That pistol he grabbed from the vehicle…

…was his Mom’s old service pistol.

His Mom was a school resource officer and later deputized into the Leon County Sheriffs.

https://www.newsweek.com/fsu-shooter-leon-county-deputy-phoenix-jessica-ikner-2061301

In a news conference hours after the first reports of the active shooting were announced, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil identified the suspect.

“The shooter is 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner … and he is the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy,” McNeil said.

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According to Revell during the news conference, Jessica Ikner [the shooter’s mother] is a school resource officer in Leon County. The county sheriff’s office website lists her as a “middle schools deputy.”

Deputy Ikner was awarded law enforcement employee of the month in March 2024, the sheriff’s office posted on Facebook.

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[The Shooter] was “a long-standing member” of the Leon County Sheriff’s Office Youth Advisory Council, McNeil said during the news conference.

“He has been steep in the Leon County Sheriff’s Office Family,” McNeil said, adding that it is “not a surprise” that Ikner had access to weapons.

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(apologies for possibly paywalled link, try internet archive if its blocked for you)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/04/18/florida-state-university-shooting-what-we-know-about-the-suspect/

Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old son of a sheriff’s deputy whom police accuse of using his mother’s gun, is in police custody after being identified as a suspect in a shooting on Florida State University’s campus Thursday, which killed two people and injured at least six others.

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https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2025/04/18/fsu-shooting-phoenix-ikener-fired-guns-deputy-mother-jessica-ikner/83159241007/

Jessica Ikner, a beloved Raa Middle School student resource deputy, was the 2023 law enforcement officer of the year with the Leon County Sheriff’s Office.

She also practiced shooting with her stepson, Phoenix, at a firing range, but “not in an official capacity,” according to LCSO.

…

Yeah so this guy was trained to shoot by his armed-with-a-firearm, middle school guard / county deputy mom, and he then took his mom’s service pistol to shoot up his own school/uni.

I can’t find more details on the shotgun, but it could also be the case that that is or was a service weapon as well… but that is barely informed speculation on my part, I just know that a lot of US cops also have a shotgun in their cruiser.

… If you do it occasionally, when contextually appropriate… it is funny, a self aware reference to how they spend a lot of time on twitch streams, and are expressing disbelief.

When you do it all the time, reflexively, regardless of context… yeah, that may indicate that that just is your baseline norm for social interaction and you fundamentally cannot or do not distinguish between the contexts of online interaction and irl interaction.

There a whole lot of kids now who are just basically raises from near birth by screens. Parents with no free time or parents who don’t give a shit just give the kid a distraction rectangle so they don’t have to … raise them.

I only use the term ‘females’ in the context of … some kind of discussion of medical or biological studies … or to differentiate between a girlfriend and a platonic female friend…

But I am guilty of the whole open fridge and sigh thing.

However.

If I turned around and David Attenborough was physically present, narrating me… I think I would be overjoyed and just try to get him to watch a nature documentary with me.

Or even better, go outside and just continue to be amused at his narration of me, and see if I can’t get him to a park or something and see if he switches over to narrating the ducks.

… Hopefully the setup process is a bit more streamlined now, lol.

Also, this is KSP 1.

KSP 2 kinda… failed to launch, you might say.

Also… I haven’t messed with the Realism Overhaul in a few years, but uh… you’re gonna need a fairly poweful machine.

God speed, try not to instantly kill Jeb lol.

Oh how I wish the X-33 / VentureStar had actually worked out…

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/VentureStar

Either something like that, or somekind of… craft that has both a RAMJet and also some kind of rocket propulsion… that or a SCRAMJet that actually works… could maybe help get us to, or toward, at least an SSTO craft, or system.

Hah, or we can go full conspiracy theorist and find and publicize the anti gravity field generator equipped TR 3B in Hangar 18 or whatever, haha.

Play Kerbal Space Program Realism Overhaul if you want a … much closer to ‘real’ taste of how much more complicated and difficult an orbital flight is than a subortial flight, a lunar flight is than an orbital flight, an extraplanetary flight is than a lunar flight.

I’m not sure if it is still the unofficial motto of the mod… but it used to be ‘if you cannot figure out how to install this mod, you will not be capable of playing it anyway’, or something to that effect.

Awesome song about this that becomes increasingly more relevant every day:

King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizard - Mars for the Rich

Misleading and overly jocular.

It has been 11,182 days since it began.

The… they kept coming, and joining… and the seasons lost their familiarity… their very meaning… it became just a blurring vortex, an intensifying torrent of ever increasing ignorance and rage.

