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This article I found on Google talking about the details of what happened in the thousand oaks shooting. A white male went into the bar in thousand oaks California with the intentions of completing a mass shooting. This night was "college night" the local bar. This event was supposed to be a night where students that are not of age. The shooter knew that this would mean a night like this would result in more people being at the bar , which meant more victims and would create more attention to this event. Once the gunman entered the bar he did not hesitate to begin shooting. The victims said everything happened so fast but their first instinct was to get out. The people inside the bar tried to get out as fast as they can they left through the back door, hid in the attic, broke windows etc. they did anything they could to get out of there alive.

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How a night out turned into a night of horror at a bar in California

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The Borderline Bar & Grill was packed with patrons line dancing or playing pool. It was country college night, and people swayed to the beat as music blared through the speakers. Then a gunman burst in and killed 12 people.

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#307 U.S Mass Shooting In Only 311 Days.

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#307 U.S Mass Shooting In Only 311 Days.

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This article on USA today is going in to detail about the fact that this mass shooting was #307 in 311 days in the U.S. This article also talks about each mass shooting and how this means there has almost been 1 mass shooting a day in 2017.

This information made me feel sick to my stomach. I do not understand how nothing has been done to prevent violence like this. People for years have said its not the guns that are the problem, its the people who have them. People like this are one of the many reasons why it is hard to enforce laws regarding guns. I do agree that taking guns away completely is not going to solve anything but I also think it should be harder to access guns. I think that the process of having possession of a fire arm should be a lot more of an extensive process. I know that this would not necessarily end the problem but it would definitely lower the chances of this happening. I look at the numbers of the people dead in Canada due to gun violence compared to the U.S and it is outrageous how big of a difference there is between them, Something needs to change.

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When the thunder of gunfire broke through the revelry of a country music dance hall packed with young people kicking back on "college night," Thousand Oaks, California, added its name to a dark roster: The site of the 307th mass shooting in the U.S. this year.

And an even grimmer statistic was marked: The 307th mass shooting took place on the 311th day of the year - an average of a deadly incident almost every day so far this year.

The Wednesday night massacre at the Borderline Bar and Grill, which left 13 people dead, including the gunman, became the nation's latest mass shooting, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit organization that provides online public access to information about gun-related violence.

In all, 328 people died in those incidents, and 1,251 were injured, according to the data. The numbers include incidents in which four or more people were shot or killed, not including the shooters, according to the archive.

The rampage also came during three weeks of hate and terror that have jolted the country: a bloodbath at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 elderly people dead and a series of 16 pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats, CNN and critics of President Donald Trump.

The incident was also the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in 2018 since 17 classmates and teachers were gunned down at a Parkland, Florida, school on Valentine's Day.

That shooting galvanized a student-led anti-gun movement that turned young people into activists. Just 24 hours before the spree in Thousand Oaks, Parkland survivors had celebrated the toppling of some NRA-backed candidates in Tuesday's midterm elections.

Thursday morning, one of those students, Cameron Kasky, 17, lamented the pain of witnessing more bloodshed:

"The Mayor of Thousand Oaks is completely right," Kasky tweeted. "No community is truly safe from these mass shootings. We've seen this far too many times. How many anomalies are there going to be? How many times are we going to here (hear) "nobody would've thought it would happen here?"

2018 has seen several high-profile mass shootings:

Five people were gunned down in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28.

Ten were fatally shot at Santa Fe High School on May 18.

Four people killed at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 22.

California's previous worst 2018 mass shooting came on Sept. 12, when a Bakersfield man fatally shot five, including his wife, before killing himself.

More: 'Horrific scene': Sheriff's sergeant, 11 others dead in Thousand Oaks, California, bar shooting

Also: Some Thousand Oaks victims survived mass shooting in Las Vegas, reports say

Related: 'He died a hero': Ventura County Sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus among those killed in bar shooting

Here is a look at other shooting sprees in the U.S.:

* Oct. 1, 2017: Stephen Paddock, 64, fired more than 1,000 rounds from a 32nd-floor suite at a nearby hotel on concertgoers at the Route 81 Harvest Music Festival, killing 58 people and leaving hundreds injured. Paddock was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His motive remains unknown.

