Active shooter taken into custody after White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

Detroit マッシュ aka Heavy Pedal58

Cause it doesn't promote the message of a useless vanity project of a baIIroom.

Gravel Influencer25

"Wounded by bullets" is an interesting way to say "shot"

HorseHalves13

Obviously they need a ballroom.

Monica Heilman12

This needs a lot of qualifying. The shooting took place downtown and they have not confirmed that any students were involved. Some of us have good friends and loved ones at IU. Characterizing this as a mass school shooting causes unnecessary fear and panic.

Doria Biddle9

Wouldn’t have happened if the university had a ballroom.

rwabhm.bsky.social9

They're too obsessed with reporting on how their lives were in danger from a shooter on an entirely different floor of a D.C. hotel who was already pinned down by law enforcement.

Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D.7

It seems though this was off campus by possibly some non students who got in a fight, so not sure how this is connected to censorship of the paper?

How many more days of this?6

Too busy talking about how affected they are by hearing gunshots in a lobby near them

beforedawn4

Has this been four major shooting events four days in a row now this week?

Susan C. T.4

Simple reason. Neither DJT nor his media corps need to use the mass shooting to clamor for the "necessary ballroom."

Carrie 💙3

"safety for me but not for thee" shouldn't be our gun control policy but it sure feels like it 😔

ShenLoop3

It’s the guns, it is always the guns, if the guns were not there, this would not happen. “The city said investigators have determined by reviewing footage that a fight broke out between two women in front of Five Guys, during which several people drew handguns and two separate people fired weapons.”

MovieEv2

IU is going to need a bigger ballroom

Ms. Trannÿ of Tÿranny 🏳️‍⚧️2

We need to shake up politicians to the reality of gun violence by not hiding the gruesome result of their actions. People need to see what these guns do.... no one ever does unless you witness it...

Katie 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🇪🇺 🇳🇴 🇫🇮 🏳️‍🌈 ❌ 👑 🐸2

Back in my day, we were all too drunk during Little 500 weekend to fight and pull a weapon. Now we are sober in our late 50s.

iggles.bsky.social2

They'd much rather grasp pearls about the fake, staged one from last night.

Will Bunch55

Here's an excerpt -- read the whole column during the Sixers-Celtics timeouts and tell me what you think

Whirled Bizarre47

In light of the obvious gun problem, we need bunkered ballrooms at all our schools.

Lisa Robertson38

There was an active shooter in a public place. Happens all the time in the U.S. Do we call it an assassination attempt when active shooters enter schools, hospitals, houses of worship, or workplaces?

ben27

The shots were fired on a floor above the ballroom where the event was… let’s not get that lost in the details

Mark VDH18

In a room full of journalists, very few seem to be reporting that the gunman was on a different floor than the main event when apprehended. So he did not fire anywhere near the cabinet. And, in a country with more guns than people, calling for regulating speech instead of guns is total lunacy.

Sharon B14

When Trump admin cries about how terrorized they felt remind them they wanted to keep partying.

investig8torjeff.bsky.social12

Trump keeps saying accused shooters are “whacko,” and “sick.” But no one in the White House press corps asks him about mental health funding, or keeping guns out of the hands of mentally ill persons. Why isn’t this the obvious line of questioning?

BobbiefromIL7

bsky.app/profile/fred... Journalists who do not bring THIS horrific National horror back to the forefront after a bloviated, malignant Predator-in-Chief and Republicans, who are complicit in attacks on democracy, experience a GOP-enabled 2nd AMD crisis are themselves COMPLICIT.

kvconner.bsky.social6

🎁🖇️Opinion by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump dinner shooting defines a violent, unserious America Another Trump assassination try leaves dinner guests wanting to party on, in a laughingstock America, numb to violence. share.inquirer.com/nZykZM

Secret Sock 🎖️💎🧦5

Maybe we should all re-watch Brazil.

nancyspantsbelt.bsky.social5

IT WAS NOT AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT! SHOOTER WAS NOT NEAR ANY OF YOU FFS!

Linda Marie 🕊️3

There was no assassination attempt. He was not even on the same floor as the ballroom. Trump was never in the presence of gunfire.

Dayle Ohlau3

…g r e a t title.

Son of Hooks3

BLOTUS immediately exploited the event as a 'casus ballroom'...Not gonna happen. Can we be sure the shooter will not be Ruby'd or Epsteined? I'm not.

marcosantana2

The journalists stole the wine instead. @angrystaffer.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

We all Belong!2

Most of your post is fine but the bit about the assassination attempt has not been proven.

