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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Only in the hottest years this happens. And it grows very hot...
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    My best friend's daughter and her family live there. I am waiting for word they are okay. I do not think they would have been attending this video gaming event, but I am not resting easy until I know for sure they are all right.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I keep my fingers crossed, @4EverBonded.
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    My best friend's daughter and her family live there. I am waiting for word they are okay. I do not think they would have been attending this video gaming event, but I am not resting easy until I know for sure they are all right.

    My God i hope they are ok......
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    I don't know yet. AP reporting 4 dead plus the shooter is dead (some reports say shooter shot himself).

    Here's this to ponder:

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    Thats awful.....nothing upsets or surprises me anymore tbh.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Is it me or do those shootings happen especially in what is commonly known as the Bible Belt?
  • edited August 2018 Posts: 19,339
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Is it me or do those shootings happen especially in what is commonly known as the Bible Belt?

    It happens everywhere DD,an unstable coward and a gun or a knife.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Shootings definitely do not happen everywhere. Guns in America. Tremendous problem. Knifings and other weapons in other countries, yes.
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    Shootings definitely do not happen everywhere. Guns in America. Tremendous problem. Knifings and other weapons in other countries, yes.

    Cant argue with that..a true comment.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    "Thoughts and prayers" and empty platitudes until the next one commences. Business as usual here in the USA.
  • edited August 2018 Posts: 19,339
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    "Thoughts and prayers" and empty platitudes until the next one commences. Business as usual here in the USA.

    For a level headed young man like you to say that,its a worry.
  • JeremyBondonJeremyBondon Seeking out odd jobs with Oddjob @Tangier
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    If only there was a real Bond who could 've saved the day. Sadness all around.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    It will take the majority of citizens firmly demanding, through votes and protests and communications to all levels of govt, stricter gun control in the U.S.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    It will take the majority of citizens firmly demanding, through votes and protests and communications to all levels of govt, stricter gun control in the U.S.

    So nuts have a harder time getting guns??? Are you a Commie? Wait- we love Russians now... so... ummm... are you some kind of Socialist? Wait- Socialists rid guns from the populace... ummm... are you some kind of REASONABLE PERSON??
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    Shootings definitely do not happen everywhere. Guns in America. Tremendous problem. Knifings and other weapons in other countries, yes.

    No we have gun play every weekend. During the week too, although not every day, but weekend gun battles, you can go banco on.
    This is well reported.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Never mind the rhetoric. I just now found out my friend's daughter and family are fine, thank God. Jax is a big area. They were not near it.

    Shooter lost in the gaming event and killed two of the other players (winners). So sick. There is a video going around with the audio of this (not all, but a lot of the initial shooting). It was broadcast live, showing gaming screen, lower right corner sometimes showing a player. Before the video cuts out, there is a flash of red that some say is from a laser targeting that player. I won't post the video (again only thing shown is the game screen and one player a little on bottom right) but you can easily find it online if you are interested.

    From the Miami Herald: (partial, not in full here - the underline is from me, not the paper)

    Among the dead was 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore, a defeated contestant in the tournament. Police say he killed himself after opening fire on other competitors. The two other victims are believed to be Taylor Robertson, 27, of Ballard, West Virginia and Eli Clayton, 22, of Woodland Hills, California.
    Also online, at least for a while, was a short video clip from a live stream portion of the tournament. It showed Eli Clayton, wearing headphones and a red sweatshirt as he worked the control of his game. What appeared to be a gun’s red laser targeting dot was clearly visible on his chest. Moments later, he would be dead.

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    After a few gunshots, the video disappeared and all that remained was audio. The popular online live -streaming platform, called Twitch, soon deleted the footage but social media users had already captured it and all afternoon long it echoed across Twitter and Facebook.

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    Clayton was a highly successful gamer who didn’t take himself too seriously. “I’m really easy to get along with, I’m not a trouble maker,” he told EA Sports recently. “I’m always laughing and joking around. I’m just me, a cool dude. There’s really nowhere to go but up, honestly.”

