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louis c

(8,652 posts)
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 11:00 AM Sep 2018

Multiple Victims in Maryland Active Shooting

Source: CNN

(CNN) — Maryland authorities are responding to a shooting in Harford County involving multiple victims, the Harford County Sheriff's office tweeted Thursday morning.

People are being asked to avoid the area in Perryman, roughly 30 miles northeast of Baltimore. There are homes, churches and a cemetery in the area.

Deputies were dispatched to the scene at 9:09 a.m. ET, the sheriff's office tweeted.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/20/us/maryland-shooting/index.html

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Aristus

(66,434 posts)
1. Residents have been advised to not be on the lookout for a 'law-abiding gun-owner',
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 11:04 AM
Sep 2018

but none of them would ever do anything like this...



muriel_volestrangler

(101,336 posts)
2. 3 killed, 2 wounded according to update at that link
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 11:17 AM
Sep 2018

It doesn't say if the gunman is one of them, or has been arrested (it does talk about just one gunman).

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
4. What is going on in this country?
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 11:18 AM
Sep 2018

That question is rhetorical as we all know the answer to be one word: MADNESS!

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
9. The same reason suicides are up
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 12:03 PM
Sep 2018

fascists are in charge. For the average working ameriKan its a daily struggle to pay the bills, pressure of living under an authoritarian regime, grim future, lots of reasons why violence is a common problem in the cesspool called ameriKa.

former9thward

(32,046 posts)
14. The increase in suicides began in 2001 and the increase has been steady thru 2016
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 02:34 PM
Sep 2018

Which is the last year the CDC has statistics available. Which fascists were in charge during those years?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States

Botany

(70,539 posts)
5. Now is this different from the shooting outside of Madison, WI yesterday?
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 11:33 AM
Sep 2018

Or the one in California or the one that just happened in a Cincinnati bank?

Fuck the NRA.

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

KG

(28,751 posts)
7. 'The NRA is a terrorist organization, hate group and conduit of Russian dark money laundering...
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 11:38 AM
Sep 2018

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ecstatic

(32,720 posts)
12. They're saying the shooter is a woman. Highly unusual!
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 01:47 PM
Sep 2018

Another point that caught my attention: She attempted to shoot herself in the head TWICE but still survived.

 

Spartacus101

(93 posts)
15. We need more guns!
Fri Sep 21, 2018, 11:31 PM
Sep 2018

We need more guns!
We need more guns!
We need more guns!

Arm the teachers!
Arm the librarians!
Arm the fruit pickers!
Arm the checkout clerks!
Arm your pets!

Don't you get it?
WE NEED MORE GUNS!!!

Or, as the Firesign Theatre put it,

"Daddy, where can I buy a gun in a Christian atmosphere?"





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