Fleetman
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I just have to express my disgust at the coverage on the shooting that occurred in Columbia Maryland earlier today. It appears, so far, the shooter had two individuals targeted, shot and killed them and then turned his shotgun on himself.
The county executive appeared to be using this event as a commercial to promote the police departments for their swift response and how thorough they were being in clearing the mall of other dangers....I feel the entire event was being sensationalized and no doubt there are folks in Annapolis salivating at the prospect of persuing an opportunity to ban shotguns.
I doubt this incident could have been prevented by any laws or bans of any product and as unfortunate as the entire incident was, it could have happened at a bus stop, private residence, church.....anywhere....it just happened that the shooter knew where these individuals would be at a particular time.
This incident was bound to happen no matter what and if a firearm had not been available then a knife or baseball bat or whatever would have been used. One additional person was hit in the ankle by gunfire which was probably a stray pellet while the remainder of the four injured were hurt by the rush of people trying to escape.
I feel the news and local authorities are trying to portray this as a mall shooting of random people when in reality it is more of a planned, targeted murder.
The county executive appeared to be using this event as a commercial to promote the police departments for their swift response and how thorough they were being in clearing the mall of other dangers....I feel the entire event was being sensationalized and no doubt there are folks in Annapolis salivating at the prospect of persuing an opportunity to ban shotguns.
I doubt this incident could have been prevented by any laws or bans of any product and as unfortunate as the entire incident was, it could have happened at a bus stop, private residence, church.....anywhere....it just happened that the shooter knew where these individuals would be at a particular time.
This incident was bound to happen no matter what and if a firearm had not been available then a knife or baseball bat or whatever would have been used. One additional person was hit in the ankle by gunfire which was probably a stray pellet while the remainder of the four injured were hurt by the rush of people trying to escape.
I feel the news and local authorities are trying to portray this as a mall shooting of random people when in reality it is more of a planned, targeted murder.
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