BREAKING: 4 dead, 2 wounded in Polk County shootings; GBI responding

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Source: AJC.com

Updated Jan 24, 2019
By Zachary Hansen, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Four people are dead, and two are wounded in two shootings in Polk County on Thursday night, authorities confirmed.

The shooting happened at two different crime scenes in Rockmart, Channel 2 Action News reported. The shootings happened around 8 p.m.

One of the shootings happened on Gordon Street, and the other happened about 300 yards away on Short Rome Street, Channel 2 reported.

At least one of the people wounded in the shootings was flown to a hospital. It’s unclear which scene the two wounded people were at when they were shot.

(Rockmart is about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta)


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WHEN IN THE HELL ARE OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS GOING TO DO THEIR DAMNED JOB AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS???? THE NRA HAS BEEN RUNNING OUR COUNTRY LONG ENOUGH.... WE NEED TO TAKE BACK CONTROL AND HAND THE REIGNS OVER TO SOMEONE WHO ISN'T BEHOLDEN TO THE GUN INDUSTRY.

[Initech]

1. Hooray guns!!

[kimbutgar]

2. I thought the MS 13 was the biggest source of crime in this country!

[sheshe2]

3. The White House is. nt

[Initech]

4. No, the NRA is.

They're not sending us their best people.

[Archae]

5. Besides the laws on the books, what the hell can the authorites do?

According to conservative estimates, the US has 300+ million guns.

And felons can't own guns, they get busted constantly.

So should the ATF goons go door-to-door ransacking homes for the "wrong" guns?

[mjvpi]

7. I have watched the NRA fight any attempt to regulate firearms for 49 years. I'm 62.

Doing basically nothing has led us to where we are today, correct? Making sure "that every good guy has a gun" has not not solved the problem. There are more bad guys with guns, too. And now there are so many fucking guns that you can’t even imagine a solution. The mass big, high profile shootings last years were all done with legally acquired firearms.

I live in Montana. Most of my friends hunt. They are responsible gun owners. Many have hand guns for personal defense. They are responsible with those as well. Responsibility goes hand in hand with rights. The amount of responsibility that you should have to assume with a right that is potentially leathal and is proving to be a problem for society, should be much greater than say, voting.

Would you please give me some examples where ATF agents are goons. When I see them on the news they seem to be inforcing laws on people who are breaking them. It sounds like a hard gig. And the bad guys have guns.

[Archae]

8. And that is the problem.

Do we send ATF people, (I think I mis-judged them as "goons," ) door to door ransacking houses looking for "wrong" guns?

And the NRA is a gun sales lobby. Nothing more.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Yawn.

Another day in America. Another shooting. Who cares? I mean, okay, those immediately affected (the dead, the wounded, those near to them) care, but no one else cares. Least of all those who could actually do something about this carnage.

I say, confiscate the guns.

[Omaha Steve]

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