Mr. Gibs Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Twelve people have been shot during a Mother's Day parade in the US city of New Orleans, police say.Police Supt Ronal Serpas told reporters that three or four people required surgery but no deaths are reported. The victims included a 10-year-old girl who suffered a minor wound, he added. It is unclear what sparked the shooting, which happened in the city's 7th Ward on Sunday afternoon. Police say two or three suspects were seen fleeing the area. Police said that, as well as the 12 people with gunshot wounds, one person was injured in the ensuing commotion. The incident happened at about 14:00 (19:00 GMT) at the intersection of Frenchmen and Villere streets. Supt Serpas said about 200 people were in the area at the time. "It appears that these two or three people, just for a reason unknown to us, started shooting at, towards, or in the crowd," he said. "It was over in just a couple of seconds." The shooting happened at what is known as a second-line parade - a loose procession in which people dance down the street often following a brass band. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22506029 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Overlord Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 WTF is the world coming to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richteralan Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I know that more comprehensive background check is full of loopholes, so obviously we need more guns to protect ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted May 13, 2013 Member Share Posted May 13, 2013 It is unclear what sparked the shooting, which happened in the city's 7th Ward on Sunday afternoon. Knowing NO, it was probably someone already drunk. KingCracker and hamslammer 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ph1b3r0pt1c Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 I know that more comprehensive background check is full of loopholes, so obviously we need more guns to protect ourselves. not worth it. WIll just cause more **** to be spewed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necroxd Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Knowing NO, it was probably someone already drunk. Live in Houston and every other day there's a shooting in the third ward. I think when you label a district or areas as a ward its considered as a ghetto. So o read that as there was a shooting in the ghetto. Big surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Soooo, do they have any idea as to a motive? Was it a gang shooting that just happened to take place near the parade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiranui Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 WTF is the world coming to? Let's face it, America is by far the biggest exporter of such news stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Let's face it, America is by far the biggest exporter of such news stories. They just get reported more often when they happen here, there are much worse and more frequent crimes going on all the time, but none of the corporate media we call news cares enough to report them. http://en.wikipedia....l_homicide_rate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiranui Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 They just get reported more often when they happen here, there are much worse and more frequent crimes going on all the time, but none of the corporate media we call news cares enough to report them. http://en.wikipedia....l_homicide_rate Obviously, I'm talking about developed countries, a group to which, at least ostensibly, the United States of America belongs. Gerowen 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippleman Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Long live their 2A! God bless their guns! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlintyV Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Also see - http://accidentalgunshots.tumblr.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art3x Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Where is the moron with a car tumblr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwjw1 Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/13/new-orleans-parade-mothers-day-shooting-suspect-video/2154823/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richteralan Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Obviously, I'm talking about developed countries, a group to which, at least ostensibly, the United States of America belongs. Don't you just love when people compare USA to the, say, Burundi, Kenya, Jamaica, or Honduras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakey Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 More guns would have fixed this. Think about it. Shooter shoots. People in crowd have guns pull theirs out. One person shoots the original shooter. Another person see's that person and thinks they are the shooter, and shoots them. So on and so on, because in reality, when there are tons of people panicking, the best thing is to have them all armed and out for themselves. It wouldn't end in a massacre of gun owners who all accidentally shot someone, naaaaaaa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiranui Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Don't you just love when people compare USA to the, say, Burundi, Kenya, Jamaica, or Honduras. Hehe. Indeed. For example, when it comes to denial of evolution, the best they can say is "at least we are better than Turkey..." America has numerous good points, but on a great many issues, it has, perversely, far more in common with the Middle East and the developing world than it does with the rest of the Western world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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