Fatal shooting in New York City
Four are dead, including the shooter who committed suicide. One of the dead is a New York City policeman.
The killer fits the profile of quite a few recent mass killers in that he appears to have been mentally ill, with a history that indicates as much:
An NYPD officer and three other people were shot and killed by a crazed gunman who stormed a swanky Midtown skyscraper early Monday evening and later turned the gun on himself, officials said.
The 27-year-old maniac, identified as Shane Tamura [of Nevada], barged into the 44-story building — which houses Blackstone and the NFL headquarters — armed with a rifle and opened fire at around 6:30 p.m. during the evening rush. …
Mayor Adams said the gunman intended to target the NFL’s headquarters, however he took the wrong elevator to the incorrect floor.
So in addition to everything else, Tamura drove a very long distance and ended up going to a place other than his intended target, and did not even hit people connected with the NFL. He never played pro football but apparently and bizarrely blamed the NFL for giving him some sort of brain damage (CTE) from playing the sport, which he did in high school.
To top it all off, CNN anchor Erin Burnett reported the shooter as being “possibly white.” He clearly was not white, even “possibly.” He appears to have been of mixed race, most likely black and Asian.
RIP to the dead.
He went to the wrong floor. In his twisted mind, he decided the NFL was to blame, so he went to the building where the NFL’s HQ is. But he went to the wrong bank of elevators and ended up on the wrong floor. The people he killed didn’t even work for the NFL.
Now, even the people who work for the NFL are innocent. Even Roger Goodell doesn’t deserve to die. But to lose a loved one or your life because some loser got on the wrong elevator…that kind of absurdity will challenge your faith, in humanity if nothing else.
Here’s some info on CTE from the mayo clinic:
Sundance’s headline last night was Middle Eastern Male, Reportedly Shouting “Free Palestine,” Opens Fire in Downtown New York
He included a photo of the shooter rather nonchalantly walking across the building plaza with his rifle, seemingly not attracting much attention.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/28/middle-eastern-male-reportedly-shouting-free-palestine-opens-fire-in-downtown-new-york/#more-274454
For at least ten years researchers have been trying to demonstrate a connection between high school football and CTE. Everyone knows that sometimes in football people can get a concussion, but they are trying to demonstrate that there is no safe way to play high school football. If that’s the reality that’s the reality, but at the moment I would say that there are people hoping to demonstrate it, so it will take a long time before they finally give up on establishing a connection if it is not there.
Sometimes it seems we’re coming apart at the seams:
Nightmare in waking hours
Every day sirens wail
derelicts, drunkards, gang bangers, politicos
all play roles in a public passion play
Screens are filled with gory scenes
sex sells, money rules
crack in the earth, smack, speedball
medicine cabinet maniacs caught in a free fall
creeps reach down deep
evil breeds, seems to grow stronger every passing day
Far beyond going astray
tick the events of a single day
death in Chicago, New York, Boston, Baltimore
Seattle a 9-year-old girl
senseless rage over a honking horn
St. Louis, Boulder, Austin, KC
Sacramento three
two more in Colorado Springs
he yelled “what an adventure”
In Illinois a high school varsity football player
say a prayer, paid another kid a hundred
together they slashed his parents’ throats
It’s not very far
from united to untied
transpose the i and the t
sometimes it seems
we’re coming apart at the seams
trying to live the American dream
Speaking as a football viewing fan, it’s pretty obvious that there’s been a huge cultural push from the left against it in general. It’s extremely popular. It’s a completely male dominated sport that heavily emphasises athletic excellence, size, strength, agility, and speed. Along with natural abilities, grit and determination are rewarded and celebrated. Also teamwork, strategy, and leadership are all massive factors of course. These are all elements that are often viewed as traditional male values. And the left hates traditional male values and seeks to supress or outright excise them completely from our culture. Perhaps I’m being overly reductive, but I still think this is fair to say. So when the whole CTE thing started appearing a while back it was an obvious point of attack on the institution of American Football for the left.
All that said, this doesn’t mean it’s not a real problem or even that it has been overblown. Even long before the term CTE was a thing, it was pretty obvious that repeated head trauma tended to lead to long term problems. The term “punch drunk” was often applied to veteran boxers that displayed issues that today are categorized as CTE. I know that the NFL has made efforts to do things like improve helmets and changed up their concusion protocols, often taking players out of games immediately after signs of a concusion have been detected (where in the past they were just allowed/encouraged to keep playing the game out). And I think current and future football players and their parents are more aware of such risks today than in the past.
