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Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:14 PM Jun 2022

Multiple people dead in Tulsa Hospital Shooting

Source: CNN

At least three people were killed in a shooting Wednesday on the campus of St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to the city's police. Authorities say the shooting suspect is dead.

The Tulsa Police Department has scheduled a news conference at 8:15 p.m. ET (7:15 p.m. CT) to provide an update on a deadly shooting on the campus of St. Francis Hospital.

Police say they have confirmed that three people were killed, and the fire department says one other person was critically injured.

The shooter also is dead. Police have not yet confirmed whether the suspect was shot by police or the wound was self-inflicted.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tulsa-hospital-shooting-06-01-22/index.html



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Multiple people dead in Tulsa Hospital Shooting (Original Post) Stuart G Jun 2022 OP
Not surprising. After all, this IS Wednesday. Binkie The Clown Jun 2022 #1
It Doesn't Stop Because A Certain Minority Doesn't Want It To Stop. Stuart G Jun 2022 #2
I believe the GQP "prefers" that it stop....... groundloop Jun 2022 #5
The Fat Checks From Gun Manufacturers, (in my opinion), Are The Reason It Won't Stop Stuart G Jun 2022 #6
$$$ would be my guess Attilatheblond Jun 2022 #19
Fair summary. ancianita Jun 2022 #22
Thanks for good addendum to my analysis Attilatheblond Jun 2022 #24
There starting to get honest about it being the price of maintaining their freedoms. plimsoll Jun 2022 #15
In the USA, any day that ends in "Y" is a good day for a mass shooting. groundloop Jun 2022 #3
A friend of mine that I've known since college works there TlalocW Jun 2022 #4
It occurs to me that the NRA and GQP should ask its members to cool it for a few days. TomSlick Jun 2022 #7
They won't. Because demoralizing the general public is the point. ancianita Jun 2022 #23
And sales will go UP and stock will go UP rurallib Jun 2022 #8
At the link below are pictures of an AR15 rifle. (I wasn't sure what it looked like) Maybe others) Stuart G Jun 2022 #9
UPDATE -- we now have 5 dead, including the shooter, in the active shooter situation... demmiblue Jun 2022 #10
Very Sad Indeed Stuart G Jun 2022 #11
Thanks for the update! Good Grief... Rhiannon12866 Jun 2022 #14
The solution is obvious angrychair Jun 2022 #12
Nah we need to ban hospitals durablend Jun 2022 #16
What about arming the PATIENTS...? regnaD kciN Jun 2022 #17
Reset the clock about how we can't talk or politicize the gun issue again... ZonkerHarris Jun 2022 #13
"NoW iS nOt ThE tImE!!!" regnaD kciN Jun 2022 #18
The GOP is literally a loose cannon Blue Owl Jun 2022 #20
Update: Local news reports 4 hopsital employees and shooter dead. yellerpup Jun 2022 #21

groundloop

(11,486 posts)
5. I believe the GQP "prefers" that it stop.......
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:26 PM
Jun 2022

but will gladly allow it to continue so long as they keep getting fat checks from gun manufacturers.

Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
6. The Fat Checks From Gun Manufacturers, (in my opinion), Are The Reason It Won't Stop
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:30 PM
Jun 2022

AR/15s should have been outlawed long ago, but they weren't..Why?

Attilatheblond

(2,022 posts)
19. $$$ would be my guess
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 09:53 PM
Jun 2022

Been thinkin on this business of putting military type weapons in the hands of the kid next door. When did it really take off?
Just guessing here, but maybe when the DOD stopped relying mostly on boots on the ground and started to go with more tech and looking to remotely controlled weapons? Anybody have data on a drop in sales of pray and spray rifles to the DOD during the migration to more remote tech weapons?

Gun manufacturers seemed to target police departments for their sales and marketing programs. Lots of drugs hit the streets in the inner cities as a means of funding the Iran Contra ops under Reagan, right? Check my memory, will ya? I'm old and may miss some of the timelines.

