I can’t remember the last one. I mean, there’s so many shootings here, a female shooter would stand out.
Awful.
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The police officers here did a good job saving lives, as there has been a debate in America about what the police is supposed to do.
Nashville police who took out a school shooter in minutes appeared to call out Uvalde’s officers, saying ‘we will never wait to make entry’ to ‘stop a threat’
A Nashville police chief appeared to call out cops in Uvalde, Texas, after Monday’s school shooting.
"We will never wait to make entry and to go in," said Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake.
Texas authorities have faced backlash over their botched response to the Uvalde school shooting.
A Nashville police chief appeared to call out cops in Uvalde, Texas, as he praised his officers for quickly taking out a mass shooter at a Christian elementary school in the Tennessee city on Monday.
“As I said before, we will not wait,” Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters after the massacre at The Covenant School, where three 9-year-olds and three adult staffers were slain on Monday morning.
Drake added, “I was hoping this day would never ever come here in the city. But we will never wait to make entry and to go in and to stop a threat especially when it deals with our children.”
The police chief appeared to be referencing how police in the small Texas city of Uvalde handled the May 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, which left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Texas authorities have faced immense backlash over their botched response to the shooting and for drastically changing their narrative about what happened before, during, and after the rampage.
In total, it took Uvalde authorities more than an hour to finally confront and shoot dead the 18-year-old gunman at Robb Elementary School.
In the aftermath of the shooting, a top Texas law enforcement official slammed the massacre as an “abject failure.”
Meanwhile, Nashville police on Tuesday released graphic body-camera footage showing how officers took just minutes to find and kill a 28-year-old shooter at The Covenant School.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nashville-police-took-school-shooter-171951294.html
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Great job by these officers
BODY CAM: Nashville Metro Police body cam video released from The Covenant School Shooting
They were fast, straight into danger. Still heartbreaking to think about the victims…
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Anyone who takes their own life problems out on other people does not deserve to be on this planet, and it is mind-boggling to target children.
I’m trying to figure out the reason for this, but crazy people are…crazy, so you can’t make it make sense.
Who knows what’s in people minds. Distress can come from hidden thoughts and feelings that are not conscious.
Bodycam: Cops Take Down Louisville Bank Shooter During Deadly Mass Shooting
Bodycam footage shows the moments police responded to a mass shooting at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. Authorities said the shooter, 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, killed five people and injured eight others. Sturgeon, who also died in the shooting, worked at the bank and allegedly started firing at employees during a morning meeting before the bank opened.
Things have gotten worse over the month
Why are people shooting strangers for being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Gun experts weigh in
Whether it’s due to anger or fear, gun experts worry America is becoming a “shoot first” country.
A 16-year-old Kansas City honors student was shot in the head by a complete stranger last week for ringing the wrong doorbell while trying to pick up his younger brothers from a sleepover.
Two days later, a 20-year-old woman in upstate New York was shot dead by a homeowner after she and her friends pulled into the wrong driveway in Hebron, N.Y.
And on Tuesday, two Texas cheerleaders were struck by gunfire after one of the young women opened the door to a car she mistook for her own.
According to Josh Horwitz, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, unless Americans are willing to get serious about modern-day gun culture, the senseless shooting of innocent people in the wrong place at the wrong time will become the new norm.
“We have a shoot first society,” he said. “We have a culture of fear.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-strangers-shooting-one-another-200500721.html
Man who shot at Florida couple when they went to wrong house on Instacart delivery will not face charges
A man who shot at a Florida couple when they went to the wrong house to make an Instacart grocery delivery will not face charges.
Authorities in Davie, north of Miami, said they will not recommend charges against the shooter, 43-year-old Antonio Caccavale, after determining that his actions were justified by fear.
The last couple weeks have been just crazy! More of the same.
Local middle school had a active shooter incident a couple weeks ago (prank) and then some dumb kid brought a loaded gun to school. Middle school?!?
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It’s becoming like the wild west: shoot people because you think they are doing something wrong or because you think you are in danger when there is no threat.
That is obvious ! - killing kids creates maximum pain !
America also have a inner city gang problem that terrorized neighborhoods.
I think gang violence is more easier to handle then a mass shooting because we know where the high crime areas are at, only if those mayors grow a pair and crack down on these thugs.
Prosecutors: Chicago’s ‘Goonie’ gang shattered lives, terrorized South Side with 10 slayings, 6 attempted murders over 2-year span
I personally just don’t get the US citizens obsession with guns. Almost on a daily basis you see in the news about mass shootings in the US at schools, night clubs etc etc, and for some reason the population still live in this fantasy world that they believe they don’t have an issue with guns. It’s baffling.
In the UK our gun laws are super tight and you can only own a gun if you can prove that you need to own one. As far as I’m aware you can only own a shotgun (single or double barrel) or a rifle for hunting reasons and you need to go through a super stringent process to obtain a license. You can also own air powered pellet guns without a license. However, because we don’t have guns the kids like to use knifes instead.
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Maybe it has to do with freedom or somebody taking something away from you. Plus the whole argument about the Constitution giving people that right.
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Scared someone may take away the publics power to kill each other! Yep, sounds like a very sensible policy 
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What do you guys think? Any chance of this ever happening? A 28th Amendment to take on gun violence, by CA’s Gove Newsom.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/newsom-guns-amendment-18142011.php
Newsom’s amendments wants the following
Newsom said his amendment would tackle gun-safety measures that Democrats have long been unable to pass: requiring universal background checks, raising the firearm purchase age to 21, mandating a firearm purchase wait period, and banning civilians from buying assault weapons that “serve no other purpose than to kill as many people as possible.”
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I think this will eventually be law.
But the vast number of other types of firearms in the US will make the law meaningless. However, all politicians will support it - both sides will be able to claim victory for their supporters and that they care about the victims too. The number of shooting homicides will not fall: gun control as a political cause will be dead.
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Im sure this year will be the worst for gun violence in many years. And nothing will happen still.
Sad to say people like their guns more. And it’s funny because I think the people who cry most about these new laws maybe taking away their news guns, or making it harder to get guns, probably have like 5 already. So their life isn’t really being affected all that much.
Don’t think the politicians want to reduce gun deaths. The whole thing’s political, even for the politicians who want new laws to control guns. For them, its a good thing that a new law is not passed - this means they can continue to campaign and attract donors and voters. The longer this drags on the sharper the defining line between the party and their opponents.
Of course, if a new law is passed, it will increase bureaucracy but not reduce deaths so that’s a political win-win too.