Another day, another active shooter - Virginia Beach

Jan 25, 2011
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Just braking now. Reportedly at a government building. Possibly water treatment facility. Shooter in custody. Multiple injuries reported.
 
Jan 25, 2011
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Single digits? Boring.

Guess we'll just have to wait to see if it's terrorism (person of color) or mental health (white person).
Yup. They are saying multiple dead now but no number.

Maybe we will be surprised and it will turn into left winger/right winger ideology being blamed.
 

sportage

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Feb 1, 2008
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Put yourself in their place.
Its a friday.
Your borde.
You have more guns in your closet than the US Army.
So, what would you do?
And that is why we go through this every other week.
 

woolfe9998

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Apr 8, 2013
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They're also saying it was an employee, a workplace shooting. Shooter not in custody. Killed by police.
 

Thebobo

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Jun 19, 2006
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Seems this person was wondering around for a while in the building? We know what guns were used?
 

allisolm

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Jan 2, 2001
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CNN says 11 dead, 6 wounded.

Wow. That went from 6 wounded to 11 dead in just a few minutes.

Sad when they say things like "The incident is the deadliest mass shooting in the US since November." Since November. Sigh.
 

brycejones

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Oct 18, 2005
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Remember there is absolutely nothing to be done about gun violence. The only option is to require everyone to undergo SWAT training and carry an M4 at all times.
 

Pipeline 1010

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Remember there is absolutely nothing to be done about gun violence.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say this as anything other than a condescendingly sarcastic straw man created by someone who believes that gun bans are the only solution to gun violence.

I personally think we can achieve a huge reduction in gun violence by ending the war on drugs and thereby eliminating the violent gangs and cartels that can only exist with the black market created by the war. Although estimates vary widely, anywhere between 1/3 - 2/3 of gun murders are directly related to the war on drugs. I see ending the war on drugs as a great first step in reducing gun violence, and we can do it without taking a single gun away from a single person.
 

Jaskalas

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I don't think drug violence accounts for hardly any of these mass shootings. Might help poor neighborhoods and such, to an extent, but the issue is far larger than your proposed solution. Average Joe has guns. Average Joe is freaking crazy.