Four killed in shooting in Cherokee Street building, St. Louis police say

[skip fox]

Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch

Four people were shot dead inside a building along Cherokee Street about 1:40 p.m. today, a police source said.

The shots were fired inside the Cherokee Place Business Incubator at 2715 Cherokee Street, police say.

The building was evacuated and police were interviewing at least three people across the street, police say.


Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/four-killed-in-shooting-in-cherokee-street-building-st-louis/article_f402b2cb-9b42-5ebd-919f-625e99d80f79.html

[SoCalMusicLover]

1. Thankfully No Guns Were Harmed During The Incident

And no civil liberties were trampled on.

[99th_Monkey]

3. Yes. there is much to be thankful for

also thankful that yet another itchy trigger-finger psycho
got to fulfill his wildest fantasies, at everyone else's expense.

psycho's have "rights" too.

[LearningCurve]

7. I don't think it was a psycho

I believe this is what it appears to be, workplace violence.

[freshwest]

9. Thank goodness for that:

New NRA Talking Point: Banning Assault Weapons Is Just Like Racial Discrimination

January 4, 2013 TIMOTHY JOHNSON

Former National Rifle Association president Marion Hammer compared a proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ban assault weapons to racial discrimination. According to Hammer, "banning people and things because of the way they look went out a long time ago. But here they are again. The color of a gun. The way it looks. It's just bad politics."

Hammer's comparison came during a discussion on NRA News about Sen. Feinstein's plans to introduce legislation to ban assault weapons during the new Congress. Hammer warned that the United States government could engage in firearm confiscation "in order to control the masses."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/04/new-nra-talking-point-banning-assault-weapons-i/192021

There is a lot more to go with that:

[L0oniX]

2. Where was the NSA when ya needed em?

[Tx4obama]

4. An additional link/article with video from CNN

Police: Four fatally shot in apparent murder-suicide at St. Louis business

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/missouri-shooting/index.html

[maxsolomon]

5. That passes the FBI threshold for a mass shooting.

4 dead total. the beat goes on and on and on, and Newtown proved that no shooting is horrific enough to change our liberal gun laws one whit.

anytime, anyplace, you could be caught in the crossfire. because freedom.

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

6. A new law signed by the President in January changes the threshold to three dead

in order for an event to qualify for federal assistance.

The previous threshold was four murders, so three murders plus a suicide would not have counted.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-112publ265/pdf/PLAW-112publ265.pdf

[petronius]

8. Kind of interesting that that law specifies "attempted mass killing" as well

So I guess federal investigatory assistance could still be available if a criminal shot at 3+ people with the intent of killing them, or wounded 3+ people, or so on.

But putting a number on 'mass' is interesting in a statistical sense, as long as changes to that number are accounted for in any analysis.

(And FYI, I looked with particular care to determine which January and which President you were referring to... )