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Active shooter UCLA

MickD — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:21:25 GMT

when is this stuff going to stop? Just needed to vent.....grhhhhhh....

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Noel7 — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:22:51 GMT

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MickD — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:23:48 GMT

Boelter Hall - the engineering lab.. Poss 2 people down.

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SilleeMee — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:26:54 GMT

Oh geez here we go again. Unfortunately schools have had to practice the drills involving this krup.

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MickD — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:27:53 GMT

SWAT Running in.......

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MickD — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:30:32 GMT

On CNN now. It's like pea soup this am

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Tinkrbl44 — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:30:49 GMT

I'm watching it on TV now ..... I was just over there (Westwood Village) yesterday!

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chrystaltree — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:35:38 GMT

It's never going to stop. It's just the price we pay for gun ownership. Legal guns and illegal guns. It doesn't matter. If someone wants to cause death and create mayhem; guns allow them to do it on a scale that a hammer or knife would not. I just try to keep it all in perspective. These shootings are not common, they extremely rare.

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KingstonsMom — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:38:08 GMT

It used to be a celebratory event to send your child off to college......now I would be terrified to.

And with all of the lower level school shootings, not colleges, I think I would've opted for home schooling .

My heart goes out to the parents of school (or college) aged children these days, it has to be scary.

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MickD — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:39:41 GMT

If I had a child at this campus I'd be freaking out....this is no Bueno....

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MickD — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:42:42 GMT

Reporter from school paper reported person in black (shooter) seen walking on campus....

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prisrob — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:43:29 GMT

You need some education. Gun deaths are not rare. And, this should not be the price we have to pay.

BBC News

372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogues such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single shooting incident which kills or injures four

School shootings: There were 64 school shootings in 2015, according to a dedicated campaign group set up in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Connecticut in 2012. Those figures include occasions when a gun was fired but no-one was hurt.
All shootings: Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]. Those figures are likely to rise by several hundred, once incidents in the final.
60% were by firearm compared with 31% in Canada, 18.2% in Australia, and just 10% in the UK.

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Frosted Cake — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:44:50 GMT

Are we surprised? It will keep happening and it will get worse.

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chrystaltree — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:47:04 GMT

@KingstonsMom wrote:
It used to be a celebratory event to send your child off to college......now I would be terrified to.

And with all of the lower level school shootings, not colleges, I think I would've opted for home schooling .

My heart goes out to the parents of school (or college) aged children these days, it has to be scary.

There are 350 million people in this country and handful of shootings like this a year....I think....our kids are safe...lol Even if there were 1000 such shootings a year, the percentage of being caught in one would still be so low it wouldn't even register.

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CrazyDaisy — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:47:09 GMT

@prisrob wrote:
You need some education. Gun deaths are not rare. And, this should not be the price we have to pay.

BBC News
372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogues such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single shooting incident which kills or injures four

School shootings: There were 64 school shootings in 2015, according to a dedicated campaign group set up in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Connecticut in 2012. Those figures include occasions when a gun was fired but no-one was hurt.
All shootings: Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]. Those figures are likely to rise by several hundred, once incidents in the final.
60% were by firearm compared with 31% in Canada, 18.2% in Australia, and just 10% in the UK.

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And according to AAA, over the next 100 days and average of 10 traffic deaths per day will be caused by teenage drivers.

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AngusandBuddhasMom — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:47:22 GMT

@prisrob wrote:
You need some education. Gun deaths are not rare. And, this should not be the price we have to pay.

BBC News
372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker, which catalogues such incidents. A mass shooting is defined as a single shooting incident which kills or injures four

School shootings: There were 64 school shootings in 2015, according to a dedicated campaign group set up in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre in Connecticut in 2012. Those figures include occasions when a gun was fired but no-one was hurt.
All shootings: Some 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]. Those figures are likely to rise by several hundred, once incidents in the final.
60% were by firearm compared with 31% in Canada, 18.2% in Australia, and just 10% in the UK.

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While I do not agree with gun violence I would not be giving any of those countries a slap on the back considering their rise in hate crimes. While they try to push them under the rug.

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MickD — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:48:25 GMT

2 confirmed victims

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QueenDanceALot — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:50:25 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
It's never going to stop. It's just the price we pay for gun ownership. Legal guns and illegal guns. It doesn't matter. If someone wants to cause death and create mayhem; guns allow them to do it on a scale that a hammer or knife would not. I just try to keep it all in perspective. These shootings are not common, they extremely rare.

I guess it's easy to say when it's not your kids getting gunned down.

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MickD — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:51:25 GMT

@CrazyDaisy - those stats scare me. My son is in drivers Ed.....and not by accident he starts a new job a block a way from our house......not driving anywhere yet.

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SilleeMee — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:52:57 GMT

The shooter was probably pushed by something he saw on his cell phone...just saying.