Torrel Jasper (35) poses with his firearms in the backyard of his house in Shreiver, Louisiana for part of a series called Ameriguns for National Geographic.
Photo by Gabrielle Galimberti
Torrel Jasper (35) poses with his firearms in the backyard of his house in Shreiver, Louisiana for part of a series called Ameriguns for National Geographic.
Photo by Gabrielle Galimberti
Err, I rather think the problem is the standard of policing in the US whereby an officer is so fucking stupid to mistake a handgun with a full load for a taser or, just as bad, an officer is so fucking stupid as to think anyone with a functioning brain will believe their stupid explanation that they did make such an error.
Indianapolis shooting: eight killed at FedEx facility
EDIT: I moved this to world news.
Last edited by cyrille; 16-04-2021 at 04:10 PM.
...thoughts and prayers quiver empty...only angry and disappointed that some of the dead weren't NRA members, tRumptards or white supremacists...
with so many people "packing heat" its hardly surprising the police can also get a little trigger happy at times.
Indianapolis shooting: eight killed at FedEx facility | US news | The Guardian
At least eight people have been shot dead at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis and the suspected gunman has killed himself, police say.
Multiple other people were injured and went to local hospitals, a police spokesperson, Genae Cook, said at an early morning news conference on Friday.
At least four people were admitted to hospital, including one with critical injuries. Two others were treated at the scene and released. No law enforcement officers were injured.
“We’re still trying to ascertain the exact reason and cause for this incident,” Cook said. She asked people who could not reach family members working at FedEx to go to a nearby hotel.
Live video from local news outlets at the scene showed crime scene tape in the car park outside the facility.
A witness, who said he worked at the facility, told WISH-TV that he saw a man with a gun after hearing several gunshots. “I saw a man with a submachine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle, and he was firing in the open,” Jeremiah Miller said.
Another worker at the Fedex facility told local news station WRTV that at first, “two loud metal clangs,” rang out at the facility, adding, “They didn’t sound like gunshots at first.”
“Somebody went behind their car to the trunk and then got another gun, then I saw one body on the floor,” the worker said.
Another man told WTTV that his niece was sitting in the driver’s seat of her car when the gunfire erupted, and she was wounded. “She got shot on her left arm,” said Parminder Singh. “She’s fine, she’s in the hospital now.” He said his niece did not know the shooter.I wonder why it's only the U.S. that has this problem. I wonder if it could be all the guns?The Gun Violence Archive says 147 mass shootings have occurred so far in 2021.
I wonder if some serious gun control would make a difference.
Well probably not because people also kill people with knives so if you're going to control who has guns and what type of guns people can have you have to do the same with Knives, right?
And don't get me started on vehicle deaths.
Last edited by Cujo; 16-04-2021 at 07:09 PM.
“If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.
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Sad state of affairs in the US. The problem is things will never change, because no one is making any changes to gun control laws! Too many guns out there already. Too many mental health issues as well.
RIP to the deceased! Unnecessary mass killings as usual!
I know, lets close all the state run mental health institutions and throw all the crazies out onto the street and while we're at it, let's make it REALLY easy for anyone to get a gun because my friends in the NRA have friends in the gun industry who think that would be an absolutely spiffing way to make lots of money. K?
If the "good wellmeaning" people of America want to make a change, they have to think a bit out of the box.
Create their own association, Buy Urself Longer Life It's Time, BULLIT. Collect money, beat NRA at their own game, and buy up all
the corrupt politicians around.
Your welcome
You correct me, but have not comment on my plan
Are you overwhelmed ?
In america money talks
And if you have enough you can do the walk too
Thanks for your reply, MM
This is like religion. People are raised to believe certain things like:
America has the best health care in the world
America is the 'free-est" nation in the world
America is the greatest nation in the world
Guns equal freedom and protect us from tyranny
It's so hard to convince them otherwise because these have become truths. There's plenty of other examples of this in various countries where ingrained societal norms are never questioned, despite being clearly dumb to outside observers.
Last edited by DonKiddick; 18-04-2021 at 09:51 PM.
Nevertheless, the govt takes the shooting very seriously.
Not only that the POTUS was so busy with it - perhaps penning the letter(s) to the loved ones - so he did have time to welcome the Japanese PM at the WH door (as always the case is).
But also his VP first commented the shooting until she had noticed that the Japanese was already brought inside by the doorman, so at last she greeted him very warmly...
Another mass shooting, this time at a trailer park birthday party in Colorado Springs. Boyfriend (ex?) turns up and shoots 6 before killing himself.
This quote in the paper struck me...
That's only freaking 7 weeks ago!It was Colorado’s worst mass shooting since a gunman killed 10 people at a Boulder supermarket March 22.
Colorado Springs Mass Shooting: 6 Dead at Birthday Party | Time
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