* June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, kills 49 people and wounds 58 others at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that was hosting a Latin night. Mateen was killed by police. It was the deadliest terror attack in the U.S. since 9/11 and at the time was the worst mass shooting in the nation by a single gunman.

* April 16, 2007: Seung Hui Cho, a 23-year-old student, went on a shooting spree at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, killing 32 people, before killing himself.

* Dec. 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, 20, gunned down 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before killing himself.

* Oct. 16, 1991: George Hennard, 35, crashed his pickup through the wall of Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. He shot and killed 23 people before committing suicide.

* July 18, 1984: James Huberty, 41, gunned down 21 adults and children at a McDonald's in San Ysidro, California, before being killed by police.

* Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, a former U.S. Marine, shot and killed 16 people from a university tower at the University of Texas in Austin before being shot by police.

* Aug. 20, 1986: A part-time mail carrier, Patrick Henry Sherrill, shot and killed 14 postal workers in Edmund, Oklahoma, before killing himself.

* Dec. 2, 2015: Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in Redlands, California, opened fire at a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and holiday party, killing 14 people and injuring 22 in a matter of minutes. Farook, an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, worked at the health department. Malik had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post before the shooting.

* Nov. 5, 2009: U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan fatally shot 13 people and injured 30 others at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas. Hasan, a psychiatrist, appeared to have been radicalized by an Islamic cleric. He was convicted and sentenced to death.

* Sept. 16, 2013: Gunman Aaron Alexis, 34, fatally shot 12 people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. He was later killed by police.

* July 20, 2012: James Holmes gunned down 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater. Last year he was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder and sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences plus 3,318 years without parole.

* Oct. 1, 2015: Christopher Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old student at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Oregon, shot an assistant professor and eight students in a classroom. After a shootout with police, he committed suicide.

* June 18, 2015: A gunman opened fire at a weekly Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, including pastor Clementa Pinckney; a 10th victim survived. The morning after the attack, police arrested a suspect, Dylann Roof, 21, who said he wanted to start a race war. In December 2016, Roof was convicted of 33 federal hate crimes charges, and in January he was sentenced to death.

* July 16, 2015: Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire on two military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The first was a drive-by shooting at a recruiting center; the second was at a U.S. Navy Reserve center. Four Marines and a Navy sailor died; a Marine recruit officer and a police offer were wounded. Abdulazeez was killed by police in a gunfight.

* Nov. 27, 2015: A gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing a police officer and two civilians and injuring nine others. Robert Lewis Dear was taken into custody after a five-hour standoff and charged with first-degree murder.

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This article I found on google is about all of the 12 victims that were killed from this tragic event. The victims range from age 18-48 but a majority of the victims were in their early twenties. These people were in school just starting off their lives and sadly that has been taken away from them. This article goes into detail about each victim and their lives.

In my opinion this article was very well written. This article not only listed the victims but to also wrote about who they were as people which was very nice. It helps strangers reading this to feel sympathetic towards the victims. It is one thing to hear people have died and it is another for people to really understand how devastating that is.

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What we know about the people killed in the Thousand Oaks shooting

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At least 12 people were killed in a shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California. Here's what we know about the victims.

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This Article is talking about Telemachus Orfanos who was 27, died alongside 11 others when this mass shooting occurred. Something that makes him stand out was the fact that Telemachus escaped death last year when a gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas.

Not only has there been hundreds of mass shooting in the U.S but this man was unfortunately present for two of them. I can't imagine what his family is feeling. Imagine getting the call after the Vegas shooting that your son was a victim of that tragic event and he survived, what a relief that must have been. Not even a year later imagine getting a call that your son was present for yet ANOTHER mass shooting but this time he didn't make it. Such an unfair end to a young mans life, I feel heavily for his family and friends.

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A man who survived a mass shooting in Las Vegas last year was among those killed in Wednesday's attack in California, his family says.

