Oregon School Shooting - At Least 10 Dead

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At least 10 dead, 20 injured at community college in Roseburg, Oregon.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/us/oregon-college-shooting/index.html

EDIT: Threat no longer active (gunman neutralized); some reports indicate 15 dead.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Not another one

[The Dowager Mod]

This is why I send my kids to a private school with a big wall around it and metal detectors at the doors.

[All Along The Watchtower]

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[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Two things will be almost certain:

1. the firearm(s) was legally purchased.
2. the mythological "good guy" (i.e. private citizen) with a gun was once again nowhere to be found.

[Lief 🗽]

Two things will be almost certain:

1. the firearm(s) was legally purchased.
2. the mythological "good guy" (i.e. private citizen) with a gun was once again nowhere to be found.

If only children were allowed to legally purchase firearms and open carry them at school!

[exopolitician]

Awful.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

2. the mythological "good guy" (i.e. private citizen) with a gun was once again nowhere to be found.

Correct.  It was a gun-free campus.  No armed good guys.

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UPDATE - Gunman dead.

According to one witness (unconfirmed), she "saw the gunman asking people to stand up and state their religion and then start firing."

Authorities are yet to confirm the # of fatalities.

[Gass3268]

2. the mythological "good guy" (i.e. private citizen) with a gun was once again nowhere to be found.

Correct.  It was a gun-free campus.  No armed good guys.

Incorrect. Where were the good guys with guns?

[Landslide Lyndon]

AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE A GUN PROBLEM!!!

[Stockdale for Veep]

American Exceptionalism

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Guns or no guns, why are people deranged enough to kill people in mass numbers and why does it happen in general? Sure, you can take guns away from people (it won't stop anything but dream on) but that doesn't change the fact that enough people are deranged enough to make this happen or at least fantasize about it. There is a deep mental health crisis in this country that gets ignored by the usual suspects due to their strange gun fetish.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Guns or no guns, why are people deranged enough to kill people in mass numbers and why does it happen in general? Sure, you can take guns away from people (it won't stop anything but dream on) but that doesn't change the fact that enough people are deranged enough to make this happen or at least fantasize about it. There is a deep mental health crisis in this country that gets ignored by the usual suspects due to their strange gun fetish.

And that's why Republicans voted to increase mental health funding.

Oh wait...

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Guns or no guns, why are people deranged enough to kill people in mass numbers and why does it happen in general? Sure, you can take guns away from people (it won't stop anything but dream on) but that doesn't change the fact that enough people are deranged enough to make this happen or at least fantasize about it. There is a deep mental health crisis in this country that gets ignored by the usual suspects due to their strange gun fetish.

And that's why Republicans voted to increase mental health funding.

Oh wait...

Ten innocent people are dead and yet you somehow have made it to 43. The world can be so cruel sometimes.

[TDAS04]

RIP to the victims.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Guns or no guns, why are people deranged enough to kill people in mass numbers and why does it happen in general? Sure, you can take guns away from people (it won't stop anything but dream on) but that doesn't change the fact that enough people are deranged enough to make this happen or at least fantasize about it. There is a deep mental health crisis in this country that gets ignored by the usual suspects due to their strange gun fetish.

And that's why Republicans voted to increase mental health funding.

Oh wait...

Ten innocent people are dead and yet you somehow have made it to 43. The world can be so cruel sometimes.

Spare me with the faux outrage. If you and your party cared about the victims then you'd stop groveling at the feet of NRA.

[Bojack Horseman]

Another day, another school shooting. It says a lot about our country when we deem mass shootings and child massacres in elementary schools a necessary evil to prevent even sensible regulations to stop this kind of thing from happening.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Guns or no guns, why are people deranged enough to kill people in mass numbers and why does it happen in general? Sure, you can take guns away from people (it won't stop anything but dream on) but that doesn't change the fact that enough people are deranged enough to make this happen or at least fantasize about it. There is a deep mental health crisis in this country that gets ignored by the usual suspects due to their strange gun fetish.

And that's why Republicans voted to increase mental health funding.

Oh wait...

Ten innocent people are dead and yet you somehow have made it to 43. The world can be so cruel sometimes.

Spare me with the faux outrage. If you and your party cared about the victims then you'd stop groveling at the feet of NRA.

I care more about the constitutional rights of citizens to own a firearm than I care about the (relatively minor) consequences of the right to own a gun, sure. Background checks should basically solve the problem. But sooner or later, another shooting will occur and the goal posts will be shifted again.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

CNN reporting that the shooter was not old enough to legally purchase a pistol.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I care more about the constitutional rights of citizens to own a firearm than I care about the (relatively minor) consequences of the right to own a gun, sure. Background checks should basically solve the problem. But sooner or later, another shooting will occur and the goal posts will be shifted again.

I'm sure the friends and relatives of the victims will be much comforted with the thought that their loved ones were killed in order to protect the gun nuts right to carry firearms completely unchecked.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I care more about the constitutional rights of citizens to own a firearm than I care about the (relatively minor) consequences of the right to own a gun, sure. Background checks should basically solve the problem. But sooner or later, another shooting will occur and the goal posts will be shifted again.

I'm sure the friends and relatives of the victims will be much comforted with the thought that their loved ones were killed in order to protect the gun nuts right to carry firearms completely unchecked.

Do you really want me to quote Joe the Plumber here?

[Taco Truck 🚚]

I care more about the constitutional rights of citizens to own a firearm than I care about the (relatively minor) consequences of the right to own a gun, sure.

sick.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

You're better than this, Sanchez.

[Mercenary]

What can we do to stop these kind of things from happening? How do we fix our violent and morally bankrupt culture?