Baby shower goes south. Three people shot.

[Kaleva]

"A preliminary investigation showed the incident began as a family argument about gifts at the baby shower. It escalated into a physical fight and then gunfire when the "suspect introduced a nine-millimeter semiautomatic handgun" and fired three shots into the crowd of about 25 friends and family, the chief said.

Three people were injured in the shooting: a 23-year-old man, a 19-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy, Marhefka said. "

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/19/us/baby-shower-shooting/index.html

[secondwind]

1. Who takes a gun to a baby shower???!!?

Seriously, it's getting harder to even TRY to understand some people......... smh

[Kaleva]

4. A person who should never have a gun in the first place.

[essaynnc]

9. Are you kidding?

A man (i assume) has to protect himself. No telling whats on the other side of the punch bowl !!!

[Kaleva]

11. PA has a "Do Not Diss My Gift" law.

[unblock]

10. You mean it's not a normal gift for a baby shower? Hmm, I have some returns to make...

Truth is, though, there are not only some people who are literally never without a gun, and also some people who figure it actually is a reasonable gift.

I mean, family is gonna wanna protect their baby, plus they're gonna wanna teach them to shoot as soon as they turn 5 years old....

[RKP5637]

2. FFS and WTF!!! n/t

[lapfog_1]

3. hey, if we start killing 3 for each newborn.

population control could be on the upswing.

(yeah, I know, it didn't say anyone died... but not for lack of trying!)

[XanaDUer2]

5. Sadly, spontaneous gunfire in mundane

situations is getting to be less and less weird news.

I wonder if there was a gender-reveal, too

[Clash City Rocker]

6. The biggest surprise is that it happened in Pennsylvania

Not that Pennsylvania doesn’t have a ton of right wing whack jobs, because it does. But this sort of thing usually happens in Florida or Texas.

[Kaleva]

7. Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania is in a very conservative county.

"Politics & Voting in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania
The Political Climate in Lower Burrell, PA is Moderately conservative.

Westmoreland County, PA is Strongly conservative. In Westmoreland County, PA 35.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 63.5% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.

In the last Presidential election, Westmoreland county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 63.5% to 35.2%.
Westmoreland county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000"

https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/pa/lower_burrell

[Clash City Rocker]

8. Yeah, I get that. There's an old saying about Pennsylvania that goes

“It’s Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and Alabama in the middle.”

That’s not specific to Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana…hell, I grew up in California, and many areas there are super right wing. Rush Limbaugh first gained popularity in Sacramento.

[Deuxcents]

12. Family values

Bring a baby into this family of gun toting n shooting people is in itself nuts

[Mosby]

13. The shooter is the father to be.

They got in an argument about who was going to transport various gifts.

[Aristus]

14. Guns everywhere.

Nice to see we’re all a lot more polite to each other, just as the NRA predicted…