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  No way to prevent this.*
context: The mayor is trying to place a lot of blame on the shopping center, specifically the Popeye's, because they serve students who are not allowed to leave the school across the street for lunch. But that should be on the school to keep the students from leaving, and not the restaurant. >
  
  Yeah how tf is a restaurant gonna turn people down because the school don't want them there? Especially a big chain. Makes zero sense. >
  
  Makes sense. By blaming Popeyes, the school doesn't get served with a lawsuit. >
  
  Shakes fist Damn you Popeyes and your spicy chicken sandwich! >
  
  SKINNERRR in my office now! >
  
  Popeyes doesn't serve steamed hams. >
  
  My father and I drove down 40 past this shopping center about two hours after this happened. He made an off-handed remark, “Oh, they’ve got the yellow tape out. Wonder who got shot.”  Then we saw the news once we got to our appointment. It’s unreal how desensitized we are to this nonsense nowadays. >
  
  There's an elementary school right behind my house. Every time I look out to widow it seems like the flag is at half mast all the time now. I think I'm more surprised to find it at full mast when I look. >
  
  Thought this said Edmonton and was pretty surprised, but it's just America again >
  
  Same. From Calgary thinking 'holy shit, you guys good up there?' >
  
  We are not >
  
  Prayers for the Edmontonians >
  
  We're getting school shootings at the weekend now. Got to beat 2022s record somehow. >
  
  
  We're getting school shootings at the weekend now. Got to beat 2022s record somehow.
  
  We're getting shopping center shootings near high schools reported as school shootings now >
  
  Yeah right? What a crock of shit. This was a regular  ol’ mass shooting. So help me god, if this hit the school shooting stats I’m gonna be so pissed. >
  
  I hope you are being ironic as that hardly   changes the tragedy of this event. >
  
  Yeah sorry I didn’t put the /s - the guy I responded to was complaining about the categorization. >
  
  That's really the peak of humanly possible obliviousness. >
  
  Yes I agree. >
  
  The article sounds like it was a gang altercation >
  
  What makes you say that? I don't see anything that says that. >
  
  
  What makes you say that? I don't see anything that says that.
  
  This is Edmondson, Baltimore, where gang violence in a strip mall would not be uncommon >
  
  I’d be more surprised if we skipped a day >
  
  When mass shootings become so regular they don't even make it to the top spot in news. So sad >
  
  It seems given the circumstances to have been gang violence.  A tragedy, but most gang violence doesn't make huge headlines. >
  
  We are failing our youth. >
  
  *have failed
  Twenty something years between Columbine and now, and things keep getting worse, not better. >
  
  Thanks republicans! >
  
  The high school was right across the street, those involved were high school-aged and some were thought to have attended that high school. The shooting also occurred during the high school’s lunch hour when they would have the opportunity to slip out if the building. >
  
  
  Ok so then we should probably go back in time and count all the shootings within a block of a school as school shootings too for the past 40 years then to keep the data consistent... which is exactly the narrative they're trying to push.
  
  Or. We could just start limiting access to who has guns like normal, first world countries and then there wouldn't be any narrative. >
  
  The problem is not enough guns; we need more guns to protect us from all these damned guns! >
  
  Baltimore has some of the strictest gun laws. And so does Maryland. Gun arrests have been going up but crime hasn’t. Baltimore is ran by the mosby family. >
  
  
  Baltimore has some of the strictest gun laws. And so does Maryland.
  
  Well that doesn't work if you can drive for 45 minutes, get a gun, and drive back. >
  
  
  One person screams, “Our children are dying!” To which, 
  Councilman Kristerfer Burnett  responds, “What are you doing about it?” >
  
  Ah yes, the national pastime 🇺🇸
  This is who we are. The nation with every resource imaginable to stop its citizens from shooting each other, and no significant will to do so.
  Pew pew murica pew pew! >
  
  Guns are for shooting