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School Shooting in Parkland, Florida

  • 14-02-2018 8:18pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 12,948 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭AnneFrank


    Not again☹️


  • Registered Users Posts: 667 ✭✭✭patsy sally


    becoming all too regular


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,370 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Awaiting the Republican response.

    "Let's offer our prayers..." or some such


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,082 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    I have the same reaction to mass shootings in the USA now as I do to bombs going off in random middle-eastern countries. Apathy.

    If nothing changed after Sandy Hook, nothing ever will. Let them at it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Awaiting the Republican response.

    "Let's offer our prayers..." or some such

    Or they could try something useful like reforming gun laws, but no, that would make sense.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭Sandor Clegane


    becoming all too regular

    It was all too regular years ago, now its just routine.


  • Registered Users Posts: 667 ✭✭✭patsy sally


    It was all too regular years ago, now its just routine.
    very true


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,031 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,370 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/963878055969198080


    Pray but do f**k all about it...same old sh!t


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,370 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Florida Senator saying "many people" have been killed.

    Person of interest arrested but not confirmed the individual is the shooter.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,031 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Just put on CNN there it's pretty disgusting the coverage IMO. Parents of students on the phone live reading out the texts they are getting and saying where the kids are hiding and how many are there. The reporter acting concerned while trying to milk as much information out of them as possible. What is wrong with people? I mean, if that was my child it wouldn't occur to me to call the news. Ffs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Noel82


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Just put on CNN there it's pretty disgusting the coverage IMO. Parents of students on the phone live reading out the texts they are getting and saying where the kids are hiding and how many are there. The reporter acting concerned while trying to milk as much information out of them as possible. What is wrong with people? I mean, if that was my child it wouldn't occur to me to call the news. Ffs

    Moral bankruptcy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭colbarr


    Just hearing on Sky News that it's the 13th shooting so far this year and there have been over 300 since 2013! God needs to get his finger out of his arse and start answering those prayers!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    Police now confirm shooter in custody. Still no official word on numbers of fatalities and injured.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    If they cared enough they could sort this out, but they obviously don't.

    It's extremely fuccked up, and it's poor children who suffer the worst from it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,853 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    As said already, if the murder of little kids at Sandy Hook did nothing, forget it. Sorry, but that's the culture over there now. Will be forgotten tomorrow. Sorry to hear of the deaths, but honestly there are so many mad people shooting at random there it is unreal.

    And with no offence to a previous poster, but the term "shooter" should be banned. Assassin would be a better term in fairness.

    I don't know why they don't have airport style security in schools now like xray etc. to get in.

    But that is probably something to do with the personal freedoms under the constitution or something.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭BillyBobBS


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Just put on CNN there it's pretty disgusting the coverage IMO. Parents of students on the phone live reading out the texts they are getting and saying where the kids are hiding and how many are there. The reporter acting concerned while trying to milk as much information out of them as possible. What is wrong with people? I mean, if that was my child it wouldn't occur to me to call the news. Ffs

    You think CNN have a moral compass?


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


    Meh.. another mass shooting..


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    This is what Bill O'Reilly calls the price of freedom.

    https://twitter.com/AJ_sesh/status/963882306560774144


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,853 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Duck Soup wrote: »
    This is what Bill O'Reilly calls the price of freedom.

    https://twitter.com/AJ_sesh/status/963882306560774144

    Amazing the way people can film these incidents.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Disappointed but not surprised. Change nothing and nothing will change.


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,370 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The arrested individual apparently...

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    And with no offence to a previous poster, but the term "shooter" should be banned. Assassin would be a better term in fairness.


    Murderer would be an even better one. Shooter or assassin makes it sound too cool.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    What percentage of school shooters are captured alive? Quite low, I’d guess.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    AnneFrank wrote: »
    Not again☹️

    What else would you expect, it's part of their culture.


  • Registered Users Posts: 23,370 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Noveight wrote: »
    What percentage of school shooters are captured alive? Quite low, I’d guess.

    Apparently an ex student.

    Can shoot up children but didn't have the balls to blow his own head off.


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


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭StinkyMunkey


    The cycle continues, and will continue until the Americans give up their love affair with guns. The right for civilians to own objects designed to kill is more important than a persons right to live. As per usual the gun nuts will use the usual Bull****e excuses, cars kill, knives kill so ban them blah blah blah........


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Chrongen


    J. Marston wrote: »
    I have the same reaction to mass shootings in the USA now as I do to bombs going off in random middle-eastern countries. Apathy.

    If nothing changed after Sandy Hook, nothing ever will. Let them at it.

    I was actually starting to wonder why there wasn't one until now. It's been quite a while since there's been a school massacre in America. Almost months.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Theodore Creamy Shoplifter


    Chrongen wrote: »
    I was actually starting to wonder why there wasn't one until now. It's been quite a while since there's been a school massacre in America. Almost months.

    It's the fourth US school shooting in 2018.


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