Shooting at Texas church

[mbcdefg]

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Sutherland Springs, TX ... Baptist Church

[TamiTaylor]

This is close to me. That town is a very quiet small town and this church was probably the biggest one in town.. I have heard multiple deaths. It's terrible.

[georgeglass]

This is horrifying.

[TamiTaylor]

Local news
www.kens5.com/mobile/article/news/local/shooter-taken-down-after-several-shot-at-church-in-sutherland-springs/273-489257566

[cookiemdough]

Oh no

[winecat]

OMG.

[lilibet]

How sad.

Dh was listening to an old George Carlin bit the other day and it was talking about how the world was falling apart and how the next thing will be that even churches aren't safe and we just looked at each other. I hate that this is what we're at now. No one should ever have reason to fear going to church (or school or the movies...)

[winecat]

ABC is reporting 20 or more killed and over 30 injured.

[picksthemusic]

[mrsd2006]

This is horrific.

[lolo]

Nov 5, 2017 14:29:51 GMT -5 TamiTaylor said:

Local news
www.kens5.com/mobile/article/news/local/shooter-taken-down-after-several-shot-at-church-in-sutherland-springs/273-489257566

A two year old? I cannot even.

[Deleted]

There is literally nowhere the average American can go in this country without the chance of being shot by a random person.

[cville]

On my god. Not again. Not again.

[tessalb]

This is awful. I can’t fathom any of this.

[cookiemdough]

Nov 5, 2017 14:56:53 GMT -5 winecat said:

ABC is reporting 20 or more killed and over 30 injured.

Nooooooo. My God.

[One Girl In All The World]

Nov 5, 2017 14:56:53 GMT -5 winecat said:

ABC is reporting 20 or more killed and over 30 injured.

This is horrific. I'm out of words for these tragedies. 

[Velar Fricative]

At least 27 dead as per BBC. My god.

[katfco]

This is so horrific.

[ribollita]

Horrible.

[isabel]

Nov 5, 2017 14:56:53 GMT -5 winecat said:

ABC is reporting 20 or more killed and over 30 injured.

Jesus.

[WanderingWinoZ]

i just can't understand how this happens and why we continue to do nothing in response every single time

[mbcdefg]

I’m surprised that Trump tweeted this quickly.

It’s also about 5:30 a.m. Tokyo time.

[WOT?*]

Why the eff can't we be safe anywhere? Church? Almost 30 dead?
Why are people allowed this kind of firepower without any checks?
(And I say this as someone who is not totally anti-gun.)

ETA: Let's please not start with the "he was mentally ill" and diagnosing and analyzing the shooter. Let's start concentrating on the victims and NOT naming names of shooters. If this is because they want to be included with those who are "remembered" for whatever reason, let's stop remembering them. Give the victims the headlines.

ETA2: Trump tweeted because it's Texas, not Virginia.

[TamiTaylor]

Y'all this a town of less than a 1,000 people. It's horrible.

ETA this would be horrible anywhere for any size town or city. It's crazy that a town of less than 700 people can lose 20-30 people in such a horrific way. I hope they label the shooter as a domestic terrorist.

[TamiTaylor]

They have called in the SAPD bomb squad. Is that standard practice in situations like this?

[notsocreepylurker]

Any idea if the shooter was white? I don't know why but when I saw it was a Baptist church I immediately thought the shooter was white.

And IQ45 did not write that tweet - it's grammatically correct and easily understandable.

[RoxMonster]

My God. I don't really have any words.

Except when are we going to fucking do something about guns???

(I know the answer at this point is probably "never," so it's really a rhetorical question).

[WOT?*]

Nov 5, 2017 15:27:56 GMT -5 TamiTaylor said:

Y'all this a town of less than a 1,000 people. It's horrible.

OMG, I was seeing it as "outside San Antonio" and was thinking it was more of a suburb. It's not in the least, is it? A small downtown, former resort town with sulphur springs that never really grew from that when "taking the waters" ceased to be a thing. Two old buildings remain of the original downtown and both are decaying. It's become more of a sod farm region from what I can tell, a small core of locals that probably all know each other. To put it into perspective, it's the size of my high school. Still much smaller than the "hick" farming community my dad lived (currently 7K but about half that when I lived there in college), where everybody knew everybody else's business. My God, it's like shooting up Three Rivers. It's gutting.
It's devastating anywhere and everywhere. But to think that 4% of the community was just murdered and another 3.5% injured, and so much more of the community impacted as friends and relatives, it kind of gives it a terrifying gravitas.

ETA: What I"m reading has the population at about 350, not that it matters, but that makes my percentages even horrifyingly higher. This is a one-intersection township, and more than 10% of the town was just killed or injured by a person with a gun.

[starlily]

One month after the worst mass shooting and not a damn thing has changed. 😠

[VillainV]

Our country will literally never learn, will it???