3 dead in shooting at N. Indiana grocery store

[tosh]

http://www.walb.com/story/24467554/3-dead-in-shooting-at-n-indiana-grocery-store

Posted: Jan 16, 2014 4:11 AM EST Updated: Jan 16, 2014 10:43 AM EST

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) - A man fatally shot two women in a northern Indiana grocery store Wednesday night and was lining up to shoot a third person when police officers found him in an aisle and killed him, authorities said.

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The 22-year-old man used a semi-automatic handgun to shoot and kill a 20-year-old employee and a 44-year-old shopper, Smith said. The victims' bodies were found about 12 aisles apart. Indiana State Police identified the gunman as Shawn Walter Bair of Elkhart.

Smith said two police officers responding to the scene heard a gunshot as they entered the near-empty store. They dashed to that area and found the shooter pointing his gun at a third person. Smith said the man then aimed his gun at the officers and that's when they shot him dead.

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No further details about the victims have been released, but Smith said there was no indication that the shooter knew the victims.

More at link.

[liberal N proud]

1. How many more will be shot today

and tomorrow.

Gun and nuts don't mix, but we dare not challenge them on it because we might infringe on their right to takes someone else's right to live.

Gun rights over the right to breath, that is what it has come down to.

[Loudly]

2. "Guns" are the antithesis of "rights." n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. Pretty much

[shenmue]

4. What is going on?

I hate all this violence.

[Sylvarose]

5. Oh frack..I'm from N. Indiana

..and I know folks from Elkhart. *shake head* Praying everyone is ok.

[billh58]

6. According to the

NRA apologists, there is nothing to see here folks, so move along. Crime is decreasing and more guns are being sold, so these insignificant gun deaths are totally acceptable and to be expected in a free country.

We should all be proud to live in the most heavily armed and dangerous country in the "civilized" world. Let's all stand our ground and shoot someone who has pissed us off today -- it's the American way.

This message brought to you by the ALEC/Koch Brothers sponsored NRA and its arms dealer death merchants.

[tosh]

7. Oh, but that's not all!

Now the extremists want for ME to be armed at all times.

Really!! What's up with that?

And...has anyone else here encountered this?

[billh58]

8. That's the "other" side

of the gun nuts' argument: it's so dangerous on the street and in my neighborhood, that I have to pack a gun to protect myself and my family.

Translation: I am a wannabe cop, and it's fun to be a vigilante. Maybe I can shoot someone and get away with it like Zimmerman did.

[hrmjustin]

10. Zimmerman murdered a 17 year old kid. Bad hero.

[uppityperson]

11. Welcome to DU. Why do you think that is what happened with Zimmerman and Trayvon?

Who was the "bad guy with the gun" in that instance?