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12 shot dead in Cumbria, 25 injured
Edcrab
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So in my home county, starting four hours ago, a 52-year-old taxi driver took up arms and began shooting people, culminating in him returning home to shoot his mother and shoot himself
News is still coming in but I am freaked out that I might potentially have friends and family involved
This shit just plain doesn't happen here
News is still coming in but I am freaked out that I might potentially have friends and family involved
This shit just plain doesn't happen here
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Sorry to hear about it.
Edit: That dude is fucked up in the head.
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What the fuck
World is a crazy place sometimes
"Because a man was shot dead like nine miles from your position it's been all over the fucking news"
"Oh, right."
Man I'm less stressed out now but some of my friends really are the dumbest fucks imaginable
i hope your friends and fam were out of harms way.
Some people just plain don't read the news.
My friend didn't know about the Oil spill until I told him yesterday.
Glad to hear your circle's okay, Ed.
People get shot every day.
I'm not sure if that reaction is strange.
Hell the other day I saw the news that 2 cops got shot and a father pushed his wife and 2 year old son into the Mississippi river
this all happened within 15 miles of me on a regular old tuesday.
I've been trying to reach you, but your extension cord doesn't reach that far.
That's the dumbest question ever. "All of these innocent people dead, your friend the shooter dead; what goes through your mind?"
Well, gee, Bill, at the moment all I can think is fuck you and everybody that lives at your house.
I mean, sorry your life is unsatisfying dude, but how about you leave innocent strangers out of it?
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Get ready for another round of gun control debate, England. I don't know if children were involved, but that usually invokes the strongest reaction like the legislation to come out of the Dunblane attack in the late 90's.
And anyone who has the day off and has failed to answer his phone (or check the news) amidst a calvacade of news flashes and a little thing called the internet
Well yeah, I reserve the right to call him a dumb fuck
I think this has come up before, but what town are you from, again?
...I'm very fortunate in that the closest I've ever come is being down the road from a shooting under the El by the LaSalle Metra station in Chicago, but I didn't know that was the sound I'd heard until the next day.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
but yeah, hope your friends and fam are ok!
People be crazy, yo. Reminds me of when the dc sniper was running around, that was a summer, I tell you what
Sorry Hastings!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
And for the benefit of future Americans who fail to read the OP or even the title this is in the UK, specifically Cumbria
This has never happened here before
yeah Ive seen some really awkward interviews.. what exactly do they expect them to say
Its fantastic! And I love this line of questioning
glad to hear everyones okay anyway Ed, even if some of them are a bit thick
What with being cumbrian and all
I couldn't get my car out of the street next to mine a couple of months ago because there were detectives investigating a shooting that occurred there the night before. Someone tried to shoot a cop, missed.
two blocks away a guy killed his two sons and then shot himself last weekend
shootings happen, and nine miles is really far
It's not a goddamn competition either
everyone all rushing in to say "OH WHERE I COME FROM PEOPLE DIE ALL THE FUCKING TIME"
it's a pretty normal reaction to not feel rattled when someone who you've never met, a far distance away, that has nothing to do with you, is killed
that's all I'm saying
Crazy crazy shit.
Happenings are always where I am not.
I'm pretty alright with this.
It's very strange to imagine anything like that ever really happening around me much less being commonplace.
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It's got fuck-all to do with him feeling rattled, it's got everything to do with him act like a prick when I had the sheer audacity to be worried when I couldn't get in touch with him while a gunman rampaged across the county shooting people at random, but yes he since apologised
9 miles is not "pretty far" in terms of the 11 goddamned locations he travelled to
This guy drove around and shot people for hours.
eye witness is talking about a sniper rifle or.. something
Id assumed it was just a shotgun..
And some of you are all
tsk tsk what innocence
Welp, we don't all live in guntown, illinois guys
so just take a step back and think about the loss of life, it seriously should mean something to you, even as impartial observers
hope things settle down fast for your guys, Edcrab
Hell, there are more people working and walking through the mall/office complex I work at in the course of today than live in my entire hometown, which has a 6 figure population. The population of a large village is situated in each of the 3 towers we have on the site.
Every so often, people die here. We've had jumpers, shootings (no fatalaties on site, but a few very nearby, like across the road), heart attacks (one courier had one that shouldn't have been fatal, but sadly fell and struck his head on a concrete step, which killed him), allergic reactions, and god knows what else from being a major tourist/shopping complex located in the midst of roughly half a dozen hospitals and the rest of the downtown core.
I'm not trying to continue the pissing contest, just saying that context is everything.
My god...
But as selfish as it sounds, I'm mighty reassured right now that all my family and friends have reported in, so to speak.
Says the guy who dismisses urban NA violence as "guntown, Illinois".
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Everyone has a gun, so it's a fair fight.
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doesn't britain have like very strict gun laws
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They're still unsure
But there are 9,000 shotguns in Cumbria alone: they're licensed to farmers/hunters for managing game and predators
Which is a tiny proportion of the total population but we're not completely gun-free as many people assume
Although yeah these kinds of shootings are incredibly rare.
and yet you still managed to post something completely useless, well done.
Even though... you know. Some D&D types brought up how much more murder-happy their communities are even though this started off as exploring my personal position of shitting myself while worrying if people I knew were victims
Meanwhile we have a pray for my puppy thread where no one would ever dream of saying "pffft dogs die all the time"