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Mass Shooting in Boulder

chessylady — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:20:59 GMT

It never ends. A police officer confirmed dead, multiple people dead apparently. The authorities aren't talking. Suspect in custody. This is awful and unnecessary.

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Anonymous032819 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:24:33 GMT

@chessylady

There is already another thread about this horrible tragedy. It's called "Your Prayers Please", by Seannie.

😭 🙏 😭 🙏 😭

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rms1954 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:48:35 GMT

It's all over the news.

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happycat — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 01:55:31 GMT

Not sure how anyone could deduce anything about a mass shooting, from a thread entitled "your prayers please". People don't open every thread before starting one.

@chessylady, This is just terrible. As many of these things as there are, sometimes it seems like we will all be lucky not to be involved in one.

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golding76 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:03:03 GMT

I keep crying over this additional senseless tragedy. Atlanta a few days ago and now this.

When can this nation do something genuinely constructive to make such tragic mass murders occur less often? I'm not even asking for or expecting an end to this sort of madness, but we could at least try to make our nation a safer place for its citizenry.

There are too many people at their wits' end with destructive weapons at their disposal.

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Mom2Dogs — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:08:51 GMT

@golding76 There will always be evil, sick people in this world. Destructive weapons are not the problem...it's the people using them.

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spiderw — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:13:43 GMT

Goldie76

I agree and I will leave it at that. It sickens me.

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Mersha — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:17:48 GMT

@Mom2Dogs wrote:
@golding76 There will always be evil, sick people in this world. Destructive weapons are not the problem...it's the people using them.

@Mom2Dogs There are "evil, sick people" all over the world yet the US leads every country with mass shootings.

I wonder why that is????

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Mom2Dogs — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:22:11 GMT

@Mersha I do not have an answer to that question.

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gertrudecloset — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:23:50 GMT

They have someone in custody/questioning but no one knows if it is the actual shooter. This began earlier in the day and still no new details.

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Pearlee — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:24:31 GMT

@Anonymous032819 wrote:
@chessylady

There is already another thread about this horrible tragedy. It's called "Your Prayers Please", by Seannie.

😭 🙏 😭 🙏 😭

@Anonymous032819. Which is an excellent reason why a thread title should let people know what a thread is about.

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MrsSB — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:25:52 GMT

Two new mass shootings in recent days after many months of not having this is our daily news. A sad sign that our country is getting "back to normal" in the aftermath of covid.

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Mersha — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:26:38 GMT

@gertrudecloset I saw earlier that the police had a man in handcuffs that seemed to have a leg injury.

It was either the shooter or a person of interest.

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gertrudecloset — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:27:57 GMT

@Mersha wrote:
@gertrudecloset I saw earlier that the police had a man in handcuffs that seemed to have a leg injury.

It was either the shooter or a person of interest.

That's what I just read too. A lot of the times, I don't know about some news stories until I see them here, then go research @Mersha

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elated — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:32:49 GMT

The news conference said there are 10 fatalities. The police officer was 51 years old and with the department for 10 years. They have the suspect in custody.

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gertrudecloset — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:34:28 GMT

The Colorado NewsLine website has more details and a statement from the top Police Officer. They are saying "at least 6 dead" but it doesn't sound like they are sure if they're may be more. A police officer is amongst those killed. The individual IS in custody, so it is no longer an "active shooting."

Thank goodness the police have been able to apprehend before even more carnage!

https://coloradonewsline.com/2021/03/22/at-least-six-killed-in-mass-shooting-at-boulder-king-soopers-suspect-in-custody/

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gertrudecloset — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:36:51 GMT

@elated wrote:
The news conference said there are 10 fatalities. The police officer was 51 years old and with the department for 10 years. They have the suspect in custody.

Oh my goodness @elated more than I just posted. This is so distressing. Ten dead (not six). SMH.

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Beth-QVC — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:41:44 GMT

political

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ROMARY — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:44:19 GMT

World history repeating itself.

No excuse in our present days though.

We should have evolved way more now than 'way back when' hundreds and thousands of years ago.

I don't know.......seems as though sometimes society has evolved / reverted backward, in the great scheme of things.

It might be in human kind's DNA. I'm talking as a society.

Good people, bad people, in-between people.

Similar to a litter of puppies. Each with different temperaments. Some good, calm. Others are 'mean' / biters.

Reminds me of a woman who was living with a family of young cheetahs out in the wild.

Some were calm, nice, wandered over to her in a nice, trusting way.

Others were just plain 'mean'. Ready to attack.

'Oh, well'. What to do, what to do.

It could be 'human nature': Humans in nature. The nature of humans.

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gertrudecloset — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:46:28 GMT

It could be 'human nature': Humans in nature. The nature of humans (all of them ~ and not specific group)

@ROMARY