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HERKIMER, N.Y. - Police in upstate New York are searching for a gunman after shootings at two different businesses left four people dead and at least two wounded, according to local media reports.
According to LittleFallsTimes.com, police say two people were fatally shot at Gaffey's car wash in Herkimer and two more were gunned down at a business on Washington Street in Herkimer. The survivors were injured during the spree, but police did not say at which location.
State police told media outlets that the second business was a barber shop.
Herkimer Village police would only say there was a shooting and a manhunt. In the meantime, local schools are on lockdown.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57574071-504083/upstate-new-york-shooting-leaves-4-dead-2-injured-police-tell-local-media/
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)When other areas are too fucking stupid to do the same thing.
Gun nuts can cross borders.
Which is why we need a federal ban.
cali
(114,904 posts)They do have fairly stringent gun control laws. That isn't even close to guns being outlawed.
guardian
(2,282 posts)Or has DU become a crime blotter?
cali
(114,904 posts)In light of all of the recent mass shootings and the debate on gun control are you seriously suggesting that posting a story about a mass shooting is irrelevant or trivial?
How fucking silly.
guardian
(2,282 posts)without comment (which is what the OP did) then all it does is clutter up the forum with run of the mill articles from the local section of newspapers. In the grand scheme of things this is a routine incident. Posting without comment is fairly pointless.
Maybe DU should create a separate topic for posting gun crimes? Then you could pre-number all 30,000 stories and just fill them in during the course of the year. You could have even more stories if you posted crime event where a gun was involved but never fired. Maybe to make it even more interesting, you could add stories for all 50,000 auto fatalities every year. Next burgularies... then zoning violations...
cali
(114,904 posts)take a look at GD and you can see that it's hardly cluttered with crime stories. duh.
Don't like it? tough shit.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)Tip of my cap to you this morning.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)human life? Did it come natural to you? Or does it take like two months in an NRA indoctrination camp?
guardian
(2,282 posts)This incident was 0.00258% of the world daily death toll. THere are 870,000,000 people that go hungry every day. Just posting each individual case without comment is pointless.
If you have a solution, or want to propose an action to make things better, then I'm all ears. But if all you want to do is wring your hands and say "Look! Look!" then I have better things to do.
cali
(114,904 posts)And let me put this in very simple language just for you: Major news stories are a staple on GD. That ain't gonna change. You can whine your gun loving ass off about it all you want. And posting a news story is hardly wringing one's hands, genius.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Just another day in gun-lovers paradise...(only 6 shot this time though).
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)Don't want to contribute? Then there are hundreds of more threads.
guardian
(2,282 posts)Where in the newspaper story did it talk about "unregulated access to guns" being involved in this incident?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)after he tried to burn it down.
Goodness knows what he has on him.
guardian
(2,282 posts)"unregulated"?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)guardian
(2,282 posts)are different than no regulations. Which of the many Federal, State, and local regulations were violated or ineffective in this instance?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)of weapons capable of dealing out mass death.
No civilized human being needs six rifles or shotguns.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)If a murderous nutjob could get his hands on them.
Then again, anyone hoarding rifles is by definition a nutjob.
guardian
(2,282 posts)Here is your solution:
Keep dreaming.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Sorry the world isn't turning the way you want it to. Wait, actually, no, I'm not.
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Response to geek tragedy (Reply #7)
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HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)It's fucking news, man...