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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:14 AM

Star Member Are_grits_groceries (12,750 posts)

BREAKING: Shots fired inside Wilmington DE courthouse; several injured (update: shooter killed)

Last edited Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:32 AM USA/ET - Edit history (2)

Shots fired inside Wilmington courthouse; several injured
Updated at 09:01 AM today

WILMINGTON, Del. - February 11, 2013 (WPVI) -- There are reports of several injuries after gunfire erupted inside the New Castle County Court of Common Pleas in Wilmington, Delaware Monday morning.

The shooting happened at approximately 8:15 a.m. at the court house, located at 500 N King Street.

Initial reports indicate that several people have been injured, however, the severity of those injuries have not been released.

Action News has learned that at least one person was transported to Christana Hospital.

The courthouse is being evacuated and officers are conducting a search of the building.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8988226

Edit to add : Suspect in custody
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Shooting-Inside-Wilmington-Courthouse-190666741.html

Edit to add : shooter killed
http://www.delawareonline.com/front

sigh......

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Reply BREAKING: Shots fired inside Wilmington DE courthouse; several injured (update: shooter killed) (Original post)
 Are_grits_groceries Feb 2013 OP
LineReply Here we go yet again.
 longship Feb 2013 #1
LineReply we just need a few good guys with guns to go in there and take care of it...
 spanone Feb 2013 #2
LineLineReply Errr... I doubt the cops went in unarmed
 Recursion Feb 2013 #3
LineLineLineReply gunz, gunz, gunz....
 spanone Feb 2013 #4
LineLineLineLineReply Don't understand what your saying here?
 Light House Feb 2013 #6
LineLineLineLineLineReply too many gunz...
 spanone Feb 2013 #21
LineLineLineLineLineLineReply Too many guns in the hands of civilians?
 Light House Feb 2013 #24
LineLineLineLineReply This is madness
 malaise Feb 2013 #14
LineLineLineReply you either missed your coffee or the sarcasm...
 farminator3000 Feb 2013 #9
LineLineLineLineReply The former
 Recursion Feb 2013 #10
LineLineLineLineLineReply if you're looking for a coffeemaker, check this out
 farminator3000 Feb 2013 #25
LineLineLineLineLineLineNew Reply Oooh! Thanks!
 tblue Feb 2013 #28
LineLineLineLineLineLineLineNew Reply esp. for iced coffee!
 farminator3000 Feb 2013 #35
LineReply Before we condemn the shooter
 Dreamer Tatum Feb 2013 #5
LineLineReply Well done...
 SidDithers Feb 2013 #7
LineLineReply +1 (nt)
 Paladin Feb 2013 #8
LineLineReply my mind goes back to the 20 kids... i had stayed out of threads and found myself in one
 seabeyond Feb 2013 #11
LineLineReply I believe this is scarcasim with a sincere message...but my message is this...
 kelliekat44 Feb 2013 #13
LineLineReply Well said.
 HappyMe Feb 2013 #15
LineLineReply I see what you did there
 slackmaster Feb 2013 #17
LineLineReply This message was hidden by jury decision.
 ktest Feb 2013 #22
LineLineReply You forgot to propose a theory that Obama might be behind it.
 FSogol Feb 2013 #23
LineReply How did a gun ever get through the courthouse security screening?
 Sheldon Cooper Feb 2013 #12
LineLineReply Looks like he was in the lobby area before the scanners and check ID area.
 SQUEE Feb 2013 #16
LineLineLineReply So, you propose that people be allowed to have guns inside the
 kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #26
LineLineLineLineNew Reply I don't see where anyone proposed that.
 HappyMe Feb 2013 #27
LineLineLineLineNew Reply No not at all.
 SQUEE Feb 2013 #34
LineReply Just heard that another victim died. A security guard?
 Beaverhausen Feb 2013 #18
LineLineReply More likely police officer
 malaise Feb 2013 #20
LineReply Fugger killed his wife and another woman
 malaise Feb 2013 #19
LineLineNew Reply DV. Something that rarely gets spoken about in the current gun conversation. nt
 boston bean Feb 2013 #29
LineLineLineNew Reply I'd like to know more about the shooter.
 Light House Feb 2013 #30
LineLineLineLineNew Reply about 3 women per day are killed in domestic violence.
 boston bean Feb 2013 #32
LineLineLineLineLineNew Reply This is scandalous,
 Light House Feb 2013 #33
LineLineLineNew Reply So right
 malaise Feb 2013 #36
LineNew Reply Metal Detectors
 HockeyMom Feb 2013 #31

Response to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:21 AM

Star Member longship (18,223 posts)

1. Here we go yet again.

R&K

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:23 AM

Star Member spanone (72,281 posts)

2. we just need a few good guys with guns to go in there and take care of it...

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:24 AM

Star Member Recursion (26,254 posts)

3. Errr... I doubt the cops went in unarmed

Don't you?

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:31 AM

Star Member spanone (72,281 posts)

4. gunz, gunz, gunz....

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Response to spanone (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:43 AM

Light House (413 posts)

6. Don't understand what your saying here?

 

Should the Capital Police have gone in without any weapons? It was the good guys with firearms that killed the bad guy.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:52 AM

Star Member spanone (72,281 posts)

21. too many gunz...

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:12 AM

Light House (413 posts)

24. Too many guns in the hands of civilians?

 

Or too many in the hands of police?
My take is that there are too many guns period.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:20 AM

Star Member malaise (107,115 posts)

14. This is madness

The NRA is more powerful than human life.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:08 AM

farminator3000 (2,112 posts)

9. you either missed your coffee or the sarcasm...

good morning!

