2 dead, 4 injured in shooting at park in Louisville, Kentucky

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

Two people were killed and other four were injured in a shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday night. Louisville Metro Police said they received a call at about 9 p.m. reporting multiple people had been shot at Chickasaw Park.

Two people were dead when police arrived at the scene, Deputy Chief Paul L. Humphrey said. Another four people were transported to University of Louisville Hospital, where one was in critical condition, Humphrey said. The shooting comes days after a gunman opened fire at Old National Bank in Louisville, killing four people.

Mayor Craig Greenberg said on Saturday that "this is not who we are."

He said that “the love and support and strength that we've seen all week long throughout the city continues to bring us together and move us towards a safer city, a stronger city and a healthier city."

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/?id=98613852

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This is another in Louisville, KY (heard on the radio this morning) that just happened overnight - all while they are still lamenting the earlier bank shooting.

[Lonestarblue]

1. I'm tired of hearing comments like "This is not who we are."

Yes, it is when you value guns more than you value people’s lives, even children. Every time you vote for a Republican, and that’s most of the people in Kentucky, you are voting to let people be killed because you know that Republicans are in bed with the NRA and the gun manufacturers and will do nothing to try to prevent killings.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Came to say this!

It may not be who you are, but your choices for governing say that it actually is. You keep on putting the greedy NRA pigs in power and this is what you get. It does not take a college grad to figure it out. It shouldn't even take a high school grad very long. What is your excuse, blue grass?

[piddyprints]

5. You beat me to it.

It's exactly who they are.

[Magoo48]

13. Yes, it is who we are. It will be who we are until we get up, all together, and say "No More."

The same is true for voting rights
health care
women’s rights
environmental protections and so on, and on…

We’re more than proven at this point in time we will not be inconvenienced. Rising up, massive general strikes, boycotts, huge direct actions require sacrifice and stamina.

The billionaires and corporations are dug in and will give up nothing without a fight. Fascism and complete subjugation is their goal. Don’t believe it? Look around.

[wnylib]

14. Election slogan we could use perhaps.

A vote for a Republican is a bullet to a child's head.

[mountain grammy]

16. Exactly!

[ItsjustMe]

2. .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143060938

[BumRushDaShow]

4. That one was in Alabama

And it's been semi-hush hush on the "national news". I wonder why?

[demigoddess]

21. that was what I was thinking. Just a lot of "thoughts and prayers".

[BumRushDaShow]

22. I finally started seeing more "national' breaking news coverage

(e.g., ABC News, AP, NBC News, etc., late this morning and into early afternoon ET).

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Springtime

It's well documented that suicides increase in spring, usually late spring. Now we have mass shootings as an addition. After a long winter, red-blooded Americans like to see some real red blood and terror!

[barbtries]

7. "this is not who we are"

i hate when i hear politicians say this. even when it's the president.

obviously this is who we are. Louisville alone proved that twice in one week. come on

if we don't want to be this start regulating GUNS

[3Hotdogs]

8. This is not who we are. My town is good, responsible people. My town is safe.

Until it isn't.



My town (for real) is suburban, N.J. Houses that now sell for $1m+.

Two years ago, a 17 y.o. kid was shot and killed at the athletic field, 11 p.m. Athletic field is the gathering place for young adults. After the shooting, the lights at the field are now on all night and live camera feeds go to the cop shop.

Our state is supposed to be one of the gun-safest in the nation. Our town --- not supposed to happen here. But it did. One block from my house.

[Novara]

9. It will happen everywhere

Yes, it very clearly IS who we are.

Republicans have proudly stated that nothing will be done regarding gun control.

There are more guns than PEOPLE in this country.

It very much IS who we are.

For once, for goddamned once I would love to hear a reporter push back and say, "It obviously is who we are or we wouldn't have two mass shootings a night." How would the idiots reply to that?

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Not even a 3rd mass shooting will help at this point

Police say 5 people shot, 2 dead at cockfight in Honolulu

By The Associated Press 56 minutes ago



Two victims died after five people were shot during an altercation at a late-night cockfight Friday in Honolulu, police said.

Honolulu police responded to a call about shots fired just past midnight Friday and were searching Saturday for a suspect believed to be in his 20s who allegedly shot the others who were attending the event, KHON-TV reported.

“At the end of the fight a group of males started arguing and then it escalated to a physical altercation, at some point gun shots were fired hitting the five people who were in the immediate area,” Honolulu Police Department Lt. Deena Thoemmes told KHON.

Police said a 59-year-old woman and a 34-year-old male were pronounced dead after arriving at a hospital, KHON reported. Three men aged 38, 40 and 57 sustained gunshot wounds but were treated and released from a hospital, KHON reported. Police said the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear.

(snip)

https://apnews.com/article/honolulu-five-shot-two-dead-chicken-fight-00fbef19edbb3c589a3a1d700fb2bf6f

(they are 6 hours difference from ET so it would have happened around 6 am ET yesterday)

[Novara]

12. THREE mass shootings a night

So, when do people decide to stay at home on weekend nights, and if they do, when do the mayors get worried about people not spending money for weekend entertainment in their cities because people are staying home out of fear?

