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We have a Facebook group for farriers which is mostly populated by Yanks. It is kept very professional but astonishingly the topic often comes up whether one should carry their weapon when under a horse or to leave it in the truck.
Just shaking my head.
Seven people were killed and two others wounded in apparently random shootings in Michigan Saturday evening, authorities said. A 14-year-old girl was among those shot and killed, state police said.
A 45-year-old suspect was in custody early Sunday and being questioned after the three separate shootings in Kalamazoo County, police said.
"There is no connection between any of them, this all appears to be random," Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas said. "This is the worst-case scenario that any community can have."
The shooting spree began at around 6 p.m., when a woman at a Kalamazoo County apartment complex was shot several times, Matyas said. She was in serious condition, he said.
Hours later, police were called to a car dealership where two people were fatally shot and a third was wounded and is in critical condition, Matyas said.
Police then received a call of a third shooting in the parking lot of a nearby Cracker Barrel restaurant where five people were fatally shot, including the 14-year-old girl, who was hospitalized in a critical condition but later died.
In that shooting, about two miles from the car dealership, the suspect got out of his car and started a brief conversation with people in two other cars, Matyas said.
After a few seconds of talking, the gunman "unloaded his weapon into both cars," Matyas said.
Four people are dead and up to 14 wounded after a gunman opened fire at a lawnmower factory in a small Kansas town, the sheriff said.
The gunman, an employee at Excel Industries in the town of Hesston, was killed by authorities, Harvey County Sheriff T Walton said.
The gunman opened fire at the factory, after police earlier received reports around 5:00pm local time of gunshots on nearby streets which were connected to the workplace attack, Sheriff Walton said at a news conference.
"This is just a horrible incident that's happened here," he said.
"There are going to be a lot of sad people before this is all over."
The shooter killed three people, and wounded 14 others, the sheriff said.
Story developing right now. Mass shooting @'Pulse' nightclub in Orlando.
ISIS just claimed responsibility for the shooting
Not according to "The Guardian".
They are saying "No terror group has claimed responsibility."
Those reports aren't quite saying that ISIS claimed responsibility for Omar's actions, trying to imply it perhaps, but not quite saying it.
ISIS can claim responsibility for anything it doesn't mean they did it.
Seems the guy was more a homophobe although he did have some radical Islam links.
Wait for the excrement to hit the spinning blades - SWAT will get the blame for some of the shootings as they unleashed over 200 bullets in 30 seconds to gun down the gunman - CIA will get the blame as the killer was on their "Watch List" but still managed to buy the AR 15 machine gun only a few weeks before the shooting.
http://www.news.com.au/world/north-...0/news-story/e144927326d44b11d502f6f83ebfa3cc
And the Gun Lobby will bleat out this old corn on the cob reply - “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument. And Donald Trump will somehow make the whole story about himself and Barack Obama will be quitely thinking to himself "Thank the Lord baby Jesus I am out of here !"
Post of the year!
Hillary Clinton “If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorists links, you shouldn’t be able to just go buy a gun,” she said here in a reference to two prior anti-terrorism investigations of Omar Mateen, the shooter who was killed Sunday by police. Those probes were eventually closed without action taken.
Her remarks Monday offered a sharp contrast to the reaction of her likely Republican rival, Donald Trump. He countered in Manchester, N.H., by blaming the weekend attack, in part, on lax immigration laws, and appeared to broaden his pledge to ban Muslims from entering the country by including immigrants from any country “with a proven history of terrorism against the U.S., Europe or our allies.”
“The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the American-born shooter whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from Afghanistan.
Once again, people across the world are asking the crucial question — surely this senseless mass murder is enough to make the US tighten its firearms laws? But for many Americans, these brutal killings are only evidence for why more citizens should be carrying guns.
While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have made statements calling for some kind of action on gun control, others are loudly proclaiming the opposite.
“Check out Chicago with the toughest gun laws in the country and the highest gun violence,” tweeted Boston radio host Glenn Ordway.
Minneapolis security expert Chris Tobkin echoed many Americans when he posted: “Blaming the tool is a red herring away from the ideology that caused the act. Could have been done with a pressure cooker.”
“Terrorists will always commit murder, regardless of our paper laws ...” added rap artists Jawga Boyz.
Gun company shares soared on Monday as traders predicted that Americans will react to the Orlando massacre by rushing out to arm themselves with more guns.
Shares in the two biggest listed US gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger & Co rose by 11% and 10% in early trading and ended the day up 6.8% and 8.5% respectively.
Gun companies shares have risen strongly after every recent mass shooting incident as investors speculate that the atrocities might lead to tougher gun control measures. Fear that stricter gun laws might be enacted cause more people to buy guns, especially semi-automatic assault rifles like the AR-15 used by Orlando killer.
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