The Schloss-Blog is monitoring shootings and stabbings, airplae mishaps and employment numbers. Like Jeffrey E;pstein's files, they won't go away.
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Are you getting as numb, as accustomed to hearing about shootings and violent attacks as everyone else appears to be?
I am. They'e so frequent, it's like having a common cold. We all get one. All the time.
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At Florida State University in April, for example, a 20-year-old student has been identified as the person who allegedly shot and killed two and wounded five others. He supposedly had a white-supremecist ideology and was apprehended at the scene.
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In New York City last week, a man claiming to have CTE, a traumatic brain condition that can only be diagnosed after death, walked into the bulding that houses the National Football League headquarters and shot and killed four people.
He was allegedly angry with the NFL for what the note he was carrying said was the hiding of the consequences of the disease.
He shot and killed himself. Pictures of him carrying an automatic weapon on the street and into the building are extremely distressing.
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Stop me if you've heard this one: An Army veteran in a rural Montana town walked into a bar next door to his house and shot and killed four people.
The suspect, identified as Michael P. Brown, was still at large as of Saturday. Relatives described him as "...shy, loving and suffering from mental illness."
He had supposedly moved to Anaconda, Montana, where the shooting occured, from Dallas, for the peace and serenity.
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But wait, there's more...
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A group of men who had gathered for a bachelor party in Reno, Nevada, were fired upon, seemingly out of nowhere, while waiting for an Uber ride to the airport after the weekend event.
Two of them are now dead, two were seriously injured and one other had minor injuries.
No motive has been identified for the attack and the shooter was shot by and apprehended by Reno police.
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Last week, a man walked into a WalMart in Traverse, City, Michigan, and, with a knife, randomly attacked 11 people.
Eleven people. Fortunately, none died and customers helped detain the suspect, who has a history of a varied level of charges for assault and battery.
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I guess you just never know about the person standing next to you, in line at the grocery store, sitting next to you on the train or bus or browsing the aisles of a general merchandise store while you hunt for school supplies for the kids or - dare I say - Christmas gifts already.
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There's more...
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...but I'm not getting into them now. That's enough. I was going to lead with the story about only two people being on the American Film Institute's list of 50 Greatest Screen Heroes and the list of 50 Greatest Screen Villains.
But now, I'll bring that back up next week.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Sabrina Carpenter.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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