A breaking story of multiple shootings inside a Washington DC military yard...
Washington Naval Yard Shootings
Mon, 2013-09-16 12:29
#1
Washington Naval Yard Shootings
Mon, 2013-09-16 12:38
#2
1 Suspect Dead in Navy Yard Shooting: 2 Others May Be On The Loose, Police Chief Says (and vid)
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/dc-navy-yard-gunshots/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
"There are 'potentially' two other shooters whom police are looking for in the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Monday. One suspect is dead inside the building, Lanier said..."
Mon, 2013-09-16 13:58
#3
Update:
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/police-search-for-active-shooter-on-... least 7 dead in Navy Yard shooting. Two possible suspects at large [/url]
Mon, 2013-09-16 16:26
#4
Catchfire
Fuck. How many more times?
Mon, 2013-09-16 16:34
#5
Fuck. How many more times?
Many. Until they control guns. Which they cannot do. Because their foundation is brutality and violence.
Mon, 2013-09-16 16:51
#6
Kaitlin McNabb
Mother Jones has a good article being updated as information comes in:
What We Do and Don't Know About the Washington Navy Yard Mass Shooting
At least 12 13 people were killed in a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, DC, after a gunman opened fire shortly after 8 a.m. on Monday. That number included the gunman, reportedly a 34-year-old man from Texas, who was shot and killed by law enforcement personnel after a lengthy standoff. As of mid-afternoon Monday the FBI was looking for two other men it believed were involved in the shooting.
scary stuff.
Mon, 2013-09-16 17:48
#7
scary stuff.
Full disclosure: I don't really give a fuck. Why should you or anyone else here? Because they're our fucking American military neighbours, look like us?
Here's what happened today, and it's our American fucking military neighbours' fault:
[url=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/15/iraq-bombing-qaeda-b... kill at least 58 across Iraq[/url]
That I care about. But it doesn't even make a babble thread any more.
ETA: Oh geez, I forgot to add a devotional prayer:
"Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." (Matthew 26:52)
Time to recall some senators from D.C. who foolishly supported gun control, eh?
[Unionist sheds a crocodile tear for the fallen patriots.] Oh yeah, fuck Barack Obama too.
Mon, 2013-09-16 17:48
#8
Kaitlin McNabb
I don't think things need to be compared like that Unionist, and just because I think the DC shootings are "scary stuff" does not mean I don't care about other things or acknowledge them as scary stuff either.
And as noted in this thread, there are many repercussions from this, mainly, how the US still has not legislated gun control and stuff like this is still happening.
Also I lived in DC last year, so it is a bit surreal.
Mon, 2013-09-16 18:03
#9
Kaitlin, I was being very deliberately provocative (as you must realize).
But I stand by every word I said.
In the aftermath to 9/11, here's what Sunera Thobani said on October 1, 2001 - for which she practically got crucified:
From Chile to El Salvador, to Nicaragua to Iraq, the path of U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood. We have seen, and all of us have seen, felt, the dramatic pain of watching those attacks and trying to grasp the fact of the number of people who died. We feel the pain of that every day we have bee watching it on television. [NOTE: she's referring here to 9/11.]But do we feel any pain for the victims of U.S. aggression? 200,000 people killed only in the initial war on Iraq. That bombing of Iraq for 10 years now. Do we feel the pain of all the children in Iraq who are dying from the sanctions imposed by the United States? Do we feel that pain on an every-day level? Share it with our families and communities and talk about it on every platform that is available to us? Do we feel the pain of Palestinians who now for 50 years have been living in refugee camps?
U.S. foreign policy is soaked in blood. And other countries in the West, including shamefully, Canada, cannot line up fast enough behind it. All want to sign up now as Americans and I think it is the responsibility of the women's movement to stop that, to fight against it.
That was before Iraq Two, Afghanistan, Libya...
She was spot on then and she still is today.
Put away your sword, said Jesus Christ - until then, quit your whining.
Mon, 2013-09-16 21:06
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Kaitlin McNabb
I missed it U -- sorry! I should know better than that and that you were trying to prod me :)
I think I have been reading the comments sections of too many articles lately and took it to heart.
TBH, I don't want to engage more on this conversation -- I was just dropping a useful resource -- but I appreciate your points and the quote you dropped.
Tue, 2013-09-17 09:08
#11
"A Buddhist prone to flashes of rage", eh?
You know, I thought the media fascination with putting a label on anyone other than Catholics and Protestants was pretty much restricted to Muslims, Sikhs and a few other faiths.
The mainstream media is turning into The Onion so fast it is unbelievable sometimes.
Tue, 2013-09-17 09:52
#12
Obama called the shooting victims "patriots". Because they worked for the U.S. military, I guess. He didn't use that particular word in Newtown, Aurora, etc.
What a militaristic jingoistic thug.
Tue, 2013-09-17 09:54
#13
alan smithee
"A Buddhist prone to flashes of rage", eh?
You know, I thought the media fascination with putting a label on anyone other than Catholics and Protestants was pretty much restricted to Muslims, Sikhs and a few other faiths.
The mainstream media is turning into The Onion so fast it is unbelievable sometimes.
You took the words out of my mouth...I was reading about this a nd the shooter was described as Buddhist...Why?
In any case,Americans don't want gun control...They want more guns...I don't care anymore,whatever.
Tue, 2013-09-17 14:43
#14
The ex-US Navy reservist who killed
12 people and wounded eight at a Washington DC Navy installation had received
treatment for mental health issues, US media have reported.
Aaron Alexis, 34, was treated for paranoia, trouble sleeping and hearing
voices, the Associated Press reported.