PassBlue2

yes, they wanted to resume the dinner

hidden-shallows.bsky.social2

The only solution to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a ballroom.

Cara D2

Something is for sure numb to gun violence and drunk on corruption, but speaking as a member of the nation, I push back on the idea that it's the whole nation.

Codhisattva2

There’a a restaurant scene in the great Gilliam movie “Brazil” that predicted this numbness.

Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D.2

“Gunfire of the Vanities”! If only Tom Wolfe was still alive. His biting satire and masterful use of language would have gone a long way to making the last decade more bearable.. and may have helped avert the worst of it.

ee.ii.bb8

I hate that Trump is trying to garner sympathy with multiple fake attempts while Uvalde kids were left to die.

StrawbRawry7

I was one of the first generations of kids to do a shooter drill. I'm sorry but they hardly got a taste. They had armed security, swat teams, and secret service on hand and at the ready. School children have none of that and often don't even have a competent police department to do a single thing.

Desert Boomer6

Leaders last night experienced what it feels like to be in a trump reality show. I don't believe for a minute this was a real shooter situation. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and I am absolutely in your corner when it comes to gun control, but I have no trust in our leaders.

Just Melodie6

Leaders and also the news media, who have failed to do their part to fully, honestly, urgently report on the epidemic. Instead we will have endless TV discussion of THEIR trauma and disingenuous editorials about political violence.

Eric Strong4

Actually not so much. The shooter last night was neutralized with seconds. If it was analogous to an active school shooter, Trump, Vance, and the like would have been hiding under the tables for 2 hours while texting their families that they love them as if they would never seen them again.

KatieM3

tRump said: “I don’t like to let these sick people, these thugs, these horrible, horrible people change the fabric of our life, change the course of what we do” School shootings change the fabric of our students lives!

brianwhiting.bsky.social2

Exactly. He thinks that having bullet proof windows would safeguard him from someone shooting up the ballroom from the inside? Reminder, no one inside the ballroom was in danger from the shooter. The only injury was a secret service agent at the metal detector.

catlady49ers.bsky.social2

Steve Scalise was shot and he still supports the NRA! 😳

beach90.bsky.social2

So he wants to protect himself but doesnt care about the every day American threatened by gun violence!

asteraceaeg.bsky.social2

I mean, they were surrounded by armed security, which kids don’t have access to. I feel bad for the kids.

wanda27.bsky.social2

Don’t know who she is. But this is brilliant.

JennYFromHR4

Looking unsurprised & unworried about anything, huh? Is this even a real pic? Or is he just waiting to get his shoes 🙄

Doug Holst3

This never got much coverage. Weird. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

MadGreek 🧿3

Yeah. And they say he's a Liberal? Ummm 🤔 no!

🇺🇦 Dennis The Passive-Aggressive Menace 🇺🇦2

Agreed! Hating Trump and Musk are one in the same.

zamora_in_5038

Kids in schools across the U.S. have to deal with this trauma in real life. Meanwhile, this administration sets up these stunts to fire up the base and a ballroom. #fdt

Barbara Neuhoff4

Staged so Trump could push for his ballroom. He won't get it!

Jess3

This country is so lame

dnoven.bsky.social3

Does anyone think this wasn't b.s.?

Asterysk 🏳️‍⚧️2

hoping the next one has better aim

Benny2

When the distraction from a distraction of the distraction needs another distraction. Release the Epstein files.

bellriots30.bsky.social2

Good to see Epstein Files and Iran off the front pages finally!

litzz112

That’s absurd. Let’s have an FBI director who isn’t an out of control drunk and see how it goes, yeah?

Ladybug2

Just another fake, staged shooting. He was on Truth Social so quick. NORMAL people would be shook. Then to address the people and promote the ballroom. It's not adding up. Then to say he was honored to be in the 'assassination' club. Uhhhgggg!

Emily6

"Friendly Federal Assassin" is kinda on the nose, dontchathink? What kind of "assassin" comes up with the genius plan: "I'm gonna Leeroy Jenkins run through the lobby, down the hall, up the stairs, down the stairs, down the hall, Naruto run across the ballroom, up the dais and shoot the President?"

judinthepines.bsky.social5

In a Trump world of constant chaos, this barely raises a pimple.

Dave Mitchell2

Worst Assassins Ever Association Member fails completely. You hire the worst, you get the worst. Red flag? 🚩 🤔