Moments before a 17-year-old unleashed gunfire at Iowa’s Perry High School, killing a sixth grader and wounding five other people, the student is believed to have posted a foreboding TikTok video.
On the morning shooter Dylan Butler opened fire, a TikTok post believed to be from the shooter shows him the inside a school bathroom posing with a blue duffel bag, captioned: “Now we wait.”
The song “Stray Bullet,” by the German band KMFDM, accompanies the post, which has been removed from the platform; the student gunmen who carried out the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado also had cited the group’s lyrics, CNN has reported.
Butler – who also died amid Thursday’s horror, a law enforcement official told CNN – “made a number of social media posts in and around the time of the shooting,” said Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation. “Law enforcement are working to secure those pieces of evidence,” he added.
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The goalposts keep moving
Tbf, CNN and Fox are ostensibly different, CNN is one of the major news outlets who constantly supports gun control (while secretly hoping the problem never stops because it would hurt their ratings.) Mental health and security are more Fox’s take specifically.
As for “metal musics and violent video games” that seems to be a scapegoat for both sides (and neither), the PMRC was bipartisan, Tipper Gore is literally Al’s wife but many other members were conservative christian “Mom’s against everything demand everything” types. The christian censors obviously participating because they want to force their god on others and the liberal side because they know what is good for you even if you’re too stupid to decide for yourself “because you’re an uneducated
coloredPOC or a poor white.” This one is specifically both sides, with both sides also saying the censors can complain all they want but they can’t do shit about it. More specifically, this issue (Tommy Vercetti made me do it) transcends “sides,” opting instead to create its own “sides.”It’s also older than our school shooting problem, so “goalposts” have been moved back to their 1980s positions. Get ready, Satanic Panic 2: Beelzebub Boogaloo is on deck next.