Man Toting Shotgun Opens Fire on Block Party, at Least 7, Including 2-Year-Old, Hurt

[Little Tich]

Source: NBC Philadelphia

A gunman toting a shotgun opened fire on a block party along a West Philadelphia street Saturday night, injuring seven people, including a 2-year-old and 10-year-old.

The gunfire rang out around 10 p.m. along the 4100 block of Ogden Street as the gunman turned a corner onto the street and began firing on the picnic, said Philadelphia Police.

"It looks like they just randomly fired down the street and hit anyone in their way," said Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker.

Police didn’t immediately say what led to the shooting that injured two children.


Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Ogden-STreet-Shooting-308747231.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_PHBrand

[Iliyah]

1. Jesus, enough!

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. plus 1

[Skittles]

8. this is the new norm, thanks to gun humping cowards

it will only get worse

[cosmicone]

2. Another "responsible" gun owner -- at least "responsible" until yesterday! n/t

[RandySF]

3. He didn't shoot them.

He Second Amended them.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Good one. It should catch on as soon as possible. n/t

[restorefreedom]

5. so wayne, where are all the good guys with guns?n/t

[Botany]

6. Well it has one whole week since 4 people were shot and killed 3 miles from where ...

.... I am sitting right now in Columbus, OH and 3 or 4 days since the S.C. shooting.


I hate the NRA.

[SheilaT]

7. No one should ever be surprised at these things.

Least of all those who think all these guns are perfectly okay, and who heap scorn upon me when I say I'm in favor of outright confiscation. To those people, a few more dead people just aren't very important, certainly not as important as their guns.

[Shamash]

17. Be sure and let me know

When you decide you are ready to spend the rest of your life eating with a rubber spork. That will let me know that you don't consider knives as important as "a few more dead people". Remember, you'll be saving more lives that way than if you melted down every assault rifle in the country, so step up and do what's right for the good of society!

Ditto for cars. And you are giving up alcohol of course. And over the counter sleeping pills, since those are implicated in most female suicides. I mean, if we're going to confiscate the leading suicide method for men, it would be sexist not to do the same for women.

And I hear hypocrisy, double-standards and self-righteousness are bad for your health too, so those definitely have to go. But I'm willing to make a "justified need" exception for some people, since it looks like their bodies require those like mine needs oxygen and I wouldn't want their death to be on my hands.

[alfredo]

18. Knives take effort, guns don't. Americans are too lazy to do much more than pull a trigger.

[riversedge]

9. A similiar thing happened in Detroit tonight-random shooting at a block party

[Judi Lynn]

11. 2 in one night! Amazing. I've never heard of even one before tonight.

Doesn't look as if this is going to be getting better any time soon.

[Chemisse]

13. Disturbing.

I hope they're not connected.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. local TV news is claiming "not random"

For some unknown reason, TV stations are claiming that the dead guy was the target, the others were "collateral damage".

But, the police are complaining that, out of several hundred attendees at the party, not one person saw anything.

[logosoco]

12. There are lots and lots of guns out there,

and very, very few reasons to use them. I guess all of these shootings that we hear about (and it's been going on a long time) are bound to happen.

The people with the NRA mentality, and people who only seem to know the second amendment...I guess they get bored, or owning a weapon affects the way they see the world.

How I wish I knew of something to change this!!!!!

[Igel]

16. It's the "airplane crash" effect.

This things happen largely randomly. Just as if you flip a coin you won't get a neat alternating set of heads-tails-heads-tails-heads-tails but random bunches, so these things sometimes seem to happen in clusters. That's what "random" means.

While they usually happen randomly, reporting isn't random. Just as after a plane crash every single plane problem, dangerous or not, crash or aborted take-off makes the news, so after a prominent shooting every single shooting tends to be accentuated. Local incidents become national incidents. Sometimes it's just because our attention is focused on them and they stick out more as part of a perceived pattern that isn't really there. "Gun crime is reported on more often, it must be skyrocketing." (Uh, no, it's actually falling quite rapidly. "Are you saying my perception's wrong?" Uh ... Yup.)

Then there are those who take advantage of these events to mount their soap box and milk every corpse for every cc of blood they can to push for their agenda. This particular kind of incident, however, is a two-edged sword.

[logosoco]

19. Math is not my strong point, but if you can show me a study where the increase in

gun ownership is not related to the increase in shootings I would be very happy to read it. I find it hard to believe that the number of guns going up in this country is not making the number of shootings going up.

I like learning new things and don't have a problem admitting when I am wrong, but I am from Missouri so you have to show me!!!!

[Le Taz Hot]

15. So, now we can't even have a block party anymore

without some Second Amendment fool showing up with his penis extender. And this time they got some children. Does the NRA give them extra points for that? Who would have ever thought attending a block party, a bible study, a theater, kindergarten, etc., carried the possibility of getting you killed? It didn't used to be like this and I put the blame squarely on the NRA and their bought-and-paid-for politicians who are too afraid to stand up to them.

[Skittles]

20. careful

gun humpers are very offended by penis analogies

other stuff, not so much

[Le Taz Hot]

21. Yeah, well I'm offended by their

never-ending insistence that their Second Amendment rights trump everyone else's right to live peacefully.

[Skittles]

22. they are cowards

their fear and paranoia TRUMPS ALL