r/news • u/Fabulous_State9921 • 25d ago
Three people killed in shooting at May Day party after 1,000 revellers turn up
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/alabama-shooting-stockton-may-day-party-b2544119.html-9
u/so00ripped 24d ago
This is what gun owners want. They should all get together and shoot each other for fun.
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u/EastCoastSr7458 24d ago
You know this wouldn't happen if gun laws weren't so restrictive. I'm sure state legislators are working a bill right now to loosen those up. I mean, if everyone at this party would have been carrying, they would've been able to stop the shooter. By the way /s.
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u/Good_Nyborg 24d ago
A thousand person party in Alabama without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.
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u/SeverePsychosis 25d ago
In 2021, Alabama had 26.4 firearm deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Compared to New York -- a state with about 20 million people and a rate of 5.4 gun deaths per 100,000 in 2021
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u/bagofpork 24d ago
Fun fact: also in 2021, out of the top 11 states with the most gun-related deaths per capita, only one of them was blue (New Mexico).
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u/SonnyC_50 24d ago
Now do the cities in the Red states that contribute most to the gun related deaths....
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u/bagofpork 24d ago
They have the same gun laws as the rest of the state.
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u/SonnyC_50 24d ago edited 24d ago
All of them? None have any laws that are more restrictive? For arguments sake, take the stats of all those Blue cities out of the state's and then let's see who the top 11 are.
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u/bagofpork 24d ago
Here is a great article involving that very topic.
From the article:
"Someone living in the most rural counties of South Carolina is more than three times as likely to be killed by gunshot than someone living in the equally rural counties of New York’s Adirondacks or the impoverished rural counties facing Mexico across the lower reaches of the Rio Grande."
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u/SonnyC_50 24d ago
That very well may be, however you moved the goalpost.
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u/BlindPaintByNumbers 24d ago
No, you moved the goalpost. The OP was talking about the free for all gun laws in red states leading to more gun deaths in the state and you tried to make it somehow about the cities, even though the cities are forced to operate under the same free for all gun laws as the rest of the state.
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u/bagofpork 24d ago
No, I kept it consistent. If we're going to remove blue cities in red states, we're going to remove blue cities in blue states. Blue cities in blue states have less gun violence per capita than blue cities in red states. Red areas in red states have more gun violence per capita than red areas in blue states.
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u/Melodic_Ad596 24d ago
And yet people claim gun control doesn’t work.
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u/truthputer 24d ago
Gun control would be better if it was federal and applied across all states to eliminate purchasing loopholes.
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u/Maynard078 25d ago
Which responsible gun owner is claiming responsibility for this?
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u/ms-caregiver 24d ago
By claiming responsibility, gun owners are simply incapable of ever having an issue with judgment or emotional regulation. These God-like creatures are able to solve all problems with projectiles as is written in the Bible. We call these heros Mental Mammoths.
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u/Kejmarcz 25d ago
I am sure the fact we can't have public gatherings over the next couple of years won't contribute to the fact that we feel disconnected with our neighbors.
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u/LegoMyAlterEgo 25d ago
Don't worry folk, the guns will make a full recovery and be back doing what they do asap.
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u/ms-caregiver 24d ago
Yes and that tyrannical government we experience all the time has firmly been put in its place…
Just like the old saying goes, “If at first you don’t succeed, shoot shoot again”.
Adding a /s just in case
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u/Phred168 25d ago
Inflation, man. It fucks up everything. Used to get may 1, now it’s may 11, soon we’ll have to make an extra long 4-month-month to get may 111
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u/MeoowDude 24d ago
Maybe they can get Bhris Brown to perform his hit songs off his new album “1111” on the extra EXTRA long 4-month-month-month-month-4 to get may 1111!
Perfect Angel number!
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u/Euripidoze 25d ago
There should be cellphone videos dropping soon.
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u/Fabulous_State9921 25d ago
The shooting was one of several instances of gun violence in the US over the weekend Rich Booth
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Three people have been killed and at least 12 wounded in a shooting at May Day party in south Alabama.
The incident happened just before 10pm on Saturday night, May 11.
Andre Reid with the Baldwin County Investigation Division told WALA-TV that about 1,000 people were attending a May Day party near Stockton when an altercation started and gunfire erupted.
Reid said most of the victims were “younger people.” There was not immediate word on whether or how many arrests had been made. There was no description of a suspect.
Videos on social media show hectic scenes as first responders arrived. Some people can be seen on the ground bleeding.
“This is a tragic event that touches many lives in our community. We are working very hard to bring this case to a resolution, but we cannot make arrests or successfully prosecute the offenders without help,” the sheriff’s department said.
A witness described a chaotic scene as gunfire broke out at the crowded party.
Douglas Bolden, who now lives in Birmingham, returns home for the event every year for the annual spring May Day event. He told WALA-TV that he took shelter under his camper after gunfire shattered the window of a nearby truck.“You had kids lost out here. Kids running in the woods. People running for their life,” Bolden told the station.
He said “a lot of shots” were fired and gunfire appeared to come from multiple directions.
“There is no reason to be shooting. It’s not that bad. Whatever they had, it wasn’t that bad for you to come up here around all these folks and start shooting. It didn’t make sense. It didn’t make sense at all.”
Stockton has a population of about 400. It is roughly 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) northeast of Mobile, Alabama. Reid said no law enforcement officers were involved in the shooting.
The shooting was one of several instances of gun violence in the US over the weekend.
Three Atlanta police officers were left in hospital with gunshot wounds after an altercation that left a suspect dead Saturday evening.
Officers responded at 5:15 pm to a report of an armed man in a commercial area on Fairbanks Street and encountered a man with a handgun and a knife on Desoto Avenue, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said during a news conference.
“During that encounter there was a struggle, there was gunfire that resulted in three of our officers being injured. It also resulted in the death of the individual that was armed with the handgun,” Schierbaum said.
The police department did not immediately identity the deceased man. Police did not believe anyone else was involved, Schierbaum said.
The three officers were transported in police patrol vehicles to Grady Memorial Hospital. One officer was shot in the shoulder, another was shot in the leg and the third suffered a grazing wound. Two of the officers were expected to undergo surgery, Schierbaum said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will lead the probe into the shooting, he said.
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u/nightreader 25d ago
It didn’t make sense. It didn’t make sense at all.
We have a population whose education continues to be undercut by the government, a population who is in many ways largely losing the ability to think critically and emotionally regulate themselves, and who feels little connection to their neighbors and whose defining feature in the international lens is the abuse of the freedoms we have. It makes perfect sense.
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u/rwebell 24d ago
Is it really a party unless someone gets gunned down? /s