The Active Shooter Thread

[Fully Fledged]

Is it wrong to feel , another day another shooting in the US.
I hope it is not a bad one but feel it may be.

I haven't become desensitised yet and hope I never am.

 

[Silva]

Female shooter - dead

 

[GiddyUp]

That time again.

 

[Fully Fledged]

Female shooter - dead

They suspect a couple a Male and a Female.

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

Stanford Hospital reporting 45 victims brought in.

I read 4 to 5. 45 is near impossible in indoors shooting.

 

[Red Defence]

Maybe you’re right then.

Oh...the police think the shooter is dead. Self inflicted gunshot wound.

 

[Santos J]

45 people taken to hospital

"4 or 5" I think it was

 

[Mike Schatner]

I read 4 to 5. 45 is near impossible in indoors shooting.

Official police statement on TV now. Four victims injured and shooter dead.

 

[Fully Fledged]

I read 4 to 5. 45 is near impossible in indoors shooting.

4 victims and one who seems to have shot themselves.

Edit: two of the victims were in an adjacent building.

 

[alsabi]

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[Santos J]

Yeah police just said 4 people taken to hospital but no deceased aside from the attacker.

Shooter shot herself inside the building and was the only shooter.

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

Guessing disgruntled employee.

 

[VeevaVee]

Horrible to think you could just be having another day at work and this can happen.

At least if it's media they can influence what happens from now, for good for once.

 

[Fully Fledged]

Guessing disgruntled employee.

CBS are saying that or domestic violence is the most likely.

 

[esmufc07]

Horrible to think you could just be having another day at work and this can happen.

Don't worry you live in a country with normal gun laws and restrictions.

 

[VeevaVee]

Don't worry you live in a country with normal gun laws and restrictions.

Anar. Although I know people who work for Facebook and Google in the US and could easily see there being a target. Still a scary thought.

 

[matherto]

I'm sorry but as long as they refuse to do anything, anything at all to stop this and continue to love their precious guns, I can't give one iota of feck towards Americans when this happens.

I no longer want to visit the place and that's a shame because there are I'm sure millions of wonderful citizens and amazing places to see and eat and drink and enjoy but I just don't any longer. Between the gun issue and idiots electing Trump and every terrible thing he does, says and is I wish we'd build a wall for them but all around the country and keep them in like Escape from New York/Los Angeles.

Much like when people say 'oh I don't want to visit Paris because terrorism' and you think you can't let a select few stop you from living your lives but there are millions upon millions of Americans that love their guns far too much and also voted for Trump and believe in what he is doing. Too many to ignore them.

So desensitized to yet another shooting that I can't care anymore.

 

[Eboue]

hey feck off guy

 

[matherto]

hey feck off guy

I'm not your guy buddy!

I know there are many good Americans, including all the ones on here.

 

[Eboue]

feck off

 

[::sonny::]

Jesus Christ. Why are there so many lunatics?

When everyone can own a gun, everything can happen

 

[Fully Fledged]

Jesus Christ. Why are there so many lunatics?

Every country has Lunatics most just don't make it so easy for them to possess guns.

 

[Raoul]

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Why shoot 2 others? I know that some people who suffer from domestic violence reach their wits end but harming people outside the relationship destroys all sympathy IMHO.

 

[Silva]

Why shoot 2 others? I know that some people who suffer from domestic violence reach their wits end but harming people outside the relationship destroys all sympathy IMHO.

might have been stray bullets

 

[Fully Fledged]

might have been stray bullets

Yeah but hurting innocents reduces the sympathy for me.

Edit: It's a bit like the guy who has flipped and decides to commit suicide. Massive sympathy for that. He tries to take his wife or kids with him that sympathy disappears.

 

[Raoul]

The alleged shooter

Talk on Twitter she was upset that her YouTube account had been demonetized.

https://www.instagram.com/nasimesabz13/

 

[VeevaVee]

Well, she made quite strange videos

 

[P-Nut]

Well, she made quite strange videos

Wtf is that

 

[VeevaVee]

Definitely a character

http://www.nasimesabz.com/

 

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[JPRouve]

Why shoot 2 others? I know that some people who suffer from domestic violence reach their wits end but harming people outside the relationship destroys all sympathy IMHO.

I could be wrong but the domestic violence is because she targeted her boyfriend not because she might be a victim of domestic violence.

 

[Abizzz]

I could be wrong but the domestic violence is because she targeted her boyfriend not because she might be a victim of domestic violence.

Yeah that's how I understand it too.

 

[Jaqen H'ghar]

Jesus Christ. Why are there so many lunatics?

Lunatics are generally alright. It's lunatics with firearms that are the common denominator of this thread.

 

[Green_Red]

Jesus Christ. Why are there so many lunatics?

The question is really how are they able to buy guns? Mental. In a country where you cant drink til your 21 but can buy a machine gun even if youre schizophrenic. America needs to take a good look at itself.

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

Lunatics are generally alright. It's lunatics with firearms that are the common denominator of this thread.

Aye, Lunatics are everywhere.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

So the shooter was a lady of Turkish decent, who was pissed off at youtube because she was no longer getting paid for her militant vegan videos hosted on their website.

As motives for mass shootings go, that sure is an original one!

 

[VP89]

So what, she shot herself after?

 

[Vato]

When everyone can own a gun, everything can happen

Every country has Lunatics most just don't make it so easy for them to possess guns.

Lunatics are generally alright. It's lunatics with firearms that are the common denominator of this thread.

The question is really how are they able to buy guns? Mental. In a country where you cant drink til your 21 but can buy a machine gun even if youre schizophrenic. America needs to take a good look at itself.

While i agree that that is indeed the biggest factor, we can't be blind or ignore other factors like mental state of these people when more than 90% of them are on some kind of prescribed psychological state altering meds.

If guns were the only factor, we'd see a whole lot more random knife attacks or lunatics plowing innocent people down with their cars over here.

America does not only have a gun problem but it also very clearly has a mental state/medicine problem. They are taking way too many pills over there, the pharmaceutical industry are one of the main culprits in this aswell imo, not only the NRA. And that gets overlooked a bit.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

While i agree that that is indeed the biggest factor, we can't be blind or ignore other factors like mental state of these people when more than 90% of them are on some kind of prescribed psychological state altering meds.

If guns were the only factor, we'd see a whole lot more random knife attacks or lunatics plowing innocent people down with their cars over here.

America does not only have a gun problem but it also very clearly has a mental state/medicine problem. They are taking way too many pills over there, the pharmaceutical industry are one of the main culprits in this aswell imo, not only the NRA. And that gets overlooked a bit.

No. That logic doesn't hold true at all. The fact that guns can kill at range allows people to kill in a far more impersonal way. There's less of a mental barrier to going on a killing spree than there would be if you had to go out and stab a bunch of people. Plus you have a method for instantaneous painless suicide at the end of it all. Not an option when you've just run over someone in your car.

Re mental illness, there's zero evidence that America has uniquely high rates of mental illness. They do tend to over-medicate but to infer from that these drugs randomly turn people into homicidal maniacs is a massive leap of faith.