I don’t doubt it is a problem, but the attack on the institution of football, is rather clear, a misanthrope like Carlin, had it in his routine, that was aired on the premiere episode of SNL, about football as a military training program, which is likely true, but he added the pejorative,
football is about physical force but also about an outlet for youthful impulses that get channelled into real violence, and it’s typically american, and until a moderate player like kaepernick got into the game, generally apolitical, with the whole so called blm, so the left want gleischastung (coordination) all along progressive lines,
the bigger picture is what alvin bragg and wilhelm wrought on the city of new york, diminishing the once great nypd
as gascon and now bass have wrought on the former city of angels
and in the greater scheme, it is yeats ‘the worst are full of passionate intensity’ see Mangione, the wannabe crusader for health care, sarc, I was watching Network again, with a closer eye, it was prescient for what we would see in the ’10s into 2020,
Lorraine Hobbs is unmistakably Angela Davis, who pushed her nihilist screed,
even granting an endorsement to the puppet candidate,
Chayevsky was not cynical enough to see the press would excuse violent outrages, in a gaslighting exercise, see Ali Velshi on MSNBC
I played 4 years of college football. Several times had concussions. So far, no symptoms of CTE. Maybe there’s a correlation, maybe there isn’t. It certainly isn’t proved medical science.
Given his “known” mental-health history, I’m not sure why this guy had a gun license, let alone one for concealed carry.
Nevada?
Got an answer…of sorts…:
“NYC shooter Shane Tamura admitted to having suicidal thoughts — but was still allowed gun permit: sources”—
https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/nyc-shooter-shane-tamura-admitted-to-having-suicidal-thoughts-but-was-still-allowed-gun-permit-sources/
Go figure.
Tamura is a Japanese surname, so it appears that he has a Japanese father and a black mother.
I know some serious lefties who are big 49’ers fans, as well as fans of other sports.
@selfy: I haven’t seen any other source claiming the shooter shouted “Free Palestine.”
In case anyone either does not know or has somehow forgotten, there are many males who have a surfeit of testosterone. For them, aggression is a way of life. I would prefer that they have a legitimate outlet for that aggression, of which football is one very lucrative outlet. All other contact sports play a similar role. This is a biological fact and can’t be wished away, nor should it be. Male aggression plays a role in stabilizing society, whether that society is human, canine, feline, bovine, or what have you. Male aggression, properly channeled is quite normal. It is the attempt to castrate men, physically, psychologically or metaphorically that is aberrant.
This maybe fatal to Mandami’s campaign
The fellow the shooter referenced
https://archive.triblive.com/news/ex-steelers-lineman-indicted-for-arson-fraud-perjury/
Perhaps another reason that he committed suicide
Regarding CTE, force equal mass times acceleration. Decreasing players’ mass decreases the force of hits. The best way to do this is to limit roster sizes so players have to play more minutes. Playing “both ways” was common through the ’60s.
My father played in High School (as did I). He played in the pre-facemask era and he insisted the addition of the facemask to helmets exacerbated injuries and concussions. Playing with no facemask, he said, defenders naturally protected their own faces and heads. His theory was the facemask encouraged players to use their heads as weapons. The NFL now has strict, “targeting” rules in place to try to prevent using the helmet and its contents as a weapon, but maybe my dad was right?
Toying with some ideas about how to retain as much of the strength, speed, and strategy of football without the full on forces involved in tackling:
1) convert to a difficult version of flag football, but rather than a long easily grabbed flag, have one or more “detachable modules” on a player’s belt (or elsewhere on the uniform?), that requires significant force to grab and pull free (say 20 to 30 pounds? More? Less? “Velcro plus” or magnetic or ???)
2) Perhaps more “points” for grabbing a back or side module over the other?? Or vice versa, whichever is more difficult. [Does this get into the points systems analogous to gymnastics or figure skating?]
3) or grabbing two modules, say one in back and one on the side, or on both sides?? This might more closely simulate a tackle?
Still involves the forces of blocking, which may remain significant but maybe not as serious? Some tumbles and falls/rolls can still be expected for a vigorous game, but less full on collisions?
[Disclosure: I was/am on the small side for my age cohort, so I never actually played tackle football. If you have, you may find these ideas flawed in some way?]
I suspect that the ONLY way to prevent those kind of injuries is to slow down the game.
Here’s an idea: replace football cleats (and nubs—or whatever is worn on artificial turf) with special sports “stilettos”.
(Of course that would open up the game to other kinds of injuries…as well as add a whole new set of penalties…but it would reduce if not mostly eliminate concussions and the like.)