Telemachus Orfanos, 27, died alongside 11 others when a man opened fire at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, north-west of Los Angeles.

He escaped death last year when a gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas.

A number of survivors of that shooting, the worst in modern US history, have said they were at the bar on Wednesday.

"My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home. He didn't come home last night," his mother told ABC News.

"I don't want prayers, I don't want thoughts, I want gun control", she said.

"It's particularly ironic that after surviving the worst mass shooting in modern history, he went on to be killed in his hometown," his father told the Ventura County Star.

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Police have named the suspect in Wednesday's attack as 28-year-old Ian David Long, a US Marine Corps veteran with suspected PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).

He served in Afghanistan from November 2010 to June 2011, officials say, and was found dead at the scene.

Who are the victims?

Telemachus Orfanos was a graduate of Thousand Oaks High School and later joined the Navy, according to his Facebook page.

The Borderline Bar is popular with students and was hosting a line-dancing night when the attack happened.

It is close to a number of universities, one of which confirmed that a recent graduate had been killed.

Justin Meek, 23, was a keen musician. California Lutheran University president Chris Kimball said that he had "heroically saved lives".

Other young people caught up in the attack include Cody Coffman, 22, and 18-year-old Alaina Housley.

Ventura Sheriff's Sergeant Ron Helus, who was due to retire next year, died in hospital after being shot several times.

Read more: Who are the victims?

How did the shooting happen?

Police say the suspect was dressed in black, and forced his way into the bar after shooting the bouncer.

He threw a smoke grenade before opening fire, witnesses say. Police say he used a legally owned .45 calibre Glock semi-automatic handgun.

But the weapon had an extended magazine, meaning it can carry more ammunition, which is illegal in California.

"It was a huge panic. Everyone got up. I was trampled," one witness told Fox News.

People escaped the bar by using chairs to break windows, while others reportedly sheltered inside the venue's toilets.

At least 10 people are known to have been wounded.

What else do we know?

Survivors of the Las Vegas shooting say they have used the bar as a place to meet up in recent months.

One survivor, Nicholas Champion, said a group of them were at the venue on Wednesday.

"It's the second time in about a year and a month that this has happened," he said in a local television interview. "It's a big thing for us. We're all a big family and unfortunately this family got hit twice."

"Borderline was our safe space," Brendan Kelly, who survived both attacks, told ABC News. "It was our our home for the probably 30 or 45 of us who are all from the greater Ventura County area who were in Vegas."

Meanwhile a quickly-moving wildfire has broken out only a few miles away from the crime scene.

At least 75 homes have been destroyed in Thousand Oaks by the so-called Woolsey Fire, and has led officials to order evacuation for 75,000 homes in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

According to the website Gun Violence Archive, more than 12,000 people have been killed by firearms in the US so far this year, including about 3,000 people under the age of 18.

That number does not include an annual estimate of 22,000 suicides via firearms.

In the last two weeks alone, two people were shot dead by a man at a yoga studio in Florida, and another gunman opened fire on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11.

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A man who survived a mass shooting in Las Vegas last year was among those killed in Wednesday's attack in California, his family says. Telemachus Orfanos, 27, died alongside 11 others when a man opened fire at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, north-west of Los Angeles.

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This Video is celebrity talk show host named James Corden talking about how he feels regarding the shooting. I got this video from YouTube, it has close to 100,000 views. Not only does James voice his opinion about the tragic event but he also asks us to take a moment of silence for the victims

I really appreciate James for using the platform he has to talk about serious issues such as this one. In the video you can tell that James is being very genuine and sympathetic towards this matter. Not only does James explain how this makes him feel heartbroken but he also mentions enough is enough and these acts of violence could be and should be prevented.

When I found out about the shooting I was extremely shocked by this act of heartless violence. Soon after I saw this video I also found out my cousin who is attending university in California was going to go to this bar that night. Luckily her friend was too sick to go out and my cousin ended up staying in with her. I am grateful she is safe but my heart goes out to the families that have lost loved ones.

