TBI: Tennessee highway gunman motivated by police shootings

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Authorities in Tennessee say a man who opened fire on a highway in Tennessee targeted police officers and others because he was troubled by incidents involving black people and law enforcement officers.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says in a news release that initial conversations with the suspect revealed he was troubled by incidents across the U.S. The TBI says the suspect is black; the shooting victims are all white.

Investigators say the suspect killed one person and wounded three others, including a police officer. The suspect had two guns early Thursday morning when he shot at a motel in Bristol and then shot indiscriminately at several passing cars. When he was confronted by police, he fired at the three officers who responded.

The suspect was shot by the officers and is being treated at a hospital. He has not yet been charged.

Read more: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2016/07/08/tbi-tennessee-highway-gunman-motivated-police-shootings/86867842/

[Helen Borg]

1. ... And now police officers motivated by this shooting...

Oh no!...

[paleotn]

4. As Gandhi once said....

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind"

[JSup]

8. Especially...

...when you're taking the eye of someone because somebody you didn't know was killed by someone the person you're attacking didn't even know.

'H' kills 'C' so J' kills 'I'? Let's hope 'F' doesn't go after 'O' next; I'd hate to see the letters with straight lines start a war with the letters that have curves.

'Sense': I probably don't make it. But now I have to worry about a bunch of white folks running around trying to hurt people because they look vaguely similar to someone that hurt and killed some people that look vaguely similar to them.

[B2G]

2. A cop in St Louis was shot in the neck today.

Ambushed during a traffic stop. It's gonna be a long summer.

http://fox2now.com/2016/07/08/ballwin-officer-in-critical-stable-condition-after-shooting/

[840high]

6. .+1

[tonyt53]

3. What do all of these have in common? People with guns, some are cops, that should never have guns.

This proves that more armed people DO NOT mean a safer society. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

[paleotn]

5. Bingo. n/t

[Lizzie Poppet]

7. How to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people...

...is the public safety question we're facing right now. It's a damned difficult problem because practical, do-able solutions are thin on the ground in the face of such a massive extant supply of firearms. Moreover, the rise of 3D printing enormously compounds the problem if you're looking at reducing the overall supply as part of the solution.

[sulphurdunn]

9. Hell, I live up the road

from Bristol. It's kinda famous as the birthplace of country music, although most people never heard of it and fewer could tell you where it is if they had. The cops rarely shoot anyone around here, and I never heard of them shooting anyone who wasn't armed and dangerous.