(Motive: highlight lax gun laws) At least 5 dead (including shooter) in bank shooting in Louisville Kentucky

[essentialsaltes]

Louisville suspect is dead after shooting at local bank, police say​

What we know so far: A mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday morning left at least five people dead inside the building and sent six people to a local hospital, police said.

The shooter is dead, police added.

A man speaking to local television station WLKY said he got a call from his wife who said there was an active shooter and she was locked in a vault at the Old National Bank.

[Not a lot of details yet, but I infer this was not some kind of robbery gone wrong.]

some hints it was a former employee.

 

[Arcangl86]

Yikes. I wonder if this might have been a case of suicide by cop.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

Sad for the victims. Kentucky has little gun laws. Gun laws and common sense are getting worse. Because politicians are becoming extremists. Or want to please the extremists. We need more common sense, when laws. Of course gun shootings can happen anywhere.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Yikes. I wonder if this might have been a case of suicide by cop.

I agree that it could be that. The shooter knew he/she would not survive. for those families affected by this.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Sad for the victims. Kentucky has little gun laws. Gun laws and common sense are getting worse. Because politicians are becoming extremest. Or want to please the extremest. We need more common sense, when laws. Of course gun shootings can happen anywhere.

Yes it can happen anywhere. People are hopeless in these perilous times.

 

[Say it aint so]

It's going to get to the point where in the USofA a lot businesses are going to lock their doors and buzz people in just like today's jewelry stores.

 

[Nithavela]

Can we just skip to the "hero" part of the story, with some bank teller trying to lock the door or not renouncing on his faith or something?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Can we just skip to the "hero" part of the story, with some bank teller trying to lock the door or not renouncing on his faith or something?

The AR-15-style rifle performed as designed.

 

[dogs4thewin]

Sad for the victims. Kentucky has little gun laws. Gun laws and common sense are getting worse. Because politicians are becoming extremists. Or want to please the extremists. We need more common sense, when laws. Of course gun shootings can happen anywhere.

funny how the more people try to push tighter laws the more states become constitutional carry. Come July 1st of this year it will be up to 26 states that is more than half and this assumes that there are no more added to the growing list.

 

[dogs4thewin]

It's going to get to the point where in the USofA a lot businesses are going to lock their doors and buzz people in just like today's jewelry stores.

If they did that they ( depending in the business would just about have to have someone whose sole job it was was to man the door.

 

[dogs4thewin]

Sad for the victims. Kentucky has little gun laws. Gun laws and common sense are getting worse. Because politicians are becoming extremists. Or want to please the extremists. We need more common sense, when laws. Of course gun shootings can happen anywhere.

I wonder about security at the bank because ( and I happen to support less as opposed to more gun restriction), but no matter the laws at this point with literally MILLIONS of guns around the cat is pretty much out of the bag whether we are talking about the loosest or tightest gun restrictions as people who do things like that either do not care about laws and/or are mentally ill.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

If they did that they ( depending in the business would just about have to have someone whose sole job it was was to man the door.

You mean like... a doorman? That's a novel idea!

 

[Say it aint so]

You mean like... a doorman? That's a novel idea!

More like existing Jewelry store "doormen". I mean this is tantamount to what the suggestions are for public schools across America.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Louisville shooter Connor Sturgeon was notified that he was going to be terminated from Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.

Sturgeon wrote a note for his parents and a friend indicating that he was going to shoot at the bank, the source said.

Evidently, he livestreamed the incident.

 

[High Fidelity]

I wonder when the next preventable mass shooting will be.

I'm sure I saw an article yesterday titled along the lines of more mass shootings in the U.S. in 2023 than days of the year so far.

 

[DaisyDay]

So, how many does that make this year? Something like 145? Good news - no churches yet this year!

List of mass shootings in the United States in 2023 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Nithavela]

So, how many does that make this year? Something like 145? Good news - no churches yet this year!

List of mass shootings in the United States in 2023 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There was a drive by in the parking lot of a church.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Louisville shooter purchased gun legally last week, according to interim police chief​

Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said the shooter bought the weapon legally from a local dealership on April 4.

 

[Whyayeman]

Here we go again!

Phase 1. The facts dribble out with sorrow expressed for the victims. (Check)

Phase 2. Speculation about the efficacy of American gun laws and advice about increased protection by mounting armed guards at the door. (Check)

Phase 3. Woeful contemplation of how the perpetrator must have been mentally ill. (Check)

Phase 4. Enthusiastic discussion of the types of weaponry available to would-be assassins.

Phase 4. Involved and unconvincing 'explanations' demonstrating the unwisdom of restricting any kind of gun-ownership.

Phase 5. Detailed descriptions of assault weapons assuring one another that they are no such thing.

 

[parousia70]

Well, there's only 400 million Guns in the hands of the populace right now so what do you expect?

Clearly that number needs to at least double before the "more guns makes us safer" curve will even begin to take effect.