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School Shooting in Parkland, Florida

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Breaking story via the BBC - reports of multiple casualties with a shooter still inside the school.

edit: report from Fox News:

Authorities also said students and teachers should remain barricaded in the school until they could be reached by police

Dispatch at the Broward Sheriff’s Office confirmed the school was on lockdown and police were on location.

According to WSVN, the Margate Fire Rescue team described the scene as a mass casualty incident, which reportedly means at least 20 people were injured.

https://twitter.com/wsvn/status/963861452678246401

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vapor trails

I guarantee if someone went back on Boards and looked at topics covering the immediate aftermath of historical mass shootings in the US you'll find a trend of fewer topic views and fewer topic posts in the hours after a shooting.

A small unconscious portion of my brain thinks to itself "they obviously aren't working thinking about or showing empathy towards if their very own governmental institutions seem to be not giving a **** in the first place"

Next topic, please

Zaph

ceadaoin. wrote: »

The shooter is in custody now apparently. A 19 year old student who was known to own guns

And yet he's too young to buy a beer there. Talk about having your priorities arseways.

vetinari

Time for thoughts and prayers?

dd972

Until the next one...and the next...and the next...and th...

jbt123

Hitman3000 wrote: »

If only the students who were shot had their own guns....

If only the good guy had a gun to stop the bad guy with a gun.... is the argument used by someone who wants to sell two guns.

Dev84

Americas problem.

Move on.

Panjandrums

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Dev84

Panjandrums wrote: »

It's easy to attack gun ownership when you have never experienced it.
Let's ban people cycling on the roads because people are dying from cycling, at the end of the day cycling and guns are used for leisure and sport and 1 person out of 320 million shouldn't stop that.

FFS.

Atlantic Dawn

Could they not just put a $10 countrywide levy on each bullet sold if they won't ban guns?

pilly

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Good attempt.

Zaph

Panjandrums wrote: »

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If only it were just 1 person out of 320 million, but even discounting every other gun crime in the States there have been around 300 people who have shot up schools in the past 5 years. At exactly what point should we start attacking gun ownership then? When it hits 500? 1,000? 5,000?

Dev84

Panjandrums wrote: »

It's easy to attack gun ownership when you have never experienced it.
Let's ban people cycling on the roads because people are dying from bicycles, at the end of the day cycling and guns are used for leisure and sport and 1 person out of 320 million shouldn't stop that.

A bike cant kill 17 people if it falls into the wrong hands though.

NIMAN

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Idiot alert.

Panjandrums

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Zaph

Panjandrums wrote: »

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A motorised vehicle is designed to bring a person from A to B. A gun is designed to inflict harm on other people. Tell me exactly how those two things are the same?

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Panjandrums wrote: »

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Ah the old NRA get the wagons in a circle defence...... Do you guys have any viable solutions for keeping weapons out of the hands of people like this?

jbt123

Panjandrums wrote: »

It's easy to attack gun ownership when you have never experienced it.
Let's ban people cycling on the roads because people are dying from bicycles, at the end of the day cycling and guns are used for leisure and sport and 1 person out of 320 million shouldn't stop that.

What on earth are you on about?

If I cycle down the corridor of a school I'm not going to cause multiple deaths.

Noveight

Stall the ball.

Is yer man is after comparing guns to bikes..?

Bob_Marley

Guns are worshiped in the USA - the portrayal of them in American films and television is a prime example.

Panjandrums

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Panjandrums wrote: »

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When did you last hear of anyone massacring nearly twenty people with a bicycle? Guns and bikes. Same thing. Would you let your 8 year old have a gun... actually don't answer that.

Dev84

Sandy hook when all of the babies were killed changed nothing.

It'll take a private ivy league school to be hit with CEOs and politicians kids killed for the possibility of any change.

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Panjandrums wrote: »

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Are you familiar with the term ''accident'' and the definition of same?

Panjandrums

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jon1981

Panjandrums wrote: »

It's easy to attack gun ownership when you have never experienced it.
Let's ban people cycling on the roads because people are dying from bicycles, at the end of the day cycling and guns are used for leisure and sport and 1 person out of 320 million shouldn't stop that.

17 people unfortunately won't have the opportunity to attack gun ownership.

Seriously your attempt at logical reasoning is a big f**king fail.

Stop trying to act intelligent.

Noveight

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Of the total use of motor vehicles, what percentage are used for crime?

Of the total use of guns, what percentage are used for crime?

Throw an estimate on those two numbers, compare them and then you might see why you're being ridiculous.

uncleoswald

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Banning vehicles would have a cataclysmic effect on society. Banning automatic guns from the general population... and a few people will have to find a new hobby.

Comparing them smacks of desperation.

SimonTemplar

I'm thinking of when I was in school and what it would be like being there with an increasing probability of being caught up in an active shooter situation. And for the parents to be reminded every time an incident like this occurs that it may eventually happen to their children. That kind of stuff must really damage the fabric of a nation.

Panjandrums

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Homebird18

uncleoswald wrote: »

Banning vehicles would have a cataclysmic effect on society. Banning automatic guns from the general population... and a few people will have to find a new hobby.

Comparing them smacks of desperation.

Why ban automatic only why not semi?