SquiddyCracker
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... which is why citizens shouldn't be wearing guns.
You're making things harder for the cops.
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Multiple people shot at Wisconsin Sikh temple
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... which is why citizens shouldn't be wearing guns.
You're making things harder for the cops.
Is this a serious question?
RustyNails
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cnn reporting number of shooters unconfirmed, and re-iterated white bald male suspect description
Ok weird, will keep listening.
crimzonflame
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So possibly a skinhead?
You Are Viewtiful
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I guess I have a problem with the word "believed". I would want policemen to be more sure than just "believed" before they start ending other people's lives. It has still not been verified that the person shot was the suspect and the word "believed" is still going around.
Daydream Sequence
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Officer shot at scene, but he shot the shooter. At least one of them. And that shooter is dead.
NihonTiger90
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Officer responded, shot multiple times, in the hospital and expected to survive.
Shooter down outside the temple.
Shooter down outside the temple.
spiderman123
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Police Briefing is on.
One Officer Shot (will survive)
One Shooter is down ( the one that shot the officer)
Unconfirmed more shooters in building.
No victim count
One Officer Shot (will survive)
One Shooter is down ( the one that shot the officer)
Unconfirmed more shooters in building.
No victim count
Ok that's good. If the person shot an officer, then it was totally fair game to shoot back and kill the guy.
Funky Papa
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What a fucking mess 
RustyNails
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1 officer and a suspect exchanged fire, officer injured, suspect was "put down"
The Technomancer
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Glad the guy went down relatively quickly it sounds like.
Daydream Sequence
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Waving a gun around after shooting a bunch of people was reason enough. You don't have to shoot a cop to get yourself killed.
Air Zombie Meat
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You're reading too much into it, that's just the way they word things. It's like how they call people suspects even if they've blatantly committed a crime.
Thank god for Kevlar.
I doubt very much that they just walked up in there and started blasting random people.
Dude, if a news station uses the word "believed" that doesn't mean you should assume that SWAT had the same level of uncertainty. "Believed to be..." is news reporter lingo. SWAT members don't indiscriminately shoot people. Let's not make this an argument about police protocol. If you recall, James Holmes wasn't shot despite being the shooter. If the SWAT members did happen to shoot someone in this incident, more than likely the person was behaving in a dangerous manner (brandishing weapon, firing weapon, etc).
It's just what they say until they can confirm what happened which will be after this event if over.
Emerson
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You really think this is something that SWAT and other police officers/military/anyone weilding a gun professionally aren't trained to handle? You don't just shoot somebody because they have a gun. You scream at them to drop the gun and get on the ground. If they act aggressively, that's when they get shot.
(not to say there's never been cases where the wrong person got shot, of course there have. but it's not like there's no established protocol for this)
speculawyer
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RustyNails
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police briefing in half hour
NotTheGuyYouKill
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What the fuck? This is horrifying. Good that one of the shooters got taken down, but now there's another one around apparently? That is so fucked up. My whole family is Sikh, I'm sure this is gonna hit a few of them hard.
phosphor112
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How much you wanna bet the gunman(men?) won't get called a terrorist?
spiderman123
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A mother is outside and her children is inside. Come on man.
You drop the gun as soon as you see the swat guys
Im pretty sure they didn't just arrived and started shooting people down.
White? Not terrorist. He might get a fancy nickname from the media though.
They said 2 hand guns I think.
Big Baybee
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Dude on CNN is just saying everything the police are doing. STFU!
Two handguns, apparently.
NihonTiger90
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It was a kid's birthday at the temple today. What the fuck
Technically, they all should've been armed anyway, because they were Sikhs. But probably kirpans aren't really all that practical as self-defense against gunmen.
Wendel Clark
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yeah, I shook my head big time after hearing that.............
NihonTiger90
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EDIT: Someone beat me to it.
lunarworks
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The shooter is a probably a Sikh.
I work with a Sikh, who lives in a community full of Sikhs (Brampton), an he says religious disputes at temples can occasionally get fairly heated. Every year or two around there someone goes absolutely nuts at a temple and stabs a bunch of people.
I work with a Sikh, who lives in a community full of Sikhs (Brampton), an he says religious disputes at temples can occasionally get fairly heated. Every year or two around there someone goes absolutely nuts at a temple and stabs a bunch of people.
spiderman123
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I guess they received a lot of criticism of the Colorado Shooter and they are not jumping to conclusions ( or as fast)
SquiddyCracker
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If they're white, they won't.
Man armed with a knife is way easier to subdue than man armed with guns. They've already said bald white man.
Metroid Hunter
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Wow this is sad. RIP to the victims.
phosphor112
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Yep, just like whats his face from the movies.
SquiddyCracker
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NotTheGuyYouKill
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I don't think there are multiple stabbings every year or two. Then again, maybe West Coast Sikhs are just more chilled out.*
* There was one time in the 90s I think where there was a big fistfight and a guy broke out an axe though.
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