48 people were shot during yesterday’s 15-hour filibuster on gun control

[onehandle]

Source: Vox

Yesterday, in an effort to force legislative action on gun control, Sen. Chris Murphy staged a 15-hour filibuster on the Senate floor. It lasted from 11 am Wednesday through 2 am Thursday, eventually ending with the GOP agreeing to vote on a gun control bill.

As politicians recounted stories of gun violence before the Senate, there were 38 shootings that killed 12 people and injured 36 more across America.

The shootings began as soon as Murphy took the floor, shortly after 11 am.

Around that time, a man walked into a medical office in eastern Washington, shot his chiropractor to death, and then killed himself.



Read more: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/16/11952166/filibuster-gun-control-shootings

[midnight]

1. Top 25 U.S. Gun Manufacturers

http://www.guns.com/2012/10/10/top-25-us-gun-manufacturers/

[ManiacJoe]

7. Interesting article, ignoring the old data.

[passiveporcupine]

2. CNN has some more news on this

(CNN video, not on youtube...cannot embed here)

This is about the workers in a gun store (in the week before the shooting) calling the FBI because our shooter wanted to buy body armor (so, maybe he wasn't up to dying after all?), and spoke on a phone in a foreign language. But they didn't have his name (no sales had happened yet) so the FBI couldn't do anything? WTF?

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/gun-shop-owner-says-employees-alerted-fbi-about-orlando-shooter/

I somehow feel like the FBI let us down on this case. It seems like they should have asked the store to get his name (even if it meant selling him some ammo) and then calling them back with the name, so they could check it out. I think, if they knew he'd been on their list before they might have actually done something about this.

Also, the wife was still in love with Mateen, and she texted him while he was in the club shooting people...and was also seen with him in a gun store buying ammo. The FBI is looking into whether or not she knew about this before hand.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/shooter-and-wife-exchanged-texts-during-nightclub-rampage/

[840high]

4. Thanks for link

[Raster]

3. "...shot his chiropractor to death..."?????

Must have been one hell of an adjustment.

[Midnight Writer]

5. They should have interrupted the filibuster with "Breaking News" of each new shooting

[Judi Lynn]

6. Hideous. It's a disease of right-wing personalities. No self control. None.

They should all be hauled off, suspicion of mindless, hateful terrorism, to their private prisons to piss and moan among themselves about how no one's going to take away their rights to intimidate, bully others.