At least nine people were critically injured early Sunday when a gunman opened fire in a busy entertainment district in Tucson, Arizona, before police officers shot him and stopped the threat, authorities said.
The shooting occurred around 2 a.m. local time in downtown Tucson, as the streets were teeming with people out for a night on the town, Officer Frank Magos, a spokesperson for the Tucson Police Department, said at a news conference Sunday.
This doesn’t even seem to be front page news. The us is desensitized to mass murder.
Right, here it is Monday and this Lemmy posting is the first I’ve heard of the incident. In civilized times, this would have been front-page news from coast to coast. Now, a mass shooting elicits just a shrug of the shoulders, a “oh yeah, again, well whatever” response, and the “media”, such as it is, ignores it.
There was another 9 victim (1 dead) mass shooting in Denver around the same time I think at a nightclub that I only heard about a few days later.
We had a similar one in here in Minneapolis a few days ago too, I know about it because I still lurk the local subreddits otherwise I wouldn’t know about it.
I hadn’t heard about that one. It’s depressing to realize how much shootings have become non-news
The newsworthy part is how a police foot patrol was in the area, responded, and stopped him.
It happens over 400 times a year. That’s no longer news.