Laid-off gun nut kills cops in Pittsburgh PA, USA

[Jack_Burton]

[quote]
A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an assault rifle held police at bay for hours as their fallen officers were left bleeding nearby, their colleagues unable to reach them.

When it was over four hours later, three officers were dead and more than 100 rounds had been fired by SWAT teams and the gunman on the quiet Pittsburgh street, police said.[/quote]

apparently, the 23 yo ambushed the cops who had answered to a domestic disturbance call.

interestingly, the article had this to add. i recall someone on flob liked to talk about how Obama-craze had actually increased sales because of gun-paranoia.

Poplawski had feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on the way” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon,” said Edward Perkovic, his best friend.

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_ … h_shooting

[Fortigurn]

Then there was this recent shooting which left 14 dead. It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that something is going badly wrong in that society.

[Satellite_TV]

@Fortigurn

Then there was this recent shooting which left 14 dead. It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that something is going badly wrong in that society.

There’s nothing wrong with that society. It’s quite politically correct and fashionable to shoot and kill as many people as possible before putting a cap in your own head, when your having a bad hair day.

Anyways, you can expect this type or behaviour in America. It’s as normal as drive by shootings or to sue MacDonalds for US$50 million because they actually served you a hot coffee.

The minor events keep many people employed, Journalists, emergency servces, CSI staff, mental health professionals, medical profressionals, coroners, funeral palours all benefit from another ay another dollar. Even the guys digging graves and the landscapers benefit.

[headhonchoII]

No gun, no shooting, no dead people…can’t see what the mystery is!

[plasmatron]

Socialists!..

[ac_dropout]

Thank goodness there was no cannibalism

[Fortigurn]

And another one.

[quote]Dad kills 5 kids in latest US mass shooting

An American man has shot and killed his five children - aged between seven and 16 - and turned the gun on himself after his wife said she was leaving him.

James Harrison, 34, killed his children inside his mobile home in Graham, Washington state, then drove to a nearby casino and shot himself inside his car, a Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman said.

Ed Troyer says Harrison looked for his missing wife on Friday and found her at a convenience store with another man. She said she was leaving Harrison to be with her new boyfriend.

Alerted by neighbours, police found the five children dead, some shot several times, inside the mobile home’s bedrooms and one inside the bathroom.

Mr Harrison was found dead with a rifle shot to the head inside his car, with the engine still running.

“This is our theory of what happened - we’re still working to lock down everybody’s account of what happened and when,” Mr Troyer said.

Mass shooting spate

The family tragedy marks the latest spasm of gun violence in the United States, which has been rocked by six fatal mass shootings in the past three weeks, including three police killed on Saturday by a 23-year-old man at his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Pittsburgh attack came a day after a recently unemployed man stormed an immigrant services centre in Binghamton, New York - where he had been learning English - and killed 13 people before taking his own life.

On March 29, a heavily armed gunman shot dead eight people at a North Carolina nursing home, days after six people were killed in an apparent murder-suicide in an upscale neighbourhood in northern California’s Silicon Valley.

Criminologist Jack Levin - of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts - says there appears to be a link between the failing US economy and rising body count.

“A mass killer is someone who has almost always suffered a catastrophic loss - that’s the link between a recession and mass killings,” he said.

“Catastrophic losses serve as inspiration or precipitant.”[/quote]

Is anyone in that country actually interested in reducing the number of such incidents? Or are they just so used to the violence now it goes largely unnoticed?

[Huang_Guang_Chen]

But an armed society is a polite society, so I’m sure he said sorry just before he took the kiddies’ lights out.

HG

[Fortigurn]

@Huang Guang Chen

But an armed society is a polite society, so I’m sure he said sorry just before he took the kiddies’ lights out.

I suppose as long as they’re killing each other politely, it’s all ok.

[Chris]

Poplawski had feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on the way” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon,” said Edward Perkovic, his best friend.

So the blame for this incident rests on those wingnut talk show hosts who made up these rumors of a supposed “Obama gun ban”. It was only a matter of time until some nutcase believed them and acted on the paranoia caused. :fume:

[anon38216271]

@Satellite TV

[quote=“Fortigurn”]Then there was this recent shooting which left 14 dead. It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that something is going badly wrong in that society.

There’s nothing wrong with that society. It’s quite politically correct and fashionable to shoot and kill as many people as possible before putting a cap in your own head, when your having a bad hair day.

Anyways, you can expect this type or behaviour in America. It’s as normal as drive by shootings or to sue MacDonalds for US$50 million because they actually served you a hot coffee.[/quote] You’re damned right, boy! Guns are as American as apple pie.

The minor events keep many people employed, Journalists, emergency servces, CSI staff, mental health professionals, medical profressionals, coroners, funeral palours all benefit from another ay another dollar. Even the guys digging graves and the landscapers benefit.

And as newbie journalist, I’m hoping the body count gets higher. (serious sarcasm folks)