comment: >
  
  the blame is on the people who aren't against killing devices (weapons)
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 >
  
  No way to prevent this.* >
  
  *Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens. >
  
  what happened to "an armed society is a polite society"? >
  
  always been a lie. >
  
  The irony and stereotype in these photos is quite blatant. >
  
  2023 is just a week old and there's already been 16 mass shootings in the USA.
  Good job folks. >
  
  It's a massive county. How many killings are there in China daily? >
  
  You're not seriously making a comparison to China.
  Why is it always a pissing contest?
  "At least we're not as bad as China". 
  Who cares. How about actually TRYING to do something about it? >
  
  Well a difference is there's no guns allowed there. >
  
  Is there some way to filter out US shootings from the news?  
  I don't want to sound cold hearted but they aren't ever going to do anything about it so this is less "news" than it is "weather". >
  
  Pretty sad isn't it? >
  
  Look at these comments to see people arguing about whether this was a school shooting as if that changed anything, because NRA propaganda has made them go entirely blind to the actual problem and incapable of advancing past empty rhetorical sophistry. The bar. >
  
  I knew this was in the US before I opened the article. >
  
  I mean, I get what you’re saying but this sub is specifically for US news. >
  
  The place for news articles about current events in the United States and the rest of the world. Discuss it all here. >
  
  Lol America.  Just a joke MEME country that likes their guns more than their children. >
  
  The cost of 2a is paid everyday in American blood and lives 🇺🇸see y’all tomorrow >
  
  So this is just going to become a daily occurrence or what ? >
  
  This is Baltimore. It is a daily occurrence. >
  
  How many mass shooting has there been this year in the US >
  
  You want to lose votes? That’s how you lose votes. Same as a politician saying they don’t believe in god. They gonna lose votes. America 🇺🇸 >
  
  So tired of “both sides” bullshit. Without republicans driving this country downward we would all be in such a better place. We’d have a healthcare system like every other industrialized country. And this gun violence epidemic would disappear almost overnight - because we would have decent gun control without republicans. >
  
  
  Without republicans driving this country downward we would all be in such a better place. We’d have a healthcare system like every other industrialized country. And this gun violence epidemic would disappear almost overnight - because we would have decent gun control without republicans.
  
  We'd have a Democratic utopia, similar to Washington DC, Chicago, Baltimore (where this shooting occurred btw) >
  
  Keepin it real in 2023! >
  
  Where was the good guy with the now legal "bump stock" to mow down this teeenager? WE NEED MORE PEOPLE WITH GUNS NOT MENTAL HEALTHCARE. After all were free, not communists >
  
  Did we just have two school shootings on the same day? >
  
  the blame is on the people who aren't against killing devices (weapons) >
  
  Hey America, quick question; are you okay? >
  
  At this point, as an outsider, this is the most hilarious shit ever
  Like, sorry, but i cant feel bad for you guys every fucking week that you had a shooting for the last 20+ years when you refuse to do anything at all, you are literally this meme >
  
  So does this count as a school shooting, or just a mass shooting? How many does that make this week? America, hear me out, take the guns away and see if things go down any. Just fucking humour us.... >
  
  If i were a kid i wont get myself tangled up in gangs, no amount of street cred nor swag is worth me risking my life for crispy fried chicken. Rip kids :( >
  
  Baltimore is such a garbage pit. >
  
  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. >
  
  Virginia, and Pennsylvania have very strict gun laws as well. West Virginia not as much but that is not as easily accessible. I believe most guns have been traced to PA and Virginia. So obviously the gun laws don’t work. >
  
  Gun laws don't work if they are not nation-wide. If you can leave the state (or, more usually, just city limits), purchase a gun and come back without anyone checking if you've bought a gun - it won't work. 
  Replace my "45 minutes" with whatever else you need to get to the closest area where a purchase is easy, without any border checks along the way.
  For a gun law to work it needs to span the entire country and be enforced, not just written down and left to pure chance. >
  
  
  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 >
  
  No way to prevent this.* >
  
  *Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens. >
  
  what happened to "an armed society is a polite society"? >
  
  always been a lie. >
  
  The irony and stereotype in these photos is quite blatant. >
  
  2023 is just a week old and there's already been 16 mass shootings in the USA.
  Good job folks. >
  
  It's a massive county. How many killings are there in China daily? >
  
  You're not seriously making a comparison to China.
  Why is it always a pissing contest?
  "At least we're not as bad as China". 
  Who cares. How about actually TRYING to do something about it? >
  
  Well a difference is there's no guns allowed there. >
  
  Is there some way to filter out US shootings from the news?  
  I don't want to sound cold hearted but they aren't ever going to do anything about it so this is less "news" than it is "weather". >
  
  Pretty sad isn't it? >
  
  Look at these comments to see people arguing about whether this was a school shooting as if that changed anything, because NRA propaganda has made them go entirely blind to the actual problem and incapable of advancing past empty rhetorical sophistry. The bar. >
  
  I knew this was in the US before I opened the article. >
  
  I mean, I get what you’re saying but this sub is specifically for US news. >
  
  The place for news articles about current events in the United States and the rest of the world. Discuss it all here. >
  
  Lol America.  Just a joke MEME country that likes their guns more than their children. >
  
  The cost of 2a is paid everyday in American blood and lives 🇺🇸see y’all tomorrow >
  
  So this is just going to become a daily occurrence or what ? >
  
  This is Baltimore. It is a daily occurrence. >
  
  How many mass shooting has there been this year in the US >
  
  You want to lose votes? That’s how you lose votes. Same as a politician saying they don’t believe in god. They gonna lose votes. America 🇺🇸 >
  
  So tired of “both sides” bullshit. Without republicans driving this country downward we would all be in such a better place. We’d have a healthcare system like every other industrialized country. And this gun violence epidemic would disappear almost overnight - because we would have decent gun control without republicans. >
  
  
  Without republicans driving this country downward we would all be in such a better place. We’d have a healthcare system like every other industrialized country. And this gun violence epidemic would disappear almost overnight - because we would have decent gun control without republicans.
  
  We'd have a Democratic utopia, similar to Washington DC, Chicago, Baltimore (where this shooting occurred btw) >
  
  Keepin it real in 2023! >
  
  Where was the good guy with the now legal "bump stock" to mow down this teeenager? WE NEED MORE PEOPLE WITH GUNS NOT MENTAL HEALTHCARE. After all were free, not communists >
  
  Did we just have two school shootings on the same day?