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US Journalists shot dead live on air [MOD WARNING in opening post]

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    #62
    yerwanthere123
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    Shooter apparently a disgruntled former employee of the station, according to Sky News.


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    #63
    DoYouEvenLift
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    Can they not start requiring extensive means to obtain licenses for guns over there? Anyone going for one should have to pass a fuking psych exam if this is what's going to be happening so frequently...although it's too late now, even if they do ban guns it'll still be too easy for nutcase kunts to get them


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    #64
    Oryx
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    RT.com post this sympathetic message:
    RT previously posted the video of the shooting, but has removed it in solidarity, after the station said it did not want the two journalists to be remembered for their last tragic moments.

    Along with this image.
    <mod snip>image removed</mod snip>

    Which seems a bit hypocritical really. Either report it, or don't. Show her last moments or don't.


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    #65
    homerjay2005
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    formal employee of the station. he has been identified.


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    #66
    timmyntc
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    BREAKING: @GovernorVA says shooter believed to be "disgruntled employee" of @WDBJ7. Troopers in pursuit now.

    Former employee of the station with a vendetta allegedly. Worrying stuff when someone would do that to a former coworker


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    #67
    strelok
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    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »
    Can they not start requiring extensive means to obtain licenses for guns over there? Anyone going for one should have to pass a fuking psych exam if this is what's going to be happening so frequently...although it's too late now, even if they do ban guns it'll still be too easy for nutcase kunts to get them

    so you want rich people to be able to defend themselves, but not poor people

    how progressive


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    #68
    Luckycharms_74
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    Disgruntled employee is seems. The police are in persuit of said suspect.


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    #69
    Stheno
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    Oryx wrote: »
    RT.com post this sympathetic message:


    Along with this image.
    <mod snip>image removed</mod snip>

    Which seems a bit hypocritical really. Either report it, or don't. Show her last moments or don't.
    Agreed the families don't need that picture in their minds


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    #70
    whiskeyman
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    Luckycharms_74 wrote: »
    Disgruntled employee is seems. The police are in persuit of said suspect.

    Just as I thought... it seemed too bizarre to be just a 'random' shooting.


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    #71
    Harry Palmr
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Just thinking out loud here but is this kind of stuff really primarily an American phenomenon or is it just that the US is so media heavy that it seems like that it's only really the US that this stuff occurs in? Like are kids sshooting up their schools in Turkmenistan every few months but we simply don't hear about it?

    Most people tend to assume that there is a qualitative difference to be made between a mature democracy and an oppressive central Asian state but maybe there isn't! If such incidents were happening in Turkmenistan (per your example) we'd be lucky to hear of it as the country has very restricted media (sat dishes are banned for Petes sake).

    Going Postal stikes again.....:rolleyes:


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    #72
    ThisRegard
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    strelok wrote: »
    so you want rich people to be able to defend themselves, but not poor people

    how progressive

    "Means" does not always mean "Financial Means".


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    #73
    suicide_circus
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    strelok wrote: »
    so you want rich people to be able to defend themselves, but not poor people

    how progressive

    Defend themselves against who? Redcoats?


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    #74
    DoYouEvenLift
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    strelok wrote: »
    so you want rich people to be able to defend themselves, but not poor people

    how progressive


    What exactly gave you this notion? I will lol if it's because of 'means' like the other poster pointed out...


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    #75
    timmyntc
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Defend themselves against who? Redcoats?

    probably burglars and stuff mostly. i'm not an advocate of guns for everyone, but they are quite effective at deterring burglars and protecting people's homes over there. quite a few criminal studies show that most don't go near houses they know have guns in them for their own sakes. pretty sad state of affairs though when they only thing stopping someone from breaking into your house is that you would likely kill them in retaliation.


