At least four people have been killed and 18 injured in a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, police say.
“Multiple shooters fired multiple shots on a group of people” late on Saturday in the Five Points South area of the city, Birmingham police officer Truman Fitzgerald said.
Officers found the bodies of two men and one woman at the scene, while a third man later died of bullet wounds in hospital, Birmingham Police said.
There have been more than 400 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed.
Anyone know why there isn’t a governmental database of mass shootings?
That’s right.
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I mean, it’s pretty straightforward to run sting buy operations and then go after the platform selling illegal products. I’m surprised there isn’t an ATF taskforce devoted to combing the usual internet marketplaces and then filing federal charges.
I’m sure they have immunity because they are an intermediary, just like a social media company isn’t responsible for the content their users post as long as they remove illegal content when they see it.
Sounds gang-related. Just another reason we need to address socioeconomic inequality.
Multiple shooters?
Gang violence?
This really sucks for Birmingham. Birmingham, AL is a really cool town with really down-to-earth people.
Surely the day is approaching where enough Americans have been personally affected by gun violence that there are more that have than haven’t. I often wondered if the reason it persists is because it is something that happens to other people so there is no feeling of urgency to put it at the center of politics. But it happens every fucking
month??? …wait, I just checked and I’m being too generous with “month”. They happen almost every day. We only seem to hear about them once or twice a month outside America. You guys have them more regularly than sports games.Assuming the US lasts long enough I’d imagine there’s two potential outcomes:
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Enough people will have grown up facing gun violence, school shooter drills etc. that there’ll finally be enough people to effect change.
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With any luck all the gun nuts end up shooting each other allowing the rest to live in relative peace.
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