Today's Mass Shooting

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mgidm86 said:
This just made me think that there must be enough people with guns in this country to take over many nations of the world if people just decided to hop on planes and go for it.
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No, a mob with guns aren't an army.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Playing devil's advocate,would a shooting with only two injured make the news whoever the victims or intended victims were? Unless someone famous was involved of course.
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We get national news on bombings that injure no one. The fact it is a terrorist attack would seem to often be enough.
 
2 shot at Central Michigan University, suspect at large: Police

ABC News said:
Two people were shot at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant this morning, according to Michigan State Police.

The suspect, considered armed and dangerous, is at large, Mount Pleasant officials said...
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Other articles say the shooter is a black male. Very early reporting so consider everything as unconfirmed.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/shots-repo...n-university-campus-suspect/story?id=53463323
 
Some now reporting as two shot dead. Not confirmed.

Seems unlikely to be a mass or spree shooter as there are no reports of ongoing shooting.
 
Two dead, nobody else shot or injured. Appears that 19 year old James Eric Davis Jr. killed his parents on the 4th floor of a dorm. It's a domestic thing. Last night the police placed him in a hospital for a drug overdose and he was released this morning. He is on the run right now. He ran down some railroad tracks and clothing was dropped along the way. He either changed clothes or he is nearly naked now. Armed and dangerous.
 
It wasn't a mass shooting, but here's an update...

The Detroit News said:
...CMU police had contact with Davis (the shooter) on Thursday night (last night), Klaus said, explaining officers responded to complaints of a “difficult student” in the residence hall. Davis was later taken to a University of Michigan Health Systems facility for a drug-related issue, Klaus said, correcting his earlier assertion that suspect had been at McLaren Hospital.

“Whether there was a mental health component that was in conjunction with that, we don’t know,” said Klaus, telling reporters there are “pieces of the puzzle” police are still trying to put together as they investigate the suspected shooter and his motive.

He said authorities are looking at surveillance video feeds. While the university does not have metal detectors, the campus is considered a gun-free zone...
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...02/cmu-police-search-shooter-campus/388378002
 
See in Europe even 2 people shot dead would be a pretty big deal. Not sure if we would call it a mass shooting but it would be shocking. In the USA it is just Friday.
 
Parsman said:
See in Europe even 2 people shot dead would be a pretty big deal. Not sure if we would call it a mass shooting but it would be shocking. In the USA it is just Friday.
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It's okay they were his parents, it was just a "domestic thing". Nothing to see here.
 
Apparently he got the gun from his dad's car and went into his dorm and shot them both. It's on security video.

Dad is a cop and his gun is in his car. Both parents are sitting in the dorm and ready for all three to go home for spring break. So then go get that gun and come into the room and kill them.
 
A domestic thing, where a police officer (a "good guy") and his wife were shot with his own gun. Apparently, the gun was in the dad's car, where the son likely knew of it and retrieved it to do the deed.

Just another example of where having a gun makes one more likely to die by gunfire. Suppose there had been other siblings or relatives involved; could have then been a mass shooting.
 
Breaking:
1 student dead, 1 in critical condition after shooting at Huffman High School in Birmingham Alabama

"at this time they believe the shooting was accidental."
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Breaking:
1 student dead, 1 in critical condition after shooting at Huffman High School in Birmingham Alabama

"at this time they believe the shooting was accidental."
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There are unconfirmed reports about what happened. Boy (17 yo) brought a gun to school and was showing it to girls. It went off and a 17 yo girl was killed. He goes to put the gun back in his pants and it goes off again shooting himself. Unconfirmed.
 
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