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Nashville movie theatre shooting.

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Yes, another one. This one made me a little nervous because I know people in Tennessee. The good news, however, is that it seems that no one was killed or seriously hurt except for the shooter (thank God for incompetent criminals).

Still, is shooting in a theatre becoming a fucking trend?

Which film it was did not escape my notice- Mad Max: Fury Road. Given the criticism I know the film has received for daring to have feminist themes, my mind jumped pretty quickly to the possibility of an ideological motivation, which might move this attack from an attack by a random nut to terrorism. However, the article doesn't say what the motive was and given how recently this happened, the authorities might not have a clue about that yet.

Maybe the saddest thing about this, other than the obvious death and injuries, is that I wasn't sure weather an American shooting in which only one person died is notable enough to be posted in News and Politics at this point. :cry:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/wor ... e25848011/
A gunman also wielding an axe opened fire at a Nashville-area theater showing of the movie “Mad Max: Fury Road” and was shot dead by police after slightly injuring at least one person on Wednesday, police and fire officials said.

More than a dozen emergency vehicles were on the scene at the Carmike Hickory 8 movie complex in Antioch, where one man suffered minor injuries from the axe and that man and two women were treated for exposure to pepper spray, possibly from the gunman, officials said.


Reuters Aug. 05 2015, 4:39 PM EDT
Video: Suspect dead in Tennessee movie theater shooting: police
“We believe the imminent threat has been ended,” police spokesman Don Aaron told reporters.

He said the gunman, a 51-year-old man, had a backpack or some other type of bag on him, and authorities were going through it to make sure that it did not pose a danger.

Brian Haas of the Nashville Fire Department said none of the injuries, including the axe wound, appeared to be serious and none of the victims were transported to area hospitals.

“It appeared to be nothing but a bad bruise,” he told reporters referring to the person struck by the axe.

Two employees of a nearby Starbucks restaurant said they heard three or four gunshots and saw several police, fire trucks and ambulance vehicles responding.

The shooting comes less than two weeks after three people were killed and nine were wounded when a gunman opened fire in a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. The gunman was among the dead.

In the Lafayette incident, the 59-year-old gunman opened fire on July 23 in a movie house during a showing of the comedy “Trainwreck.” Two theatergoers were killed before he took his own life as police closed in.

That shooting came almost three years to the day after 12 people were slain and dozens wounded by a gunman at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.”

The Nashville shooting follows the fatal shooting of five U.S. servicemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the massacre of nine African Americans at a South Carolina church.
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A mass shooting in a public place in the American Midwest? Must be a day ending in "Y". I wish that was more joke, less reality. On the good side, last I heard was the attacker was the lone fatality. Any death is bad, but when it's just suicide without the murder (though injuries could be really bad and totally debilitating, they haven't said where I've seen) at least the only death is the one who planned on dying in the first place. Let's just hope they don't find his family dead at home.
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Updated information indicates it was an airsoft pistol the suspect had, not a real gun. Apparently he also has a history of mental illness.

So it looks like suicide by cop at this point, his method probably influenced by the sentencing going on with the Aurora, CO shooting (bringing it back in the news) as well as the shooting at the theater in Lafayette.
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Flagg wrote:A mass shooting in a public place in the American Midwest? Must be a day ending in "Y".
Somebody was slightly injured with an axe? Must be a mass shooting.
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Grumman wrote: Somebody was slightly injured with an axe? Must be a mass shooting.
To be fair, all of the initial reports called it a shooting, and the suspect a gunman.

And, in fact, he did have a gun, it just turned out to be an airsoft one. But he fired it at the SWAT team until they gunned him down.
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Flagg wrote:A mass shooting in a public place in the American Midwest? Must be a day ending in "Y".
Somebody was slightly injured with an axe? Must be a mass shooting.
Go eat your crystal balls, dipshit. Even Fucks News was calling it a shooting. You know why? Because they are so common that it never really occurred to anyone right away that it was just a lunatic with a toy and a deadly hand-axe, as opposed to a lunatic with a real penis compensation device and a deadly hand-axe. But next time there's a shooting (if there hasn't been one already, haven't refreshed that tab in 5 minutes) I'll totally be axing for a concession. :mrgreen:
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Flagg wrote:
Grumman wrote:Somebody was slightly injured with an axe? Must be a mass shooting.
Go eat your crystal balls, dipshit.
If you had any balls, you would simply admit that you were mistaken and didn't read the first post, which explicitly states that the only injuries attributed to the "gunman" is some bruising with an axe and some exposure to pepper spray. You didn't need to double down on your indefensible position.
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Grumman wrote:
Flagg wrote:
Grumman wrote:Somebody was slightly injured with an axe? Must be a mass shooting.
Go eat your crystal balls, dipshit.
If you had any balls, you would simply admit that you were mistaken and didn't read the first post, which explicitly states that the only injuries attributed to the "gunman" is some bruising with an axe and some exposure to pepper spray. You didn't need to double down on your indefensible position.
What's indefensible? At the time of my post the articles and television coverage available all described the attacker as a "shooter" or "gunman" and the incident as a "shooting" (as does the thread title, have you PM'd any mods to have the title changed? If not, why? Especially since it's important enough for you to attack me twice about it?). Which it actually was if you want to get pedantic, which you apparently do, since the police shot the motherfucker. So if your tantrum over my inability to astral project to the scene or see into the future is over, will you kindly shut the fuck up and move on?
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It's been laughable to watch the shooter narrative on this fall apart. Within hours it was known that the only shots in this "shooting" were fired by police, but the airsoft toy bit is new to me.
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I don't see much of a problem with that as an initial response. People saw him with a gun and reported that to the police and the media. I don't expect the average person to be able to or spend the time to double check what they saw being waved around was a toy when he is also waving around hatchets and whatnot. I don't expect the findings of the police when approaching the body to overcome the initial reports instantaneously. That doesn't excuse those that continued to use it hours after the event.