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A Moment of Silence for the Thousand Oaks Shooting Victims

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This foundation was made after one of the victims of the shooting passed away. Her name is Alaina Housley, she was a college student and was the niece of Tamera Mowry-Housley who is one of the famous twins from the show Sister Sister and is now a co-host on the Emmy winning talk show " The Real". Tamera and Alaina's families took it upon themselves to create this foundation to focus on raising awareness on gun violence and how to make a change. This foundation also raises money to help families that have lost people to gun violence.

Personally I love this idea and think it is a great start. I think even though gun violence has been a serious problem for a very long time this is one way to start the ripple effect of finding a solution for this major issue. I think in our society today celebrities are more listened to then the leaders of our country. In my opinion this because people are more likely to see what celebrities are doing on social media as well as on television rather than watching the news and being more invested in the real world.

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We will raise #alainasvoice on behalf of all the Thousand Oaks victims and others who have tragically lost their lives in events like Las Vegas, Parkland, Yountville and more. #enough
— Alaina’s Voice Foundation (@AlainasVoice) November 13, 2018

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This article is talking about how not even 24 hrs after this horrific shooting a wildfire started and began to spread across parts of California. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate including some of the victims that survived the shooting. Not only did already they feel unsafe after the mass shooting but they were not even able to go back to their homes to relax and feel protected. Thousands of people have lost their homes to these horrific fires as well as some people have lost family member's, pets and irreplaceable memories such as notes, pictures, material items.

I could not imagine the pain these families have gone through. Physically and emotionally loosing so much, Imagine having to start your life all over again? Luckily now the fires are under control and people are able to go back to their homes. Some people were lucky and their homes survived the fires but others were not as lucky and had nothing to go back to. Many people have come together as a community to help donate clothes, food, water and places to stay. It makes me happy when people come together to help each other.

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In a 24-hour span, Sgt. Eric Buschow worked two tragedies and slept no more than two hours.

A public information officer for the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, Buschow responded late Wednesday to a shooting at Borderline Bar & Grill that killed 12 people. He worked the scene all day, as the FBI arrived and the victims' names became public, before finally going to bed at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Two hours later, he was awake again. The raging Woolsey Fire, which started that afternoon and rapidly grew, had crept too close to his family's home. They were forced to evacuate.

Thousand Oaks is grappling with dual tragedies that struck within hours of each other, taking on more trauma and grief than a place could or should bear. After the shooting at Borderline, a popular country-music bar, many residents said they stayed up late, waiting to hear news. They went to bed physically and emotionally exhausted Thursday, only to be waked in the middle of the night by the blare of emergency alerts from their phones and frantic knocks at the door from neighbors. They needed to get out, they were told.

"Any one of these incidents would be a significant problem at any time," Buschow said, "but to have them actually all converge at once is just unprecedented for us."

Whipped by powerful winds, fires rip through several communities in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.

This city of nearly 130,000 people is large enough to feel big, but small enough where many people are familiar faces. Red Spanish roofs top homes and shopping centers in this family-friendly city, which has dozens of parks and playgrounds.

On Friday, the normally picturesque town was surrounded by smoke.

Buschow and his family had to sleep in a car parked in a community college parking lot. The fire threatened many of the evacuation shelters nearby, and hotels across Thousand Oaks were full of reporters and area residents seeking safety.

When the sun came up, his wife and children returned to their house - which survived the fire - and he went to work.

Hundreds of personnel from more than 30 law enforcement agencies across the state have converged in the Thousand Oaks area, first to help with the shooting, then with the fires.

The FBI was there to investigate the shooting in a scene described as one from hell. The agency's effort was complicated by fears that wildfire debris and smoke might contaminate evidence from the shooting. Patrons threw stools through windows to escape, leaving behind holes in the walls that the FBI boarded up, Buschow said.

There are concerns that the fire could burn toward the bar. Buschow said law enforcement was looking into ways to mitigate the risk, and there is a contingency plan to keep the scene and the agents who are working it safe.

