Police: 4 shot at Cedar Park Wal-Mart; suspect in custody
Source: The Statesman
Multiple people have been hospitalized this morning after a shooting in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Cedar Park, police said.
An unidentified suspect is in custody following what police described as an altercation that occured about 4:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the store off U.S. 183 and FM 1431.
The store is shut down, but thats Wal-Marts doing, until our investigation in the parking lot is done, said Cedar Park Police Capt. Mike Harmon.
Harmon said police were unsure how many victims were hospitalized or how the altercation began. No store employees were injured or involved, Harmon said.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2012/08/19/multiple_people_hospitalized_i.html
Clearly Texas doesn't have enough guns. They need to loosen those restrictive laws.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)tanyev
(42,568 posts)bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)If those 4 people had guns, they could have each shot 4 people! Who in turn could each shoot 4 people, and so on, and so on, and so on.
It will never end.
shadowrider
(4,941 posts)"In a news release, Harmon said police believe that a group of people met in the parking (lot) of the (Wal-Mart) for an altercation."
Betcha $20 this is gang related.
Explain to me please, how taking guns away from, or restricting in any way, lawful gun owners will alleviate the gang problem.
PSPS
(13,603 posts)In case you haven't noticed, our society has apparently decided that we will just continue to tolerate these things to mollify the gun fetishists.
Dr_Scholl
(212 posts)Who meets up at a Wal mart parking lot at 4:30 in the morning for something positive?
shadowrider
(4,941 posts)bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)use a delorian for time travel
Aristus
(66,388 posts)Sorry, I have friends in Iran, and if it weren't for the Ayatollahs running the place, Iran would be a close U.S. ally. I feel the need to stick up for the people...
I'm sure Libyans have their own American advocates, and I'll let them do their own talking...
PavePusher
(15,374 posts)...night-shifters getting off work...
There are multitude of possibilities.
The world doesn't shut down between sun-set and sun-rise. I think I've mentioned this before on D.U.
HelenWheels
(2,284 posts)I have noticed with the last few multiple shooting the guns used have not been identified. They weren't identified at this site and I have not seen what guns were used at the church in WI.
Is this an attempt to protect the reputations of assault weapons?
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)Too scary down there for me...
petronius
(26,602 posts)As to your question, I really doubt it. I just don't see any possibility that there's a media-wide effort to control language, with the aim of benefiting gun-rights (i.e. anti-AWB) advocacy...
pipoman
(16,038 posts)obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)Zero assault weapons. Handguns and one semi-automatic .223.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)guess it's just another shooting.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)birthers would be headlined. n/t
AlphaCentauri
(6,460 posts)shadowrider
(4,941 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)shadowrider
(4,941 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)they didn't have a .50 cal machine gun nest on the roof.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Gotta cut labor costs, you know!
But, you could turn the responsibility over to The Greeter. He's already on the payroll and standing in the front entrance anyway!
Javaman
(62,530 posts)Cheers!
octothorpe
(962 posts)Talked to someone who knows all the people involved. Apparently they are in their late teens.
efhmc
(14,731 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)Sometimes I'm reminded of lemmings, rats in an overcrowded maze, or
ant colonies.
What will it take to end the carnage? I am without ideas.
greiner3
(5,214 posts)Not to go to Wally Mart!
triplepoint
(431 posts)They sure know how to prove the obvious there.....over and over again...ad nauseum!
samsingh
(17,599 posts)samsingh
(17,599 posts)unfortunately, this would result in cases of preemptive shooting in error.
Texas doesn't have enough guns.
sarcasm off.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I'm not familiar with Cedar Park, or The Statesman. (is that a new name for the Austin-American Statesman?)
octothorpe
(962 posts)I lived in Cedar Park for a few years and I just identified myself as living in Austin.