    Clayton hadn’t originally planned to compete in Jacksonville but — possibly swayed by the $165,000 prize in the tournament finals in October — tweeted just days ago that he had changed his mind.
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    Robertson, a husband and father, was the winner of last year’s Madden tournament. The winner the previous year: Katz, the man who killed him.

    The shooting— which, police said, was carried out with a single handgun — started around 1:30 p.m. and police were on the scene with two minutes. Little was immediately known about Katz other than that he had stayed at a North Florida hotel the night before the shooting. Baltimore police were searching his home Sunday night.

    The killings took place in a game room at a Chicago Pizza restaurant inside at the Jacksonville Landing, a half-empty waterfront shopping and dining complex in downtown Jacksonville.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Other people in hospital injured reported as stable.
    I sure hope this victim named Timmy, in this tweet, pulls through.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    "America first!"

    First in terms of gun violence related suicide, Donald?
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    It has, unfortunately, long been a problem and not getting better at all.
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    If only there was a real Bond who could 've saved the day. Sadness all around.


    If only there were proper gun laws! Bond would have more important things to do than risking his life every day because of political stupidity! Not worth It!
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    Is this news worthy anymore. I happens most days in the land of the gun.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    It was to me.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Good to hear your friends weren t caught up in this tragedy.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    The problem is that we're at risk of taking this for granted. We mustn't. We shouldn't. We really can't!
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    jobo wrote: »
    If only there was a real Bond who could 've saved the day. Sadness all around.


    If only there were proper gun laws! Bond would have more important things to do than risking his life every day because of political stupidity! Not worth It!

    Spot on Jobo,so true.
  • edited August 2018 Posts: 4,622
    The guy accused of gunning down 4 people, including 2 cops in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, made his first court appearance today.
    Still no public utterances from police regarding motive, although unlike the Danforth lone gunman shootings in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Fredericton shooter does not appear to have been afflicted by any ISIS sympathies.
    For some bizarre reason this guy decided to blow away two fellow citizens and the first two cops who arrived on the scene.
    Some serious psychosis at play here, or maybe he had a grudge against the victims, OR maybe he wanted to kill cops and took out a couple of civilians to trigger a massive response and gun battle, which is what he got.
    barryt007 wrote: »
    jobo wrote: »
    If only there was a real Bond who could 've saved the day. Sadness all around.


    If only there were proper gun laws! Bond would have more important things to do than risking his life every day because of political stupidity! Not worth It!

    Spot on Jobo,so true.

    Yes, definitely in terms of a lethally licensed Mi6 agent being available to intervene, but I think the point honorable member @gideoneldude was making, was that too bad there wasn't a Bond-like citizen type or law enforcement type who might have been able to intervene in time.
    Quite understandable musing from a Bond fan I think, in light of this tragic event.
    Being Bond fans, I think most us would have been inclined to step in, armed or otherwise, to do what we could to thwart the shooter.
    As it was police got there pretty fast, but not fast enough.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Leaving this here and I am finished with this topic.
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    Only in America :(
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Leaving this here and I am finished with this topic.

    Predictably POS comment from a POS site. PLEASE vote blue to start the wave of change. Even if they suck, they can't suck as bad as these guys.
    And just because I like to shock peeps with controversial stuff...
    From the 80's they KNEW about climate change, and they SAW the future of rampant Capitalism. They KNEW it would put an expiration date on our ability to thrive as a species on Earth. They PLANNED this takeover all along, and they have always prized winning over everything, even the survival of the Human race. They KNOW no God or Gods, they only want to live as large as they can while they're here, and leave the mess for their kids to manage. The Kubrick movie "Dr. Strangelove" is amazingly predictive of the mentality, if not the actual circumstances of this planet's descent into "interesting times."
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
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