What I do find ridiculous is the instant use of the word "mass" which apparently now applies to any violence involving more than a single victim.
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Patroklos wrote:I don't see much of a problem with that as an initial response. People saw him with a gun and reported that to the police and the media. I don't expect the average person to be able to or spend the time to double check what they saw being waved around was a toy when he is also waving around hatchets and whatnot. I don't expect the findings of the police when approaching the body to overcome the initial reports instantaneously. That doesn't excuse those that continued to use it hours after the event.

What I do find ridiculous is the instant use of the word "mass" which apparently now applies to any violence involving more than a single victim.
Well, if it bleeds it leads, as they say. Plus, the news channels just report on what they hear from law enforcement agencies, police scanners, and what they overhear. They then let former FBI profiler, current total douchebag and irresponsible media fame whore based on tragedy porn Clint Van Zandt speculate. The story always changes on the first day.

But I'll tell you, these things, the real ones, they really wreck the community. I live like 2-3 miles from Marysville-Pilchuck Jr High School where late last year we had a "small" one with IIRC, 3 dead over a girl, and it was just grim for months. I've never been so glad that due to the agent orange my sperm donor got doused in I decided not to have kids. I can't imagine being a parent working or at home watching this shit on TV wondering if your kid will be home tonight for dinner or if you have to identify them at the morgue.

But I don't see what's wrong with a bunch of people on a BBS talking about something the media is reporting on in real time. I mean shootings do happen in American schools so often these days to the point where they have lockdown drills as often as tornado drills. So it's not outlandish like Grumman would have us believe.
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Flagg wrote:
Patroklos wrote:I don't see much of a problem with that as an initial response. People saw him with a gun and reported that to the police and the media. I don't expect the average person to be able to or spend the time to double check what they saw being waved around was a toy when he is also waving around hatchets and whatnot. I don't expect the findings of the police when approaching the body to overcome the initial reports instantaneously. That doesn't excuse those that continued to use it hours after the event.

What I do find ridiculous is the instant use of the word "mass" which apparently now applies to any violence involving more than a single victim.
Well, if it bleeds it leads, as they say. Plus, the news channels just report on what they hear from law enforcement agencies, police scanners, and what they overhear. They then let former FBI profiler, current total douchebag and irresponsible media fame whore based on tragedy porn Clint Van Zandt speculate. The story always changes on the first day.

But I'll tell you, these things, the real ones, they really wreck the community. I live like 2-3 miles from Marysville-Pilchuck Jr High School where late last year we had a "small" one with IIRC, 3 dead over a girl, and it was just grim for months. I've never been so glad that due to the agent orange my sperm donor got doused in I decided not to have kids. I can't imagine being a parent working or at home watching this shit on TV wondering if your kid will be home tonight for dinner or if you have to identify them at the morgue.

But I don't see what's wrong with a bunch of people on a BBS talking about something the media is reporting on in real time. I mean shootings do happen in American schools so often these days to the point where they have lockdown drills as often as tornado drills. So it's not outlandish like Grumman would have us believe.
The L.A. Times reported that violent crime is at an all- time low since the early 1990's.
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amigocabal wrote:
Flagg wrote:
Patroklos wrote:I don't see much of a problem with that as an initial response. People saw him with a gun and reported that to the police and the media. I don't expect the average person to be able to or spend the time to double check what they saw being waved around was a toy when he is also waving around hatchets and whatnot. I don't expect the findings of the police when approaching the body to overcome the initial reports instantaneously. That doesn't excuse those that continued to use it hours after the event.

What I do find ridiculous is the instant use of the word "mass" which apparently now applies to any violence involving more than a single victim.
Well, if it bleeds it leads, as they say. Plus, the news channels just report on what they hear from law enforcement agencies, police scanners, and what they overhear. They then let former FBI profiler, current total douchebag and irresponsible media fame whore based on tragedy porn Clint Van Zandt speculate. The story always changes on the first day.

But I'll tell you, these things, the real ones, they really wreck the community. I live like 2-3 miles from Marysville-Pilchuck Jr High School where late last year we had a "small" one with IIRC, 3 dead over a girl, and it was just grim for months. I've never been so glad that due to the agent orange my sperm donor got doused in I decided not to have kids. I can't imagine being a parent working or at home watching this shit on TV wondering if your kid will be home tonight for dinner or if you have to identify them at the morgue.

But I don't see what's wrong with a bunch of people on a BBS talking about something the media is reporting on in real time. I mean shootings do happen in American schools so often these days to the point where they have lockdown drills as often as tornado drills. So it's not outlandish like Grumman would have us believe.
The L.A. Times reported that violent crime is at an all- time low since the early 1990's.
Which is 100% true. But lunatics and terrorists with lots of guns shooting up schools, malls, and other assorted crowded public and private venues have become so common they should have their own news channel.
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They absolutely should not have their own news channel, because overcoverage in the media is helping to create more of these incidents.
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