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:09 AM

Star Member Recursion (26,254 posts)

10. The former



My Keurig is broken, alas

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:25 AM

farminator3000 (2,112 posts)

25. if you're looking for a coffeemaker, check this out

http://www.toddycafe.com/
Toddy's exclusive cold-water brewing process extracts the natural, delicious flavors of coffee and tea yet leaves behind undesirable bitter acids and oils. The result: A bold, super-smooth taste that's easier on the stomach. Toddy can be made one cup at a time - served steaming hot or iced cold, and at the strength you prefer.

pretty cool once you get the ratios down, you make coffee concentrate, keep in fridge, and add water.

it doesn't taste funny heated @ the microwave like reg. joe

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:39 AM

Star Member tblue (14,154 posts)

28. Oooh! Thanks!

Had not heard of that.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 12:02 PM

farminator3000 (2,112 posts)

35. esp. for iced coffee!

if you're into that kind of thing.

i found the amount of water:coffee was a bit low (use less coffee/more water, i forget the numbers, but 10:1 instead of 6:1 or something)

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Response to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:41 AM

Star Member Dreamer Tatum (7,278 posts)

5. Before we condemn the shooter

Let us first check for a manifesto and determine if their feelings were ever hurt.

Then we need to examine their employer to see if they are to blame.

We may not have a shooter...they could merely be a victim.

That's the new standard, after all.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:43 AM

Star Member SidDithers (27,629 posts)

7. Well done...



Sid

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 09:45 AM

Star Member Paladin (8,849 posts)

8. +1 (nt)

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:10 AM

Star Member seabeyond (85,893 posts)

11. my mind goes back to the 20 kids... i had stayed out of threads and found myself in one

last night.

fuckin' floored with what i was hearing.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:12 AM

Star Member kelliekat44 (1,398 posts)

13. I believe this is scarcasim with a sincere message...but my message is this...

As long as people have easy access to guns, more and more people who either KNOW or BELIEVE that they have been victimized in any way by anyone, these kinds of killings and incidents are going to be repeated multiple times, daily. It is really sad.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:25 AM

Star Member HappyMe (12,510 posts)

15. Well said.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:46 AM

slackmaster (60,567 posts)

17. I see what you did there

 

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:03 AM

Star Member FSogol (16,312 posts)

23. You forgot to propose a theory that Obama might be behind it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2347592

Edited to add: For all I know!

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:11 AM

Sheldon Cooper (1,144 posts)

12. How did a gun ever get through the courthouse security screening?

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:45 AM

Star Member SQUEE (543 posts)

16. Looks like he was in the lobby area before the scanners and check ID area.

Gun Free Zone.. anyone seeing a pattern? They tend to attract this kind of thing, odd that.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:31 AM

Star Member kestrel91316 (45,693 posts)

26. So, you propose that people be allowed to have guns inside the

courthouse???

Oh, yeah, nothing could possible go wrong THERE......

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:35 AM

Star Member HappyMe (12,510 posts)

27. I don't see where anyone proposed that.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:59 AM

Star Member SQUEE (543 posts)

34. No not at all.

I have put forth many ideas for gun safety.
The facts are that bad people will do bad things, sadly they will pick soft targets to do these bad things.
I think we are seeing the loss of hope, and an overall societal decline as we begin to feel more and more enslaved and dehumanized. A sick mind will lash out, and try to cause as much pain and mayhem as possible. What better place than a gun free zone.
Fortunately in this case it was not entirely gun free as the security there put him down before he could kill/ injure more.

Gun free zones are just a beacon to a person intent on damage and carnage.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:48 AM

Star Member Beaverhausen (20,553 posts)

18. Just heard that another victim died. A security guard?

Wayne Lapierre can fuck himself.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:51 AM

Star Member malaise (107,115 posts)

20. More likely police officer

since two were shot

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 10:50 AM

Star Member malaise (107,115 posts)

19. Fugger killed his wife and another woman

The suspected shooter at the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington, Del. killed his wife, another woman and wounded two police officers before he was shot dead by police in the lobby of the courthouse.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:42 AM

Star Member boston bean (16,919 posts)

29. DV. Something that rarely gets spoken about in the current gun conversation. nt

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:48 AM

Light House (413 posts)

30. I'd like to know more about the shooter.

 

Did this guy have an order of protection against him, and if so, why did he still have a gun?
Has he threatened his ex wife before, and if so, why did he still have a gun?

Just another day in America.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:49 AM

Star Member boston bean (16,919 posts)

32. about 3 women per day are killed in domestic violence.

much of the time they are shot to death.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:54 AM

Light House (413 posts)

33. This is scandalous,

 

and, in my mind, unacceptable. This nation needs a massive overhaul of it gun laws coupled with a massive overhaul of the mental health system.

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Mon Feb 11, 2013, 01:16 PM

Star Member malaise (107,115 posts)

36. So right

About time.

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Response to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:48 AM

HockeyMom (10,821 posts)

31. Metal Detectors

Last edited Mon Feb 11, 2013, 11:49 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

When I was called for Jury Duty in NY, there was an armed officier at the entrance to the courthouse. He was standing right next to the Metal Dectector that everyone had to pass through to get inside. All the attorneys and judges, too, had to pass through it. I saw a few of them give their guns to the officier to keep (locked up) while they were in the building. There were armed deptuties in the waiting rooms, court rooms, etc, but civilians was allowed to carry in the building.

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