10 Shot Outside Arkansas Car Show, Kids Reported Among the Victims

[Zorro]

Source: Daily Beast

As many as ten people were injured late Saturday after gunfire erupted outside a car show in Dumas, Arkansas, authorities said.

The Arkansas State Police confirmed that troopers were dispatched to the scene just before 7:30 p.m. The circumstances that led to the shooting at the 16th Annual Hood-Nic event were not immediately clear.

Witnesses cited in local media reports said children were among the victims. The Desha County Office of Emergency Management said at least one child was transported to the Arkansas Children's Hospital. The agency said there was a high-speed pursuit and a head-on crash in addition to the mass shooting, though it was not immediately clear if the events were thought to be connected.

Video shared on social media that was said to have been taken at the scene of the shooting showed police and ambulances flooding the area as a man with an injury was helped by friends. Another video showed a crowd of attendees listening to music and chatting when a series of loud shots rang out, sending everyone scattering.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/several-people-shot-outside-dumas-arkansas-car-show-state-police-say

[a kennedy]

1. What the absolute shit is this now??? 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Roy Rolling]

29. WTF?

Another 2nd Amendment protection firearm? How many of those people killed were government agents threatening to overthrow Constitutional freedoms and “take away their guns”?

It’s a trick question—the answer is always zero, except on January 6th.

[Skittles]

2. zzzzzzzzzzzz

another day in America

[hollygolively]

18. Snoozing along with you.

Call me and wake me up when there is meaningful change that might prevent this sort of episode.

[Demovictory9]

19. if death count is high, these type of incidents dont get heavy coverage anymore

[TeamProg]

46. ?

[Demovictory9]

53. Typo _ "isnt high"

[cinematicdiversions]

69. Honestly these type of shootings never get coverage for obvious reasons. NT

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Have Republicans rushed a no lisense concealed carry law through the Legislature yet?

The more guns the safer everyone will be!

[Kaleva]

24. Vermont has been that way for a very long time.

[oldsoftie]

26. Vermont also has a very different population than most states.

And that makes a HUGE difference

[Paladin]

28. Care to amplify on that? (nt)

[oldsoftie]

32. Oh I'd be happy to.

Unfortunately too many people here only want to hear the facts they like

[Farmer-Rick]

45. Well, they are two very different populations.

Vermont has a higher average income, their property is of higher value, though maintenance costs are very similar. Vermont has a higher percentage of people with higher education, with healthcare insurance and with home ownership.

Arkansas has a younger population and more poverty. Arkansas has over 3 million people and Vermont has about 600,000.

It's like apples and oranges.

[Kaleva]

37. Vermont is lily white if that's what you mean

[oldsoftie]

38. Well, most serial killers are white too.

[Kaleva]

48. Serial killers account for a very small percentage of murders

with a gun

[IronLionZion]

50. How about for non-gang related mass shootings?

[Kaleva]

55. There were over 45k gun related injuries in the US in 2020

Suicides accounted for over half that.

[IronLionZion]

56. Suicides are a little more self inflicted than mass shootings

which can happen to anyone anywhere: schools, churches, workplaces, etc.

[Kaleva]

57. You are far more likely to know someone who died of suicide by gun

Then someone who was a victim of a mass shooter. The odds of you and only you bring shot by a lone individual is much higher then you bring a victim of a mass shooter. according to one site, there were a little over a thousand victims of mass shooters between 2009 and 2019. There were over quarter million gun related deaths over the same time period.

[oldsoftie]

58. And most gun murders are "acquaintance" murders; victim knows the killer.

[Kaleva]

59. That is true with women but not so much with men

[paleotn]

39. Not sure what the person you're responding to means by "different"

but culturally VT and AR are about as similar as night and day. And that has nothing to do with race. I grew up in the south and lived there much of my life. Moved to VT some years ago and the differences are huge.

And yet....we still have our own gun issues. It's not some gun rights panacea by any means. We get most things right around here, but guns aren't one of them.

[Kaleva]

49. And the differences can vary wildly within a state

The odds of me, a near senior white male living in a rural area, of being killed by a gun is about zero. The same cannot be said for a young black male living in Detroit.

[paleotn]

54. Absolutely!

[alfredo]

60. I always thought Vermont was somewhat isolationist

[oldsoftie]

61. I don't see a State that has Bernie Sanders as their Senator as being isolationists

Sanders isn't one IMO. Others may feel differently though

[alfredo]

68. Individualist rather than isolationist.

[paleotn]

33. We have our own problems with that.

https://vtdigger.org/tag/shooting/


We also have one of the lowest crime rates of any state in the country, eliminating that excuse.

[NewHendoLib]

4. dumb ass, Arkansas, hey?

[pecosbob]

7. Just around the bend from Dogpatch

[Midnight Writer]

10. "Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas, Arkansas" was a popular song.

[Traildogbob]

17. Exactly my thought.

[JoeOtterbein]

5. Just...

...(tears).

[greenjar_01]

8. The people of Arkansas vote for their lax state gun laws in huge supermajorities

They inflict this ideology on the rest of us by doing the same at the federal level.

