Police confirm 2 dead, at least 4 wounded in Minneapolis office shooting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police confirm 2 dead, at least 4 wounded in Minneapolis office shooting
| Thursday, September 27, 2012 | Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012 6:13pm

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police confirm 2 dead, at least 4 wounded in Minneapolis office shooting.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Police-confirm-2-dead-at-least-4-wounded-in-3900162.php

[onehandle]

1. More guns in the workplace would have prevented this. nt

[valerief]

3. More AUTOMATIC weapons would have prevented it.

And break-in-case-of-emergency cases with guns in the building.

Because you can't have enough guns.

[CitizenPatriot]

4. This is all Obama's fault

If he would allow all Americans to carry nuclear weapons, we'd be FREE!111!!! /s

Very sorry for the victims and their families....

[Liberalagogo]

7. You made me feel bad :(

for laughing at that.

[cosmicone]

21. There are no victims

when it comes to guns. Just retarded unarmed fools who don't believe in the second amendment and who are predestined to be in the path of bullets out of stupidity.

[tosh]

5. ...

[Squinch]

6. And anyway, if this guy didn't have a gun, he'd have done it with a stapler or a toner cartridge.

Guns don't kill people, 'ya know.

[valerief]

10. You're so right. I completely forgot about all those stapler deaths.

[dmallind]

28. Oh what a Happy Land you live in to miss other alternatives. I should take a Bath if I were you.

[onehandle]

9. Hey! I can go wolfuclear if I have to...

More wolves in the workplace would have prevented this.

[Squinch]

18. Oh, dear. I just spit.

[Atypical Liberal]

15. It usually is someone with a gun who stops these kind of people. nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. Police: 2 dead, 4 wounded in Minn. office shooting

Police: 2 dead, 4 wounded in Minn. office shooting
AMY FORLITI | September 27, 2012 07:19 PM EST |

MINNEAPOLIS — Police say a workplace shooting in Minneapolis has left at least two people dead and four others wounded.

Minneapolis police spokesman Steve McCarty says there were "a couple of fatalities" from a shooting Thursday afternoon at Accent Signage Systems on the city's north side.

McCarty says at least four people were taken to hospitals. A spokeswoman for Hennepin County Medical Center says the hospital is treating three people from the scene, all in critical condition.

McCarty says police are treating it as an active crime scene, assuming the shooter is at large.

Dozens of squad cars and police vehicles have surrounded the business. Its website says the company makes interior signage. The company lists its founder as Reuven Rahamim. A phone message left there was not immediately returned.

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120927/us-minneapolis-shooting/

[xchrom]

8. The Gunners can write this off - not enough dead

For a 'mass shooting'.

Well - another day in gun toting America.

[KG]

11. word.

[harmonicon]

12. Wow, that's terrible.

Those people must have been a serious threat to that legal gun-owner. I'm sure s/he was incredibly frightened. It's a good thing s/he was able to shoot them before they caused any harm. God bless guns.

[Berserker]

17. legal gun-owner

I must have missed that part in the OP glad you cleared that up for us. YES lets not blame the idiot that did this lets just blame guns. I blame the vehicle that brought his sick ass to the scene that makes just as much sense. And yes god bless ignorant posters that blame everything on guns. Don.t look past your nose just post your anti gun bullshit.

[harmonicon]

19. What about "god bless guns" is "anti-gun bullshit"?

Guns are awesome, and awesomely effective at killing people who piss gun-owners off. I don't personally own any guns or other devices specifically designed and manufactured for killing human beings, but I don't own the hubble telescope either, and I think that's pretty rad. It's great at doing what it's designed for as well.

[Dr_Scholl]

20. That wasn't obnoxiously condescending at all...

[Skittles]

22. why are you so unhappy???

GUN NUTS WON - we simply have to get used to massacres

[Occulus]

34. This.

They really don't like that particular Tom Tomorrow comic, do they?

I wonder why...

[valerief]

26. Yes, it's a good thing that murderer stood his ground.

It would be an infringement of his freedumbs if he felt threatened and couldn't shoot them dead.

[slackmaster]

13. Mental illness is not something to joke about

What a terrible tragedy for the victims.

