is the first White mass shooter, using the GVA’s widely accepted definition of four or more people shot not including the shooter, I have come across in 2024. There might be more but a) I haven’t seen them and b) White mass shooters usually get a ton of coverage. I still get people on social media claiming that most mass shooters are White men when in reality almost none are using the media’s preferred definition of mass shootings.
Speaking of mass shootings, a hot one is incoming in the next post….
“but was believed to have had mental health challenges”
Inquiring minds want to know, what medications was he taking for his mental health “challenges”?
I know we won’t find out, patient confidentiality (that conveniently protects pharmaceutical companies) being one of the most inviolable rules in Americanistan.
Probably some cocktail of SSRIs like most of the famous White mass shooters.
Probably. But at 42 years old, he doesn’t fit the typical profile of an SSRI-induced rage monster. That category of pharmaceutical clearly has a skewed effect on those under ~26. While it’s possible the same effect can occur in those older, it appears much less common – nearly nonexistent, really – an occurrence.
Not that we’ll ever find out what drugs he was on, nor will we be apprised of any other potential motive (ex wife, girlfriend or coworker with whom he had a beef present at the location of the shooting as just one possible angle) so we can only be left to speculate and watch as the media kisses it’s masters ass by overreporting on carefully chosen particular aspects of this story to further a narrative.
It would be interesting to know his past criminal/antisocial activity and behavior. I don’t expect that he went from peaceful but odd to mass shooter, unless it turns out he has a brain tumor. I’d also be surprised if he had much experience with firearms as his shooting effectiveness screams hoodrat with a sideways Glock (despite some of the victims being critical).
This strikes me as a very strange event.
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Waiting on a picture . . .
Same here. After the term “White Hispanic” came out, I trust no media representation of race without a picture attached. I remember one obvious breadcrumb described as having “dark white skin”. So yeah, where’s the pic so we can see for ourselves.
Sounds like more mkultra shenanigans to me. Normal people don’t attempt to murder strangers and then walk calmly away. People that have trauma/drug induced problems with disassociation (like Sirhan Sirhan) do stuff like that. I’m sure this was supposed to garner big headlines and stoke the gun control fires some more, or even start an anti MAGA firestorm. Apparently the lack of fatalities put the fuse back into the deep state grenade.