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Mass Shooting in Jacksonville, FL at a Madden Tournament
syndalis
Getting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
Getting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
pretty please lets not make this a gun control thread, rather just news on it and letting florida folks let us know if they are okay, etc. We can talk politics in another thread if the mods approve
One shooter is confirmed dead, searching for additional ones
4 victims dead, 11 injured.
More news as it comes.
edit: Jacksonville Sheriff 's office is active on twitter and giving info and instructions
(CNN)The Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff's Office said there was a mass shooting with multiple fatalities at a downtown shopping-dining complex on Sunday and urged people to stay far away from the area.
"Mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing. Stay far away from the area. The area is not safe at this time. STAY AWAY #TheLandingMassShooting," the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said on Twitter.
The shooting occurred during a qualifying event for the Madden 19 Tournament at the GLHF Game Bar, according to the Twitter of CompLexity Gaming, one of the gaming teams. One Madden participant, Young Drini, was grazed in the hand and is away from the scene and safe, Complexity said.
One shooter is confirmed dead, searching for additional ones
4 victims dead, 11 injured.
More news as it comes.
edit: Jacksonville Sheriff 's office is active on twitter and giving info and instructions
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
"...only mights and maybes."
This is horrible.
One suspect dead, police searching for the possibility of additional suspects, but currently they are unsure if it is over or not.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
One suspect is confirmed dead, they aren't certain if there was only one. Police are telling people to stay far away from the area at this time and if you happen to be there in hiding, stay there and call 911 so police can find you.
Also searching a several block area for people hiding.
CNN are saying the suspect is one of the fatalities.
The video shows what looks like a laser targeting pointer going across one of the players just before it cuts to the gameplay.
spool18 was watching this live. It rattled the fuck out of him...times like this I wish he'd elected to be on the forums.
Seems like it, anyway.
The video is out there. MSNBC really fucked up and played it already. If you don't feel you can handle this, for any reason, it may be for the best to step back from media for a little bit.
*holds envelope up to head*
Gun free zones, liberal gun control laws, false flag.
*opens twitter*
Yup, same old shit.
Urgh, really? Social media is how I’d heard about it, but it was through the reactions of the gamers I follow. I haven’t paid much attention to anything else.
Bleh.
I haven't heard anything confirming it
That tweet leads to a thread with data on the subject she’s collected and reported on over the years, if anyone needs to convince anyone else.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Just the usual parasites giving out false information or others outright blaming gamers/gaming culture.
Anyhow, it seems people are getting the point, videos are being taken down on mass.
It's not just one, you have one person falsely naming a youtuber as the suspect, then deleting the tweet blaming it on 'hackers' once called out on it. You have one jumping straight away saying the entire gaming culture is white racist and gleefully saying the whole 'told you so' crap.
It makes me absolutely sick to think these people are so low to hijack such a thing.
I don’t mind if people don’t want to, but I expect this to be a short lived thread since it’s just to keep track of news about what happened, and I honestly don’t think a focus on the shooter adds anything.
I'm so sad
So isolated incident it is. Probably get blamed on the violence of madden or something equally insane.
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The first person he targeted was a black competitor so let's see how that plays out
Come Overwatch with meeeee
Did that guy survive? I saw the photos of him playing away with the laser sight on his chest. Grim stuff.
No clue, I tend to not engage with these shootings too much after the initial reports until the 48 hour mark to avoid the predictable noise blurring the signal. I could speculate based on what's in the video but I'd rather not.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
If we ignore the shooter than we ignore the motivation for the shooting, which makes it a lot easier for people to just blanket blame white men or guns or videogames or whatever societal boogeyman is currently #trending on twitter.
You can discuss a mass shooting without glorifying the shooter. You can't learn from a situation and take steps to prevent it in the future if you deliberately ignore the cause of it.