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At least seven dead at shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Hope the injured policeman pulls through. Sad to hear.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭kevmol88


    (CBS/AP) OAK CREEK, Wis. - At least seven people have been killed in shootings at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee.


    The shootings took place at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.

    Greenfield Police Chief Brad Wentlandt said multiple 911 calls were received this morning about a gunman or gunmen. He said the first police officer responding to the calls engaged an active shooter at the temple. The officer was shot multiple times, but returned fire, and the suspect, Wentlandt said, was "put down."

    Wentlandt said emergency medical personnel have identified seven people dead - four inside the temple and three outside, including the suspect.


    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57486965/shooting-at-sikh-temple-in-wis-at-least-7-dead/?tag=contentMain;contentBody#postComments


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,822 ✭✭✭sunflower27


    It says to the side of the story that the policeman is expected to live.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    I heard this on the radio earlier and they said there may still be a hostage situation going on. Crazy stuff. Hope the cop pulls through aswell as any injured.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭deisedave


    Yet they refuse to stop giving guns to every nutter of the street.


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


    Will save people googling it ........... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Wisconsin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Not really the News story, that i'm referring to, as much as the comments afterwards, i have a couple of screenshots from a few minutes ago, but as i was making it, there has been an extra 438 comments (So far)

    The comments are at the bottom

    LINK TO STORY
    (CNN) -- At least seven people, including a gunman shot by a police officer, have been killed in an attack on worshippers at a Sikh temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Sunday, police said.
    The officer was wounded but "returned fire, and that shooter was put down," said Bradley Wentlandt, the police chief in nearby Greenfield, who briefed reporters. Investigators who picked through the building afterward found four bodies inside the temple and two other victims outside, plus the gunman, Wentlandt said.
    Though early reports had suggested there may have been more than one attacker, he said officers had not identified any other gunmen.
    The wounded officer, a 20-year veteran, was in surgery Sunday afternoon after being shot multiple times, but was expected to survive, Wentlandt said. He was sent to the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, south of Milwaukee, after a 911 call about 10:25 a.m. (11:25 a.m. ET).
    Carolyn Bellin, a spokeswoman for Milwaukee's Froedtert Hospital, said one of three men brought there from the incident was in surgery early Sunday morning, while another was in the surgical intensive care unit. The third was being evaluated in the emergency room. All three were in critical condition.
    The temple has a congregation of 250 to 400, according to its website.
    "I just want to say this temple was built a number of years ago and there have never been any problems with this temple," Oak Creek Alderman Dan Jakubczyk said. "They've been a plus to this city and to my district."

    Bearing in mind the people that were attacked, were/are Sikhs..

    COMMENTS LINK


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Already posted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    I read it as 'Sith Temple'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    I started a thread about this afterwards, and to make matters worse accidentally double posted it. Could someone delete both of them, or show me how, please?

    Anyway, Did anyone read the comments underneath the story on CNN?

    LINK TO COMMENTS


    Even the comments you think are being posted condoning it, are actually thinly veiled racism.. WTF?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Wouldn't be suprised to learn it was some ignorant redneck who thought he was shooting muslims.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Keno 92 wrote: »
    I read it as 'Sith Temple'

    I find your lack of taste disturbing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    Wouldn't be suprised to learn it was some ignorant redneck who thought he was shooting muslims.

    That was my first thought tbh.

    The comments under the CNN story seem to point to it anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    goose2005 wrote: »
    I find your lack of taste disturbing.

    I honestly did read it as that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    At least the cop took this nut out before he could kill more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    What's the net the gunman assumed they were Muslims?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    goose2005 wrote: »
    I find your lack of taste disturbing.

    Was that a joker as well?

    Sad to here, RIP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    Wouldn't be suprised to learn it was some ignorant redneck who thought he was shooting muslims.

    My first instinct too. Would not be surprised in the least.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Just saw this, not been paying attention to the news today. An terrible crime. Must be an awful time for the families.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭B0X


    Where's that video of the psychologist who says that every time a mass murder happens, another follows very close after because these insane idiots are "inspiried" by the media coverage. (Aurora and now this)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    It might sound harsh, but the less publicity these events receive the better. It's the only motivation for some of these psychopaths in a lot of cases.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    The presidential candidates and senators need to take a stand against the easy availability of guns and change the law. Its crazy that anyone with id and no criminal record can buy a gun legally and kill many people. RIP to those dead, and sympathy to their families and friends.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Da Shins Kelly


    It might sound harsh, but the less publicity these events receive the better. It's the only motivation for some of these psychopaths in a lot of cases.

    Or at least give less coverage to the perpetrators of the crime, and more to the people effected. When the thing in Aurora happened, the news stations gave about 5 trillion hours of time to the gunman, and very little to the victims. In their own f*cked up minds, it's probably like validation, and it glorifies these people to other messed up people. They pretty much turn these people into celebrities, and most people don't even know the names of the victims.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭RedRightHand


    Wouldn't be suprised to learn it was some ignorant redneck who thought he was shooting muslims.

    Despite such 'ignorant rednecks' being better armed than the Garda emergency response unit it's been 11 years since 9/11 without any such attack happening. At this stage it would be a surprise.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    B0X wrote: »
    Where's that video of the psychologist who says that every time a mass murder happens, another follows very close after because these insane idiots are "inspiried" by the media coverage. (Aurora and now this)

    You mean this one



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Gun purchases by Sikhs should skyrocket after this shooting. It’s all about self-defense against wackos, criminals, and government paid psychos.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    mike65 wrote: »
    You mean this one

    Scary. Media won't be quitting any time soon though, and so the cycle continues.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    It might sound harsh, but the less publicity these events receive the better. It's the only motivation for some of these psychopaths in a lot of cases.

    indeed. There a stat floating around about the number of guns in Canada vs the US, Canada has much more, yet the number of shooting in the US is astronomically higher because it's constantly glorified in the media. Much like car chases too.


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


    indeed. There a stat floating around about the number of guns in Canada vs the US, Canada has much more, yet the number of shooting in the US is astronomically higher because it's constantly glorified in the media. Much like car chases too.

    But of course you can't find it. Because every time something like this happens somebody trots out some supposed statistic. How about not letting myths get ahead of truths in this thread? Not a hope. *steps aside and waits for the US bashing to get going*

    Firearms homicides rates


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 348 ✭✭Actor


    The presidential candidates and senators need to take a stand against the easy availability of guns and change the law. Its crazy that anyone with id and no criminal record can buy a gun legally and kill many people. RIP to those dead, and sympathy to their families and friends.

    Funny that in States where guns are legal, crime rates are *lower*.


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