Fatal Shooting at Game Tournament [Updated] [Aug 26, 2018, 4:00 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Police confirm "multiple fatalities" in a Jacksonville, FL bar after a shooting at a Madden NFL
gaming tournament that was being streamed on Twitch, reports
The New York Times. The video of the livestream from the GLHF Bar reportedly
cut off before the gunfire, but it could be heard on the audio. One gunman is
said to be dead, but police are warning those in the area to stay put while SWAT
does a building-by-building search, suggesting this is still considered an
active shooter situation. A
tweet from
EA SPORTS has a preliminary comment and
a follow-up
shortly after reflects the gravity of what went down: "This is a horrible
situation, and our deepest sympathies go out to all involved." Here's the Times'
account of what happened:
The shooting happened at the GLHF Game Bar, which was hosting a tournament that viewers could watch on Twitch, a gaming network owned by Amazon.
A video clip shared on Twitter, which has since been taken down, showed the football video game Madden on a television screen.
Someone playing as the Atlanta Falcons appeared to have scored, and was kicking off. Tournament commentators remarked that the players were so good that it would not be easy to knock anyone out of the tournament.
Then the sound of gunfire begins. Several shots are heard, one after another.
“Run run run run run pass run run run,” one viewer said in a comment stream.
Then as the shots sound, commenters repeatedly said “oh my god.”
“Is there a shooting?” a viewer asked.
“That’s a gun,” said another.
The video then cut off.
Update:
CNN's report on the news includes the video from the live feed, with the
obvious warning that this is disturbing.
Update 2:
Subsequent reporting details the casualties, saying three are dead,
including the shooter, and that nine are wounded. The gunman reportedly took his
own life.
Strider83 wrote on Aug 28, 2018, 05:24:jdreyer wrote on Aug 28, 2018, 03:30:Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 27, 2018, 18:13:
I wonder if these "mass shooters" started showing up at NRA events if it would have an effect...
I've said this many times before: the only way the law changes is if congress gets shot up by a mass shooter and many congress people die. These politicians will do nothing unless it's in their own self interest.
To be clear, I'm not hoping for such an eventuality. I'm just noting the decades-long pattern.
Correct me if I am wrong but I thought a shooter targeted a congressional baseball practice on June 14,2017 in Alexandria Virginia. Rep Steve Scalise was almost killed. The Virginia Attorney General concluded it was "fueled by rage against Republican legislators". Maybe if they had been democrats and were targeted something would be different today. All these politicians care about is what is best for their political futures and being re-elected. The government of the United States has become a laughingstock due to it's inability to get anything done with the best interests of the American People at hand. I guess maybe if more than one was gravely injured maybe they would care like the gamers in Jacksonville, or students in Parkland and Santa Fe.
Yes, that incident happened, but didn't have the effect I'm talking about for a few reasons.
1. No one died (fortunately). My thought is that it would take a Parkland level incident against the congress to effect change. Again, not advocating for that, just noticing the pattern of how congress operates.
2. The police escort quickly neutralized the shooter, reinforcing the NRA mantra of "a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun." Unfortunately, the vast majority of the public don't get their own armed and trained personal bodyguards.
Dems tend to be pro gun control, so if Dems had been shot, it would have been no different. It's the anti gun control crowd that needs to be convinced. Politicians tend to change when something personally affects them. Dick Cheney is pretty much as hardcore conservative as you get. He does happen to be pro gay rights, because one of his daughters is gay.
As for getting things done for the people, that won't happen until you get rid of corporate money in politics. As this study shows, the US is an oligarchy and not a democracy:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
Corporations get what they want 98% of the time (massive influence), while citizens get what they want 50% of the time (basically no influence, same as a coin toss).
Some simple fixes:
1. Publicly fund all elections.
2. Ban all corporations from donating to any PAC or campaign
3. Keep the personal campaign donation limit at $2700 at the federal level
Politicians spend more time raising money for their campaigns than they do legislating. That has got to change. Not that I'll live to see it.
RIP RedEye9. We miss you.
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