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Active shooter Maryland

  • 28-06-2018 8:25pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭


    Daily mail reporting 4 dead so far


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,408 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    [quote="Grab All Association;10738250 4 dead so far[/quote]


    Like a quite night in Chicago.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Annapolis Maryland. Still at large in newspaper building


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    I used to care about these but I’m not watching hours of looped news reports from two miles away. I’ll catch up in the morning


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,104 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Edit: Wrong thread.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Pelvis


    I used to care about these but I’m not watching hours of looped news reports from two miles away. I’ll catch up in the morning

    Thanks for letting us know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    Pelvis wrote: »
    Thanks for letting us know.

    Thanks for expressing your gratitude on a thread about a few people who died miles away in the same country where more people will be shot in poor suburbs in places like Chicago in the next few hours it nobody will care because it’s not a building with white people in it.

    There bullets spraying across Chicago parks right now more than likely it’s only getting reported about this building because it’s happening in a building.
    Wtf like


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,025 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    US Naval Academy is based in Anapolis.

    There was a shooting a few years back at Navy Yard in DC. I think that was when the Navy were still there too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    'Thoughts and Prayers'. Every bit as useful as anything else that will be said here.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    This is America... don't catch you slippin'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Omackeral wrote: »
    This is America... don't catch you slippin'




  • Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    What? In America? Are you sure?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Jaysus, thought you meant Maryland, Dublin 8.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,555 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    Pelvis wrote: »
    Thanks for letting us know.

    Thanks for expressing your gratitude on a thread about a few people who died miles away in the same country where more people will be shot in poor suburbs in places like Chicago in the next few hours it nobody will care because it’s not a building with white people in it.

    There bullets spraying across Chicago parks right now more than likely it’s only getting reported about this building because it’s happening in a building.
    Wtf like
    Maybe start a thread on the Chicago shooting then?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Thanks for expressing your gratitude on a thread about a few people who died miles away in the same country where more people will be shot in poor suburbs in places like Chicago in the next few hours it nobody will care because it’s not a building with white people in it.

    There bullets spraying across Chicago parks right now more than likely it’s only getting reported about this building because it’s happening in a building.
    Wtf like

    Always makes me think of this



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    take a minute there folks....


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,473 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Interesting to see the reactions here and how these events become mundain, accepted and even a source of humour.

    At least four individuals left home on a normal day, but will never ever be coming home.
    If you’ve never had that happen to a member of your family at least try and imagine what it must be like, the hurt and devastation it causes.

    America seems to be falling to pieces, but we shouldn’t make fun of it happening either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,934 ✭✭✭20Cent


    Attacking a newspaper is a new one. Has anyone been whipping up hatred for the press recently?


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    verycool wrote: »

    As usual, Brooker is right in a way, but it does boil down to a 'guns don't kill people, people talking about guns killing people kills people' argument

    Dozens of countries cover these US mass shootings, but the only country that has US style mass shooting copycat killers, is in the US, where uncoincidentally, they also have a ridiculous culture of jingostic association between gun ownership and national pride/freedom.

    Guns are tools. And people who think guns are toys or some kind of symbol of feedom and democracy, are even bigger tools.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    _Brian wrote: »
    Interesting to see the reactions here and how these events become mundain, accepted and even a source of humour.

    At least four individuals left home on a normal day, but will never ever be coming home.
    If you’ve never had that happen to a member of your family at least try and imagine what it must be like, the hurt and devastation it causes.

    America seems to be falling to pieces, but we shouldn’t make fun of it happening either.

    I'd normally agree. However this has gone on far too long and will happen again and again if gun control and a change in culture isn't introduced. In a few weeks/days we will be talking about the same thing. The same posters will be calling for gun control and the same posters will be saying nothing needs changing. On the last few threads several gun nuts used it as an excuse to list the guns they own. Not once stating why they need assault rifles only stating "you won't take our guns". You can bet even if gun control would save 100 lives a year the gun nuts would be against it.

    The gun nuts are like anti-vaccers at this stage in that the culture they're promoting is costing people's lives. You can't reason with these people therefore humor is an appropriate outlet IMHO. We're not laughing at the deaths, but the bizarre situation that is facilitating events like this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    _Brian wrote: »
    America seems to be falling to pieces, but we shouldn’t make fun of it happening either.

    True, but in fairness, if they don't evolve, and they base their rule of law on on a fundamentalist / literal reading of a 200 year old document (every bit as fundamentalist as any of the religious loons you'd care to mention), even after the horror of Sandy Hook and innumerable other atrocities, we should be pointing out how bizarre it is, if not quite making a joke of it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,234 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    and now for a bit of balance. I'm sitting outside and I can hear the sound in the distance of at least two gob****es racing through the streets of a small town in their modified cars in a country where the biggest two causes of death for young people are suicide and road traffic accidents.


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Apparently the shooter is refusing to talk and has removed his fingertips so he can't be identified. Reported on BBC News just now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Pelvis


    gandalf wrote: »
    Apparently the shooter is refusing to talk and has removed his fingertips so he can't be identified. Reported on BBC News just now.

    Did he remove his face too?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    jaykay74 wrote: »
    Maybe start a thread on the Chicago shooting then?

    Look here’s how it will go. People will express sadness. People will blame Muslims. Other people will blame local terrorists. When it’s found who the gunman is the people who are right will whoop and holler. A few people will talk about gun laws. Trumps reaction will be criticized.

    Somebody will say the answer is more guns.

    Nobody will really care about the victims.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    gandalf wrote: »
    Apparently the shooter is refusing to talk and has removed his fingertips so he can't be identified. Reported on BBC News just now.
    Pelvis wrote: »
    Did he remove his face too?

    and pulled all of his teeth?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    _Brian wrote: »

    America seems to be falling to pieces, but we shouldn’t make fun of it happening either.

    No, perhaps. But humour is a pretty powerful coping mechanism.

    If you let these things get to you too much you'll be under the kitchen table in fetal position soon enough.

    It sucks, people died....but.....none of us here are likely to change it. The people in charge in the US don't seem overly interested in trying anything to change it (whatever that might be) so what are ya gonna do?

    I don't think humour is any less valid a response than sending thoughts and prayers and about as useful.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Gottta be a white shooter - he’s still alive.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    What came first?

    Chicken getting its name from the place. Or did Maryland get its name from the chicken?


    Anyway thoughts and prayers for Mary and her land.


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