Police confirm 2 dead, at least 4 wounded in Minneapolis office shooting
Source: Associated Press
Police confirm 2 dead, at least 4 wounded in Minneapolis office shooting
| Thursday, September 27, 2012 | Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012 6:13pm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Police confirm 2 dead, at least 4 wounded in Minneapolis office shooting.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Police-confirm-2-dead-at-least-4-wounded-in-3900162.php
onehandle
(51,122 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)And break-in-case-of-emergency cases with guns in the building.
Because you can't have enough guns.
CitizenPatriot
(3,783 posts)If he would allow all Americans to carry nuclear weapons, we'd be FREE!111!!! /s
Very sorry for the victims and their families....
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)for laughing at that.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)when it comes to guns. Just retarded unarmed fools who don't believe in the second amendment and who are predestined to be in the path of bullets out of stupidity.
Squinch
(51,090 posts)Guns don't kill people, 'ya know.
valerief
(53,235 posts)dmallind
(10,437 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)More wolves in the workplace would have prevented this.
Squinch
(51,090 posts)Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,684 posts)Police: 2 dead, 4 wounded in Minn. office shooting
AMY FORLITI | September 27, 2012 07:19 PM EST |
MINNEAPOLIS Police say a workplace shooting in Minneapolis has left at least two people dead and four others wounded.
Minneapolis police spokesman Steve McCarty says there were "a couple of fatalities" from a shooting Thursday afternoon at Accent Signage Systems on the city's north side.
McCarty says at least four people were taken to hospitals. A spokeswoman for Hennepin County Medical Center says the hospital is treating three people from the scene, all in critical condition.
McCarty says police are treating it as an active crime scene, assuming the shooter is at large.
Dozens of squad cars and police vehicles have surrounded the business. Its website says the company makes interior signage. The company lists its founder as Reuven Rahamim. A phone message left there was not immediately returned.
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120927/us-minneapolis-shooting/
xchrom
(108,903 posts)For a 'mass shooting'.
Well - another day in gun toting America.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Those people must have been a serious threat to that legal gun-owner. I'm sure s/he was incredibly frightened. It's a good thing s/he was able to shoot them before they caused any harm. God bless guns.
Berserker
(3,419 posts)I must have missed that part in the OP glad you cleared that up for us. YES lets not blame the idiot that did this lets just blame guns. I blame the vehicle that brought his sick ass to the scene that makes just as much sense. And yes god bless ignorant posters that blame everything on guns. Don.t look past your nose just post your anti gun bullshit.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Guns are awesome, and awesomely effective at killing people who piss gun-owners off. I don't personally own any guns or other devices specifically designed and manufactured for killing human beings, but I don't own the hubble telescope either, and I think that's pretty rad. It's great at doing what it's designed for as well.
Dr_Scholl
(212 posts)Skittles
(153,312 posts)GUN NUTS WON - we simply have to get used to massacres
They really don't like that particular Tom Tomorrow comic, do they?
I wonder why...
valerief
(53,235 posts)It would be an infringement of his freedumbs if he felt threatened and couldn't shoot them dead.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)What a terrible tragedy for the victims.
Betsy Ross
(3,147 posts)I was diagnosed 32 years ago and haven't killed anyone yet. Gee, I thought there were laws in most states that prevented mentally ill folks from getting guns. Guess not.
Spelling on edit
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 28, 2012, 09:27 AM - Edit history (1)
Certainly not over any possible beef a person might have with an employer. Nor is suicide by someone who is in good physical health. I regard the murderer's behavior in this incident as positive proof that he was severely mentally ill, and I think his death is as tragic as those of his victims. He didn't get help that could have saved his life and those of others. Mental illness kills people. I've seen it happen way too many times.
Gee, I thought there were laws in most states that prevented mentally ill folks from getting guns.
All 50 states and the federal government have laws that make it illegal for any person to transfer a firearm to someone that they know, or have reason to believe, has been adjudicated by a court of law as mentally incompetent.
Most mentally ill people are never adjudicated as incompetent, so they have the same Constitutional right to keep and bear arms as everyone else does.
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)From all the (zero) times he has actually contributed to the Mental Health Support Group boards on both DU2 and DU3...
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)That's what mental health professionals are for.
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)The shootings took place inside a business, Accent Signage Systems, in the 2300 block of Chestnut Avenue W. Officers from multiple agencies, including SWAT team officers, were on the scene as the evening wore on, and there were scanner reports that the shooter was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the basement of the business.
According to Finance & Commerce, Accent Signage employs 28 people.
Several ambulances were seen leaving the area for area hospitals. Hennepin County Medical Center said it was treating three people who were in a critical condition.
Heidi Pierce, a resident of the area, said a police officer told her that the shooter was a white man with a ponytail who was a disgruntled employee of the business.
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/171609251.html
the neighborhood this took place in Bryn Mawr is a quiet for the most part residential area
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I was hearing as I got home from work tonight. I live just a couple blocks north of Bryn Mawr.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)I guess they just don't make the news.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,684 posts)Fired worker shoots colleagues in Minneapolis killing 5
09:45 28 SET 2012
(AGI) Washington - Four persons were killed and another 4 wounded, 3 seriously, by a man who shot on his colleagues in Minneapolis. The man shot himself immediately after. The news was reported by American media. The shooting occurred in the offices of the Accent Signage Systems. According to Fox News, the aggressor was fired Thursday. The news has not been confirmed by the police, which did not reveal the name of the man and reported that it knows nothing of the relationship between the shooter and the company. Early investigations show that the man did not shoot indiscriminately but had already picked out his targets.
http://www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/201209280945-cro-ren1014-fired_worker_shoots_colleagues_in_minneapolis_killing_5
(That's the whole article. No more at link.)
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)UFFDA.
Kindly Refrain
(423 posts)"In Guns We Trust"
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)We get all the guns we want and we accept the massacres that occur with numbing regularity. Ain't it sweet.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Never any consideration given to the levels of economic stress, workplace stress, and level of general bullshit that keeps many, many people real close to the edge.
Almost every "mass" shooting has unemployment somewhere close.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)And it also becomes all about the pathology of the individual. That's the way we do it here.