California Shooting

[aelmpvw]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46135459
i wonder if the day will come when these dreadful incidents don't even get a mention on the news?

[emmie]

if you or someone didn't post them, i am sure they would be a small item on the news channels. Terrible tragedies like this will get air time, but not for long.

[EDDIE51]

It is already true that a shooting of just one or two people only makes local news in the USA.Shootings causing only injury are not even newsworthy.

[retrocop]

Out pourings of outrage at drunken morons playing with matches seems the cause celebre on AB at the moment. It's a question where one's priorities lie in the grand scheme of things I suppose. :-(

[ABSpareEditor]

I have moved this thread into the category "News".

[Mamyalynne]

It's quite horrendous to think what can happen in the blink of an eye - truly awful.

[Peter Pedant]

I fought of exactly dat, ael
when the news led with Prince Chuck - i will not be a jerk when I am King - honest
and THEN with the california shooting when I thought ( er fought) someone was gonna say - i dunno why we are reporting this - it isnt news.

wasnt the police captain asked why it occurred in the Land of the Free and NOT in other advanced democracies. - and he said - this is not the place to discuss this
sort of showing why it occurred in the land of the free and nowhere else

[Peter Pedant]

// Out pourings of outrage at drunken morons playing with matches seems the cause celebre on AB at the moment.//

letter in the Times today on that

which allows me to repeat that more people have been arrested in the cardboard tower event than concerning the real fire

[Peter Pedant]

california shooting is now leading
it may have been second because of a dearth of detail

beeb following Trumps line that it was not the arms but the deluded ex marine behind the arm that did the killing

[marval]

Sadly there are so many bad incidents like this. They seem to get less coverage.

[Rockrose]

Ahhh found it

[Ken4155]

On the contrary, ael. I can see the day when they become so commonplace that AB will have a sub-section; 'American Mass Shootings'.

[zebo]

Am I the only one who doesn't even bother to read about Americans shooting each other any more?

[Peter Pedant]

Nah I read them all to get the bit about NRA saying it is nothing to do with us....
its the rifles ...
( sozza I dont think I have got that the right way round - something crazy anyway)