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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUpdate on my post in Late Breaking News about the LDS Temple shooting
My niece was out getting bagels and was close enough to hear the shots!!
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,051 posts)Traildogbob
(13,162 posts)Will have details of the shooter in 3-2-1 .radical left terrorist. We got him.
regnaD kciN
(27,703 posts)Traildogbob
(13,162 posts)Thats a given.
republianmushroom
(22,702 posts)RandySF
(86,253 posts)Lovie777
(23,741 posts)MIButterfly
(3,142 posts)This kind of thing could (and does) happen anywhere at any time to anyone. Sadly, this is the country we live in now. It makes absolutely no sense to me. When will enough be enough?
I hope your niece is okay. I would be shaking all day, just to be close enough to hear the shots. I can't even imagine what terror those parishioners went through.
SheltieLover
(81,718 posts)Siwsan
(27,892 posts)I'd say between the city of Grand Blanc and the township, crime of this magnitude is practically unheard of. Yea, they have break ins and other types of suburban crime but never a mass shooter.
Many years ago there was a family annihilator situation and years later another murder was committed in the same house. The house is close to where my niece lives. The fact that I remember those so clearly says something about the murder rate in the city.
SheltieLover
(81,718 posts)Can you encourage her to get some therapy for this?
Yes, it sounds like a safe-ish area.
johnnyfins
(3,990 posts)Pototan
(3,209 posts)Pototan
(3,209 posts)a 40-year-old, white male who rammed his pickup truck, with two large American Flags waving in the back, into the back door of the church. He was skilled enough to build an explosive device that engulfed the church in flames. Care to speculate on his background and motives?
Deuxcents
(27,706 posts)Siwsan
(27,892 posts)Burton is on the norther border of Grand Blanc/southern border of Flint. The demographics are solidly blue collar, middle income and lower, and very conservative. Big time MAGA area. So, the whole flags and guns thing doesn't surprise me.
I realized that I use to live in a house that's only about a mile, or so, from that church.
mn9driver
(4,857 posts)The world is crazy.
Maggiemayhem
(891 posts)The people shot yesterday at the fish market in North Carolina was done by an ex Marine.
Siwsan
(27,892 posts)Now I plan my grocery shopping for early in the morning. Still, every time I hear a sharp noise, I freeze.
Kaleva
(40,435 posts)
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