3 killed at Waffle House in Tennessee

[Jedi Guy]

Source: CNN

(CNN)Three people were killed and four were wounded in a shooting Sunday at a Waffle House in the Nashville area, Metro Nashville Police tweeted.

Police say the gunman, who was nude, opened fire at about 3:25 a.m. (4:25 a.m. ET).

CNN affiliate WSMV reported that the gunman was naked except for a green jacket when he entered the restaurant in the town of Antioch.
A customer wrestled away the rifle, police said.

UPDATE EDIT: Hat tip to edbermac for advising me to update my post. There are now 4 confirmed deaths from this incident.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/us/tennessee-waffle-house-shooting/index.html

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One of the nicest things about living in Canada is not having to worry about nonsense like this. I just said that yesterday as I was chatting with the driver of the bus I was taking home. Sad days in America when Sunday becomes Gunday.

[edbermac]

1. Make it 4.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/3-dead-several-injured-shooting-waffle-house-near-103503043--abc-news-topstories.html

[Jedi Guy]

2. Sigh.

Thanks for the update, edbermac. I'll update my post. Unfortunately it wasn't good news.

[Honeycombe8]

3. Nude?

So...evildoers are focused on guns, violence, and their privates? As in....look at me, I'm "all male"? Just wondering.

I was flashed once by a guy walking around nude in a parking garage. What IS it about their privates that some men get obsessed over? At least the one in the parking garage wasn't toting a gun.

[mucifer]

6. This doesn't happen in most killings. I think the shooter isn't well in his brain.

[AllyCat]

13. And despite brain unwellness, was able to get a gun

If we cannot regulate our militia, we have no business possessing second amendments.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. This is the fault of the restaurant

They should have had one of these on the outside of the building






Cuz,you know, more guns is the answer

[AllyCat]

36. Yeah, thatll be the next second amendment

Commemorate item.

[Honeycombe8]

39. Having been harassed twice by men exposing themselves...

I can tell you that I don't think that such a thing means they are unwell mentally.

You know...the proverbial open-the-raincoat dirty old man who exposes himself. Happens a lot.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "The shooting is believed to be random, police said."

http://abc7chicago.com/illinois-man-wanted-in-deadly-waffle-house-shooting-in-tennessee;-3-dead/3377973/

Or, in a sense, terrorism. If he didn't know his victims, and escaped, he could do this again. People would be right to be afraid.

[Turbineguy]

16. Random.

There may come a point where random people stay home instead of venturing out.

[jmowreader]

33. You may be on to something

Let’s say you were running a modern-day Anti-Saloon League and you wanted to shut down the bars. The government won’t help you this time, but shooting people on Saturday night until they decided as a group that staying home and going to church on Sunday instead very well might.

[Tanuki]

20. But he was known to have "previous interactions" with Fed and local law enforcement

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/04/22/antioch-tn-waffle-house-shooting-naked-suspect/540033002/

.."Federal and local law enforcement were already aware of Reinking "due to previous interactions," police spokesman Don Aaron said. FBI investigators were on the scene Sunday morning."

....

"Sunday's violence took place less than two miles the mass shooting at an Antioch church in September, where one person died and nine were injured after Emanuel Samson opened fire during Sunday morning services.".....

[AllyCat]

22. Pelted the restaurant with bullets?

That is how this paper describes this terrorist’s actions? He wasn’t trying to murder people in cold blood. He was pelting the building with second amendment paraphernalia.

[Historic NY]

25. Yeah from the inside, when it had customers.

[AllyCat]

35. SHOT PEOPLE WITH A GUN.

How about that? THAT is what happened. Hail pelts buildings. A crazy man with a gun shoots innocent people. He didn’t “pelt a building with bullets”.

[Ohiogal]

5. If only everyone in the Waffle House had been armed .....

[crim son]

19. I'm betting somebody was

but they were pissing in their pants instead of wielding their weapon.

[Tanuki]

24. The man who disarmed the shooter and threw the gun behind the counter

was unarmed.

[LeftInTX]

7. Remembering the good old days when nude people weren't armed.

[Plucketeer]

28. You're speaking

of Venus, right?