[Kaleva]

25. Same with Vermont

[paleotn]

36. You don't known much about VT, do you?

[moriah]

27. You know, as an Arkansan....

...the only thing that irritates me more than when people online assume we are a monolith/all want the crappy policies we have is when I write elected officials here and they believe the same thing (or just don't care because after reading my opinion they can tell I clearly didn't vote for them so they don't GAF what I think).

Just sayin'.

[Paladin]

31. You're getting off easy. Try being a DU-er from Texas.

Just sayin'....

[oldsoftie]

34. Or any Southern/Red state

[greenjar_01]

42. Texas voting patterns are more balanced than Arkansas these days

[greenjar_01]

41. I said huge supermajorities

Which is true. I didn't say monolith, or all. But it's true that your compatriots vote for horrible policies by huge supermajorities.

[TomSlick]

62. It's a lost cause.

There seems to be no hope that many on DU will ever accept that not all of us in Arkansas are mindless hicks. Mind you, a majority of our folks in Arkansas are rather mindless.

[moriah]

63. At least I hope I was clear that I was more irritated at the elected officials...

... because believe me, I get being annoyed at the people who vote against their self-interest here.

But if you are a resident, you know what happens if we write either of our senators. Sigh.

[TomSlick]

64. I have long since given up on writing either of our senators.

If you get a response, it's a form letter thanking you for your support of Senator....

[IronLionZion]

9. An armed society is a polite society

which is why heavily armed people are so polite when shooting lots of people dead.

Maybe the NRA will blame the liberal gun laws in Arkansas or the gun free zones outside the venue.

[UpInArms]

11. Cool

Hope they enjoyed their fried pickles

[ZZenith]

13. You're neither clever nor effective.

Sadly.

[wnylib]

15. Since mass shootings occur in all deomographics,

why make it a point in this case? They are always tragic.

[Initech]

16. What kind of shithole country claims to be pro life then allows kids to be shot?

[area51]

35. +1

But also, what kind of country claims to be pro-life but healthcare is considered a luxury item?

[JohnSJ]

20. The republicans have blood on their hands for so many things, not the least for this, because

every step of the way they have opposed any legislation for gun laws

[twodogsbarking]

21. A car show they won't forget. Guns bless America.

[JohnSJ]

22. Not the only shooting either. This one in Virginia took 5 people, including a CNN employee

https://www.rawstory.com/sierra-jenkins-killed-norfolk/

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. 1 dead, 20 shot, 1 in custody

At least 20 people were shot, including children, at a car show in rural Arkansas on Saturday night. At least one person has died, according to police.
...
Finch said police have a person of interest in custody but continue to investigate whether more people may have been involved.

It's unclear what caused the shooting or the conditions of many of those injured.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-20-shot-including-children-arkansas-car-show/story?id=83559117

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Guns are sold to protect the shooter.

If he had used a knife, an axe, or a sword he would have been stopped quickly.

[Aristus]

40. Look, I don't care if the hillbillies, rednecks, and clodhoppers all kill each other.

But can we leave the kids out of it?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. Why am I not surprised to see this?

Sun Mar 20, 2022, 10:00 AM: Look, I don't care if the hillbillies, rednecks, and clodhoppers all kill each other.

But can we leave the kids out of it?

Set the WABAC Machine for Tue Nov 16, 2021.

Tue Nov 16, 2021: Asking the rednecks, hillbillies, clodhoppers, swamp-swimmers, and yahoos

to "commit to being an anti-racist".

May as well tell them to commit to having a full set of teeth, a pastime other than meth and squirrel shooting, or a family tree that forks...

Try a few years earlier.

Mon Jul 7, 2014: He'll start playing the banjo when the redneck, gun-crazed, pig-fucking hillbillies

walk in doing their open carry...

Do you refer to your patients who have a life of economic disadvantage as dirtballs?

[Aristus]

44. My patients aren't blasting each other in parking lots, or anywhere else.

They’re trying to survive on the mean streets that just get meaner all the time. They’re more likely to be the victims of violent crime than the perpetrators.

I don’t feel moved to advocate for the rights and the dignity of rage-junkies who use guns to solve all their problems.

[cinematicdiversions]

65. I don't think there were any rednecks involved. NT

[BradAllison]

66. You should probably take a look at the video at the scene....

...and re-calibrate who you think was involved.

[onenote]

67. This is who you think is a "hillbilly, redneck, clodhopper."

https://www.topinfoguide.com/wiki/cameron-shaffer-of-jacksonville-death-jacksonville-man-killed-in-arkansas-car-show-shooting-more-than-20-injured-obituary-news/

[TeamProg]

47. Where was THE GOOD GUY with a gun ?

Let me guess, they are mostly cowards.

Isn't that why people carry guns, b/c they're afraid?

[Jilly_in_VA]

51. My husband was born in Arkansas

a fact which he tries to minimize as much as possible. He suggested that the proper pronunciation of this town's name may be "Dumbass".

[IronLionZion]

52. Children pay the price of freedom

[rockfordfile]

70. Republicans are to blame for this. You've got repuke Govs not requiring gun permits and list goes on

Republicans have made it that any pos can get a gun.