Today's mass shooting in the US

Rroff · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:02

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41880511

Strangely enough I'd just got done watching a live stream from someone's vlog that had been to church not far from there earlier in the day with his kids which was a little worrying :s

Yas786 · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:06

And yet they won’t or will not do anything to address gun ownership in America :/.

Too busy catching dem muslim terrorists I guess lol.

Flibster · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:11

Damn... seeing 27 dead and 24 injured and shooter dead on various places. :eek:

FBI on the scene too.

Minstadave · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:11

More guns needed!

It’s sad to see but this is happening so often it just seems “normal”. Another day, another US mass shooting, nothing learnt.

Rroff · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:13

Flibster said:
Damn... seeing 27 dead and 24 injured and shooter dead on various places.

FBI on the scene too.

BBC now saying at least 27 dead.

Flibster · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:14

Minstadave said:
More guns needed!

Good guys with guns... Well, church attendees and in Texas, so how many more do they think they needed?

The Funktopus · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:14

The 'good guy with a gun' seems to have a really terrible track record at preventing these things. Should we really still be relying on him?

Flibster · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:17

But remember, it's not the time to talk gun control...
Unless he's not white, then it'll be the perfect time to talk immigration ban.

Rroff · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:17

Flibster said:
Good guys with guns... Well, church attendees and in Texas, so how many more do they think they needed?

I'll be very unsurprised if it is someone that legally owned a gun that in most other countries that do have high civilian gun ownership woudln't have legally got near a firearm.

Caged · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:17

Efour · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:18

Meh. Another day another mass shooting.

Abraxaz1 · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:18

So what we gonna guess?

White guy early twenties to late 30s, loner or lack of social skills. Bullied in school/ in a "non-masculine" career. Brought the weapons and bullets over many months and had a bumpstock?

Rroff · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:20

Abraxaz1 said:
So what we gonna guess?

White guy early twenties to late 30s, loner or lack of social skills. Bullied in school/ in a "non-masculine" career. Brought the weapons and bullets over many months and had a bumpstock?

That many killed in a church in Texas sounds like some form of automatic fire - a lot of people carry in TX and I suspect many had guns in their truck as well - though not very useful at the moment the shooting started.

I suspect this was political/racial shooting - quite likely either black on white or white on black/Hispanic.

EDIT: Looks like the church has a fairly mixed congregation with a large proportion of white so loner with a grudge is also highly possible.

Arazi · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:23

Yas786 said:
And yet they won’t or will not do anything to address gun ownership in America :/.

Too busy catching dem muslim terrorists I guess lol.

First reply, well done, you did similar in the other thread and got called out on it, here

Yas786 said:
White man throws acid on 2 muslims and not one single care was given. Wonder why that is?? I’m sure the racist xenophobic lot in here will come up a few good reasons as to why it’s ok to throw acid on dem brownies.

IronWarrior · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:28

Ah well, RIP.

arby1 · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:28

Arazi said:
First reply, well done, you did similar in the other thread and got called out on it, here

I don't know about his posting history, but from spending years in the US, I don't disagree with his view. It's the same as our view here, if someone similar to us murders someone, well, sometimes bad things happen and he's clearly nuts, but if the murderer has a clear distinguishing difference to us, be it race/religion/culture, then it's very easy (and comforting) to pick up on that feature and have the simplistic view that removing that element from society will cure all problems.

Americans won't blame guns as that would be admitting that they themselves are the problem. Blaming some other relatively small group is however very easy.

LabR@t · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:32

Arazi said:
First reply, well done, you did similar in the other thread and got called out on it, here

Sounds like he needs to be on a watch list.

LabR@t · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:34

Arazi said:
First reply, well done, you did similar in the other thread and got called out on it, here

Why do you stick around here then, or are you too afraid to frequent those other forums now?

Zatoichi.uK · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:35

My complete lack of shock is worrying tbh.

youdsy · 5 Nov 2017 at 20:37

another day another dollar