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Old Aug 26th 2015, 4:08 pm
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The shooter filmed it too. And put it up on Twitter. I wont link.
Account taken down by Twitter.


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Originally Posted by hungryhorace
It's being reported the gunman has shot himself.

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It's being reported the gunman has shot himself.
He's seriously injured but not dead.
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He's seriously injured but not dead.
If he survives, the Virginia judicial system will remedy that problem.
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He's seriously injured but not dead.

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Originally Posted by hungryhorace
Because they're a mass of morons gathered with their guns and their hatred.
OK, got it. Ignore list.
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OK, got it. Ignore list.
The denial of what's happening here from some people is deafening. No matter what America, and their citizens do, there will always be the 'Go USA' team. Morons.
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Saw both videos. Takes a lot to get to me but the whole circumstances of the two victims in this one really did a number on me.

It was the camera guys last day as he was moving with his fiancee who was also at the station and in the station control room when it happened. I mean...there's nothing you can think but awful.
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The gunman is dead, per cnn.
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Originally Posted by NoOfficialComment
Saw both videos. Takes a lot to get to me but the whole circumstances of the two victims in this one really did a number on me.

It was the camera guys last day as he was moving with his fiancee who was also at the station and in the station control room when it happened. I mean...there's nothing you can think but awful.
Yeah, the video that the shooter took was pretty harrowing. It's just the way he calmly walks over, holds up the gun and shoots at point blank range.
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Originally Posted by hungryhorace
Roanoke reporter, photographer killed by shooter during live news interview | WTKR.com

Society here is beyond broken, as are their idiot gun laws.
You do know gun laws are not uniform across the country, right?

California has some pretty strict laws on guns, not too different then what Canada has in some respects. I do agree there are issues in society that need to be addressed and fixed and that may bring violence down, but that will take a few generations to fix if the process is ever started.

The other states need to start following the lead of the stricter states, or the feds need to step in, otherwise places like AZ and Texas won't change and unless all 50 states have the same laws when it comes to guns, really nothing is going change. Will also take who knows how many years to actually get guns out of circulation to a point use of them in crimes goes down, if tougher laws are ever brought in nationwide and uniform across the country, it won't happen overnight, the criminals won't be turning in their guns.

It's clear for whatever reason US society is more violent then their northern neighbors, I however do not know why and would need to let the experts on society and human behavior try and figure that one out.

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Nothing will change, simply because the American public on the whole do not appear to regard shootings as a problem but as more of a price that they're prepared to accept for the freedom to be able to own firearms. Collateral damage if you like. For most of them, it's a trade off they're comfortable with.
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Nothing will change, simply because the American public on the whole do not appear to regard shootings as a problem but as more of a price that they're prepared to accept for the freedom to be able to own firearms. Collateral damage if you like. For most of them, it's a trade off they're comfortable with.
Exactly ^^
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The shooter had apparently been contacting ABC News for the past couple of weeks saying he wanted to pitch them a story and wanted to send a fax, but never told ABC News what the story was or indicated what he had planned.

Apparently the church shooting in June was his tipping point according to his 23 page manifesto he faxed after the shooting.

Apparently Jehovah spoke to him telling him to act. He placed a deposit for a gun on June 19th according to his letter.

After Shooting, Alleged Gunman Details Grievances in ‘Suicide Notes’ - ABC News
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Originally Posted by materialcontroller
Nothing will change, simply because the American public on the whole do not appear to regard shootings as a problem but as more of a price that they're prepared to accept for the freedom to be able to own firearms. Collateral damage if you like. For most of them, it's a trade off they're comfortable with.
I think there's lots of room for controls that the public, including most gun owners, would support, but what the opponents of gun ownership invariably put forward are various forms of blanket bans, that impinge on the rights of sane, law-abiding gun owners.

Of course states like Arizona, where is illegal for any governmental body to even keep a registry of firearms, are going to be a problem.
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