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Mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA, 13 dead including suspect (Shooter was US Marines vet)
- Thread starter Cosmic Bus
- Start date
In the UK any outlet or journalist who doesn't do the bolded is immediately disciplined and probably fired
Like it's literally illegal to speculate in some ways/circumstances
CBS is saying 13 now. Crap, man. This kind of stuff is devistating. Especially when we could take measures to better mitigate these types of tragedies.
Guy who was in the shooting? If so Cut him a break he just survived a traumatic event.
It could happen anywhere, any place, any time now. Remember the last shooting was at a tiny Jewish community, of all places.
The sheriff, dog. The number of injured jumped from 10-12 to 10-15 in less than a minute during his speech. His retelling made it sound like the suspect shot the deputy when he entered the bar and then later went on to say that the suspect was dead when they got there.
I'm going to return to this a little later on in hopes that a clearer picture of what transpired is available.
Edit:
This is another thing. Only one person I've seen interviewed has said that the suspect was of middle eastern descent. Sherriff said that it isn't known whether or not its terror-related but then repeated that the suspect must have been mentally ill.
I'm sure he has a lot on his plate, probably doesn't deal with situations like this regularly, again cut them some slack.
If you go by the "4+ people being shot at (not necessarily killed)" definition it's been like 3 days, which is actually quite a long time in the US apparently.
He should also have his story straight when giving it to the press. What he says is the official situation for the time being. The point of a press conference is to diispel misinformation, not feed into it. You don't increaase the number of injured on a whim.
Jesus Christ. Is it becoming that much of a common occurrence that they don't even even give it priority on the news any more.
Fucking ban firearms to civilians already, none of your bullshit excuses. Fucking hell.
Fucking ban firearms to civilians already, none of your bullshit excuses. Fucking hell.
It scares the hell out of me that I am raising a family in this shithole of a country and can't do anything to change that.
American passport is one of the most powerful. You can change your location pretty easily assuming you and your family don't have some debilitating disease or something.
It's not even just the hunters. Culturally, the US is beyond the point of where a ban is possible, at least for the forseeable future. That being said, things like universal background checks, closing trade show loopholes and mandatory waiting periods are suported by the majority of those polled. It's a bipartisan issue.
Special interests gonna special interest tho.
Sad to say but it's true eh. Before there used to be a couple of days of follow up, but now the coverage ends the following day (unless local Im sure).
It's the lead on every morning news show here on the east coast.
I guess nothing is more important now than showing that useless cunt of a President and his stupid speech over and over again.
I really wish they would just take guns away from civilians already. This is just disgusting. I live in NorCal and every time there's mentions of package thieves or anything similar on the NextDoor app, there's always a bunch of people talking about how they'd gladly shoot them if it happened to them. So many neighbors with guns that claim they are fine mentally and talking about how they'd shoot people like it's nothing.
:( It's a damn shame that as a country we've allowed this to become the new normal.
Does anyone know yet what weapon he used? I've seen it mentioned in any of the articles I've read.
Does anyone know yet what weapon he used? I've seen it mentioned in any of the articles I've read.
I think I saw somewhere that it was some kind of pistol but that might not be accurate.
Half the time it's because there's another shooting.
I mean god damn. The synagogue shooting was less than two weeks ago.
Keep in mind that California has done all of these. Any firearm purchase has to be through a licensed dealer who then submits an application to the state's DOJ to do a background check. If approved, the person buying the gun has to wait 10 days before picking up their firearm. If 30 days pass before the person picks up their gun, the firearms dealer has to submit another background check and the purchaser has to wait another 10 days to pick up their gun. State law also states that for private sales of guns, they have to do the purchase/transfer through a licensed dealer and go through the same process (submit an application to the DOJ and a 10 day waiting period).
California also requires anyone who is purchasing a handgun to pass a written safety test as well as demonstrate that they can safely handle a handgun (which they have to retake every 5 years). They also have an assault weapons ban and bans on selling any magazine with more than 10 rounds as well.
But all the effectiveness is dampened when you have neighboring states that are super lax with their gun laws that you can just take across state borders. Like Nevada, for example.
I was robbed a few weeks ago. My neighbors were robbed as well at the same and again last night. I mentioned this in a thread of mine over on the gaming side. Some folks ITT said I should consider arming myself.
Hell...it even crossed my mind for a moment too. But I won't. I refuse. I'm not going to live like that. Guns terrify me. Plus, here in New Jersey, it's pretty hard to get a gun, especially if the reason is self defense.
The synagogue the yoga studio. This is the 307th mass shooting of the year.
I woke up to the CBS special report on my TV and I couldn't help but just shake my head and go, "What a shame" and just got ready for work. It just seems like such a common occurrence now that I'm just numb to it.