Ongoing US Mass Shooting Thread

[skudr248]

https://www.reddit.com/r/live/commen...charleston_sc/

[Acey]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

What's your take Donald Trump?

Inquiring Americans must want to hear from him... FOX News is showing a Trump interview in lieu of any live coverage. CNN has int'l anchors on. MSNBC only ones with live domestic coverage of some sort of what is now effectively a huge hate crime and assassination of a senator.

[Sr. Mints]

Can you imagine the media coverage if Senator so-and-so was white?

[Acey]

Different tomorrow, but not so much now; CNN has shown before that they have trouble mobilizing crews after midnight eastern. FOX News is... forget them.

[Machiavelli]

God, how horrible. And the shooter's still at large? That's so scary.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Acey

A white guy killing 8 black people in a church is the opposite of what the US needs right now.

...so they need 8 black people killing a white guy outside of a church?

/badjoke

[Senator Clay Davis]

So I wonder if we'll see this labelled as what it actually is: Terrorism. Yes it's a hate crime as well but it's also an act design specifically to terrorise an entire race. Suspect reportedly said....

"I have to do it. You rape our women and you are taking over our country. You have to go."

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/church-...t-467402819802

Thankfully this girl was smart enough to do this

Retweeted 908 times
T.J. Holmes ‏@tjholmes 6 hrs6 hours ago
Family members tell us there was a 5 year old in the church at the time of the shooting who survived by playing dead. @ABC #Charleston

Just horrifically tragic.

[Rejean31]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

So I wonder if we'll see this labelled as what it actually is: Terrorism. Yes it's a hate crime as well but it's also an act design specifically to terrorise an entire race. Suspect reportedly said....



http://www.nbcnews.com/video/church-...t-467402819802

Thankfully this girl was smart enough to do this



Just horrifically tragic.

So he kills 5 women and 3 men. Idiot!!

[Senator Clay Davis]

^Well yeah, black women aren't "his women", they're just as disposable as black men. He also allegedly left one person alive to tell what happened. 3 people survived (including the 5 year old girl)

The gunman reportedly told the woman he was letting her live so she could tell everyone else what happened, Scott said.

Mullen confirmed that the shooter was in the church for almost an hour attending the prayer meeting with the group before shooting. Three people survived the attack.

http://www.postandcourier.com/articl...PC16/150619404

[Displaced Flames fan]

Reports are that he participated in the bible study with them for up to an hour before he started shooting.

My Mom lives in Charleston. She loves the city, but she says it feels like she's living in the 50's and 60's again.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Suspect ID'd

The man accused of shooting and killing nine people in a downtown Charleston church Wednesday night is from the Columbia area, according to law enforcement sources.

Law enforcement is pursuing 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, of Eastover. An active manhunt is taking place in several locations in the Midlands.

Public records show Roof was most recently arrested in March in Lexington County on drug charges.

http://www.wistv.com/story/29351540/...-columbia-area

[CaptainCrunch]

To me its a terrorism related charge. Its no different then the idiots that went and wanted to shoot up the cartoon contest.

He had a political or race based motive, it was a random shooting based on no more then terrorizing.

But I doubt that he comes in alive.

[Weitz]

Man. It really made me sad when I was looking for a thread on this event and then I saw the: "Ongoing US Mass Shooting Thread"...

[Senator Clay Davis]

Reports on Twitter saying the suspect has been caught alive in North Carolina.

News 19 WLTX ‏@WLTX 8 mins8 minutes ago
#BREAKING: Law enforcement source tells News19 Charleston church shooting suspect arrested in Shelby, NC

[RougeUnderoos]

CNN now reporting the same thing.

[dustyanddaflames]

So much anger, hate, and personal agendas on social media right now, and what is being lost in it all is that nine human beings lost their lives at the hands of one. Just as saddening as the act itself.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

I guess as a Canadian I can understand someone buying their son a rifle for hunting. I don't understand a father buying his son a .45 for his birthday. Those guns are for shooting humans. But here we are again talking about gun violence and what to do and as usual nothing will change in the U.S. and we'll see more of this stuff again, and probably soon.

[Senator Clay Davis]

So South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is crying on TV, saying she can't figure out why this happened....in a state with incredible loose gun laws that still proudly flies the confederate flag. Ok then Nikki...

[Acey]

Yeah but I mean clearly the dude hates black people with extreme passion. Guns made it easier to find the means, but you still have somebody with extreme hatred that can't solely be blamed on the flag.

[PIMking]

jeesh what the hell is wrong with people?

I dont get it, I really dont understand why or how someone could have so much hate to go into a church and kill innocent people based on the color of their skin? Birmingham had the church bombings and this scumbag does this?

I dont like the world we live in.