Gunman Opens Fire in Reno Hospital

[deminks]

Source: New York Times


One person was killed and at least two were wounded Tuesday afternoon after a gunman began shooting inside a hospital building in Reno, Nev., the police said. The gunman then apparently turned the gun on himself.

Deputy Chief Tom Robinson of the Reno police department said the shooting began about midafternoon at a medical building at Renown Regional Medical Center.

The two wounded people were undergoing treatment, he said at a news conference.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/us/reno-hospital-shooting.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ah yes, another week, another shooting

[Tx4obama]

2. Gunman Shoots 4, Kills Himself At Reno Hospital

Gunman Shoots 4, Kills Himself At Reno Hospital

December 17, 2013, 6:48 PM EST

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A lone gunman shot and injured four people before killing himself at a sprawling medical campus in Reno.

Reno police said the man entered the Center for Advanced Medicine at Renown Regional Medical Center at about 2:45 p.m. with at least one gun and began shooting.

The shooter turned the gun on himself before 3 p.m., police Lt. Tom Robinson said.

One of the shooting victims was in surgery, Robinson said. Information on the condition of the others wasn't immediately available.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gunman-shoots-4-kills-himself-at-reno-hospital

[HockeyMom]

3. Nothing new

A few years ago the week before my husband was to have surgery in a Naples, Florida, hospital, a man shot his estranged wife to death, and then shot himself.

Bring your gun with you when you are having surgery? Arm not just teachers, but hospital staff too? Everybody is a good guy with a gun, until they aren't.

[Skittles]

4. another day in America, another gun freak

[neverforget]

17. Shhhhh! We can't talk about this yet as it's too soon plus the guns feelings

might be hurt.

[niyad]

21. and don't forget, this should be in the gungeon, and, we cannot blame gun culture when it is really

only one mentally ill individual.

[Skittles]

24. oh fuck the gun humpers

biggest cowards in America

[Duckhunter935]

25. very classy

[HERVEPA]

26. All the class the gun humpers deserve

[crim son]

31. +1 n/t

[icymist]

5. Shooting at Reno hospital leaves two dead, two wounded

A gunman opened fire inside a Nevada hospital on Tuesday afternoon, killing one person and wounded two others before killing himself, officials said.

The gunman, who for a while was reported to be roaming through Reno’s Renown Medical Center, has been “neutralized,” the Nevada Emergency Management agency said on Twitter.

The Associated Press reported that the gunman killed himself after firing off several rounds in the Center for Advanced Medicine at the hospital at about 2 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

“We have two people confirmed deceased in the building, two others injured,” Reno Police Department’s Deputy Chief Tom Robinson told reporters.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/17/21943679-shooting-at-reno-medical-center-leaves-two-dead-two-wounded?lite

[mike_c]

6. just another law-abiding legal gun owner...

...until he wasn't.

[Duckhunter935]

7. how do you know?

[canuckledragger]

8. are your gun's feelings hurt or something?

Why are you trying to make an issue of it?

This isn't the first gun-related post you've tried to start an argument in.

[840high]

9. I think it was a fair question.

[Duckhunter935]

16. Just asked a question

not trying to start an argument. thought maybe you had some information. I will just have to wait until the facts come out. Have a nice day.

[MyNameGoesHere]

10. Does it matter?

Your NRA handlers will say it was an isolated event if the potential killer was, white and a legal owner and if not they will blame it on black crime with illegal guns. I would like to propose an alternative. When you have enough guns to arm every man woman child kitten pony and gold fish in America thrice over, why wouldn't gunning people down replace football as the American pastime?

[maxsolomon]

11. i'll bite. the post you object to makes a fair assumption.

when it comes to random shootings, illegally owned guns tend to be used in gang shootings - like the indiscriminate ones in chicago, where a park full of children is raked with gunfire in a dispute over respect or territory.

guns used in amoklauf shootings, like this, are typically legally obtained.

do you have statistical evidence that contradicts this GENERALIZATION?

[Blanket Statements]

13. That doesn't mean he was law abiding prior to the incident

[maxsolomon]

15. well, no one is "law abiding" 100% of the time.

we all go a bit over the speed limit.

let's see if reno hostpital shooter was law abiding.

debate team dropout in arapahoe county was law-abiding until he wasn't - he hadn't owned the gun long enough to not be.

adam lanza was law abiding until he killed his mom, so i suppose that technically, he wasn't law-abiding at the point when he killed all those babies. cold comfort.

[Hoyt]

18. Most of these murderers were "law-abiding" right up until they started shooting.

In the USA buying hit weapons, practicing to shoot people, etc., is considered legal. In fact, for many of these "law-abiding" folks, its a path to manhood. The gun marketers use that by appealing to gun fanciers' baser instincts. Even if this guy stole the gun or bought it in a back alley from a "law-abiding" gun fancier, the gun love made it easier to steal/acquire.

Time to bite the bullet and pass tough laws like Australia did in 1996.

[NastyRiffraff]

12. Hey, the gunman was only exercising his 2nd amendment rights!

(for those who need it)

[Grassy Knoll]

14. Obama's Fault........

[cosmicone]

19. Don't be so harsh

if the doctors, nurses and technicians were packing and if there were armed guards in every clinic, this would never have happened.

[onehandle]

20. Another satisfied customer of the NRA. nt

[Squinch]

22. Kick for exposure. Sadly.

[geomon666]

23. Just Another Day

[Rocknrule]

27. Wow, for once it didn't happen in Colorado!

The shooter must've taken a wrong turn

[rickford66]

28. Boy, if you're gonna get shot

ya can't beat getting shot in a hospital.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

30. From the comments on the Daily Mail site

MrsC, Reno, United States, 8 hours ago
"My husband works for Urology Nevada. Two doctors were shot, one killed instantly, and the other is in surgery. A former patient shot the female doctor first because he was unhappy with his surgery. He shot the other doctor just because he came out of his office to see what the commotion was all about. This is horrible and tragic."

I wish there was something done with the guns in the US, it feels so surreal that the US has this huge gun problem and yet, as usual, nothing is done because people cry that it's their right to own a gun.