OT: Shooting in Oregon Mall

[evolver115]

Despicable. What kind of sick human being kills school children? My God.. RIP innocent people

 

[puckhead]

Currently the toll is at 28, 18 children. An entire classroom.

holy shit. just holy shit.

 

[evolver115]

Just read the median income of this area is $110,000. Not that it matters. Just saying this is probably the last place something like this could have been expected to happen.

 

[mooger_35]

I can't even imagine. Literally makes me feel ill.

 

[IndyAndy]

My older sister is an administrative assistant at a high school on the west side of Indy. Her eldest daughter is a teacher at an elementary school in Terre Haute IN.

This kind of shit makes me worry about their safety.

 

[dash]

Just read the median income of this area is $110,000. Not that it matters. Just saying this is probably the last place something like this could have been expected to happen.

Wasn't Columbine in Littleton, Colorado a fairly affluent area as well? Just a really sad day.

 

[evolver115]

Wasn't Columbine in Littleton, Colorado a fairly affluent area as well? Just a really sad day.

I think Columbine was a little less than that... maybe 70k to 80k.

 

[filosofy29]

I can't even imagine. Literally makes me feel ill.

This. My stomach just dropped after reading this.....

Why?

 

[dash]

I think I'm going to hug my two daughters a little harder tonight...

 

[evolver115]

Gun Control


This country needs it.


Shooter is reported to have used a .223 caliber semi-automatic rifle. What purpose does this kind of gun have for regular old Joe America to have ownership of it?

Answer


None

 

[abaskin18]

Gun Control


This country needs it.


Shooter is reported to have used a .223 caliber semi-automatic rifle. What purpose does this kind of gun have for regular old Joe America to have ownership of it?

Answer


None

None, indeed.

 

[forty_three]

Just read the median income of this area is $110,000. Not that it matters. Just saying this is probably the last place something like this could have been expected to happen.

There's an evolving school of thought that these areas are more likely to have issues with the class warfare the country seems to engage in for fun. The ones who don't have think it's okay to hate the ones who do.

Anyway, I just heard that the mother of the shooter was found dead in her home in New Jersey. Shooter was from there.




Wife's a Kindergarten teacher. Two of mine are in the same school with her. I want to just go live in some mountaintop fortress thousands of miles away from anyone else.

 

[evolver115]

None, indeed.

Don't think anyone is going to be hunting white tail or mule deer with something like that

That gun has zero practical purpose for the average USA'er to own it.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Gun Control


This country needs it.


Shooter is reported to have used a .223 caliber semi-automatic rifle. What purpose does this kind of gun have for regular old Joe America to have ownership of it?

Answer


None

One need only look back on this thread to the incident in China. Some nutbar attacks a school with a knife. 20-some injured. NO FATALITIES.

You'll never get rid of all the fuckups but why do they need the very best killing tools out there?

 

[pixburgher66]

No words, just prayer. Lost it once I saw the numbers. The number is apparently near 30 now, with most being children. And reports of "execution style" killing.

 

[blindbaby]

Watching some live coverage. Sounds like there might be 2 shooters.

 

[pixburgher66]

One need only look back on this thread to the incident in China. Some nutbar attacks a school with a knife. 20-some injured. NO FATALITIES.

You'll never get rid of all the fuckups but why do they need the very best killing tools out there?

A large group of people vs. one nut with a knife? Can be over come with a team effort. A large group of people vs. one nut with a semi-automatic? People will die until a police officer or the man himself kills him. I was never greatly convinced one way or another on gun control...but screw this. You can't trust people to police themselves.

 

[forty_three]

Watching some live coverage. Sounds like there might be 2 shooters.

Second individual just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Apparently not related.

 

[pixburgher66]

Watching some live coverage. Sounds like there might be 2 shooters.

I've wondered this forever...since Columbine. How do these people find each other? How do you start this conversation? These people are clearly mentally deranged, but gah...I just can't.

 

[abaskin18]

Watching some live coverage. Sounds like there might be 2 shooters.

Possibly. Possibly someone connected to it that they caught in the woods behind the school