[Betsy Ross]

16. Not every murderer is mentally ill.

I was diagnosed 32 years ago and haven't killed anyone yet. Gee, I thought there were laws in most states that prevented mentally ill folks from getting guns. Guess not.
Spelling on edit

[slackmaster]

23. I'm sorry, but murdering innocent people is not something a mentally healthy person does.

Last edited Fri Sep 28, 2012, 09:27 AM - Edit history (1)

Certainly not over any possible beef a person might have with an employer. Nor is suicide by someone who is in good physical health. I regard the murderer's behavior in this incident as positive proof that he was severely mentally ill, and I think his death is as tragic as those of his victims. He didn't get help that could have saved his life and those of others. Mental illness kills people. I've seen it happen way too many times.

Gee, I thought there were laws in most states that prevented mentally ill folks from getting guns.

All 50 states and the federal government have laws that make it illegal for any person to transfer a firearm to someone that they know, or have reason to believe, has been adjudicated by a court of law as mentally incompetent.

Most mentally ill people are never adjudicated as incompetent, so they have the same Constitutional right to keep and bear arms as everyone else does.

[brentspeak]

30. And we all know how passionately slackmaster feels about the topic of mental illness

From all the (zero) times he has actually contributed to the Mental Health Support Group boards on both DU2 and DU3...

[slackmaster]

31. I'm not here to get support for my issues or to provide any support to you for yours

That's what mental health professionals are for.

[brentspeak]

32. Rather, you are here to sell the gun lobby's line

[slackmaster]

35. The opinions I express here are strictly my own. I built them, I own them, I take credit for them.

[azurnoir]

14. more from the strib

The shootings took place inside a business, Accent Signage Systems, in the 2300 block of Chestnut Avenue W. Officers from multiple agencies, including SWAT team officers, were on the scene as the evening wore on, and there were scanner reports that the shooter was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the basement of the business.

According to Finance & Commerce, Accent Signage employs 28 people.

Several ambulances were seen leaving the area for area hospitals. Hennepin County Medical Center said it was treating three people who were in a critical condition.

Heidi Pierce, a resident of the area, said a police officer told her that the shooter was a white man with a ponytail who was a disgruntled employee of the business.

http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/171609251.html

the neighborhood this took place in Bryn Mawr is a quiet for the most part residential area

[hifiguy]

24. So that's the explanation for all the sirens and such

I was hearing as I got home from work tonight. I live just a couple blocks north of Bryn Mawr.

[Comrade Grumpy]

36. I have never seen a single reference to a gruntled employee.

I guess they just don't make the news.

[slackmaster]

38. I've never heard a drunk go off on a jointed rant or seen someone look sheveled after an all-nighter

[Judi Lynn]

25. Fired worker shoots colleagues in Minneapolis killing 5

Fired worker shoots colleagues in Minneapolis killing 5
09:45 28 SET 2012

(AGI) Washington - Four persons were killed and another 4 wounded, 3 seriously, by a man who shot on his colleagues in Minneapolis. The man shot himself immediately after. The news was reported by American media. The shooting occurred in the offices of the Accent Signage Systems. According to Fox News, the aggressor was fired Thursday. The news has not been confirmed by the police, which did not reveal the name of the man and reported that it knows nothing of the relationship between the shooter and the company. Early investigations show that the man did not shoot indiscriminately but had already picked out his targets.

http://www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/201209280945-cro-ren1014-fired_worker_shoots_colleagues_in_minneapolis_killing_5

(That's the whole article. No more at link.)

[Remmah2]

27. Ah yes, the rush to blind judgement followed by lame cliche' remarks.

UFFDA.

[Kindly Refrain]

29. U.S. new motto

"In Guns We Trust"

[uppityperson]

33. So sorry for the victims, families, friends. RIP

[Comrade Grumpy]

37. Just another installment payment in our grand gun bargain:

We get all the guns we want and we accept the massacres that occur with numbing regularity. Ain't it sweet.

[MindPilot]

39. Yeah it is always the gun's fault

Never any consideration given to the levels of economic stress, workplace stress, and level of general bullshit that keeps many, many people real close to the edge.

Almost every "mass" shooting has unemployment somewhere close.

[Comrade Grumpy]

40. Excellent point! The perpetual gun debate obscures the other causes.

And it also becomes all about the pathology of the individual. That's the way we do it here.