BREAKING NEWS: Gunman holding five firefighters hostage in suburban Atlanta: Gunman dead.
Source: MSNBC and faux
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SUWANEE, Ga. -
A gunman is holding five firefighters hostage in Gwinnett County, authorities say.
A SWAT team was on the scene at 2240 Walnut Grove Way in Suwanee, according to the Gwinnett County Police Department. That home is near Collins Hill Park.
Police say that the firefighters were apparently responding to the home on a medical call.
The gunman was barricaded inside the home with the firefighters, according to Gwinnett County police.
Read more: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/21935512/police-gunman
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)WTF!
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)This appears to be a nationwide thing lately.
What sense does it make to kill firemen?
Is the NRA seriously attempting to burn everything down and have no one there to put out fires?
More and more all guns/bullets must be banned from the hands of private citizens.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Started with one, and ideas propagate...
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)This is a sinister NRA plot.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)In the sense that they approach the ideal of a target.
They are neither armed nor armored. They come when you call them. You know when and where they will arrive, and they announce their arrival with sirens and flashing lights. and because they are public servants, the media will flock to the event.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)union members, right? Plenty of reason for RW haters to hate them. That, and they provide lifesaving service to brown people and the poor at the expense of "job creators".
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Robb
(39,665 posts)Love, NRA Robb.
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)Who modeled their country's constitution like the USA. They love their guns like Americans. 70 percent of the phillipines people own guns. Their kids own guns and many of their politicians are murdered by guns. Watch HBO new series Vice and see it all. Sick!!!!.
I am thankful I live in a sane country and not the United States of America, one nation, under guns.
My partner is a firefighter and has left for a department meeting. You can bet his fellow firefighters will be talking about crazy america.
And web live in rural northern Ontario and NoOnenhas assault rifles, just regular hunting rifles.
Wow, how come America has gone nuts???
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)PB
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)k&r
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Dripping sarcasm
warrior1
(12,325 posts)and there still is not more news to report.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)...wishing the firefighters make it through the ordeal alive and well. Instead, it's "let's be cutesy about guns."
I want the firefighters rescued and returned to their families and loved ones. What say you? Can we at least agree on this?
Bandit
(21,475 posts)Yes of course everybody wants all to be safe but with gun nuts running around like they are, we just sort of hope for the best and expect the worse...And we should not even attempt to find any solutions seems to be what I get from many that post here and especially on right wings blogs...
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)It's generated buzz, created for the purpose of increasing viewership of TV channels and readership of blogs and printed matter, with the ultimate intent of driving up advertising revenues. That is, profit.
JI7
(89,264 posts)when these things happen day after day. multiple times in a day.
"now is not the time" it will never be the time based on how these things are happening so often.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)anything to take the focus off the fact it's another case of guns in the wrong hands.
Of course we want the firefighters released safely. As for the gunman? Screw him.
frylock
(34,825 posts)you really need affirmation that that's what people want. really?!
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)I hope you had your fainting couch nearby when you fell over from the wholesale disgust you have witnessed by the insensitivity of the responses to this thread.
Oh, wait a minute...
In closing, I hope you survived the fall.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)You'd be more believable trying to get your gun buddies to start acting responsibly.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Wishes are, as I understand it, effective as prayers.
What precisely will wishes and prayers accomplish?
warrior1
(12,325 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I just hope no harm comes to those firefighters.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Really, what possible motivation could there be for this?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Edit: AJC says he's upset about getting foreclosed
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Criminals doing what they do best.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)... so perhaps, we can try to do something else .... its the guns
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)And if they dont, they will use.other objects/bombs, etc. But most likely they will.get the guns.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Guns don't fire on their own, they're fired by people. Let's be serious about it if we try to make a serious point.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Hope the firefighters can all get out safely.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Didn't work out so well. Do you think that what you advocatebwill be different?
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Some work out well, some do not.
we have not tried stringent gun control ... it is time we did
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Something as common as a firearm would be unsuccessful as there are millions of them around and even a despot like hitler or stalin couldn't round them up... especially from the gangs that are causing the violence in our big cities.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)Think a prohibition of firearms would be carried out?
olddots
(10,237 posts)JI7
(89,264 posts)Larrylarry
(76 posts)The gun is being used to keep the firefighters in line while they're being held hostage
If the guy had a knife the firefighters would have shoved it up his fucking ass
The gun is doing what guns do best
valerief
(53,235 posts)The gungeoneer's wet dream.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Let's talk about gun control instead.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)a child has been shot. No further details. Just learned it is not related to hostage situation. It happened in southeast Atlanta area.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)A Gwinnett County Sheriffs deputy at the scene said that the gunman had faked a heart attack to elicit fire department response, and that he was upset because his house was being foreclosed upon.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/gunman-holds-5-gwinnett-firefighters-hostage/nXH22/
The photos show it's a pretty nice neighborhood (you know, in that nauseating, generic, suburban, faux big money McMansion sort of way)
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)What the hell do they have to do with this guy's problems?
Selatius
(20,441 posts)Such was the desperation of the times and the anger. There was no love for the banks that seized farmland and homes in the aftermath of a Depression the banks had wrought.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)that are not being allowed into their homes in that neighborhood.
Eugene
(61,945 posts)Source: CBS/AP
Ga. Firefighters Hostage Update: Suspect released one firefighter, four still held in Suwanee, authorities say
By Crimesider Staff
(CBS/AP) GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - A barricaded gunman who took five firefighters hostage in northwest Georgia Wednesday has released one of those firefighters so he could move a fire truck which was blocking the house, police confirmed in a news conference.
Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter says firefighters on Wednesday responded to a medical call in Suwanee and were taken hostage by a suspect he didn't identify.
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Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57578964-504083/ga-firefighters-hostage-update-suspect-released-one-firefighter-four-still-held-in-suwanee-authorities-say/
sgsmith
(398 posts)It's spring break in the local school system and the elementary school adjacent to the subdivision and the high school across the street aren't full of students.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)fredzachmane
(85 posts)this guy would be breaking the law
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)applegrove
(118,778 posts)"A gunman is holding several Gwinnett County, Georgia, firefighters hostage, a police spokesman said.
The hostage situation occurred after the firefighters responded to a medical call at a residence in suburban Atlanta, said police spokesman Ed Ritter.
Five firefighters were initially being held, but one of them was released, a fire department spokesman said.
Follow complete coverage of breaking news on CNN TV, http://cnn.com and CNN Mobile. "
applegrove
(118,778 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)I hope the firemen are ok.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)24601
(3,962 posts)the right decision. Glad that it kept the firefighters alive.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)What's your real point, Barack?
24601
(3,962 posts)one (US citizen or not) overseas disarmed and gave themselves up to the security officers at a US Embassy, it's unlikely that a harm missile would be launched at them at that point - if for no other reason than to avoid damage to the embassy. I don't believe President Obama's administration would launch on a prisoner in secure custody. Does anybody here (on DU) find that a plausible scenario? To infer that really takes a conspiracy addict.
If there is general agreement on this point, do we have near consensus that one route to avoiding drone targeting is to peacefully surrender?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)But you knew that.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)That would have helped.