The 'Americans Getting Shot' Thread

[tomcat]

...shooting deaths are part of the American way of life because the majority wants it that way...in some areas of our great nation, there just isn't that much else to do...

[Davis Knowlton]

Sad really...I don't often look at this thread anymore, and tend to skip over the mainstream news shooting stories unless there are double-digit fatalities. The rest is just boring and predictable. Americans seem happy with the 'new reality'....so, up to them.

[harrybarracuda]

Sad really...I don't often look at this thread anymore, and tend to skip over the mainstream news shooting stories unless there are double-digit fatalities. The rest is just boring and predictable. Americans seem happy with the 'new reality'....so, up to them.

Actually they are not, but what can they do when their politicians (on both sides) are bought off or threatened to toe the NRA line?

[tomcat]

what can they do when their politicians (on both sides) are bought off or threatened to toe the NRA line

a. They can sell investments in gun/ammo manufacturers and dump mutual funds that include such organizations in their portfolios...
b. Where politicians of both parties are supported by the NRA, they can write in a candidate...
c. They can forward all thoughts and prayers to the NRA...

However, if frequent mass/school shootings across the country aren't enough to spur folks to action, they deserve every bloody bullet they get...

[SKkin]

they can write in a candidate...

Do I use a Sharpie for that?

[tomcat]

Do I use a Sharpie for that?

...voters can insist on an added field for write-ins...

[harrybarracuda]

Happy Birthday dude.... er.


USA! USA!

Man Celebrating 21st Birthday Kills Himself Minutes After Accidentally Killing His Best Friend, Police Say

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

10:20 PM EST


(MERRILL, Mich.) — Authorities say a Michigan man celebrating his 21st birthday accidentally shot his best friend and then killed himself in grief.
WJRT-TV reports Zachary Woodcock shot himself minutes after he accidentally shot 21-year-old Richard Skillman, who died at the scene.
Saginaw County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Gomez says Woodcock was celebrating his birthday Jan. 19 with friends in his apartment in Merrill, northwest of Detroit.
Gomez says Woodcock returned from his bedroom with a handgun that “went off and struck Mr. Skillman in the chest.”
As others were helping Skillman, witnesses told police that Woodcock left the apartment.
Gomez says “they heard a shot, walked out and there he was.”
About 10 guns later were found in the apartment and Skillman’s car.

Man Kills Himself After Accidentally Killing Friend: Police | Time

[tomcat]

...^I hope he didn't procreate...

[cyrille]

28 Days...

Total Number of Incidents

4,144

Number of Deaths

1,124

Gun Violence Archive

[Hugh Cow]

Maybe it's just Gods' way of getting rid of Americans, after all there are a lot of them.

[tomcat]

...^plagues are more efficient...you'd think God would have thought of that...

[harrybarracuda]

USA! USA! etc.

(CNN)Four people, who were all in their 20s, were shot and killed Sunday at a southern Pennsylvania car wash.

The shooting happened about 3 a.m. ET in the village of Melcroft, 42 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Officers found four bodies and two injured people -- including the suspected gunman, identified as Timothy Smith, 28.

As of late Monday morning, Smith remained on life support and wasn't expected to survive a gunshot wound to his head, said Trooper Robert Broadwater, spokesman for the Pennylvania State Police.
"It is a possibility that the gunshot wound to Smith was self-inflicted, however that determination has not been made at this point," according to the police report.
Smith was wearing a body armor carrier without the ballistic panels inserted. He had several magazines of ammunition and three firearms -- an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, 9 mm handgun and .308-caliber rifle, police said.

4 killed in Pennsylvania car wash shooting - CNN

[Hugh Cow]

...^plagues are more efficient...you'd think God would have thought of that...

I'm sure God did, but it's always easier to push someone over a cliff when they are already standing on the precipice.

[bobo746]

[tomcat]

it's always easier to push someone over a cliff when they are already standing on the precipice

...a zombie virus is much more entertaining, apparently...perhaps God has a list of top-ten catastrophes that he visits upon His people...tRump, for example, and the rise of the moron...

[AntRobertson]

Smith was wearing a body armor carrier without the ballistic panels inserted. He had several magazines of ammunition and three firearms -- an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, 9 mm handgun and .308-caliber rifle, police said

Well there you have it then.

The only thing that would've stopped him would've been a good guy with two AR-15s, a 9mm handgun and a revolver, and a .308-caliber with military-grade scope/NV sights.

[tomcat]

...it is entirely possible he was deer hunting and mistook the car wash for a dense urban copse...

[AntRobertson]

Understandable mistake.

And those deer can be sneaky and dangerous bastards. Hence the need for military-grade hunting equipment.

[HuangLao]

...^plagues are more efficient...you'd think God would have thought of that...

Wait around, TC.
She still has a few tricks up her sleeve.

[Hugh Cow]

Well there you have it then.

The only thing that would've stopped him would've been a good guy with two AR-15s, a 9mm handgun and a revolver, and a .308-caliber with military-grade scope/NV sights.

Or a thermo nuclear warhead.

[Hugh Cow]

Maybe he was rabbit hunting. It was a mean rabbit.

[harrybarracuda]

[toslti]

I remember years ago a senior police officer on the Algarve, announcing on television,that he really thought that the Portuguese people didn't care how many were killed on the roads leading to the holiday destinations of the South... they just want't to get there.

Whilst this may be more applicable to Thailand and the annual massacres at Songkran and the New Year I do feel that Americans have become numbed to these events and, as long as it is not in their community, just put it to one side.

Getting your family housed, fed and educated becomes your topmost priority. Deaths by shooting are what happens to other people.... Until it is one of yours. By then it is too late.

[AntRobertson]

Not strictly relevant to this thread but nowhere else to put it so...

• a realistic-looking replica of a suicide vest;
• a block of inert explosives;
• hand grenades;
• 3957 firearms (35 per cent with a round in the chamber)...

A non-exhaustive list of items people tried to board planes with in the US during 2017...

[tomcat]

...and, of course, an emotional support peacock...

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ai...rlines-n842971