Seven men shot near East Oakland park Monday evening

[alp227]

Source: Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND -- Seven men were shot in a hail of gunfire that extended across three blocks of East Oakland on Monday night, police said.

Officers responded to reports of a shooting between 96th Avenue and Olive Street about 6:10 p.m. and cordoned off a second scene shortly after at 94th Avenue and Sunnyside Street, authorities said.

Seven men -- all between the ages of 23 and 31 -- were shot between the two crime scenes, officials said. Two of the men were in critical condition Monday night; five others were expected to survive.

It was unknown if any of the men were related or what motivated the shooting.

Read more: http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24600497/several-victims-shot-near-east-oakland-park-monday

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Story has also been reported nationally by Reuters and locally by the SF Chronicle.

[yorgatron]

1. good thing there's plenty of cheap, readily available guns.

those guys would have to stab each other or something.

[madeline_con]

2. Good thing law abiding citizens can still own them.

Or we'd have to try and stab the bad guys who have guns.

[cpwm17]

3. I don't have any guns

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and all of the guns in the US do make my life, most of the other lives in the US, much less safe.

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Or ...

You’d be trying to stab the bad guys who, also, had knives …

Or, no one would have been shoot because ... No one had guns.

[tblue]

4. Were they good guys or bad guys?

Because some killing is okay.

[maxsolomon]

5. gang shootings are a distinct issue

tangentially related to amoklauf shootings, or familycides.

the link between all of them is male pride.

[ileus]

7. more firearms being abused by those that

don't even know what the 2A is.