3 killed at Waffle House in Tennessee
Source: CNN
(CNN)Three people were killed and four were wounded in a shooting Sunday at a Waffle House in the Nashville area, Metro Nashville Police tweeted.
Police say the gunman, who was nude, opened fire at about 3:25 a.m. (4:25 a.m. ET).
CNN affiliate WSMV reported that the gunman was naked except for a green jacket when he entered the restaurant in the town of Antioch.
A customer wrestled away the rifle, police said.
UPDATE EDIT: Hat tip to edbermac for advising me to update my post. There are now 4 confirmed deaths from this incident.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/us/tennessee-waffle-house-shooting/index.html
One of the nicest things about living in Canada is not having to worry about nonsense like this. I just said that yesterday as I was chatting with the driver of the bus I was taking home. Sad days in America when Sunday becomes Gunday.
edbermac
(15,950 posts)Thanks for the update, edbermac. I'll update my post. Unfortunately it wasn't good news.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)So...evildoers are focused on guns, violence, and their privates? As in....look at me, I'm "all male"? Just wondering.
I was flashed once by a guy walking around nude in a parking garage. What IS it about their privates that some men get obsessed over? At least the one in the parking garage wasn't toting a gun.
mucifer
(23,601 posts)AllyCat
(16,260 posts)If we cannot regulate our militia, we have no business possessing second amendments.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)They should have had one of these on the outside of the building
Cuz,you know, more guns is the answer
AllyCat
(16,260 posts)Commemorate item.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I can tell you that I don't think that such a thing means they are unwell mentally.
You know...the proverbial open-the-raincoat dirty old man who exposes himself. Happens a lot.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,407 posts)Or, in a sense, terrorism. If he didn't know his victims, and escaped, he could do this again. People would be right to be afraid.
Turbineguy
(37,400 posts)There may come a point where random people stay home instead of venturing out.
jmowreader
(50,583 posts)Lets say you were running a modern-day Anti-Saloon League and you wanted to shut down the bars. The government wont help you this time, but shooting people on Saturday night until they decided as a group that staying home and going to church on Sunday instead very well might.
Tanuki
(14,928 posts).."Federal and local law enforcement were already aware of Reinking "due to previous interactions," police spokesman Don Aaron said. FBI investigators were on the scene Sunday morning."
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"Sunday's violence took place less than two miles the mass shooting at an Antioch church in September, where one person died and nine were injured after Emanuel Samson opened fire during Sunday morning services.".....
AllyCat
(16,260 posts)That is how this paper describes this terrorists actions? He wasnt trying to murder people in cold blood. He was pelting the building with second amendment paraphernalia.
Historic NY
(37,458 posts)AllyCat
(16,260 posts)How about that? THAT is what happened. Hail pelts buildings. A crazy man with a gun shoots innocent people. He didnt pelt a building with bullets.
Ohiogal
(32,158 posts)crim son
(27,465 posts)but they were pissing in their pants instead of wielding their weapon.
Tanuki
(14,928 posts)was unarmed.
LeftInTX
(25,730 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)of Venus, right?
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)I personally know families with a history of severe mental illness that own several AR style guns. These people have kids with severe ADD and their homes look like something from the show hoarders. Its an epedimic here in the South and a public safety issue no one is talking about.
Jedi Guy
(3,284 posts)I moved to Ocean Springs, MS when I was six. In my teen years, I babysat for a couple who lived down the street. They had probably 100 guns between them. Babysitting for them always made me super nervous, though as far as I could tell they kept the guns away from their son. Note the key phrase "as far as I could tell." I was hardly there all the time.
I knew several families like that. My best friend's family had a boatload of guns, and his father was an unstable, violent alcoholic. Needless to say, I kept my time in their house to a minimum. Most of the time he came over to my house to hang out.
It really is an epidemic in the South, you're absolutely right. I can wrap my head around having a gun or two for home protection. I can understand having a rifle or shotgun for hunting, even though I was never interested in hunting, personally. I can't grasp why some folks feel the need to have a home arsenal, and to go literally everywhere carrying a concealed weapon. I guess it's just a completely different frame of mind.
The Mouth
(3,169 posts)A sane and accurate and well written representation of several cases I know.
Kotya
(235 posts)Gun culture is thriving there as well.
dawn frenzy adams
(429 posts)Not only could he use the NRA to influence the American Government. But supporting an organization that is responsible for killing thousands of Americans each year-- is just dandy with him.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)We just need good insane people with guns, more guns is the answer always...MORE GUNS PLEASE!!!!
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,113 posts)Man, I'm glad I don't live in the US.
Jedi Guy
(3,284 posts)How far we as a nation have fallen.
DemoTex
(25,407 posts)In Brevard, NC.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)I always ordered a pecan waffle - so very, very good. And the waitresses never forgot to ask: Would you like a warmed Kevlar vest with that?
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Link to tweet
Link to tweet
AllyCat
(16,260 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Every mass killers weapon of choice!
The AR-15!!!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,769 posts)or a good guy without a gun who tackles the gunman when he wasn't paying attention.
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)Sheila Burke, Associated Press
Updated 4:48 pm, Sunday, April 22, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The man who wrestled the gun away from the Waffle House shooting suspect in Tennessee said Sunday if he were going to die, the gunman would "have to work to kill me."
Police are calling James Shaw Jr. a hero for saving lives in the busy restaurant, but the 29-year-old Nashville resident said he only made a split-second decision to challenge the shooter and save himself from being killed.
Shaw said at a news conference Sunday he had spent an evening out at a nightclub and entered the restaurant minutes ahead of the gunman. He said he and another friend were seated at a counter when he heard gunshots, thinking at first that a stack of freshly washed plates had crashed down.
Then, he said, restaurant workers scattered and he turned and saw a body near the front door as the gunman burst in. It was then he realized he had heard gunshots.
More:
https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-fought-gunman-He-was-going-to-have-to-work-12855353.php
tclambert
(11,087 posts)You can look it up, but hardly anybody ever does.