Well, one again, there was a shooting in Virginia Beach, Va.

[imanamerican63]

At the municipal building, several wounded. Gunman arrested.

[dalton99a]

1. 11 dead

At least 11 people were killed after a gunman opened fire at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia, police chief James Cervera told reporters Friday night.

The shooter is dead, Cervera said. It was unclear whether the shooter was among the 11 dead.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. 11 dead, 6 wounded.

Reports are the shooter is dead.

Amazing how numb we’ve become to this.

Four years ago this entire page would have been covered in posts about this.

[durablend]

9. I don't think it's numbness

It's the reality that nobody will do a damn thing about it.

Aside from more "thoughts and prayers"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. 11 killed. Shooter is also dead.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/us/virginia-beach-shooting/index.html

[Captain Stern]

11. From the article: "The incident is the deadliest mass shooting in the US since November"

I don't really have anything to add to that.

[imanamerican63]

4. Thanks for the update.

I only heard a small portion when it first broke. Very sad.

[ego_nation]

5. I think Jon Stewart said it best on TDS

"Now I see what's happening. Their paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present.

"We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of Imaginary Hitler."

[Hoyt]

6. But gunners can't live without being able to buy more guns whenever they want more.

[rufus dog]

12. becuase they are fucking wimps N/t

[struggle4progress]

7. Happy Second Amendment Martyrs Day: a holiday we celebrate and celebrate

and celebrate and celebrate and celebrate and celebrate and celebrate and celebrate and celebrate ...

[Boomerproud]

13. Harsh-but the situation warrants it.

[MissB]

8. Damn

That’s a lot of folks dead.

[doc03]

10. Thoughts and prayers no action. nt

[struggle4progress]

14. "A longtime city employee shot and killed 11 people and injured six others after opening fire

late Friday afternoon in the public works building where he worked, police said. The man was then killed by officers after firing at them"

12 dead, 6 injured in shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center
By Alissa Skelton, Stacy Parker, and Mike Connors
3 hrs ago
https://pilotonline.com/news/local/crime/article_777b737e-83e3-11e9-b1d0-dff7ad725d5e.html

[VOX]

15. 11 dead in mass shooting; or, as it's known in America, "Friday."

These “events” are now so repugnantly routine that Americans are likely becoming inured to this USA-specific brand of sporadic mass violence, most often with killings in the double digits.

There will be no safety or control measures taken as long as this country suffers under right-wing minority rule. The Electoral College, gerrymandering, voter suppression, Russian interference, and over-represented-low-population Red States have the entire U.S. chained to the hard-right-wing’s insane, self-destructive addictions: irrational resistance to government as an engine of progress; white supremacy; complete denial of science and distrust in public/higher education; privatization of everything in sight, even if it means monetary losses and feeds corruption; infantile, vengeful religious beliefs; a cult-like, unswerving devotion to their ideological figurehead, and fetus/firearms worship.

Those who wave the flag hardest are those who know the least about their own country, and how it best relates to the world around us.

[Tipperary]

16. They're being very quiet about the gunman.

I wonder why.

[Still In Wisconsin]

17. Thoughts and prayers. n/t