Another School Shooting in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Gun Nuts".

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

(KVAL,KATU) ROSEBURG, Ore. – Emergency crews are responding to a deadly shooting on the Umpqua Community College campus Thursday morning, an Oregon State Police spokesperson said.

The Oregon Attorney General's Office has confirmed 13 dead, up fro reports of seven to 10 people are dead earlier. At least 20 people were wounded in the shooting.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown has confirmed that the shooter was a 20-year-old male. The Douglas County Sheriff said the shooter was killed while exchanging fire with first police on scene.

Douglas County Fire Marshal Ray Shoufler tells CNN there were multiple patients found in different classrooms, and law enforcement had the shooter neutralized when he arrived.

Shoufler said 11 were transported by ambulance; two of those victims died at the hospital, and one other was flown to a trauma hospital.

Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg has received nine patients.

A school official told a reporter shots were fired at Snyder Hall. The official said the school was locked down.

People are being asked to stay away from the campus.

Douglas County Sheriff's Office has said that students and faculty are being bused to Douglas County Fairgrounds and can be picked up there.

Jackson County Sheriff's Office and Providence Medford Medical Center are on stand-by in case they are needed.   http://www.ktvl.com/shared/news/top-stories/stories/ktvl_vid_17862.shtml

[moonflyte]

Assume what you like, l could not care less, if you want to cast aspersions but its not helpful  to the topic is it?

[jean2579]

This comment is not directed at any particular poster, but could you all please remember that you are posting on an Australian site and that some of us do not have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Could you please consider the fact that we had a terrorism related incident in Sydney last night in which 2 people were killed. This is not a good time to have an American style barney on the rights and wrongs of your home style politics. We have our own hurts at the moment.

[Anonymous]

with all due respect, i am  aware

of the oregon shooting and am interested

to hear from those who live in the US.

imo  those  who have 'their own hurts

at the moment' can ignore this thread

if they so wish.  i think this forum is

big enough for all of 'us'.   

[moonflyte]

Ditto, we are discussing the American massacre not the Sydney shooting and Im sure we can take all due care and sympathy due to the victims.

[jean2579]

Ok. Point taken.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@djlukjilly wrote:

Assume what you like, l could not care less, if you want to cast aspersions but its not helpful  to the topic is it?

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Aspersions? I thought you'd be flattered.

[jimmy*part4]

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@lurker172602 wrote:

With respect goldenjet, I don't think you can realistically visit an au chat room from overseas and not expect to get an Australian perspective on the topic of discussion.

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I agree with Golden, for the reason in your post. Myself and most Americans who visit this site DO know the type of responses a thread of this kind will receive.

And being familiar with the character of the OP, and well aware he's an American, posting this thread on a foreign website....to say he'd be perfectly willing to throw "his country" under the bus for a few pats on the back, wouldn't be out of character.

Which, in my opinion, is the purpose of this thread.

Plus I seem to remember him recently throwing up some stats about the lack of gun violence in his state, a state with so many guns. Sort of rubbing it in the faces of the rest of the country.....as they are they are above it all.

I know the type, but I'd rather not get edited.

[jimmy*part4]

I know the type, but I'd rather not get edited.

This would be my expression, lol......