addictionary
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15 dead so far in two separate attacks in malls.
Munich Attacks
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Never was.
I am unaware of mass shootings in Europe and some other places beyond the last few years at this frequency.
Certainly not at this level, but we haven't had them at this level until lately either. This link shows the most deadly in Europe since 1987, but it is using an 8+ dead level instead of the now accepted 4+ dead level.
https://aoav.org.uk/2016/16-deadliest-mass-shootings-in-europe-1987-2016/
https://aoav.org.uk/2016/16-deadliest-mass-shootings-in-europe-1987-2016/
Fair enough. I stand corrected.
Like anything, we hear the news the media wants to share. Until recently, few cared enough about dead Europeans (except maybe if it was the British) to make the news. We care now because of terrorism fears. I don't even remember all that much coverage about the Norway incident (although there was enough that I remember when it happened), and I'm pretty sure it is the worst ever by a single shooter.
with the rise of social media (a very recent phenomenon) the news media controls less and less - - and more and more gets recorded and reported.
Plus our society is much more global than it was a generation or two ago - we are more interconnected now than in the past.
If this exact event occurred 25 years ago, we might never have heard of it.
Or we could have heard of it once Spielberg made a movie about it 30 years later.
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Predicting it won't be called terrorism in America if the shooters are German
There're conflicting and unconfirmed reports so far. One video shows someone from a nearby house filming and insulting one of the alleged terrorists on top of a parking deck. That person responds to the taunts and self identifies as a German with no accent.
One dead person with a similarly colored backpack like one of the shooter wore on a video.
Police are using a robot to check for a trap.
Two of the potential three involved also were described as blond.
IS claiming responsibility may have been a little premature.
One dead person with a similarly colored backpack like one of the shooter wore on a video.
Police are using a robot to check for a trap.
Two of the potential three involved also were described as blond.
IS claiming responsibility may have been a little premature.
It's kinda sad that this is becoming a weekly occurrence...
♪alt13
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How you respond and investigate a couple of crazy people with their own agenda is going to be different than how you respond to a couple crazy people that were executing the agenda of an organized group. Nationality isn't what is important. If there is a larger group behind the attack it's terrorism. If it's just two assholes then your national police(such as the FBI)can investigate it, if they're part of something bigger then it gets kicked up to intelligence agencies.
That's my understanding of how they do things
The gunman has now killed himself.
.... and in 3/4 pants no less... lolThese dudes seem like they need some training.
Huddled together in reflective vests and balaclavas doesn't seem like the best way to go into an active shooter situation.
Ye right because the other guys pants are bulletproof
They're btw all wearing vests under their neon shirts.
If you ask me they're either BFE+ or SEK officers who just happened to arrive first and had to improvise/were mainly there to evacuate the civilians in the mall.
Ye right because the other guys pants are bulletproof
They're btw all wearing vests under their neon shirts.
If you ask me they're either BFE+ or SEK officers who just happened to arrive first and had to improvise/were mainly there to evacuate the civilians in the mall.
But why the short pants? Is it really hot in Germany right now?
It is now.
30°C and higher.
Maybe it were just the first to respond to the emergency and were doing investigations without uniform nearby.
Apparently the shooter was a 18 yr old German of Iranian descent. Whatever that means.