Woman held after 2 shot dead at Kraft cookie plant in Pa.

[kristopher]

PHILADELPHIA — Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods Inc. plant and was escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody, police said.

The shootings occurred shortly after 8:30 p.m. Thursday inside a northeast Philadelphia plant where workers for the nation's largest food manufacturer make cookies and crackers.

About 10 minutes after the woman was escorted out, she returned in a car and drove through a security barrier before re-entering the building on foot, Lt. Frank Vanore said.

As she walked inside, she fired a shot at an employee who had followed her in and had yelled, "Hide, she's got a gun!" Vanore said. That shot missed.

The woman then shot the...

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100910/NEWS/100910006/Woman+held+after+2+shot+dead+at+Kraft+cookie+plant+in+Pa.

[valerief]

1. It's so unusual to hear of a woman doing this. I don't recall ever hearing about a woman mass

shooter.

[Toots]

2. America is deep in the grip of insanity..

And it seems to be getting much worse more rapidly than could be imagined.

[BillStein]

3. McDonald's near the border

between Tijuana and San Siego in the 80's?

[LeftinOH]

5. That was in '84; a man did that (no woman at fault there). n/t

[MilesColtrane]

4. Rare, but it happens.

Postal Worker Kills Six

[Bitwit1234]

6. I suppose the realize that when they get fired

and the job being what it is their life is over. But why don't this creeps just shoot themselves, why do they have to go after innocent people. They are stupid.

[gophates]

9. They are stupid, but look at the hopelessness out there.

There's no way for most people to do it any more. If anything, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more. It won't stop until some real safeguards are put in place so people are treated like something more than means to a profit.

[sharesunited]

7. Guns solve personal problems. We all know that.

The Second Amendment has become so badly twisted by conservatives that we might as well accept the perverted meaning and state it out loud.

The right to keep and bear arms so citizens can perpetually be empowered to act out.

She was a law abiding gun owner right up until the moment she wasn't.

[valerief]

8. +666 trillion

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. Has the NRA considered how poorly their 'Guns don't kill" argument might work for women?

Would she have used a machete or a baseball bat to kill her colleagues had she not been able to get her hands on a handgun?

IMO the push-button-from-a-distance ability to wreak havoc with a handgun must be especially attractive to unhinged women, and this woman won't be the last to succumb to it.

[sharesunited]

11. A woman by the name of Laurie Dann certainly comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Dann