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    #76
    Andre 3000
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    Some internet forum guys have tracked down the shooter's details. <mod snip> no speculating here please </mod snip>


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    #77
    conorhal
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Just thinking out loud here but is this kind of stuff really primarily an American phenomenon or is it just that the US is so media heavy that it seems like that it's only really the US that this stuff occurs in? Like are kids sshooting up their schools in Turkmenistan every few months but we simply don't hear about it?

    I was watching some show about Dara O' Briain and Ed Byrne touring along the Pan-American highway, it touched on the level of casual violence , gun crime and murder in places like San Salvador, Mexico and Honduras and there it is off the chart.
    At one point they were filming and noticed that behind them in the background was the dead body of a murder victim just lying in the street.

    Of course this is of no interest to people that want to be the first to post 'Murica


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    #78
    conorhal
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    jobbridge4life wrote: »
    RIP.

    Would love to hope this would change things. It won't. The situation in the US will continue to deteriote until the only way people can interact with each other will be by screaming at one another from heavily armed and armoured tanks.

    This was the best tweet I saw on the subject from Dan Hodges, I think it pretty much sums up the whole gun control thing:



    "In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over."


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    #79
    ibarelycare
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    The journalist's colleague posted this on Twitter. So sad :(

    https://twitter.com/chrishurstwdbj/status/636531364356063232


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    #80
    DoYouEvenLift
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    ibarelycare wrote: »
    The journalist's colleague posted this on Twitter. So sad :(

    https://twitter.com/chrishurstwdbj/status/636531364356063232


    Right in the feels!


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    #81
    Generic Dreadhead
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    ibarelycare wrote: »
    The journalist's colleague posted this on Twitter. So sad :(

    Sorry if this rubs people up the wrong way....

    But his missus was just shpt dead an hour ago on live TV and he's taking to Twitter to tweet about it....

    Not quiet that "Numb" now is it really?

    F**king hell


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    #82
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    ibarelycare wrote: »
    The journalist's colleague posted this on Twitter. So sad :(

    https://twitter.com/chrishurstwdbj/status/636531364356063232

    The cynic in me thinks he could have left Twitter alone for a few days.


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    #83
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    Sorry if this rubs people up the wrong way....

    But his missus was just shpt dead an hour ago on live TV and he's taking to Twitter to tweet about it....

    F**king hell

    It's exactly what I thought.

    He claims he's numb, but apparently not so numb as to forget some self publicity on twitter.


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    #84
    Generic Dreadhead
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The cynic in me thinks he could have left Twitter alone for a few days.

    Well we agree on this one!


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    #85
    TireeTerror
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    The video in the original link doesnt work, so if anyone is wanting to see it here is a link to the broadcast.
    <mod snip>link removed</mod snip>


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    #86
    FalconGirl
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    Sorry if this rubs people up the wrong way....

    But his missus was just shpt dead an hour ago on live TV and he's taking to Twitter to tweet about it....

    Not quiet that "Numb" now is it really?

    F**king hell

    I hear ya. Its a strange time we are living in.


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    #87
    jobbridge4life
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    Sorry if this rubs people up the wrong way....

    But his missus was just shpt dead an hour ago on live TV and he's taking to Twitter to tweet about it....

    Not quiet that "Numb" now is it really?

    F**king hell

    Aye... on the other hand he is a journalist too and it is there nature.


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    #88
    namloc1980
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    The shooter had uploaded a video of himself doing the shooting onto twitter. Unbelievable.


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    #89
    timmyntc
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    https://twitter.com/bryce_williams7

    things getting very disturbing
    this is (apparently) the suspects twitter, he's live tweeting his motives and has videos of him approaching prior to it all kicking off
    not for the faint of heart


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    #90
    Stheno
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    namloc1980 wrote: »
    The shooter had uploaded a video of himself doing the shooting onto twitter. Unbelievable.

    Seriously?


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    #91
    FalconGirl
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    timmyntc wrote: »
    Apparently this is him.

    She never verified that photo. Apparently not him.


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