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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:28 AM May 2020

McDonald's employees shot after asking angry customers to leave dining room

Two angry customers shot two McDonald's employees in Oklahoma City on Wednesday when the customers were told to leave the restaurant's dining area.

Restaurant dining rooms remained closed in Oklahoma due to the coronavirus pandemic. When two women entered the restaurant on Wednesday, employees told them they would need to leave because the dining room was closed.

The comments sparked an argument. Eventually, one of the customers pulled out a gun and shot two male McDonald's workers. Both were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A third McDonald's employee, a woman, sustained injury when she fell and hit her head during the brawl.

Police apprehended the two suspects nearby shortly after.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/national/coronavirus/mcdonalds-employees-shot-after-asking-angry-customers-to-leave-dining-room-amid-covid-19-shutdown

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McDonald's employees shot after asking angry customers to leave dining room (Original Post) left-of-center2012 May 2020 OP
"An armed society is a polite society." -- NRA GaYellowDawg May 2020 #1
If the dining room is closed MissMillie May 2020 #2
Gun-crazies need an excuse to get crazy with their guns. Aristus May 2020 #7
Shit like this going on is really going to encourage people to go out. Now you don't brewens May 2020 #3
They need some life terms in prison to cool off. nt NCjack May 2020 #4
Just a guess: customers white, employees black? Walleye May 2020 #5
Does the customer look white to you? LisaL May 2020 #8
Jeeze no. Sorry didn't see the pic. Now I really don't get it. Walleye May 2020 #10
Wrong. cwydro May 2020 #12
Just goes to show what a mistake prejudice can lead us to. Walleye May 2020 #15
Yup. cwydro May 2020 #19
True but it's not like you didn't have reasons for thinking so. Solomon May 2020 #21
Let me guess.....they are Trump supporters Neerav B. Trivedi May 2020 #6
There is one female shooter. LisaL May 2020 #9
Hope they'll face 3 attempted murder charges, but know they won't sinkingfeeling May 2020 #11
Have you seen the suspect pic? cwydro May 2020 #14
Trump has emboldened his supporters to the point that some of them ooky May 2020 #13
I highly doubt the shooter, a 32 y/o black woman, is a Trump supporter Kaleva May 2020 #17
Seems unlikely. cwydro May 2020 #20
Yea, that put's a different slant on the story alright. ooky May 2020 #22
Was waiting for that to happen, after the 1st shooting. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #16
Where were the good guys with guns? Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #18

MissMillie

(38,557 posts)
2. If the dining room is closed
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:33 AM
May 2020

then the dining room is closed.

Did they think firing off a few rounds was going to get it open again?


Oh... yeah.... THEY WEREN'T THINKING!

brewens

(13,586 posts)
3. Shit like this going on is really going to encourage people to go out. Now you don't
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:34 AM
May 2020

just have to worry about being exposed, you have to worry about someone pulling out a gun over restrictions. It's certain you even have people going out with symptoms that think it's just a cold, because they are being taught to make believe it's all a hoax.

 

Neerav B. Trivedi

(205 posts)
6. Let me guess.....they are Trump supporters
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:34 AM
May 2020

Would not surprise me in the least, since Trump talked about using the 2nd Amendment. Time to vote Trump out of office!

ooky

(8,922 posts)
13. Trump has emboldened his supporters to the point that some of them
Thu May 7, 2020, 01:41 PM
May 2020

must be starting to believe their 2nd Amendment rights extend to being able to shoot people who don't agree with them. This is getting more frequent lately.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
16. Was waiting for that to happen, after the 1st shooting.
Thu May 7, 2020, 03:20 PM
May 2020


'cause that is always the pattern of shootings, and now any worker of any public facility can be a target
of any person who does not like being told "No".

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
18. Where were the good guys with guns?
Thu May 7, 2020, 03:30 PM
May 2020

Ya know, like Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke who always wins against the bad guys?

Right-wingers live in a fantasy world!

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