Talk:2017 Aztec High School shooting

To be added
To be added:

Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 02:09, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
 * the lengthy police report notes that after the shootings, law enforcement agents discovered several vehicles with swastikas and other hate speech visible on cars in the school parking lot, but decided to ignore and disregard it as having nothing to do with the case
 * a follow-up by the SPLC notes that local law enforcement twice denied concerns about a possible connection or motive with white supremacists, alt-right, and other right wing terrorism implications, before the results of the autopsy were released indicating white supremacist and far-right symbols on the body of the shooter, and after both the Daily Beast and the SPLC had uncovered the online posting history of the shooter and his deep connection to far-right terrorists in Germany.
 * at least one civil rights organization in New Mexico informed the SPLC that one of the sheriffs in San Juan County is a "pro-gun supporter of Trump’s hardline on border issues."
 * the claim pertaining to the shooter picking the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack makes little sense, and in the original context of the police report itself, makes even less sense.

Update: User:Doomslaiyer wishes to add the following:

When Atchison was 11 years old, he discovered the Encyclopedia Dramatica website, and eventually became a sysop for the website, where he would write and edit many School Shooting articles the site had to offer. He used his power to upload pictures of White Supremacist propaganda. Several ED admins went to the site's forums to complain but no action was presumably taken.

No source was offered for this proposed addition, but if memory serves, a small part of this is supported by Zadrozny & Collins 2017. I didn't add it originally because it was too inside baseball, but I think Doomslaiyer is correct in that the most verifiable parts of it should be added. I'm just objecting to adding the parts that can't be verified, which is why I reverted. Viriditas (talk) 23:24, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * Atchinson was also interested in Jeff Weise, the perpetrator of the 2005 Red Lake shootings.

Moved to talk. Unsourced. Viriditas (talk) 08:00, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Persistent removal of Atchison's pro-Trump posts


User:Mercur70 has repeatedly removed the mention of Atchison’s pro-Trump posts because the user believes this equates Trump with Hitler. I don’t see how that’s a valid rationale for removal, as white supremacists like Atchison were called "very fine people" by Trump, who held problematic racial views just like his father. Fred Trump was arrested and detained at a Klan rally in 1927 for refusing to leave. This could explain why former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke was one of Trump’s earliest endorsers in 2016.

The point I’m making is that we don’t need to equate Trump with Hitler, he has lived a life making the equation for himself, and white supremacists like Atchison were drawn to Trump as a result. That Atchison was both pro-Hitler and pro-Trump makes perfect sense in this context and in the community of online white supremacist that Atchison supported. Of course, I haven’t even mentioned, that according to his ex-wife, Trump used to read the collected works of Hitler’s speeches before he went to bed at night, and it was one of the only books he ever used to read.

None of that matters, but I offer it as background for the user in question. What does matter is that the sources support the material. The sources tell us that Atchison posted pro-Trump and pro-Hitler messages online. Not just one source, many sources. Noting this doesn’t equate Trump with Hitler. If we wanted to equate Trump with Hitler in the article, we would have to show how a Trump slogan or idea was related to Hitler and the Nazis. For example, I could show how Hitler used to use the phrase "Make Germany Great Again" in a speech from 1940. Perhaps this phrase was also in a book Trump kept by his bed and read at night, giving him the idea to use MAGA. That would be an attempt to equate Trump with Hitler. Nobody is doing that here.

Is there any doubt that Atchison was posting pro-Trump and pro-Hitler comments online? No. Journalists, researchers, and law enforcement investigators have confirmed it, and these things have been published. Atchison was drawn to Trump just as much as he was to Hitler, and it’s not up to us to equate them or explain the connection in this article on the shooting, and we haven’t. That information is easy to find elsewhere, as I have demonstrated up above. Viriditas (talk) 20:29, 7 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I understand your point and I will stop reverting. Mercur70 (talk) 23:04, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Motive
People keep changing the motive from "unknown" to "Encyclopedia Dramatica". This isn't supported by the sources that I've seen, but if there are new ones, feel free to add them. The police reports (and sources covering them) maintain that the motive is unknown. Initially, I was skeptical, and I read about the role Encyclopedia Dramatica played in the attacks. But after reading all of the available sources, it becomes clear that there's no way to assign a motive to the perpetrator based on the known evidence. Viriditas (talk) 00:45, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 15 February 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. – robertsky (talk) 13:30, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

2017 Aztec High School shooting → Aztec High School shooting – Year is not needed as the name of the school distinguishes it enough. MountainDew20 (talk) 22:23, 15 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Additionally, it was moved to the title with the year included by the user “Love of Corey”, who had done this multiple times before with different school shooting articles and is now banned for using sockpuppet accounts. MountainDew20 (talk) 22:24, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @MountainDew20 As (one of) the main authors of this page: eh I wouldn't prefer it. It's a pretty obscure one that most people don't know about, so I think the year is helpful and informative even if it's not strictly needed to distinguish it. Most people when they hear about this do not automatically know about it. I think only the really famous cases should not have the year in the title. But I don't care that much.
 * No offense intended at all, but I think you have a misunderstanding of how events are usually named: usually they include the year by default and this is only overruled if its more commonly referred to (so the really famous cases) PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:30, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It'd be nice to lose the unsightly year from the title. The year is unnecessary (was there a 2023 or 1994 Aztec High School shooting?) and including it does not, prima facia, aid the recognition of the event, one's recall of it. I'd support a move. BowlAndSpoon (talk) 22:30, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @BowlAndSpoon Naming conventions (events) says "In the majority of cases, the title of the article should contain the following three descriptors: When the incident happened. Where the incident happened. What happened." Only "in historic perspective" should it not include it. Quite frankly this one is not well known enough to exclude it PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Oppose per WP:NCEVENTS. Like PARAKANYAA said, the guideline says the even if the year isn't needed for DAB purposes, it should still be included as a useful identifier. They even list 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and 1993 Russian constitutional crisis as examples. There are so many school shootings in America that the year is a helpful identifier, especially for one that wasn't as publicized as some of the others.  Bait30   Talk 2 me pls? 21:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Support There doesn’t seem any other high profile incident involving a shooting at this particular school. A quick google search shows results for this event only. From my understanding, the only reason why we include a year is if there was more than 1 high profile incident like this at the same place (i.e. 2009 & 2014 Fort Hood shootings), or if the event wasn’t at a specific location and rather just the general area of a city or town (i.e. 2022 Philadelphia shooting & 2022 Chattanooga shooting.) This is like if we put 1999 in the title for the Columbine shooting and there obviously hasn’t been another big crime like that at the school since then. The year for something like this just seems pointless.
 * YatesTucker00090 (talk) 05:41, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @YatesTucker00090 Per policy, that's not the case. Events contain the year by default and only don't have year if they have an otherwise common title. WP:NCEVENTS PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:20, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose per WP:NCE. We almost always include the year for events, unless they're extremely well known, for ease of recognition. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 22:58, 8 March 2024 (UTC)