Today's Mass Shooting

[Steve]

Today's mass shooting comes from Jacksonville, Florida, where somebody just shot up a video game tournament that was being live-streamed. Early reports indicate four people killed, eleven others wounded.

Business as usual in the glorious USA.

 

[Stacko]

Today's mass shooting comes from Jacksonville, Florida, where somebody just shot up a video game tournament that was being live-streamed. Early reports indicate four people killed, eleven others wounded.

New: The Jacksonville gunman was a gamer in the Madden tournament who lost, and he killed himself after opening fire, another competitor tells me.​

 

[chrispy]

That was one of the more distressing audio recordings I have ever heard

 

[casebro]

Business as usual in the glorious USA.

I haven't been keeping a running tally, but the previous incident discussed here was a month ago. Looks like "today's" is an exaggeration.

Besides, they were only Gamers. OOps, I meant to say "GLM".

 

[Checkmite]

That was one of the more distressing audio recordings I have ever heard

Ugh - I only had to hear the screaming described. I'm glad I chose not to listen.

 

[chrispy]

Ugh - I only had to hear the screaming described. I'm glad I chose not to listen.

Frankly, I wish I had abstained as well. That's gonna sit with me for a while...

 

[jimbob]

I haven't been keeping a running tally, but the previous incident discussed here was a month ago. Looks like "today's" is an exaggeration.

Besides, they were only Gamers. OOps, I meant to say "GLM".

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/mass-shooting

|Incident Date|State|City Or County|Address|# Killed|# Injured|
|August 26, 2018|Florida|Jacksonville|2 Independent Dr|4|11|
|August 25, 2018|Virginia|Richmond|4 N 18th St|0|5|
|August 25, 2018|Tennessee|Nashville|1564 9th Ave N|1|4|
|August 23, 2018|Pennsylvania|Philadelphia|5800 block of Oakland St|0|4|
|August 22, 2018|Missouri|Saint Louis|I-64 and Jefferson Ave|0|4|
|August 21, 2018|Tennessee|Memphis|2119 E Alcy Rd|0|4|
|August 20, 2018|Tennessee|Jackson|60 Heritage Square|1|4|
|August 20, 2018|Ohio|Cleveland|E 94th St and Kinsman Rd|1|3|
|August 19, 2018|Illinois|Chicago|7400 block of S Dante Ave|0|5|
|August 18, 2018|New York|Bronx|925 Allerton Ave|0|4|
|August 17, 2018|Illinois|Chicago|1600 block of W 65th St|0|7|
|August 15, 2018|South Carolina|Greenwood|N/A|0|5|
|August 14, 2018|Pennsylvania|Wyncote|1000 S Easton Rd|0|5|
|August 12, 2018|California|Clearlake|4786 Yarrington Court|4|1|
|August 12, 2018|Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh (East Liberty)|5600 block of Broad St|0|4|
|August 11, 2018|Ohio|Columbus|1280 Summit St|0|4|
|August 11, 2018|California|San Francisco|Geneva St and Mission St|1|4|
|August 11, 2018|Colorado|Thornton|4050 E 100th Ave|1|3|
|August 10, 2018|Missouri|Saint Louis|1515 N 13th St|0|4|
|August 10, 2018|Michigan|Detroit|6300 block of Vinewood St|0|4|
|August 8, 2018|New Jersey|Paterson|Mercer St and Franklin St|0|4|
|August 8, 2018|Pennsylvania|Philadelphia|North 12th Street and West Huntingdon Street|2|4|
|August 5, 2018|Missouri|Kansas City|E 18th St and Highland Ave|0|6|
|August 5, 2018|Illinois|Chicago|1 block of N Leclaire Ave|1|4|
|August 5, 2018|Illinois|Chicago|900 block of S Karlov Ave|0|4|

 

[Diablo]

I don't know why anyone is surprised by a mass shooting. There will be around 12,000 gun homicides in the US this year, and a total of around 30,000 gun deaths, mostly suicides. That's what happens every year.

That's what the US has signed up to, and it's unlikely to change anytime soon.

 

[cullennz]

The red dot turning up on the kids chest is rather off putting

 

[jimbob]

I don't know why anyone is surprised by a mass shooting. There will be around 12,000 gun homicides in the US this year, and a total of around 30,000 gun deaths, mostly suicides. That's what happens every year.

That's what the US has signed up to, and it's unlikely to change anytime soon.

I'm not - saddened, yes.

But Casebro seems to think it was last month that there was last a mass shooting.

My table didn't even list all the mass shootings on the 5th of August

 

[cullennz]

I'm not - saddened, yes.

But Casebro seems to think it was last month that there was last a mass shooting.

My table didn't even list all the mass shootings on the 5th of August

I think it has got top the stage where it doesn't count to some people as a mass shooting unless it's mass deaths

Which is telling if true

 

[jimbob]

I think it has got top the stage where it doesn't count to some people as a mass shooting unless it's mass deaths

Which is telling if true

Yes, it's been a fortnight since the last shooting with more than three deaths.

 

[Ian Osborne]

America, will you ever learn?

 

[Lothian]

Seriously folks, kids we don't know dying is the price we are delighted to pay to allow the forum gun owners to enjoy their fun trips to the range to shoot human cut outs

 

[Ranb]

Seriously folks, .... to shoot human cut outs

Speak for yourself. Here are my usual targets.

AR 5/10 http://www.americantargetcompany.com/air_rifle_pistol_targets.asp
S-2 http://www.americantargetcompany.com/miscellaneous_targets.asp

 

[Dr.Sid]

Seriously folks, kids we don't know dying is the price we are delighted to pay to allow the forum gun owners to enjoy their fun trips to the range to shoot human cut outs

I don't get it. If you get gun to defend yourself, that might include shooting people. Using human cutout seems logical ?

 

[Travis]

Any truth that Fox News was speculating on air that this might be MS13?

 

[Cain]

These mass slayings are met with only uniform condemnation. The left dares not ask, "What if the shooter had a good reason?"

 

[Norman Alexander]

These mass slayings are met with only uniform condemnation. The left dares not ask, "What if the shooter had a good reason?"

How often is the answer "Yes"?

 

[C_Felix]