Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back from 1 to 10+ pages to re-sync the thread and this will then show the latest posts. Thanks, Mike.
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Shooting Texas A&M University

  • 13-08-2012 8:21pm
    #1
    Chorcai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭


    Yet another college shooting in the US.

    http://news.sky.com/story/972146/police-shot-in-us-college-gun-attacks

    Police are among a number of people who have been shot on a United States college campus, prompting the arrest of one man.


    Texas A&M University says the man suspected of carrying out the attacks has been taken into custody near its campus in College Station.
    The university issued a warning on its website just before 12.30pm local time on Monday, warning of an active shooter near the campus football stadium, Kyle Field. Residents and students were advised to avoid the area.


    College Station lies about 90 miles northwest of Houston.


Comments

  • #2
    Caveman1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Caveman1


    WTF is with some peolpe?


  • #3
    ShamoBuc
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,199 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Is there a full moon over there every night or something?


  • #4
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    1 civilian dead 1 injured 2 cops injured

    shooter is in custody.

    Nothing to do with University as they are closed


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Im in no doubt that if all the student population was armed with M16s this wouldn't have happened.


  • #6
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    mike65 wrote: »
    Im in no doubt that if all the student population was armed with M16s this wouldn't have happened.

    Probably would. If the university was closed they probably werent there, guns or no guns.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    ShamoBuc wrote: »
    Is there a full moon over there every night or something?

    Sad. Another month - another campus shooting it near seems at times.


  • #8
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I'm thinking if things keep going like this, how long will it be before we get a thread with a title:

    'no mass shooting sprees in USA today!'

    Seriously, this shíts becoming way to common over there!


  • #9
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Probably would. If the university was closed they probably werent there, guns or no guns.

    Today would be the day that Freshman start moving into Dorms in most US colleges.
    This week anyway.


  • #10
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Madsl in 3... 2..... 1..........


  • #11
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,253 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    in before RTDH


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    Seifer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭Seifer


    Saw this linked on Reddit after the Aurora shootings (most relevant from 1:40):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4


    This is the second shooting I'm aware of since Aurora.


  • #13
    Siuin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭Siuin


    Should probably just merge this with the Times Square shooting thread- always boils down to a 'damn Yanks and their guns' rant


  • #14
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    mike65 wrote: »
    Im in no doubt that if all the student population was armed with M16s this wouldn't have happened.
    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Probably would. If the university was closed they probably werent there, guns or no guns.

    I should point out I was being dead pan ironic (didn't even think about if anyone was at "school" in August to be honest!)


  • #15
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Sorry I'm late folks, seems I was expected. :D

    Just watched the Charlie Brooker vid. Very thought provoking; I remember a Polish guy threw himself off the apartment building I lived in. Horrible case where the building wasn't high enough and he survived only to die in hospital.

    Anyway, it went entirely unreported, due to what I believe is an Irish media arrangement not to cover suicide. CB's point about stopping this rubbernecking masquerading as an outpouring of grief and outrage I think is very valid. People die every single day, and one of the biggest causes in the US is medical error. Now we see no protests at hospitals or piles of flowers for the dead. Yet medical error kills 195,000 Americans a year. That is 500 a day! Yet 9 or 10 or whatever the latest body count is die through gunfire and we get three days of 24/7 coverage.

    Doubtless this will turn into a gun control debate and an American bashing thread, but I like the thinking of just ignoring these nutters and not giving them their 15 minutes.

    As to mike65's comment - I will say that once again this happened in a public "no gun" area. Do you notice the pattern yet? A&M students just recently narrowly lost a vote to allow concealed carry on campus.


  • #16
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    3,000 a month die in road accidents in the US.

    It's a big country.


Advertisement