Shooter in Illinois highlights real National Emergency.

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[malaise]

1. The Speaker told the moron yesterday

This is the real emergency

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3. 😢

[malaise]

4. This looks really really bad

Several employees shot as well four cops to boot - live press conference coming up on CNN

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5. meanwhile in Oklahoma...

Legislation removing all licensing and training requirements for handguns moved through the Oklahoma House of Representatives Wednesday afternoon.

https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/government-and-politics/constitutional-carry-gun-bill-passes-oklahoma-house-of-representatives/article_c92b31a2-915c-5665-b4d3-7afb7d02c72c.html

[Stuart G]

2. The saddest aspect to me, is there will be more shootings of innocent people.

This isn't the last, and sadly, probably not the worst. But the truth is the Trump and the Republican Party don't give a damn about these deaths. They have never cared..(as long as the deaths are not theirs)
..It will happen again, and again...I thought that after Columbine, it would stop, but it didn't. And it won't.

I need to add a very short story. 6 or 7 years ago, I went to visit a friend who worked in a high school in Chicago. He taught at a Chicago Public High School in a good neighborhood. As I walked in, everyone was searched and all students walked through metal detectors. that is the story, I repeat one word.. all.......
..................................

[smirkymonkey]

6. +1000

[pintobean]

7. Meanwhile, a father and his nine year old son

were shot up in a drive by in north St Louis today.

But, no one says shit about the inner city gun violence that happens every day.

[cwydro]

12. Of course not.

Especially not here on DU.

[malaise]

8. Five dead so far

Will this ever stop?

Shooter's name is Gary Martin -also dead

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9. I had not heard that.

[malaise]

11. Was on CNN

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/active-shooter-reported-at-west-suburban-aurora-factory/



5 dead in Aurora factory shooting; mom says gunman was laid off, ‘stressed out’


The mother of the gunman who shot up an Aurora factory Friday — killing multiple people and injuring five cops — said her son had been laid off recently and was “stressed out” before the incident.

The woman, who met with Aurora police Friday evening, identified her son to the Sun-Times as Gary Martin. Authorities said Martin, 45, was killed by police in the incident.

“He was way too stressed out,” said the woman, who declined to give her name before embracing relatives outside the Aurora police station and leaving Friday evening.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

10. This is just miles from where I work

You just get numb to this never-ending gun violence. There's just thoughts and prayers that the Republicans will give so no one knows who will be next. It's a damn shame.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. and they've stacked the courts

[cwydro]

14. Funny how I've seen so few posts on this shooting.

Wonder why?

[onethatcares]

15. I went to get a building permit

the other day and had to go through a metal detector before going into the building department.