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(70,206 posts)brush
(53,776 posts)Unfortunate as the killings are, this will put heavy pressure against the republicans standing against gun regulation laws. They'll be hard-pressed to not get on board for gun control to stop the carnage.
rampartc
(5,407 posts)they will NEVER allow anyone to control even their worse red flag cases.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Are we already bored with mass murder?
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)something might get done.
Maybe. One employee's daughter was shot. She's OK, but that has to tug a a heartstring or two.
It's like your right to carry a gun punks my right not to get shot.
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017652007
BumRushDaShow
(128,934 posts)By Alta Spells and Madeline Holcombe, CNN
Updated 4:24 AM ET, Fri April 16, 2021
(CNN) Eight people were killed in a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility on Thursday night, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Genae Cook said. Authorities were aware of multiple other injured victims in hospitals, one of whom was in critical condition, she said during a media briefing early Friday. Police believe the shooter took his own life and there is "no active threat to the community at this time," Cook said.
It is unclear what motivated the shooting, but investigations are ongoing and will continue into most of the day Friday, she said. Police arrived at around 11:00 p.m. local time to an active-shooter situation and entered the facility without hesitation, Cook said. "The officers responded, they came in, they went in and they did their job," Cook said. A lot of them are trying to face this because this is a sight no one should ever have to see." 'I thought I was going to get shot'.
Two employees inside the building at the time told CNN affiliate WISH-TV that they heard as many as ten gunshots. At first Jeremiah Miller and Timothy Boillat thought the sound was from a car, but after hearing more, Miller stood up and saw a man with a weapon, he said. "After hearing the shootings I did see a body on the floor behind a vehicle," said Boillat. The two men left the building and watched as about 30 police cars responded, Boillat said.
"Thank God for being here because I thought I was going to get shot," Miller told the station. Police are asking anyone who was at the scene and may have left for safety or for medical treatment to contact 262-TIPS or the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police homicide officer to provide information on the shooting.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/us/indianapolis-shooting-fedex-facility/index.html
I also heard on the radio this morning that Fedex had indicated they originally prohibited cell phones by employees on the floor (am guessing sorting facility?) but is now re-thinking that policy given what just happened.
Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)as it's understood by the American rubes. And I'm sure that the R's are eager to get the American people conditioned to accepting mass death as normal, because I'm certain that they would like to see a LOT more of it here.
I want to move the fuck out of this shithole country.
multigraincracker
(32,675 posts)out of 7 million who got it.
genxlib
(5,526 posts)Among 6 cases of blood clotting.
But point taken. Even more so.
malaise
(268,980 posts)No words