I … can barely remember now, what it was like before…

11,182 days … of September.

This is not a normal kind of human interaction, on the girl’s part.

It very strongly indicates she is a spoiled brat, a narcissist.

If you think this kind of interaction is normal… well I see two possible explanations:

You are also a narcissist and that’s why you think this is normal.

OR

You are surrounded by narcissists who have gaslit you into thinking this is normal, and you haven’t had too many regular interactions with non narcissists.

Also, I don’t see anywhere near as many total upvotes for ‘she’s into you dude, frost that cupcake!’ as I do for ‘this is the biggest red flag imaginable, let me write a short essay explaining why’

In fact, yeah, I don’t see a single comment advocating the anon dive into her… affairs, over this.

There is a very fitting song for this.

Garbage - Stupid Girl

Basically, if this is a representative sample of this girl’s personality …

(huge if there, this is a single 4chan post lol)

… then she is a textbook narcissist, potentially to the point of being diagnosable with NPD if she doesn’t grow out of this attitude, get a reality check that actually sinks into the subconscious.

A spoiled, pampered brat whose never been told no, who never gets any real, meaningful interaction or validation, and tries to fill that void with a grandiose self image, absurd overconfidence and privelege.

Angelica from Rugrats.

…And my take here would be the same if the genders/sexes were reversed, or some other combo.

It is pretty not normal for anybody to have that kind of interaction with anybody else, to just boisterously state they could have ‘insert random person’, then have rando anon just flatly reply ‘sorry not interested’, … and then throw a giant hissy fit.

I am seriously hoping this interaction occures between 12 or 14 year olds, but looking at the horror kaleidoscope that is social media these days?

Yeah, could be anybody, any age, at this point.

Well, I would, but:

gestures at leg and wrist in braces, cane, utter state of poverty, lack of public transit in a low CoL city I can qualify to rent at with SSDI as my only income

If I were to pronounce it outloud, I would say:

D. B. Zero.

Like D. B. Cooper, lol.

the… zer(o), 0 swap is… basically old school l33tsp34k… like uh… l00tb0x, pr0n, type of … dialect? syntax?

… can’t say I’ve ever had banana pudding.

Here’s how you go to jail for debt:

Rack up a ton of credit card debt.

Don’t pay it off, goes to collections.

If it’s high enough, and you don’t move to another state…

Collections sues you, you get a court summons in the mail.

You throw away the court summons along with all your overdue bill notices.

Congratulations, you now have an active arrest warrant, police will be at your location in… a few days to a few weeks, you go to jail, then likely prison for contempt of court, and when you get out, the debt collector won their judgement against you by default, any wages you try to get will be garnished, your credit score is absymal so you can’t get an apartment basically anywhere.

… incredible.

Beans for you.

Not one who’s seen their own kid(s) or brothers or sisters suffer through bad marriages and divorces.

It is… a bit odd, imo, that she’d just jump to that, not even knowing anon… but at the same time, a good number of older people just don’t give a fuck / literally do not have much time to waste, so they just get straight to the point.

Oh I did find such jobs, but then I managed to get asssulted in a mugging, lost my ids and cards and phone, ended up hospitalized, lost my job, got evicted, ended up homeless for about two years.

On the bright side of that, managed to get SSDI payments and recently set myself up with actual doctors after having to wait for the medicare application window thing, as well as… at least a 6 month lease at a roach motel.

Now I get to do PT for … 6 months to a year? And maybe I can walk without a cane again, and use my wrist for more than 20 minutes at a time without it excruciatingly seizing up.

… Or the motel knows how prostitution works, and wants their cut, and has worked this arrangement out before hand.

No, you’re wrong.

Everyone that studies crimes for a living, you know, people with PhDs, who publish peer reviewed studids on mass shootings?

Precise definitions vary somewhat, but basically, a mass shooting is any instance where 4+ people are injured or killed by gunfire, in a single, temporaly and geographically constrained event.

Gas station robbery gone wrong? 3 people injured, one dead, by gunfire?

That’s a mass shooting.

Because a mass of people… got shot.

A mass shooting related to gang activity… is a gang related mass shooting.

It is a subset of the category ‘mass shooting’, not a completely different thing.

You csn take that definition and apply it backward 40 , 60 years, and you will still see a massive, massive rise in the number of mass shootings in the last 20 years, number of people injured or killed by gunfire in mass shootings.

Zoomers are about 3x more likely to personally know someone who was present at the scene of, injured or killed in a mass shooting than Boomers.

For Millenials, its about 2x.