After working all day Thursday, the FBI agents retired to their hotel in nearby Agoura Hills, only to be evacuated as the Woolsey Fire, one of several wildfires burning in Southern California, raged toward them. The agents fled, Buschow said. They had nowhere to go, so they also slept in their cars.

"But you know what? At 5 a.m., they were back at the Borderline doing their work," he said.

One of the fires jumped Highway 101, a main thoroughfare that connects communities throughout the valley, clogging transportation arteries and delaying for hours the first responders who had been sent in to relieve people like Buschow.

"It's absolutely been chaotic. Nonstop chaos," Buschow said.

He added, "We also have a funeral to plan for a fallen sergeant." Sgt. Ron Helus, a 30-year veteran of the sheriff's office, was among those killed at the bar.

About three miles from the Borderline, officials had to repurpose the Thousand Oaks teen center. On Thursday, it was where relatives and friends of people missing at Borderline were told whether their loved ones were among the 12 who were killed. People cried and hugged and prayed. A man told the world through sobs that his beloved son was dead and that his last words to his child were, "Son, I love you." Members of the clergy streamed in the front doors, and a small therapy horse shuffled between the bar and center.

About 12 hours later, the complex reopened its doors, this time to house residents fleeing the wildfire. A gymnasium was filled with green cots. A woman on oxygen lay on one of the cots, a dog by her side. People wore green masks to protect themselves from the smoke. Others helped themselves to water and food: muffins, granola bars, fruit, croissants and blueberry scones.

At the senior center next door, a group of mostly elderly residents sat at long tables and watched television. A small fire broke out on a hill near the center Friday morning but was quickly doused by firefighters.

Patricia Reynolds, 57, sat on metal bleachers in the teen center's gym with her daughter Lyndsay Witkoski, 25, and her neighbor Mary Ann Best, 90.

"It's been a roller coaster for me emotionally," she said through tears. "My heart aches for everyone."

She had stayed up until 4 a.m. Thursday watching news of the Borderline shooting. At night, her phone buzzed: She needed to evacuate her condo complex. Her husband and son were at work and her daughter was at college in Northridge, a Los Angeles neighborhood that is about 35 miles northeast.

"I didn't know what to do," Witkoski said through sobs. She was already hurting from the shooting and felt lost. "I decided to come home regardless because I didn't know what to do."

Seventeen-year-old Karissa Herbert knew what she needed to do. She and her friends came to the center carrying packages with toothbrushes, deodorant and snacks for the evacuees.

The seniors at Rancho Campana High School in Camarillo, just west of Thousand Oaks, knew people who survived the Borderline bar shooting. The Borderline is one of the few places in the area where people under 21 can go out at night.

Herbert said she had been sending hourly text messages on Thursday to a friend who escaped the shooting. On Friday, she felt the urge to help the wildfire evacuees.

"What are the odds of that happening, a fire right after the shooting?" Herbert said. "The first responders had to deal with the loss of those innocent teenagers and then they have to deal with the fire. It's like, how much can we take?"

Across town, Beatriz Bera sat exhausted in a hotel lobby at 4 a.m. Friday. She and her family were waked by alerts on their phone two hours earlier telling them to evacuate, which were followed by their property manager banging on the door. Bera's family came to a hotel where her mother is a housekeeper.

"It is too much. First with the Borderline shooting, now the fire," Bera, 21, said.

As the assistant dean of students at California Lutheran University put it: "The whole city of Thousand Oaks is tired."

Outside the university's campus, Brandon Apelian waved a black and white flag with an orange stripe - a banner to honor those battling the blazes - when a classmate walked up to him.

"I just wanted to tell you thanks for being out here. You made my day," said Ramon Olivier, 22, a senior and music production major at the school. "My buddy Meek died."

Olivier had been forced to evacuate while still mourning the loss of his classmate Justin Meek, who died in the Borderline bar shooting. The school's president described Meek as "one of the greatest students we've ever had."

Meek and Olivier played water polo at school. Meek was killed trying to save others at the nightclub, the university said in a statement.

"It hurts me to see everyone else hurt," Olivier said. "This community is so close knit."
The Washington Post's Annie Gowen and Tony Biasotti contributed to this report.

