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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-las-vegas-shooting-20140609-story.html<snip>
Two killers a man and a woman walked into a pizzeria here at midday, beginning a bloody Sunday rampage that left five people dead, including two on-duty police officers ambushed as they were having lunch.
"The revolution is about to start," one of the killers shouted after the pair had gunned down the officers and grabbed their weapons and ammunition and stormed into a nearby Wal-Mart. An unidentified woman was shot and killed just inside the Wal-Mart, police said. As frantic shoppers scrambled and fell to the floor while trying to reach the store's back exits, the pair stalked the aisles, exchanging fire with arriving officers.
And in a bizarre final chapter, the two staged a murder-suicide as waves of armed officers moved in. Authorities say the woman shot her male accomplice and then turned the gun on herself.
You don't think this kind of thing can happen. It's a Sunday ... and all of a sudden a man walks in and starts shooting up a Wal-Mart. - Alize Harper, 16, a witness to the Las Vegas rampage
"They are both family men," Gillespie said, "and they're leaving behind loved ones."
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Beck leaves a wife and three children. Soldo and his wife had a baby. "They're devastated," Gillespie said of the families. "In a moment's notice they lost their loved ones."
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Bravo NRA! Bravo Fox no news here! Bravo gun lovers.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)I would expect that even the gun lovers would recognize the immediacy of the problem. And even if the problem is a complex mix of inequity, inadequate mental health treatment and easy access to firearms, we are in desperate need of triage at the moment. We need bold and immediate action to quell the daily acts of mass public attacks. I don't know exactly the form it should take, but it should involve stopping or slowing the sale or access of firearms while a serious study is conducted. If only the US government didn't coddle the terrorist organization, the NRA, we could make some progress.
malaise
(268,668 posts)They only recognize their so called second amendment rights.
Blame the extremist judges who are their sympathizers as well.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Extreme
For the sarchasm challenged
malaise
(268,668 posts)because they will not call them terrorists.
Word is they were Bundy sympathizers. Play with puppies - expect to be licked!!!
Seriously this is fugging madness
malaise
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The shooters then ransacked the dying cops' bodies for ammunition and weapons before covering them with the famous 'Don't Tread On Me' flag from the American Revolutionary war.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)had been out at the Bundy Ranch at one point.
malaise
(268,668 posts)and the Feds better treat them as such.