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August 24, 2012 6:58 AM   Subscribe

Multiple media sources are reporting a mass shooting outside the Empire State Building. WCBS is reporting 10 people shot. MyFoxNY is reporting that the gunman is dead. Live Reddit thread.
posted by roomthreeseventeen (9 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Shootings are terrible; "there was a shooting that just happened and there's not much of any news yet" posts really are not very good for Metafilter. Please hold off until there's something more than BREAKING NEWS on this if it turns out to be specifically post-worthy rather than just a bad thing that happened. -- cortex



 
Wonder if The Onion will pull this article from August 23rd:
Nation Celebrates Full Week Without Deadly Mass Shooting

Unfortunate timing, or timely. Not sure.
posted by Telf at 7:02 AM on August 24, 2012


oh for fuck's sake
posted by griphus at 7:03 AM on August 24, 2012 [1 favorite]


It's cool, though. Soon enough, this will be a standard part of the morning/evening news, and no one will blink an eye anymore.

At least, I find that more plausible than any changes being made.
posted by Han Tzu at 7:03 AM on August 24, 2012


I really fucking hope this many horrible events so fucking close together means we can start having a serious fucking conversation about gun control already. But something tells me we still won't, because, 'Merica.

Fuck everything.
posted by windbox at 7:06 AM on August 24, 2012 [1 favorite]


Surely this etc etc etc
posted by zombieflanders at 7:06 AM on August 24, 2012 [1 favorite]


It's not cool and no-one should be blinking an eye.
posted by h00py at 7:06 AM on August 24, 2012 [1 favorite]


NBC: 'The person who did the shooting was shot.'

Um...
posted by schmod at 7:07 AM on August 24, 2012


Yeah, this sort of thing is rapidly heading toward "meh" territory, which is fascinating. I wonder if it's possible to derive a reaction curve.
posted by aramaic at 7:07 AM on August 24, 2012 [1 favorite]


Meanwhile, a drive by shooting killed 13 in Chicago this morning, so this has been a really great day so far.
posted by The Whelk at 7:07 AM on August 24, 2012


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