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https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-monitor-violent-online-threats-light-joker-premiere/story?id=66031356
The FBI has received tips of threatening posts on social media calling for "unspecific mass shootings" linked to the release of the new psychological thriller, "Joker," starring Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix that will hit theaters this Friday, according to a joint intelligence bulletin obtained by ABC News.
These threats have been circling online platforms since at least May 2019, but give no information indicating specific or credible threats to particular locations or venues, the bulletin said.
Some of the threats did contain references to a primarily online group called the involuntary celibate community, or Incels, and a subset that refers to itself as "Clowncels." However, the intelligence community doesn't necessarily regard the group as a whole as a violent one.
"While many Incels do not engage in violence, some within the community encourage or commit violent acts as retribution for perceived societal wrongdoing against them," the bulletin said. "Some Incel attackers have claimed inspiration from previous mass shooters."
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Friday October 04 2019, @03:30PM (21 children)
I guess we should expect some Second Amendment activists to water the tree of liberty with the blood of moviegoers.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @03:40PM (11 children)
That's what the woke media want you to think would happen at Joker screenings.
When it doesn't happen, they will fall silent and pretend they weren't hoping for people to die for the last two weeks.
What kind of gun-toting Incel would shoot up Joker anyway? They would pick a chick flick instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @05:45PM (1 child)
Wouldn't a gun-toting incel target a Planned Parenthood abortion place? Not likely to be many men there (perhaps one or two of the doctors), and every single woman there had sex -- but not with the incel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @05:56PM
A crowded theater on opening night is a good strike zone. Except maybe the seats shield people from bullets. A grenade or two would be perfect.
The men seeing a chick flick are probably not incels, but are there with their wives and girlfriends. Those men are legitimate love quest combatants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @07:48PM (6 children)
Well, this guy [wikipedia.org] is not exactly an incel but the article does seem to indicate some sort of rage and/or contempt toward women. And the movie theater he shot up was showing Dark Knight Rises, [wikipedia.org] which is definitely not a chick flick (at least not according to my understanding of chick flicks).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @08:08PM (5 children)
One shooting at a movie theater does not make a pattern.
Tommorrow's mass shooters learn from the previous ones. They will know what kind of movies they should shoot up, or they will be laughed at for picking the wrong one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @08:38PM (1 child)
True, but I will just note that I can't think of any chick flick that has had a mass murder. Zero is even less of a pattern than one. Just sayin'.
???? I would think that mass murder is not a laughing matter, regardless of who the victims are. Are you well?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @08:55PM
Well enough to lift an AR-15.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 04 2019, @11:13PM (2 children)
Incel - the "Mass murders and violence" section [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @01:04AM (1 child)
I meant there is no pattern showing which genre of movies would be more likely to get shot up. It doesn't happen often enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @02:57AM
Worth an experiment, eh?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday October 04 2019, @10:32PM (1 child)
...did...did you just tell us all your plans for the weekend or what? Should we be worried?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @10:55AM
brb gotta take out the trash
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Alfred on Friday October 04 2019, @06:10PM
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @09:25PM (7 children)
except its not actually 2a people doing that shit and you damn well know it, you stupid bitch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @10:09PM (4 children)
While it's true that 2a types are not the ones engaging in mass murder, they also seem disinclined to keep the instruments of destruction out of the hands of the perpetrators. Also, I find it a little incongruous that you would call someone whose moniker is "ilPapa" a bitch. Just sayin'.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 04 2019, @11:11PM (1 child)
That's mainly because the restrictions only hurt law-abiding citizens and do nothing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and crazies who, by definition, aren't deterred by silly little laws.
And because those who hate the 2A have the notion that taking guns away prevents criminals and crazies from killing others, it must be mentioned that those parties have killed plenty of people with knives (London) and cars/trucks (Marseilles, NYC) and a whole, whole bunch of people with airplanes (NYC). Where there's a will, there's a way.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @11:58PM
How can you be so sure about this considering that all our previous attempts have been half-hearted, at best?
True, that. On the other hand, I don't think it's a good idea to make the instruments of destruction quite so readily available either. Just like I don't set out bottles of beer, wine, and hard liquor in front of a recovering alcoholic. And I'm pretty sure that the violent homicide rates in the UK and France are much, much lower than in the USA right now. Also, I'm sure you already know this but knives, cars, trucks, and airplanes have other uses besides killing people; not so with guns.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @12:08AM (1 child)
It's 2019, you don't have to be female to be a bitch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @04:27AM
I mean if that's what it takes to wake you then I guess.
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Saturday October 05 2019, @04:06PM (1 child)
It absolutely is. If you look up the backgrounds of the mass-shooters in the past, say three years for example, you will find that they all used weapons that were favored by the NRA types, and all of them owned more than one weapon.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @05:06PM
Pretty much all weapons are favored by NRA types - that's not an argument. Every deer hunter in the country uses a weapon favored by NRA types too (unless they used a bow), and they probably have more than one. Doesn't mean they're likely to go shoot somebody, or endorse mass murder. This is not about guns, it's about crazy people.