[BumRushDaShow]

15. I know many of these larger cities have Democratic mayors

but like KY, here in PA we have a Democratic Governor but a repuke legislature (well at least now it's only the state Senate since Democrats finally took the state House back). And PA has a state law that has been on the books for a long time that FORBIDS our cities from enacting more restrictive gun ordinances than the state has.

We have a Democratic mayor here in Philly and Louisville also has a Democratic mayor there in KY.

Pa. ‘a Backward State', Philly Mayor Says in Criticism of State Gun Laws

Kenney’s latest comments came after a triple shooting on the grounds of an elementary school in the Kensington neighborhood left three young men wounded, including a 17-year-old, shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday

By Rudy Chinchilla • Published August 31, 2022 • Updated on September 1, 2022 at 12:49 pm
NBCUniversal Media, LLC

Criticizing the state’s gun laws, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on Wednesday called Pennsylvania a “backward state” and said its Legislature for the most part doesn’t care about its citizens. Criticizing the state’s gun laws, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on Wednesday called Pennsylvania a “backward state” and said its Legislature for the most part doesn’t care about its citizens.

Kenney made the comments in response to an NBC10/Telemundo 62 question about his support of stricter gun laws and a shooting that happened at a school in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning.

“We’re not gonna get gun control in Pennsylvania. This is a backward state whose Legislature for the most part doesn’t care about the health and welfare of its citizens,” Kenney said.

Pennsylvania has a Democratic governor in Tom Wolf, but Republicans hold majorities in both the state Senate and House. Wolf has used his veto pen to block looser gun laws advanced by the Republican-controlled Legislature, but he is term-limited, with his final term coming to an end this year.

(snip)

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/pa-a-backward-state-philly-mayor-says-in-criticism-of-state-gun-laws/3350560/

Thankfully our (D) governor vetoed a FL-style "permitless open/concealed carry" bullshit piece of legislation a couple years ago.

What then happens, since the media won't do their fucking jobs and will obfuscate the problem while pointing fingers at Democrats, is that the citizens of these blue cities that TRY to enact those tougher measures, blame the mayors rather than the state GOP loons.

Why Philly can’t make stronger gun laws, and the legal battle to get that changed
Avatar photo by Asha Prihar May 31, 2022


The lawsuit to let Philly enact stronger gun safety laws appears headed for the Pa. Supreme Court, after a lower court rejected the argument that not doing so violates residents’ constitutional right “to enjoy and defend life and liberty.” In dismissing the suit along party lines last week, Commonwealth Court also declared firearms legislation a statewide matter best handled by the Pa. legislature, instead of city government.

The decision comes on the heels of two mass shootings that shook the nation — at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a grocery store in Buffalo, New York — and as Philadelphia continues to experience a rate of shootings over 50% higher than in pre-pandemic times.

(snip)

Pennsylvania has some laws on the books known as “preemption” statutes. They stop cities — “preempt” them — from being able to make tighter gun control laws than exist at the state level.

In practice, that means Pa. municipalities can’t have their own firearm permitting processes or set limits on the number of guns purchased within a certain time period. They can’t make parks and playgrounds into gun-free zones, can’t ban assault weapons, and can’t outlaw “straw purchases” where people buy guns for others.

(snip)

https://billypenn.com/2022/05/31/philadelphia-pennsylvania-gun-control-lawsuit-dismissed/

[Bayard]

17. Thank you for pointing that out

Louisville's mayor is a Dem, as is, Louisville itself. We have a great Dem governor. The problem is the blood red legislature.

[Novara]

18. That's crazy

Mayors of larger cities know what happens in their cities. It's simple math: more dense population + more guns = more shootings. A lot of these happen on weekends. It's gotten so I expect to read about mass shootings on Sunday mornings.

Looks like R state legislators WANT Dem-led cities to shoot each other up. And it isn't the fault of Democrats. More guns = more shootings. I hope Dems are pushing back on the bullshit narrative and tell the media that they are hamstringed by the state lege.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. "Looks like R state legislators WANT Dem-led cities to shoot each other up."

Of course they do. It's part of their "wedge issue" narrative of the "Inner city (savages) living in crime-infested neighborhoods".

It was the same sort of response levied at the urban areas during the crack epidemic in the '90s, when a blind eye was turned on those addicted individuals, while they were summarily locked up as criminals "in the inner cities". But fast-forward to the "opioid crisis" that resulted in the same sort of addiction and criminal dealing of that stuff, but it hit the suburbs, small towns, and rural areas like an avalanche, and surprise, surprise, surprise - THAT resulted in a completely different response.

[Cha]

23. Fucking cockfights in Hawaii

are barbaric, imo.

Sorry about all he people who are dead from gun violence.

So much for Hawaii's clean record from the '90s of No gun Violence.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. I am surrprised they even did that in the city

There are plenty of places on the island to do that horrid crap incognito. It wouldn't surprise me if dog fighting is also going on.

[marble falls]

10. Two mass shootings in GOP states in one day. Things that make you go hmmmmmm....

[republianmushroom]

20. And this

South Dakota governor says her two-year-old grandchild has several guns
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143060882

[Upthevibe]

25. BumRushDaShow............

It's exactly who they EFFING are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CTyankee]

26. I was smug, living here in CT, and then Sandy Hook happened...

we are not safe here in the U.S.A.