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alp227

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9. Headline is sorta ambiguous. This isn't the home of the National Champion football team.

Reply to sked14 (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2014, 04:09 PM

Jan 2014

Florida State University is in the state capital Tallahassee. This story is about Eastern Florida State College in Cocoa about 40 miles east of Orlando.

The Orlando Sentinel reports: "Two men apparently came on campus and attacked a man in the parking lot. After the assault, the victim went to their car, grabbed a gun and shot one of his attackers," sourcing the Palm Bay chief of police. Florida Today, based in Melbourne also has more coverage.

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Florida State College reports shooting on campus [View all] sked14 Jan 2014 OP

Does another shooting qualify as late breaking news? TexasTowelie Jan 2014 #1

As often as this is happening, sked14 Jan 2014 #3

Post removed Post removed Jan 2014 #5

MORE guns are the solution!!!!! HockeyMom Jan 2014 #2

Right. Why pay for birth control when there are so many guns? Gungeoneer logic. nt valerief Jan 2014 #7

Guns are part of the anchor pulling America to the bottom. nt onehandle Jan 2014 #4

Florida. Ground standers. They drink their coffee out of these. valerief Jan 2014 #6

Wow, that's pretty wild. sked14 Jan 2014 #8

Headline is sorta ambiguous. This isn't the home of the National Champion football team. alp227 Jan 2014 #9

So this is possibly a case of self defense? sked14 Jan 2014 #10

It doesn't read like a "heat of the moment" shooting. alp227 Jan 2014 #11

You're right, sked14 Jan 2014 #13

Which means that the story will be conveniently forgotten. X_Digger Jan 2014 #14

So they were still beating on him, sked14 Jan 2014 #15

As you can see, once this looked like self-defense, the story dropped like a stone. X_Digger Jan 2014 #17

I wonder why that is? sked14 Jan 2014 #18

A drug deal gone bad warrant46 Jan 2014 #20

Responsible gun owners Dopers_Greed Jan 2014 #12

It was self defense. nt hack89 Jan 2014 #24

It was in Palm Bay, Florida cpwm17 Jan 2014 #16

It must be Friday... Aristus Jan 2014 #19

Except this was posted on Thursday. sked14 Jan 2014 #21

There was probably a shooting then, too. Aristus Jan 2014 #22

There was, the article I posted happened yesterday, but it turns out it was sked14 Jan 2014 #23