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Mass shooting, then wildﬁre: Thousand Oaks community faces dual tragedies

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In a 24-hour span, Sgt. Eric Buschow worked two tragedies and slept no more than two hours. A public information officer for the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, Buschow responded late Wednesday to a shooting at Borderline Bar & Grill that killed 12 people.

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This article is about the man who did the mass shooting. The man who did this was 28 year old white male named David Long he was also a marine combat veteran. During the shooting he tweeting something so heart wrenching. David said " I hope people call me insane. wouldn't that be a big ball or irony? Yeah I am insane, but the only thing you people offer after these shootings are your 'hopes & Prayers'. David proceed to follow that tweet by saying "  Every time you wonder why these keep happening." This was his last tweet before killing all of those innocent people as well as taking his own life.

The first time I saw these tweets I could not believe it. Why did he do this? to prove a point? Instead of adding more hatred to this world he could've helped to make a change in this world. Something that makes my stomach sick is that he was a U.S marine someone who would've had access to guns with or without the law. In cases like this it is very hard to have hope in the system.

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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Ian David Long, the gunman who killed 12 people at a country music bar, posted on social media during the deadly rampage, according to law enforcement officials.

The first call to law enforcement came in at 11:19 p.m. Wednesday, officials said. The authorities arrived at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, three minutes later. They entered the building at 11:25 p.m.

Long, 28, first posted on Instagram at 11:24 p.m: "It's too bad I won't get to see all the illogical and pathetic reasons people will put in my mouth as to why I did it," the military veteran said in the post. "Fact is I had no reason to do it, and I just thought....(exploitive), life is boring so why not?" Long posted, according to ABC News and Buzzfeed.

Three minutes later Long posted, "I hope people call me insane (two smiley face emojiis) would that just be a big ball of irony? Yeah... I'm insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is 'hopes and prayers'...or 'keep you in my thoughts'."

He added, "Every time...and wonder why these keep happening... --(two smiley face emojis)."

Long ended the killing spree by taking his own life.

The Ventura County Sheriff's office requested that the social media service preserve the communications until the posts can be subpoenaed with a search warrant or court order.

The posts have already been taken down. Authorities have not yet determined a motive for the attack.

A stretch of Rolling Oaks Drive, the street leading to Borderline Bar and Grill, remained closed Saturday.

Investigators wearing white hazmat-style suits and respirators over their faces continue to process the scene that Long left behind. They'll keep going until at least Tuesday, a Ventura County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.

More: Tracking apps offer hope, dread for families in Thousand Oaks shooting

More: What we know about Thousand Oaks gunman Ian David Long, a Marine veteran

More: Thousand Oaks nightclub shooting: 12 dead, including a police sergeant
Contributing: Joshua Bowling, USA TODAY Network Follow Dalvin Brown on Twitter: @Dalvin_Brown
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This picture is something I found on Twitter when I searched the hashtag thousands oaks shooting. This picture represents statistics on how many people were killed from guns in the last year throughout the different countries in the world. It is very clear what the result shows. The number of people in U.S killed by gun violence is significantly higher than any other country. This is picture is definitely a conversation starter.

To me this picture speaks volumes. I think everyone was aware that the gun violence was higher in the U.S but this picture really puts in perspective how large the difference is. It is amazing that a picture that takes less than 2 seconds to look at makes you think long and hard about what can be done to help prevent this.

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This Facebook page is called March for our lives. March For Our Lives is a movement dedicated to student-led activism around ending gun violence and the epidemic of mass shootings in our schools today. In March of 2018 students and young children organized to march in DC in order to raise awareness on gun violence. Many different celebrities showed their support for this march from stars such as Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato etc.

In my opinion this is such an amazing movement. The only thing that is sad about this is the fact that the younger generation is making a bigger impact then the president of the united states. These young kids have less than a 1/4 of the power that Donald trump has, imagine if he used his power for good? Mass shootings are not new instances, they have been happening for many years and nothing has been done to make a change. Something has to be done, with the future generation I do believe in change.