Yay! YEEHAW, it's Shootin' Time

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[Isabeau]

Brown University: Hundreds of police hunt suspect in shooting after 2 killed, 9 injured

A gunman opened fire into a classroom on Saturday in a building where exams were taking place.

www.bbc.com

• Two people are dead and eight people are critically injured after a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island
• The injured are in a stable condition in hospital, but Providence Mayor Brett Smiley warns the number of casualties could rise
• No suspect has been arrested - police say the attacker was a male dressed all in black
• A shelter in place warning remains in place for the greater Brown University area
• President Donald Trump says he has been briefed on the shooting, which happened at 16:05 local time (21:05 GMT) on Saturday

 

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Brown University: Hundreds of police hunt suspect in shooting after 2 killed, 9 injured

A gunman opened fire into a classroom on Saturday in a building where exams were taking place.

www.bbc.com

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

But, in the mean time they put the guy's name out there. The Daily Fail published an image of someone else with the same name because you know Erikson is such an uncommon name in Wisconsin..... I get that they want to get the story first, but how about a little responsibility and integrity?

 

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Christmas is a time for target practice in populated areas, so sayeth the Lord.

Oklahoma man doing target practice in his backyard accused of fatally shooting woman blocks away

The victim was on a covered front porch with family members at a residence in Comanche, Oklahoma, when she was shot, according to the probable cause affidavit.

abcnews.go.com

An Oklahoma man who was doing target practice in his backyard on Christmas is believed to have shot and killed an elderly woman a few blocks from his home, authorities said.

Cody Wayne Adams, 33, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in connection with the deadly shooting, court filings show.

The victim was on a covered front porch with family members at a residence in Comanche when she was shot Thursday afternoon, according to the probable cause affidavit. She was holding a baby in her left arm while seated on a love seat when she was struck in her right upper arm, according to the affidavit. The bullet then entered her chest cavity, it said.

 

[Soen Eber]

because you know Erikson is such an uncommon name in Wisconsin

(It isn't, for those outside the North Central United States. A LOT of Scandinavians are up here... Zaida was being justifiably sarcastic.)

 

[Casey Pelous]

... because you know Erikson is such an uncommon name in Wisconsin.....

You sure you're not thinking of the Ericksons, the Ericsons, the Ericssons, the Eriksens, the Erikssons, the Erichsens, the Erichsons, or those shifty bastards the Eiríkssons?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

You sure you're not thinking of the Ericksons, the Ericsons, the Ericssons, the Eriksens, the Erikssons, the Erichsens, the Erichsons, or those shifty bastards the Eiríkssons?

What about the Eiríksdóttirs?

 

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What about the Eiríksdóttirs?

Too many diacritics to be (eventually) American.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

The chronic tinnitus she now has to endure, along with the ongoing efforts from her younger sibling constantly reminding her of that time she nearly blew her brains out, will hopefully fuel a long term hatred of guns. But I'm woefully naive in that way.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/640

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How To Beat Gun Nuts at Their Own Game

Forcing the right to choose between their rhetoric and their fears.

www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Woman Shot Dead by Father After Arguing About Donald Trump

The woman and her father got into a “big argument” about Trump the day she was fatally shot.

www.thedailybeast.com

Kris did not attend the inquiry in court, but said in a statement sent to the court that he had relapsed on the day of Lucy’s fatal shooting and had drunk nearly an entire bottle of white wine.

Kris claims that he and Lucy were watching a news segment on gun crime when he asked his daughter if she would like to see his gun. He said they went into his bedroom so he could show her his Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun.

“As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell,” Kris’s statement to the court said.

Prosper police originally investigated her death as a possible case of manslaughter, but a criminal case in Texas was not brought after a grand jury in Collin County opted not to indict him

How on earth do those facts not justify a charge of manslaughter? I'm not saying he's necessarily guilty but surely there's a serious case for him to answer.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Exodus 21:17
Mark 7:9-10

 

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10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

• Nine people have been killed in a mass shooting in the rural community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
• Six people were found dead inside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, one died on the way to the hospital and two more were found dead in a residence.
• Police said the suspect was also found dead inside the school from "a self-inflicted injury."
• Officers believe they have identified the shooter, but said they will "struggle" to ever determine a motive for what has become one of the deadliest school shootings in Canadian history.

Horrible.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Exodus 21:17
Mark 7:9-10

"Thou shalt not handle firearms while drunk."

British woman, 23, shot dead by dad in US after Trump row was unlawfully killed, coroner rules

Cheshire Coroner's Court previously heard that Lucy Harrison had argued with her dad about Donald Trump the same day she was shot.

news.sky.com

Briton shot by father in Texas after row about Trump was unlawfully killed, coroner rules

 

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Authorities investigate mass shooting at Austin bar as potential act of terrorism

Officials in Texas are continuing to investigate a weekend mass shooting at an Austin bar by a man wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie as an act of potential terrorism, as fears rise over the possibility of further attacks following US airstrikes on Iran.

Police shot and killed Ndiaga Diagne, 53, a Senegalese national and naturalized US citizen, early on Sunday after he reportedly opened fire at the downtown bar popular with university students. Two people were killed, and another 14 wounded, some of them seriously.

On Monday, detectives in Austin, joined by the FBI’s joint terrorism taskforce (JTTF), were investigating the suspect’s motives and possible links to organized groups, although they said Diagne appeared to have been “a lone actor”.

 

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Here's How Many Americans Have Ever Thought About Shooting Someone Else

Most people who have ever seriously considered gun violence never tell anyone else about it, a recent study reveals.

gizmodo.com

If you’re ever been morbidly curious about how many of us would ever give into our darkest impulses, you’re in luck. A recent sobering study shows that a sizable amount of people in the U.S. have seriously considered shooting someone else at least once in their lives.

Researchers in Michigan examined nationally representative survey data. They found that an estimated 7% of Americans—more than 19 million—had thought about shooting another person in their lifetime. Interestingly enough, factors like already owning a gun weren’t associated with an added risk of having these desires, though others like living in a city or being younger were.

7% is also the amount of Americans from the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll poll who said they'd support sending troops into Iran for a ground war.