[Cherie]

gunman shot and killed multiple people in a Walmart store late on Tuesday in the US state of Virginia, police and city officials said. Chesapeake Police Department officer Leo Kosinski told reporters at the scene they found "multiple fatalities and multiple injured parties" at the scene. One police officer spoke of no more than 10 people killed and multiple injured.

One of the dead included the shooter, he said. He is reported to have been the manager.

Rapid response officers entered the store "immediately" after they arrived, he added.

"We believe it is a single shooter and that single shooter is deceased at this time," he said.

The Telegraph

[Cherie]

Unconfirmed reports it was the shooter was the store manager

[bitontheslide]

you would have thought by now that people would start wearing protective vests when they go out. It's got to dramatically reduce your chance of being killed

[Niamh.]

Very sad but what more is there ever to say on these threads. These things are going to keep happening until the US admit they need to look at their gun laws

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Unconfirmed reports it was the shooter was the store manager

It was the Walmart Manager


7 Dead

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63724716

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Chesapeake_shooting

[LeatherTrumpet]

People in the USA are more than happy for these isolated incidents to occur if it means they are able to own guns

[Cherie]

He fired on employees in the break room

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

People in the USA are more than happy for these isolated incidents to occur if it means they are able to own guns

I'd be interested in putting that to the test actually and seeing them vote on it. Money talks though so that won't happen. I wonder how "happy" about these isolated incidents the families of all those shooting victims are for instance

[Zizu]

The Gun Violence Archive has counted at least 604 mass shootings in the US so far in 2022. Nearly 40,000 people have died due to gun violence overall in 2022, according to the Archive.


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[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Zizu

The Gun Violence Archive has counted at least 604 mass shootings in the US so far in 2022. Nearly 40,000 people have died due to gun violence overall in 2022, according to the Archive.


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Americans are happy about that though..........

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Americans are happy about that though..........

i don't think they are particularly unhappy about it. If they were, they would stop it. One thing america is very good at, is making something happen if there is the will to do it. In this case, there is no appetite to do anything. Yes, some politicians pay lip service to sorting it out, but it's always half hearted

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

He fired on employees in the break room

Yes Evil.


I bet some knew this Manager
was getting worse
they should have phoned Head office
about him.

[thesheriff443]

The right to own guns is written into the fabric of America’s existence and that right is worth more than any amount of deaths.

A gun on its own can’t kill someone it takes someone to kill with a gun.

It takes a very unhinged person to shoot multiple people and what price do these people pay, as it so many cases it’s death or a life without ever seeing the outside world again.

Just to give an example of our own unhinged, a man recently killed his ex and two kids by setting their home on fire.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by niamh.

i'd be interested in putting that to the test actually and seeing them vote on it. Money talks though so that won't happen. I wonder how "happy" about these isolated incidents the families of all those shooting victims are for instance

as happy as a family in the uk whose relative was killed by a drink driver

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

as happy as a family in the uk whose relative was killed by a drink driver

because that's the same thing and guess what there are very strict laws around drink driving.......

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

because that's the same thing and guess what there are very strict laws around drink driving.......

I seem to recall that Florida has some strange rules / laws .. when a school bus is indicating and pulling out from a stop all the other traffic has to STOP .. even if it’s coming from 4 different ways ( a crossroads) .


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[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

because that's the same thing and guess what there are very strict laws around drink driving.......

The sentence for killing some one while driving drunk is an absolute joke.

You can take someone’s life and be back in the pub in a few months

[arista]

He Killed 6 People.
and himself.

Or

[Reports Police didn’t know how the shooter died.
He said he didn’t believe the gunman was shot
by police. It was not clear if any of the victims
or the attacker were employees.]


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-say-rcna58488

[LeatherTrumpet]

In 2020, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides

[LeatherTrumpet]

The FBI collects data on “active shooter incidents,” which it defines as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Using the FBI’s definition, 38 people – excluding the shooters – died in such incidents in 2020.

USA population is 332,000,000

[Zizu]

The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, even if no one was killed (again excluding the shooters). Using this definition, 513 people died in these incidents in 2020.


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[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Zizu

The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, even if no one was killed (again excluding the shooters). Using this definition, 513 people died in these incidents in 2020.


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they just broaden the definition and one would question their motivation..

Regardless of the definition being used, fatalities in mass shooting incidents in the U.S. account for a small fraction of all gun murders that occur nationwide each year.

(Pew Research)

[Redway]

If Obama didn’t ban guns Donald Trump is definitely not going to be the one to do it. Only someone like Judge Judy would as far as I can tell.

[arista]

[Walmart mass shooter's paranoid suicide note
where he says he was 'led by Satan
' and harassed 'by idiots with low intelligence'
who 'gave me evil twisted grins,
mocked me and celebrated my downfall' - before
gunning down six co-workers]


Photo of him
on this link

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...led-satan.html

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

you would have thought by now that people would start wearing protective vests when they go out. It's got to dramatically reduce your chance of being killed

Just imagine it's come to the stage ,where people need to do that !??. Just to go to the bliddy store . It really puts me off ever going to America.