What. No thread started yet? The shooting was at least an hour ago. So tragic. Five already confirmed dead. What is wrong with people?
I’m just sick of all the shootings. 
Just heard about this. That is the terminal I always fly in and out of.
I just turned on the news and the blurb on bottom says gunman surrendered, but people are still running out of the terminal.
I saw the alert while at lunch with a friend and frantically called my best friend who is coming back from Florida today.
It didn’t occur to me that he was nowhere near Ft Lauderdale but I just saw airport and Florida and panicked.
This was almost an hour ago and I still have a pit in my stomach.
I just don’t feel like there’s anything left to say about mass shootings.
^and that is the pity, right?
Now being reported that there may be a second shooter.
5 dead. 13 injured. Airport closed.
I’m glued to the TV
Many of these incidents start with reports of multiple shooters that never existed.
My work colleague has family that flew in at 1:15 this afternoon and wasn’t sure which airport in the area they used. They came in to W. Palm Beach. She was in tears when I came back from lunch.
Why do people feel violence is the only way to deal with their grievances?
Another day, another mass shooting. La dI dah, la dI dah.
I’m flying down on the 24th. It already takes forever to get through security at FLT. Imagine it’s going to take twice as long and they’ll probably suspend pre-check.
Thought it was terminal 1 where shooting happened but it was terminal two - so likely no one I know from here flies into that terminal.
I want to scream!! All these poor people. Now there will be copy cats.
No second shooter.
Press conference: Sheriff says there was no second shooter or shooting as reported in another terminal.
I was at a cafe about a mile south of FLL this afternoon when a bunch of emergency vehicles raced past. My sisters in Boston texted me a few minutes later asking me what the heck was going on at our airport. I had no idea what had happened – had to look it up on my phone.
I just dropped my son off at that terminal 2 days ago. Unbelievable.
We usually go in and out of Terminal 1 too . . . have been to that airport hundreds of times. Sickened. It’s crowded and chaotic even in good moments. Can’t imagine what it’s like today.
Just another day in America. Five dead? Pshaw. That’s nothing…
Going to be honest… for the first time in my life, the news of the past week is making me wonder if I really want to stay in the US. I’ve never seriously thought of becoming an expat (let alone changing citizenship), but it is so frustrating and honestly embarrassing to be an Americam right now. And everything I see in the news seems like we are on a worse trajectory in every area that matters to me.
This is becoming tragically routine…a childhood friend of mine son was shot the other day. It was in an area one would not expect such a thing. It stemmed from an argument over a blocked driveway and altercation that ensued. The young man is struggling for his life while his friend who was also shot , was killed. I just can’t wrap my brain around all of this
Agree 100%, @intparent. You are not alone in those thoughts.
I can’t even talk about these shootings anymore. If dozens of 5 and 6 year olds get slaughtered and nothing is done in the aftermath of that, it is hard for me to fathom how it is going to change.