When George H.W. Bush got the top job, things really got bad with drugs and gang violence. Cops needed more and bigger guns. The manufacturers were happy to make up losses in military market via showing cops the new toys. Hmm, seems like a plan?

Then a lot of folks started noticing their beat cops looked more like elite military units and started asking questions like, 'just who are these guys at war with?'' The ban on certain weapons came along and things cooled down.

Ban gone, Russian money flows into the NRA which lathers and rinses it, then passes it along to GOP pols to make sure nothing slows the sales of weapons of war to the average American on the street. Ramp up fear of 'the other' and 'the gubbmint gun grabbers' and the rubes will go deep into debt to buy more guns than they could ever fire while playing Wolverines.

Drones and other 'smart weapons' are relieving a lot of military personnel from direct contact with enemy combatants. Hey, sales are down. Flip the GO button on all those GOP pols paid by the NRA and not only sell guns, but block ANY sane gun safety laws, or even research into the damage done to society by so many weapons of war in the hands of unregulated militias and 'lone wolves'.

When things go wrong, the GOP pols can always blame school doors.

Oh, and I guess I need to do the avatar thingy. Pardon my newbie.

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
22. Fair summary.
Thu Jun 2, 2022, 06:19 AM
Jun 2022
Flip the GO button on all those GOP pols paid by the NRA and not only sell guns, but block ANY sane gun safety laws, or even research into the damage done to society by so many weapons of war in the hands of unregulated militias and 'lone wolves'.


I'd suggest you also fit militarized police departments somewhere into this last part of your partial map of the dark history of pols. Because militarized police now have their feet in both cultures -- one in gun culture, and another in white supremacist/extreme religious fundamentalist culture -- that seek to tear down majority rule democracy, and civilian morale, behind their cover of lone wolves or school doors. As a front line of law, order, peace and tranquility, police are weak and have lost honor in this society.


Welcome to DU.

Attilatheblond

(2,022 posts)
24. Thanks for good addendum to my analysis
Thu Jun 2, 2022, 01:19 PM
Jun 2022

And thanks for the welcome. Lurked around once and a while, had friends who used to be here during the bush years and they spoke of the site. Seems a well thought out and well organized place for people to pick their strong suit topics and work for positive outcomes.

plimsoll

(1,664 posts)
15. There starting to get honest about it being the price of maintaining their freedoms.
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:56 PM
Jun 2022

So remember folks the victims are giving the last full measure of their devotion.

No, I think I'll go back to the human sacrifice theory. Their god demands the blood of innocents.

TlalocW

(15,358 posts)
4. A friend of mine that I've known since college works there
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:25 PM
Jun 2022

In finance/billing. I just found out that she was out of town fortunately visiting family. She lives in the area as well as I did once before moving to KC.

TlalocW

TomSlick

(11,032 posts)
7. It occurs to me that the NRA and GQP should ask its members to cool it for a few days.
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:34 PM
Jun 2022

They really need for this to die down (so to speak) before enough of the American people demand that something actually be done.

They really need to space out the mass murders a bit. To the extent required,

angrychair

(8,592 posts)
12. The solution is obvious
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:44 PM
Jun 2022

Seal all the doors of the hospital. Allow only one way in and one out. Heavily arm all the doctors and nurses and place two machine gun nests on either side of the Ambulance bay.

In case it's needed

regnaD kciN

(26,035 posts)
17. What about arming the PATIENTS...?
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 09:37 PM
Jun 2022

Self-defense, after all. Give everyone an AR-15 upon being admitted…especially those patents in the Psych Ward!

Blue Owl

(49,902 posts)
20. The GOP is literally a loose cannon
Thu Jun 2, 2022, 12:16 AM
Jun 2022

Firing its sick, out-of-control, gun-loving psychopathy upon the citizens of this country...

yellerpup

(12,249 posts)
21. Update: Local news reports 4 hopsital employees and shooter dead.
Thu Jun 2, 2022, 06:15 AM
Jun 2022

All except the shooter were hospital employees, shooter came to kill one specific person and he did. We have open carry here-no rules to protect the unarmed. But anyone can take a gun anywhere...

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