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During an ordinary Thursday afternoon, the employees of the Capital Gazette were working on their next news edition. Their musings on what stories to run were interrupted by a gunman shooting the glass windows and doors, then walking in to attack them.
The reports from those in the newsroom were at once heart breaking and courageous.
Gunman shot through the glass door to the office and opened fire on multiple employees. Can't say much more and don't want to declare anyone dead, but it's bad.
— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 28, 2018
Annapolis #CapitalGazette shooting victim, @PhilDavis_CG gives interview saying, “There is nothing more terrifying than hearing multiple people get shot while you’re under your desk and then hear the gunman reload” and that it "was like a war zone." https://t.co/wSXl8XDCyU pic.twitter.com/qSVcNSHakn
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) June 28, 2018
Yet within seconds after the world found out a news room in the United States was under attack, the narrative immediately went into BLAME TRUMP! BLAME MILO! mode. President Trump, as is well known, has been calling out Fake News since nearly the beginning of his Presidential campaign. He’s called Fake News the enemy of the people. And for that, far too many reacting to yesterday’s horrific shooting immediately blamed the President for what happened.
Milo surfaced in an interview just a few days ago and had made a stupidly asinine pop-off remark about shooting journalists. Never mind that he said he was being sarcastic, and never mind that he said he was trolling the interviewer, there were immediate cries for Milo to be jailed.
Seeing a lot of people already assigning blame in the #CapitalGazette shooting. This is wildly irresponsible speculation. You look like fools.
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) June 28, 2018
Yes, yes it was horrendously irresponsible. Why? The shooting suspect had been holding a grudge for SEVEN FREAKING YEARS against any and all who worked for the Capital Gazette.
He seemed to carry a grudge for years against the newspaper after he was the subject of a column describing how he harassed a former classmate from Arundel High School, first on Facebook and then through emails. Ramos pleaded guilty in July 2011 to harassment. In a column written by Eric Hartley several days later, the woman described how Ramos had stalked her online and perhaps caused her to lose her job.
The shooter had filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper in 2015. He contended that the 2011 column detailing his harassment of his former classmate and the subsequent guilty plea was defamation. The court didn’t agree. So, the shooter went on to create a website where he ranted against the Capital Gazette on a continual basis. He had also sent threats of violence against the Gazette through social media.
“This person was prepared today to come in, this person was prepared to shoot people,” Anne Arundel County Deputy Police Chief William Krampf said. “His intent was to cause harm.”
And, sadly, horrifically, he did cause harm.
Five employees at the Gazette, a paper with a history dating back to 1727, were killed.
Gerald Wischmann – Editor
Rob Hiassen – Editor
John McNamara – Reporter
Rebecca Smith – Sales Assistant
Wendi Winters – Special Publications
The folks at the paper picked themselves up and by damned, they put out this morning’s edition.
— Capital Gazette (@capgaznews) June 29, 2018
Tomorrow this Capital page will return to its steady purpose of offering readers informed opinion about the world around them. But today, we are speechless. pic.twitter.com/5HzKN2IW7Q
— Capital Gazette (@capgaznews) June 29, 2018
Understandably so. Five people dead because of a man who held a grudge for over seven years. Five people are dead and several were injured because one man would rather blame them for his criminal actions of harassment and stalking instead of taking responsibility for what he did.
For those persisting in the thought that this was all Trump or Milo’s fault. That’s fine, stick with your narrative even though the facts (a guy held a grudge against a newspaper for SEVEN YEARS), say otherwise. Stick with your narrative and hound the survivors of the Capital Gazette with it and see where that takes you.
You wanna know how I feel?
I feel like 5 of my co-workers are dead and the sovereignty of several others will forever be compromised because they are now only survivors, not individuals.
All because of something that involved none of us.
— Phil Davis (@PhilDavis_CG) June 29, 2018
That’s right. None of the employees killed or injured had ANYTHING to do with the shooter or with the story written about the shooter back in 2011. But that didn’t matter to the shooter. He had long ago decided it was the Capital Gazette to blame for the criminal charges, and his losing the defamation lawsuit.
So, quite frankly, for those who want this to be all about Trump or Milo, check yourselves.
Shooting suspect Jarrod Ramos does appear to be a Trump supporter. Tweeted positively about a big Trump lawsuit against the media.
He also had sued The Capital and had a longstanding grudge against the paper. pic.twitter.com/8DyG7Lbvj5
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 29, 2018
One Tweet from a few years ago addressing the Univision/Trump spat is what you use to make the claim that he was a "Trump supporter," yet a cursory search of his Twitter feed for other mentions of Trump shows nothing.
Does it hurt to be so full of sh*t?
— Alex VanNess (@thealexvanness) June 29, 2018
So we're at the point where a tweet from 2015 makes a politician culpable in a mass shooting but being an actual campaign worker for one and shooting up a baseball field doesn't.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 29, 2018
Admitting that an attack had nothing to do with Trump and then pivoting seamless to "but let's talk about Trump" just vindicates all the worst things Trump says about us
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) June 29, 2018
Exactly. People in the media and all those in the anti-Trump camp are so WILLING and EAGER to blame Trump for everything that they can’t see the forest for the tree their nose is embedded in!
To those at the Capital Gazette who have picked themselves up and are continuing on; my hat is off to you. To the families of those killed and to those wounded in yesterday’s attack, our prayers are with you all.
GWB says: First, condolences to the victims and their families. It’s horrible that someone hated you so much that they actively worked to harm you.
Second, the dude made death threats and was allowed to walk around?
Third, you received death threats at the paper and no one there was ARMED?
Fourth, he had this conviction on his record, but he somehow got his hands on a shotgun?
Fifth, hiding under your desks in a single office space is not really an effective response to an active shooter. If you have an office with a door, or a large cubicle farm, it might slow down the attacker. But, ultimately, hiding is just a way of postponing your victimhood.
Sixth, I’m a little confused about his reloading. Putting bits together, it sounded to me like he did not continue firing after reloading (maybe because the cops arrived?). So he killed 5 people with a shotgun? Which is usually limited to 5 rounds in its magazine (for pumps and most semi-autos)? Tell me again, progs, how limiting magazine size will stop this stuff?
Sixth, this is an unfortunately powerful confirmation of the old saw, “When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.” They got there in 60 seconds. Holy moley that’s FAST! The only way you could have a faster response is if the assailant double-parked in front of the police cruiser when he showed up.
Look, we’re not going to get rid of violence (especially with the way the progs are acting lately) or crime. It’s inherent in the human condition. So you can be a sheep, waiting on the butcher, or you can be a sheepdog, ready to take on the wolf when he arrives.
Jim says: “People in the media and all those in the anti-Trump camp … can’t see the forest for the tree their nose is embedded in!”
With respect I think their noses and heads are buried very deeply up their own fundamental orifices as a result of their own egocentric attempts to spin anything and everything into anti-Trump and anti-conservative ammunition.
As GWB states: “Look, we’re not going to get rid of violence (especially with the way the progs are acting lately) or crime. It’s inherent in the human condition. ”
This is an absolute truth and all the SJWs in the world singing Kumbaya will not change this. Humans can be good at ‘loving’, but are equally good at ‘hating’ and hurting others. The socialist Left/Marxists hav demonstrated this over the last 100 years all around the world.
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