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Post by Phaedrus on Aug 4, 2019 12:41:29 GMT -5
I awoke this morning to a few pings from my friends asking me if I was OK. I was confused so I opened up my local news app to see that there had been a shooting at the Oregon district in downtown Dayton. It is the downtown entertainment district. restaurants, bars. antique stores, a decent used book store and a couple of sex toy shops. Pretty eclectic. The shooting happened in front of one of the bigger restaurant/bar in the area. Many Daytonians go there as a pickup spot/hopping party bar. The shooting happened outside.
Nine dead, 26 wounded. The shooter was shot dead. He did all that damage in less than a minute. It could have been worse, he had high capacity clips with him and he didn't have time to reload his semi-automatic. 223 caliber. This is all from what I had been able to glean from the news report. Fortunately the Dayton Police had a regular patrol in the area since it is always bustling with activity. They responded to the gunfire before a call was put through. If they were delayed it would have been much much worse. So much thansk to the Dayton Police department, but we were lucky that they were there to begin with.
The shooter was a 24 year old white male from a pretty affluent suburb called Bellebrooke. About 7,000 residents, 96% white.
There is a vigil going on right now. The community has pulled together really well, I am pretty impressed. The mayor, the fire and police chiefs were all on point.
SMDH
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Post by Phaedrus on Aug 4, 2019 14:35:43 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfgang on Aug 4, 2019 14:44:59 GMT -5
It doesn't say if the shooting of the sister was random coincidence or deliberate. It's probably deliberate. Also, I knew Phaedrus was fine because this happened at around 1:00 AM in the hip bar hopping district and I don't see him frequenting that area, especially at that time of night. My guess is that Phaedrus goes to bed at around 10:00 PM every night.
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Post by Wolfgang on Aug 4, 2019 14:47:19 GMT -5
As for me, you'd never catch me at a popular mass shooting site -- malls, schools, festivals, stadiums, coliseums. Well, maybe a festival or a college campus. These days, the only place I go to that's densely populated is Home Depot or Lowes -- and I often go in the morning when there are less people.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 15:01:50 GMT -5
You are not safe anywhere. God bless America.
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Post by Phaedrus on Aug 4, 2019 15:37:14 GMT -5
It doesn't say if the shooting of the sister was random coincidence or deliberate. It's probably deliberate. Also, I knew Phaedrus was fine because this happened at around 1:00 AM in the hip bar hopping district and I don't see him frequenting that area, especially at that time of night. My guess is that Phaedrus goes to bed at around 10:00 PM every night. You know me too well. I live about 20 miles north and yes I go to bed early. Around 11 though.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 4, 2019 15:38:09 GMT -5
I suppose it's possible that was a coincidence, but it seems so very unlikely.
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Post by hammer on Aug 4, 2019 15:50:29 GMT -5
These mass shootings tend to come in clusters ... seems like the first one is a triggering event
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Post by jayj79 on Aug 4, 2019 18:16:26 GMT -5
You are not safe anywhere. God bless America. none of the civilized nations have anywhere near this sort of problem with gun violence. and instead or ranting about immigrants and minorities, the government needs to address the real threat, given the demographic of all of these perpetrators of mass gun violence.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 4, 2019 18:48:48 GMT -5
You are not safe anywhere. God bless America. none of the civilized nations have anywhere near this sort of problem with gun violence. and instead or ranting about immigrants and minorities, the government needs to address the real threat, given the demographic of all of these perpetrators of mass gun violence. Just because every other country in the world with a functional government can control access to weapons, what makes you think it would be possible in the US? www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1836949580
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Post by gnu2vball on Aug 4, 2019 23:22:23 GMT -5
You are not safe anywhere. God bless America. none of the civilized nations have anywhere near this sort of problem with gun violence. and instead or ranting about immigrants and minorities, the government needs to address the real threat, given the demographic of all of these perpetrators of mass gun violence.Since Phaedrus was good enough to give the shooter's ethnicity and locality, why don't you submit a plan that the government might follow?
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 5, 2019 9:44:28 GMT -5
But hey, it doesn't seem to be a "hate crime", or so they say.
It turns out he traveled to the location with his sister, so obviously shooting her must have been non-coincidental.
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Post by jayj79 on Aug 5, 2019 12:43:07 GMT -5
and then there were those who perished in Toledo...
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 5, 2019 13:36:04 GMT -5
and then there were those who perished in Toledo... That's Phaedrus's second home.
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Post by Wolfgang on Aug 5, 2019 13:42:29 GMT -5
I think I may have posted about my high school friend who worked in Ohio as a technician, only to become a multi-millionaire in Silicon Valley. Yeah, anyway, he hated Ohio with a passion. He lived in Cleveland and Akron. He's White and he said all the White people creeped him out and he couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.
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