KS: four dead, including attacker, in shooting spree

[shenmue]

CNN story here

[desmiller]

1. Here we go with another GOP "Thoughts and Prayers" stunt.

[Skittles]

8. gun humpers love thoughts and prayers

because they have nothing else

[SheilaT]

2. Just another day in America.

How many people die by guns every day in this great country? Five? Ten? Oh, yeah, closer to forty. So four dead is only ten percent of the daily quota.

[hfojvt]

5. 13,700 homicides in 2013

close to forty. Adding suicides and accidents and police shootings, the number would be higher.

There were 23,000 homicides in 1980 and 24,700 in 1991.

Much higher than 14,000 a year for most of the last three decades.

[SheilaT]

7. Yep. And so many people in this country apparently think that's just

normal. They apparently haven't a clue that this doesn't happen in most other countries. And now people are being allowed, nay encouraged, to bring guns with them everywhere, otherwise known as Open Carry.

[hfojvt]

3. Wow, little town of 3,600

not the kind of place you expect that.

Four dead would just be an above average week for Kansas City.

[REP]

4. ... which remains in Missouri

Not Kansas.

[hfojvt]

6. actually 6 of the 15 counties of the metro area

are in Kansas. There also is a little place we like to call KCK.

Not to be confused with KCMO.

Close to 45% of the metro area population is in Kansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_metropolitan_area

[newfie11]

10. +1. Nt

[SaintLouisBlues]

12. So let's see: What about black-on-black crime? Bragging about White Flight?

OK then.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. Most of the crime in KCMO is gang on gang.

They kill each other on almost a daily basis. It is almost all in the Eastern part of town. There are white gangs, black gangs, Asian Gangs, Hispanic gangs.

Unfortunately, small children are often caught in the crossfire.

This incident happened in a very small Kansas town where there probably is no crime at all. And probably everyone in town owns a gun. Most people do out there in rural Kansas.

This guy received an order of protection - probably from his wife or girlfriend - and 90 minutes later went crazy.

It's horrible. And that little town will be forever getting over it.

[malaise]

9. #33 for 2016

How sad

[Matrosov]

11. It was a freedom spree!

C'mon, he was just exercising his Second Amendment rights, as God intended, and the Tree of Liberty sometimes thirsts for a little blood

[Initech]

14. Watch tomorrow Alex Jones going to claim the latest shootings are staged.

And it's all part of an elaborate plot to take your guns away.