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Mass Shooting in Gilroy, CA at Garlic Festival [ 4 confirmed dead, 15 wounded ]
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i know it will have an effect and would probably reduce gun violence in the state of california. but it would not eliminate it and people in other states would use that fact to prevent any regulations in their own state.
This will definitely happen but it will very likely also have some positive effect. Gun crime will decrease an that area, by a low percentage at first, but it's something you can point to as evidence (apart from the numerous international examples such as Australia). Some progressive state needs to make the first step at some point. Change obviously is not coming from the top because the NRA has half of America's politicians in their pockets.
RIP to the victims of this shooting!
A six year old kid? Come on man.
And Congress still won't do a fucking thing. Makes my fucking blood boil.
And Congress still won't do a fucking thing. Makes my fucking blood boil.
nope. unfortunately I'm pretty confident that the current supreme court would overturn any gun restriction that'd do a lick of good.
If Sandy Hook didn't wake them up nothing will. I think even if their children's schools were shot up they'd still offer thoughts and prayers, or worse deny it even happened in the first place.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded...
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My the victims rest in peace.
Sadly this won't be the end and nothing will be done about it because assholes love their guns.
Sadly this won't be the end and nothing will be done about it because assholes love their guns.
Doesn't help you have shitbag nutjobs telling other crazy nutjobs that it didn't actually happen, and it's a ploy by the government to take their guns away.
holy shit that's more than one a day
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Day 209, today is day 210
I always found this page interesting/worrying:
Last 72 hours of incidents
Last month, Steven Romero celebrated his sixth birthday at Legoland in California. On Sunday afternoon, he was shot and killed at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California.
"There's nothing I really can do besides try to be with him until I can put him in his resting spot, wherever that is," his father Alberto Romero told NBC Bay Area.
"My son had his whole life to live and he was only six. That's all I can say."
Romero was at home with his 9-year-old daughter when he found out about the shooting. Steven had gone to the festival with his mother and grandmother, who were also injured in the shooting.
Romero said that Steven's mother had been shot in the hand twice, and he believes the grandmother shot in the leg.
In total, three people were killed and 15 injured in the shooting, authorities said.
Police also shot and killed a suspect who was carrying an assault-type rifle, according to a statement by the City of Gilroy. Police believe a second person may have been involved. The shooter entered the packed festival by cutting through a fence, police said. The festival had tight security, including metal detectors.
There was a comment earlier in the thread from a woman that said that she saw a guy walking and spraying left to right and right to left. The boys mom and grandmother getting hit in the hands and leg would suggest that the gunman was certainly aiming lower in order to hit them there and to hit a little kid.
I listened to a podcast recently where they talked about a law that was passed where people can't sue gun companies when a mass shooting occurs. Apparently some parents from Sandy Hook found a loophole and a lawsuit is moving forward. I doubt anything will change but maybe something good will come from this.
This festival supposedly had a heavy police presence and still was able to inflict carnage. While I'm sure it helped in preventing it from being worse, it still doesn't hit the raw fact that you have a "good guy" with a gun at location and still can't stop multiple people being shot in seconds with modern firearms. Just horrible for all those involved, especially that boy's family. RIP.
I don't think the security circus is going prevent an attack like this. What's a couple beeps on a metal detector when you're already geared up with assault rifle, body armor etc.
I don't even know what to say or think. How we continue as a country to tolerate this sick shit is insanity. Over and over. That poor little boy, he just had his fucking birthday! Every single person in congress that allows this bullshit to happen should be forced to relive each of these horrific events first fucking hand. Absolutely and completely disgusting!
It's always too late. Unless the shooter somehow misses there will always be a body count before it's stopped.
They apparently stopped him within 30 seconds. That's great, but unfortunately you can do a lot of damage with a firearm in thirty seconds.
Is there any more info on the possible 2nd shooter? Are the local police still working on this assumption?
Fuck. This country is deeply fucked, not sure we will ever be able to crawl out of this never-ending loop.
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How is there no mass protest in DC over this? It's like there's a war in the states.
Meanwhile on Twitter, the right has convinced themselves that the shooter was a Democrat, like "all mass shooters".
Think they would have cleared that up by looking at the footprints in the riverbank to see if there were multiple sets. Most likely was just the one shooter if they haven't said anything by now.
A friend and I were talking about this not too long ago, about how America loves guns more than their own kids. We came to the conclusion that it would take a mass shooter to start shooting up dog kennels for the NRA to start caring about people's lives.
Maybe the 2nd suspect is someone who drove this jackass, would be as guilty so hope they find him or her.
Awful news, gutwrenching about the 6 year old boy. Gunman getting a shot to the head was a favor to that evil, should have been subdued and let him face the heinous crime for the rest of his life.
Awful news, gutwrenching about the 6 year old boy. Gunman getting a shot to the head was a favor to that evil, should have been subdued and let him face the heinous crime for the rest of his life.
Also, did you know Hitler was a socialist? Checkmate, libs!
The "good guy" with a gun can only react to whats happening. He can't do shit before anything happens and guns can kill a lot of people real fast, real easy unfortunately.
Statistically its almost always about the power trip. If theres more means for that power trip to be cut short and a higher chance of bullets coming back at them almost all individuals tend to buckle, doesnt matter much what they have which is why they tent to pick areas with the least resistance or the highest concentration of individuals to maximize damage in the least amount of time. Especially when individuals arnt geared up with assault rifles or body armor (and unless you want to go full north holywood, a plate carrier isnt going to stop a 5.56 in your gut from hurting), but semi-auto weapons and a chest rig which aint stopping shit.
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This is, sadly, why DC did not fight the overturn of our gun restrictions - carried to the Supreme Court, there was potential for it to overturn most gun laws in the US. So DC took the collective loss.