Add to the list of shootings in the last day

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Two men were killed and three others were critically injured Sunday after a shooting at a crowded flea market in north Houston, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.

The shots rang out just after 1 p.m. at a flea market near 8720 Airline Drive.

HSCO said two men were pronounced dead at the scene and three others were taken to area hospitals in critical condition. Investigators said they believe all five people were involved in the disturbance that led up to the shooting. Officials said they all appear to be in their early- to mid-20s and likely knew each other. They do not believe the shooting was random.

      • Jew [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        As a very doomer brained American my take is that the one yesterday passed the death toll needed to pay attention. I'm 100% sure CNN/ABC/etc has a death count threshold, and it was passed yesterday. The two today would be blips otherwise, but are being focused on more because the one yesterday was over 6 people killed.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Is it weird I'm relieved it's just an old fashioned random mass shooting and not an indicator of the rising tide of fascism?

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Interestingly enough, US looks a lot like US in the 1870's. A financial panic (depression) around the corner that would last five years, a gilded age bringing about great wealth for the rich and massive inequality for everyone else, and an intense increase in white supremacist violence after the KKK had been suppressed. So based on that trajectory, there could be chuds successfully performing a coup against Democratic governors and the military being sent to take out labor strikes.

  • Yanqui_UXO [any]
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    3 years ago

    My god. I'm losing count. What has it been, four?

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    guess ill just stay inside as the world burns :this-is-fine:

  • UlyssesT
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    19 days ago

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    • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      "Oh wait, is he a fash? Uhhh....pure coincidence knee-grow! Stop noticing things!"

      I'm sick of being treated as a conspiracy theorist for realizing that racism is real, bad, and they keep getting away with it.

  • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    :amerikkka-clap:

    We can't even be a semi-livable capitalist country. White supremacists are gangsters that run the show here and cops are too chickenshit to even try to deal with them.

    At least in, for example, Scotland, It's in the realm where it's an inoffensive succdem nation that just needs to stop hanging around its toxic friend :ukkk:. I can just grill, do my hobbies, and spend august almost entirely at a beach in Italy and be left alone. I get it Scotland is far from ideal (JK Rowling!? CRINGE!), and has problems like any other country, but I admit I'm a bit of a lib and a succdem country would at least be livable.

  • buh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    is this the one that happened at a church?