[Bengus81]

8. If there was a gun under each pancake this would never happen

[TNLib]

9. I live in TN and the gun nutter culture Is out of control

I personally know families with a history of severe mental illness that own several AR style guns. These people have kids with severe ADD and their homes look like something from the show hoarders. It’s an epedimic here in the South and a public safety issue no one is talking about.

[Jedi Guy]

10. I grew up in the Deep South, so I know what you mean.

I moved to Ocean Springs, MS when I was six. In my teen years, I babysat for a couple who lived down the street. They had probably 100 guns between them. Babysitting for them always made me super nervous, though as far as I could tell they kept the guns away from their son. Note the key phrase "as far as I could tell." I was hardly there all the time.

I knew several families like that. My best friend's family had a boatload of guns, and his father was an unstable, violent alcoholic. Needless to say, I kept my time in their house to a minimum. Most of the time he came over to my house to hang out.

It really is an epidemic in the South, you're absolutely right. I can wrap my head around having a gun or two for home protection. I can understand having a rifle or shotgun for hunting, even though I was never interested in hunting, personally. I can't grasp why some folks feel the need to have a home arsenal, and to go literally everywhere carrying a concealed weapon. I guess it's just a completely different frame of mind.

[The Mouth]

26. Thank you

A sane and accurate and well written representation of several cases I know.

[Kotya]

12. The person of interest being sought is from Illinois.

Gun culture is thriving there as well.

[dawn frenzy adams]

11. Now you see why Pooty supports the NRA

Not only could he use the NRA to influence the American Government. But supporting an organization that is responsible for killing thousands of Americans each year-- is just dandy with him.

[workinclasszero]

14. NRA: Insane people still have 2nd amendment rights

We just need good insane people with guns, more guns is the answer always...MORE GUNS PLEASE!!!!

[sarge43]

15. Just another day in Trump's America.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. Words "I" never heard 30 years ago.....

Man, I'm glad I don't live in the US.

[Jedi Guy]

37. Sad commentary, ain't it?

How far we as a nation have fallen.

[DemoTex]

18. I am sitting in a Waffle House as I read this ..

In Brevard, NC.

[Plucketeer]

29. I ate at Waffle House restaurants a lot years ago

I always ordered a pecan waffle - so very, very good. And the waitresses never forgot to ask: Would you like a warmed Kevlar vest with that?

[DesertRat]

21. 4 people gunned down in cold blood with at a Waffle House

Link to tweet

The gunman committed a mass shooting at a Waffle House using an AR-15. It is perfectly legal to open carry semiautomatic rifles in public in Tennessee - no permitting, no training, and thanks to the private sale loophole, no background check required.

Link to tweet

[AllyCat]

23. Terrible

[Lint Head]

30. This....

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/PJaupx3Hds6QJMrlzRKYIg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NTk1O2g9NjA4O2lsPXBsYW5l/

[workinclasszero]

32. Yep

Every mass killers weapon of choice!

The AR-15!!!

[workinclasszero]

31. How did i know this? The killers weapon of choice was....wait for it....

[cannabis_flower]

34. Nothing can stop a bad guy with a gun except a good guy with a gun..

or a good guy without a gun who tackles the gunman when he wasn't paying attention.

[Judi Lynn]

38. Man fought gunman: He 'was going to have to work to kill me'

Sheila Burke, Associated Press
Updated 4:48 pm, Sunday, April 22, 2018




NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man who wrestled the gun away from the Waffle House shooting suspect in Tennessee said Sunday if he were going to die, the gunman would "have to work to kill me."

Police are calling James Shaw Jr. a hero for saving lives in the busy restaurant, but the 29-year-old Nashville resident said he only made a split-second decision to challenge the shooter and save himself from being killed.

Shaw said at a news conference Sunday he had spent an evening out at a nightclub and entered the restaurant minutes ahead of the gunman. He said he and another friend were seated at a counter when he heard gunshots, thinking at first that a stack of freshly washed plates had crashed down.

Then, he said, restaurant workers scattered and he turned and saw a body near the front door as the gunman burst in. It was then he realized he had heard gunshots.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-fought-gunman-He-was-going-to-have-to-work-12855353.php

[tclambert]

40. The 2nd Amendment says, "Bare men have the right to firearms, without any fringes."

You can look it up, but hardly anybody ever does.