Another one. Eesh.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/24/13455394-several-people-shot-outside-empire-state-building?lite

If they had stricter gun control, this never would have happened.

Seriously though, it's a shame that people died because of some wacko.

I wouldn't jump to conclusions just yet on this one.  The story said 2 were killed and one of those was the shooter.  Who knows, maybe the other was his boss who could have been a huge dick.  

Yeah, 2 dead, one of which was the shooter. No, it's not strange that it's less disturbing than Aurora. If it had happened in the projects or a trailer park over someone sleeping with someone else's wife, or someone owing someone else money, you wouldn't be reading about it.

Olympics are over, I think most people are tired of politics at this point, and Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Iran are all old-hat, so the 24hour news media is jumping all over every incident they can.

Apparently it was somehow news here in the DC Metro area when some guy out in Martinsburg, WV was jogging on a public sidewalk in his MOLLE gear with an orange-tipped dummy rifle, ruck sack, and empty mags to stay in shape while on terminal leave from the Army.

Meh

sinisterNorth wrote: My local news reported this: http://www.wfmj.com/story/19352639/montana-man-injured-by-runaway-cow

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-shootings-chicago-violence-august-23-august-24-violence-gunfire-20120823,0,49779.story

FreeEnterprise wrote: usafpilot07 wrote: FreeEnterprise wrote: Well, it is a good thing that only the officers and the criminal were armed... Because clearly the officers would be able to take him down without anyone else being hit by their bullets.  Oh wait.  Looks like the officers actually did accidentally shoot some bystanders... We better just ban CCW anyway, since the cops clearly would never just shoot into a crowd if they might hit someone innocent.  What is your argument here? Just pointing out the obvious. In the theater shooting, liberals were spouting off about how if there were ccw people in the crowd then people would have missed the shooter and injured innocents.  Because CCW's people aren't capable of handling a firearm like a highly trained officer who would never shoot an innocent person, when aiming at a criminal. Except... Anytime ANYONE fires a gun, someone innocent could get shot. It is part of the danger in our society when criminals run rampant, as they don't have to worry about the public being able to protect themselves.

I think that CCH is one of the few conservative ideals we see exactly eye to eye on, but that's a terrible argument in favor of it.

I don't see this as any more than a murder. A stupidly public one, but a murder.

People do that all the time.

People get shot every day lay off the koolaid you'll become a better man.