'Mass shooting' reported at Sutherland Springs church in Texas

[JimandChristy 1,689]

11 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Firearms account for close to 70% of homicides per year on average in the USA. That's more than twice as many as homicides committed by vehicles, blunt objects, knifes, hands, fists, feet, being thrown out of a window, explosives and poison combined. Might as well stop running from the facts because you can't hide from them.

 

Beware of this guy

[-Trinity- 513]

Apparently he was dishonorably discharged = no firearms allowed ?

Edited November 6, 2017 by Beachlover

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

1 hour ago, JimandChristy said:

These people were in church, praying to God and it didn't stop them from getting mowed down. There wasn't even a good guy with a gun.

Actually there was. But whatever right 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

40 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Firearms account for close to 70% of homicides per year on average in the USA. That's more than twice as many as homicides committed by vehicles, blunt objects, knifes, hands, fists, feet, being thrown out of a window, explosives and poison combined. Might as well stop running from the facts because you can't hide from them.

 

And what percent of those are so called assault weapons. 

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, JimandChristy said:

Don't need CC holders in other first world countries.

 

Apparently there was someone with a gun who engaged with the terrorist, which goes to show that even with a good gun present, this was the worst such incident in Texas history. 

 

Once again, more guns proved not to be the solution for this type of homegrown terrorism.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Looks like an alt left wacko , illegally obtained a weapon he was forbbiden to have and slaughtered a bunch of conservative Christians. 

 

Tell me more about alt right gun nuts.

 

Well glad we had at least one right wing legal gun owner to stop this human garbage antifa nut 

[Jacque67 7,328]

Photos of Texas shooter is consistent with profile of Antifa member. This is looking more and more like Antifa terror. twitter.com/cernovic…

2 hours ago

 

what a maroon, pizzagate boy Cernovich is...

 

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 minute ago, Jacque67 said:

Photos of Texas shooter is consistent with profile of Antifa member. This is looking more and more like Antifa terror. twitter.com/cernovic…

2 hours ago

 

what a maroon, pizzagate boy Cernovich is...

 

 

More unverified assumptions, apparently. Denial is the first stage, and many in our nation are trying to absorb another tragedy in such a short period of time.

 

The terrorist's profile states he was involved in church school. He was probably one of the congregation at some point, perhaps?

[Boiler 43,429]

Were it not for a local resident who confronted the gunman, the deadliest shooting in Texas history could have claimed even more lives.

At a news conference Sunday night, investigators offered a preliminary timeline of the attack at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs and laid out the role the resident played.

The gunman entered the small church in the rural town east of San Antonio, firing with an assault weapon at the congregation attending the morning service.

A man who lives next to the church grabbed his own rifle and engaged the gunman, said Freeman Martin, the regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

"The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault-type rifle and fled from the church," Martin said.

The man then chased the gunman, Martin said.

When police spotted the suspect's vehicle a short time later at the county line, they found the gunman inside -- dead of a bullet wound.

"At this time, we don't know if it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound or if he was shot by the local resident," Martin said.

 

CNN

[Jacque67 7,328]

3 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

More unverified assumptions, apparently. Denial is the first stage, and many in our nation are trying to absorb another tragedy in such a short period of time.

 

The terrorist's profile states he was involved in church school. He was probably one of the congregation at some point, perhaps?

Yeah. More gold...

 

Did @CNNPR radicalize the Texas church shooter? twitter.com/prisonpl…

2 hours ago

Cernovich

[CaliCat 3,957]

5 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Yeah. More gold...

 

Did @CNNPR radicalize the Texas church shooter? twitter.com/prisonpl…

2 hours ago

Cernovich

 

Not at all surprising. It's easier to mock the death of the victims of the tragedy, as Cernovich and others do, than to admit they can't make a rational argument. It offers a mirror into the state of mind of the shooter.

 

 

[JimandChristy 1,689]

52 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Were it not for a local resident who confronted the gunman, the deadliest shooting in Texas history could have claimed even more lives.

At a news conference Sunday night, investigators offered a preliminary timeline of the attack at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs and laid out the role the resident played.

The gunman entered the small church in the rural town east of San Antonio, firing with an assault weapon at the congregation attending the morning service.

A man who lives next to the church grabbed his own rifle and engaged the gunman, said Freeman Martin, the regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.

"The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault-type rifle and fled from the church," Martin said.

The man then chased the gunman, Martin said.

When police spotted the suspect's vehicle a short time later at the county line, they found the gunman inside -- dead of a bullet wound.

"At this time, we don't know if it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound or if he was shot by the local resident," Martin said.

 

CNN

In other first world countries there wouldn't be a need to have a local resident to chase off a guy with a gun when that guy had already killed 20+ people in the congregation in a matter of seconds. Access to firearms is so easy in this country and it is why there are so many mass shootings and death by guns. Stricter policies in Europe/Australia/Japan these events are very rare. This guy in 15 seconds did more damage than what has occurred in the UK during an entire year.

 

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

Oh, domestic violence...

 

Texas gunman was court-martialed, confined 12 months and kicked out of USAF for assaulting his wife and their child, our DC bureau reports.

4 minutes ago

 

matt pearce (twitter)

[Boiler 43,429]

Excluding knife and acid attacks?

[JimandChristy 1,689]

10 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Excluding knife and acid attacks?

Ahhh hello Mr Strawman *waves*