Time for yet another "Mass Shooting" thread

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  1. jmartin1966

    jmartin1966 Member+

    Jun 13, 2004
    Chicago
    two more mass shootings in Chicago last night
     
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  2. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Only two...things are improving! :cautious:
     
  3. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The city cancelled the fire works display, that probably saved some lives.
     
  4. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    8 shot in Fort Worth on Sunday.
     
  5. msilverstein47

    msilverstein47 Member+

    Jan 11, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Conceal and carry would have saved them...sigh

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-men-dead-woman-wounded-034705825.html

    HOUSTON (AP) — Investigators were trying to determine Friday what prompted a man to open fire at a married couple, killing one of them and wounding the other, before fatally shooting himself inside a popular Houston seafood restaurant.

    The couple was finishing dinner in the bar of the Downtown Aquarium Restaurant shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday when the man approached them, pulled out a gun and “immediately started firing rounds” at them, Houston police Executive Assistant Chief Matt Slinkard said.
     
  6. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Someone was ********ing someone and got the "I don't want to do this anymore" text...

    As for this:

    I don't believe this was actually uttered, but pandemonium is definitely a word that needs more usage
     
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  7. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    Hmmm. The trouble with that theory is that I don't see a guy who is bonking another man's wife losing it completely when she calls it off. I figure he just finds another (if he hasn't already). Now a woman who gets jilted like that might be murderously angry ... but I can't see a woman going off like that, showing up at a bar and shooting. (Plus the story said the shooter was male.)

    So I'm guessing it was something else.
     
  8. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's unlikely as the people who were shot were tourists from New York.
     
  9. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  10. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Depends wholly on the feels that the jilted party has - what problems they thought target was going to solve in their lives with all the happily ever after shit


    I should have read more.
     
  11. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Not the victims. The shooter, blown off over the phone so he shot a couple for looking happy at the moment he found out he was not. That's what I thought and took the architect to be saying.

    I got blown off very badly immediately before a solo movie date once, a love story-- and walking out of the theater afterwards alone among a couple dozen couples all hand in hand and kissing and hugging was just
    torture. I'm not of a type to kill anybody like that, or even get angry about it, but it certainly put me in a bad bad state-- and a lot of people do get extremely angry with folks who have something good that they don't have. If you are one and suicidal as well, you might well take somebody with you...
     
  12. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Bonking the husband?
     
  13. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    I think all of you are wrong. Most likely the guy had reserved that table and reacted when he saw them sitting there! :thumbsup:
     
  14. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Considering the discussion/questions on what the definition of a mass shooting is in various places, I think we should be a bit more strict and self police. I brought up the question of a good definition (which is not universally accepted) https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/t...kes-you-stupid.1944759/page-272#post-39722785. I'm in favor of 4 victims with no period of rest. But, no matter what definition one chooses, the above incident does not fit the accepted definitions, and in one case a mass shooting excludes a suicide as a victim.

    Not that this is any worse, really. Mental health issues and had a gun?

    (the non-mass shooting thread. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/a...hip-and-all-those-non-mass-shootings.2017014/)
     
  15. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    You missed a great flick :p

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  16. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    More and more “unhappy” people, people who might possibly shoot themselves are moving to take people with them.
    But 4 people with body armor is a different story. I’m just completely at a loss to understand. Why they want to kill innocent people or why they want to go out in a blaze of media “glory” ??????

    “According to a report from Denver ABC 7, four men were taken into custody at a Denver hotel on Friday night over fears they were planning a mass shooting at this week's Major League Baseball All Star Game.

    According to the report, the local police were contacted, "after receiving a tip from a maid working at a hotel not far from Coors Field, who discovered more than a dozen weapons and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition inside one of the rooms Friday night."

    The report goes on to note that one of the men taken into custody has recently posted on Facebook about his recent divorce before claiming he was going to "go out in a big way."
    And more.
    https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...las-vegas-style-shooting-during-all-star-game
     
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  17. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    If we assume the maid was foreign-born, someone from a shithole country stopped domestic 'Merican terrorism. Kudos to her.
     
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  18. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Remember, the All Star game was supposed to be in Atlanta but MLB moved it because of the voter suppression bills. I wonder if that will factor into this.
     
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  19. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm wondering if he was going down that road and the wife said she didn't want any part of him or his behavior.
     
  20. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Maybe they were just planning on having "a bad day."
     
  21. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    Yeah, 1,000 Rounds of ammo isn’t cheap.
     
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  22. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  23. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    We are #1!

     
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  24. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    July 17, 2021, 2:31 AM EDT

    A 6-year-old girl was killed and five adults were wounded in a mass shooting in southeast Washington, D.C., late Friday, police said.
     
  25. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Four Shot Outside Nationals Park During Game Against Padres

    The game was suspended at the bottom of the sixth inning and will resume at 1:05 p.m. EST Sunday, the Nationals said in a statement
     

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