^^^ Which suspect?
The name given is Syed Farooq. Don’t know which one of the suspects he was. Look up the name in Twitter.
Yeah and that suspect convinced two buddies/friends/whatever to come along for the ride???
The United States… The first world country with the most freedom to kill somebody with a firearm.
I see a couple of choices. We stop electing leaders who are pawns of the NRA.
We get rid of men. Since guns don’t kill people, people kill people and these people are men…men kill people.
As a man, the second choice is not my favorite choice. I think there are some women thinking hard about this second choice today.
@fireandrain it’s terrifying. If people do start going after public health people, which wouldn’t surprise me, we’re not a very well protected group.
I just presented at APHA a few weeks ago (American Public Health Association). There were thousands and thousands of us all in one place and I never walked through any kind of security. For those of us who work in reproductive health/rights, it’s even scarier. We’re the people the lunatics will probably come after (see last week for evidence).
Many of my MPH friends work in California because Michigan pulls heavily from California (I have no idea why). I never thought I’d have to send out a mass message to them to make sure they were OK.
@romanigypsyeyes What I was saying is that many countries have.had their own periods of violence. Your cousins didn’t live in Northern Ireland. There were 3531 sectarian killings there from 1969 to 2001 with a population of 1.8 million. The IRA also conducted a bombing campaign in England during that time.
We have grievous problems here in the USA with guns but it bothers me when other countries try to be holier than thou and ignore their own history.
And in Georgia today …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/02/the-other-mass-shooting-that-happened-today-in-the-united-states/?postshare=3641449104525005&tid=ss_fb
1 male suspect down, the other a female (both dead). There may or may not be a 3rd.
(From the press conference)
(Edited to clarify)
They announced that one of the suspects killed in the car was a woman.
NoVaDad, I searched for that name and it’s clearly just a rumor – it doesn’t seem to come from any media outlet or journalist. Supposedly, a man with that name was the county employee who left the meeting – but even if that’s true, if they were all wearing masks when they came in and started shooting, how does anyone know he was one of them? Twitter rumors are not always reliable, to say the least.
The name released is only traced back to twitter, and to people who would have no idea whether or not that person (who may or may not even exist) was in the room at the time.
There is NO EVIDENCE that the name is linked to a person let alone to a person involved in this.
I beg that no one spread rumors, especially when people with that or similar names may face real, live repercussions (as has happened many times when people’s names and pictures have been circulated who were in no way related to the case).
That’s why I didn’t repeat his name – I agree it’s wrong to do so when there’s not even a journalist reporting it, just random people making the claim on twitter. Remember the photo the New York Post put on its front page after the Boston Marathon bombing, identifying two people who turned out to have nothing to do with it?
TV news just reported that the apartment in Redlands currently being searched is connected to someone who works for the department of public health. A person by the name alleged works for that department.
I take back my supposition before that there was not planning for this bloodbath.
And here’s an article about the ban on federally funded research on gun violence: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/12/02/3727406/doctors-gun-violence-research/
This is where we’re headed.
The news is now reporting that name (I will not ever use the name of a person/people like this for a variety of reasons. I refuse to give them more notoriety.)
I still ask that no one spread names until it is confirmed- and do not spread pictures until it is a confirmed image. You never know whose life you may be inadvertently ruining.
If this was a personal dispute, hard to see why the involvement of the others. Also hard to see the pipe bomb, the body armor, etc. Obviously, this had to have been planned well ahead. Not the sort of thing one would expect if this was a spontaneous argument.
The problem with wild speculation is you can easily be 100% wrong. (me)
^^Thank you for admitting that.
Yes, me too. I went with a gang connection, given the usual crime suspects there. But now with the FBI saying possible terrorism, it could be ISIS sympathizers.