TWO fatal university shootings today

[ellenrr]

Where is Ben Carson when you need him?

HOUSTON — One person was dead and another wounded after a shooting at a student housing complex at a Texas university Friday, police said.

University spokesman Kendrick Callis said the shooting was reported around 11:30 a.m. Friday at University Courtyard Apartments on the edge of the Texas Southern University campus. Callis said the campus was placed on lockdown and classes were canceled for the rest of the day.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/09/texas-southern-university-shooting/73660286/

[shenmue]

1. What the fuck is going on?

Other countries look at us and shake their heads.

[ellenrr]

2. I look at us and shake my head...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. They shake their heads at more than shootings.

Our health insurance mess is a cause for wonder among citizens of more developed countries. The ACA may help over time, but there are still incredible health care issues which kill many.

[shenmue]

11. Which has nothing to do with what I said

I was talking about the shootings.

[Fred Sanders]

3. And at this very moment there is a law in the Senate ready for signing to make a start to end this.

[former9thward]

7. What law is that?

What the Senate Democrats have proposed would have had no affect on these shootings. But don't let facts stop you.

[SheilaT]

4. Keep in mind that neither one rises to the level of a mass shooting.

Just some of the thirty or so people who die every single day from guns in this country. The only reason these are anything other than local news is that they happened on or near college campuses. Otherwise, yawn. Just another day in the U.S.of A.

[TeddyR]

5. At least one of the shootings appears to be related

To drug dealing at a campus fraternity, and wasn't a classroom shooting. I hope Dems will start focusing on the day to day killings, and how we prevent those.

[Iggo]

8. Gunfuckers gotta gunfuck.

("Gunfuckers" in no way refers to DUers or their loved ones.)

[Snobblevitch]

9. While the shootings in Texas and Arizona

are terrible for the victims and their families, I don't think they should be classified as 'school shootings'. I'm not even clear if either actually happened on campus.

[Eleanors38]

12. MSM's on a roll. IT'S ALL ACTIVE SHOOTERS ALL THE TIME.

The newz is trying to resurrect the ability to move the crowd it once had 30 years ago; in those days it effected hegemony on the gun debate, and believed it could get a fast & dirty win at the end of the "activist" era. Not so much, now. But it longs for the daze of agenda-setting and throttling down the opposition. So it WILL return to those daze of shaming, personal attacks, cartoons, and culture war. The stuff which begat the 800 lb. NRA Gorilla. Now, they must contend with that opposition even as it struggles to remain partially relevant; now it must face the fact it is only reciting the second verse, same as the first.