Terrorist attack on Swedish football supporters. Two dead confirmed so far, manhunt under way.
Football match was halted half way.
*sighs, turns over "DAYS SINCE LAST MASS SHOOTING IN AMERICA" sign to 0*
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Football match was halted half way.
He was shot this morning in a bar two blocks from his house because a random local called it in.
At the risk of sounding horrible and all that, man, these Isis idiots really are bad at their job and only getting worse.
Back in 2016 (terrorist attack on subway and airport) they were badly organized and their timing was off but at least it amounted to something.
This? One guy shooting three people (third is injured but will be ok)? It's a regular Friday in the US. If I had a mind to kill some Swedes and had an automatic rifle, I would have easily been able to take out 20. With no preparation to speak of.
How did they evolve from "blow up two towers and four airplanes in a coordinated attack across a country" over "kill dozens in multiple bombings on the same day" to "shooting two guys in the street"?
To be clear, it's terrible this happened, but compared to Gaza or Ukraine or even American schools, this is less than a blip.
At the risk of sounding horrible and all that, man, these Isis idiots really are bad at their job and only getting worse.
Back in 2016 (terrorist attack on subway and airport) they were badly organized and their timing was off but at least it amounted to something.
This? One guy shooting three people (third is injured but will be ok)? It's a regular Friday in the US. If I had a mind to kill some Swedes and had an automatic rifle, I would have easily been able to take out 20. With no preparation to speak of.
How did they evolve from "blow up two towers and four airplanes in a coordinated attack across a country" over "kill dozens in multiple bombings on the same day" to "shooting two guys in the street"?
To be clear, it's terrible this happened, but compared to Gaza or Ukraine or even American schools, this is less than a blip.
October 25, 2023 - Lewiston, Maine mass shootings
A manhunt is underway after a shooting rampage occurred in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night, according to multiple law enforcement sources. Follow here for live news updates.
This scared the shit out of me. One of my best friends lives there. He and his family are all right, thank goodness.October 25, 2023 - Lewiston, Maine mass shootings
A manhunt is underway after a shooting rampage occurred in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night, according to multiple law enforcement sources. Follow here for live news updates.www.cnn.com
I didn't see anything about them happening at the same time. It could be the guy sprayed the restaurant, jumped back in his car, then finished at the bowling alley (or vise versa) before police were able to respond. They are only looking for one man right now.
Dave
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The first report I saw (hours ago) was that there were two shootings at the same time. Turns out it's an Army reservist firearms instructor with mental issues who was on the radar for threatening his base previously.
I want to see what exactly they did with this guy after the initial threats he made. Because it doesn’t sound like it was enough.
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Wanted to ask that the whole time.
A monster and a coward. But at least he can’t harm anyone else.
I thought I was pretty inured to this stuff. I thought my experiences with the aftermaths of horrific accidents and crimes had thickened my skin so to speak. This article broke me.
Big ass warning, there's literal pictures of what's left of a lot of children in this. It's incredibly awful.
Send this to second amendment nuts.
Big ass warning, there's literal pictures of what's left of a lot of children in this. It's incredibly awful.
Send this to second amendment nuts.
(Sadly) FTFY. They might try to reason with the biker.
Technically speaking they don't care about the guns, either. I mean, the gun manufacturers do, and the NRA does, and politicians love to take money from them, but the political machine doesn't care about the guns. What they care about is a neat little issue that is divisive, that makes people plant their ideology (and sometimes personality) into this one thing so that they can be easily controlled.
This is a lousy, stupid idea.
An AR-15 is too long and unwieldy for bedroom defense, it's more of a "keep people from making it (in)to your house in the first place" kind of weapon.
--Patrick
Merry Christmas…
God, even worse that his sister was holding her 10-month-old child at the time.
So now you're sister is gone, her child is motherless, teens had access to guns on Christmas, and all this over who had the most presents?!? I can't fathom how people could have gone so wrong in life to get to this point.
EDIT: sorry, I missed that the sister had two children. So, against all odds, it gets worse.
So now you're sister is gone, her child is motherless, teens had access to guns on Christmas, and all this over who had the most presents?!? I can't fathom how people could have gone so wrong in life to get to this point.
EDIT: sorry, I missed that the sister had two children. So, against all odds, it gets worse.
No it can get worse. They are probably going to try and claim the Stand Your Ground law for the 14 year old.
Jennifer Crumbley, mother of Ethan Crumbley, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in son’s school shooting
The Michigan mother was convicted on four counts of manslaughter in connection with her son's deadly rampage at Oxford High School in 2021.
The other day someone with a toddler in tow shot up the Joel Osteen mega church in Houston. The person doing the shooting died, the kid in tow got hit and is in the hospital
We probably should have put it in here, but Pez brought it up a few days ago in this thread.
I read an update on this story yesterday, but failed to post about it.
figmentPez
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Uvalde Parent Arrested For Saying 'Fuck' At County Meeting
"Cross was arrested Monday morning after he yelled at Pargas, a Uvalde commissioner who was the acting Uvalde Police chief when the shooting at Robb Elementary occurred."
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“That’s what they’re worried about,” Cross said on TikTok. “They’re more worried about me saying the word ‘fuck’ than they are that my son and others were murdered.”
"Cross was arrested Monday morning after he yelled at Pargas, a Uvalde commissioner who was the acting Uvalde Police chief when the shooting at Robb Elementary occurred."
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“That’s what they’re worried about,” Cross said on TikTok. “They’re more worried about me saying the word ‘fuck’ than they are that my son and others were murdered.”
figmentPez
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There may be some bias I'm not aware of, but it seems to me that more shootings are happening in smaller towns lately: 3 dead, 10 wounded, in Arkansas grocery store shooting, authorities say. This one was in Fordyce, Arkansas, which has a population of ~3,400.
"At least 234 mass shootings have taken place in the United States in 2024, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter. The country has seen a spate of shootings in the past few weeks as the summer heat has escalated, with 21 mass shootings recorded by the Gun Violence Archive since last Friday."
234 mass shootings in 172 days so far this year.
"At least 234 mass shootings have taken place in the United States in 2024, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are shot, excluding the shooter. The country has seen a spate of shootings in the past few weeks as the summer heat has escalated, with 21 mass shootings recorded by the Gun Violence Archive since last Friday."
234 mass shootings in 172 days so far this year.