empire state building shooting

[Jonnin]

hard to hit the bad guy when you have to use your entire body weight to pull on a NYC approved trigger system I guess.

[mikegideon]

Some humble pie is being served up to the mayor, but it remains to be seen whether or not he will dine.

He won't. He'll blame it on the guns, and his subjects will cheer.

[Guest Aces&8s]

Looks like the gunman only shot one person. The rest were wounded by the police trying to take out the bad guy.

Well, the obvious solution, then, is to prohibit the police from carrying those evil, murderous guns, as well. Then we can all live forever in peace and tranquility while riding unicorns bareback across rainbow bridges in Bloomberg's Paradise where everything is duckies, bunnies, and flowers as far as the eye can see...

[E4 No More]

Some humble pie is being served up to the mayor, but it remains to be seen whether or not he will dine.

No, this fuels his fire, because they reported that the gun was bought in Florida some years back, and that he had no permit for New York.

[MattCary]

Yep. http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/08/robert-farago/9-out-of-14-rounds-fired-by-new-york-city-cops-may-have-hit-civilians/

[JPR1959]

The gunman was a women's accessories designer. The Empire State Building has several apparel designers in it. He and the victim traded accusation of harassment.

[E4 No More]

The gunman was a women's accessories designer. The Empire State Building has several apparel designers in it. He and the victim traded accusation of harassment.

Perhaps he took it in the butt from the boss just to take in the butt again when he got canned?

[gregintenn]

Police shot this guy and nine other bystanders, while he never shot back? Did I read that wrong?

[E4 No More]

So, does this mean that this is the biggest mass shooting in New York's recent history?

[mikegideon]

So, does this mean that this is the biggest mass shooting in New York's NYPD's recent history?

FTFY

[E4 No More]

Well, the next part was to be perpetrated by the NYPD.

[Guest bkelm18]

Just saw on the news where some police expert or whatnot was saying police have a duty to take deadly action no matter if there are innocents in the line of fire or not.

[E4 No More]

Just saw on the news where some police expert or whatnot was saying police have a duty to take deadly action no matter if there are innocents in the line of fire or not.

Gee, I thought that the SC ruled that the police have no duty to protect?

[Murgatroy]

Gee, I thought that the SC ruled that the police have no duty to protect?

Well it is obvious in this case that the police sure as hell didn't protect...

[Sam1]

Said he used a .45, got pinged 10 times by the cops.

I feel bad for the cops cause Lord knows what they're worried about now because of the collateral damage (not using the term lightly).

[BigK]

53 yr old fashion designer: 2 shots fired, 2 hits, 1 kill, 0 bystanders wounded

NYPD: 16 rounds fired (from 8 ft away), ? hits, 1 kill, 9 bystanders wounded

too bad they killed him, he could start teaching marksmanship at the NYPD shooting range

Edited August 25, 2012 by BigK

[Chucktshoes]

I'm totally stealing that and posting it to my Facebook. I think that is going to end being the best and most succinct summation of today's events.

[mikegideon]

I'm totally stealing that and posting it to my Facebook. I think that is going to end being the best and most succinct summation of today's events.

And... he really did

[mikegideon]

Some humble pie is being served up to the mayor, but it remains to be seen whether or not he will dine.

Brief hijack. I laughed my ass off when I saw your new avatar. It just works

[Oh Shoot]

Pussy Piers just got abashed on CNN, asked victim's brother leading anti-gun question, brother answered didn't matter about guns, people find a way to kill.

And then Rudy Giuliani comes on and says pretty much same thing, mentions how tough gun laws hasn't worked in Chicago, and doesn't credit attempts at gun control per se as reason for NYC's miniscule murder rate by comparison

- OS

[mikegideon]

Poose Morgan needs to waddle his ass back to England

[zapfbroad]

I don't much care for piers morgan, he seems so meddlesome. I personally feel he believes the u.s. is inferior to her majesty's great island of history & culture. Glad guiliani shut down the antigun rhetoric. My grandmother worked in nyc for 30 years and to hear her guiliani is like the next coming. I've never understood it myself but I don't care for nyc much either so I guess I don't have a paddle in that boat.

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[gregintenn]

53 yr old fashion designer: 2 shots fired, 2 hits, 1 kill, 0 bystanders wounded

NYPD: 16 rounds fired (from 8 ft away), ? hits, 1 kill, 9 bystanders wounded

too bad they killed him, he could start teaching marksmanship at the NYPD shooting range

Can you all imagine the headlines if an HCP holder had done all the shooting the NYPD did?

[macville]

53 yr old fashion designer: 2 shots fired, 2 hits, 1 kill, 0 bystanders wounded

NYPD: 16 rounds fired (from 8 ft away), ? hits, 1 kill, 9 bystanders wounded

The article on Fox news (may have been an AP article) this morning said the gun held 7 rounds (1911 since it was a .45?) and it had one round in the mag and one round in the chamber. So he fired 5 rounds at his target and hit the target 5 times. Yeah, so NYPD are very bad shots.

[Chucktshoes]

. Yeah, so NYPD are very bad shots.

Is this news? Anybody else remember the general public's opinion of the NYPD prior to 9/11? I do, and it wasn't good. They are an organization well known for excessive fire and poor marksmanship.