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posted by martyb on Sunday August 26 2018, @08:35PM   Printer-friendly

Mass Shooting at Video Game Tournament in Jacksonville Leaves Multiple Dead:

Multiple people were killed in a mass shooting during a video game tournament at a shopping and dining complex in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said Sunday afternoon. Preliminary reports say four people were killed of the 11 people who were shot at the Jacksonville Landing, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the incident.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said on Twitter there were "multiple" fatalities and "many" transported to hospitals. One suspect was dead at the scene, the Sheriff's Office said, and it was not known if there was another suspect.

Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida is treating at least three patients that were involved in the gaming shooting incident, Hospital spokesman Pete Moberg tells CNN. All of the patients are in stable condition, Moberg says.

Live Updates: Shooting at Madden tournament in Jacksonville.

The shooting occurred at the Jacksonville Landing complex during a qualifying event for the Madden 19 Tournament at the GLHF Game Bar, according to the Twitter [feed] of CompLexity Gaming, one of the gaming teams.

Also at: NY Daily News and Fox News.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @02:59PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @02:59PM (#726924)

    I did read the second amendment, which speaks of "the right of the people." While it also mentions a well-regulated militia, that is just one reason the right to bear arms is important, and was not intended to be a limitation upon it. I am therefore unconvinced that any level of gun control would be Constitutional, despite what courts may argue. Even Scalia was wrong.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @04:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 27 2018, @04:36PM (#726979)

    The federal code does define "militia". Incidentally that definition doesn't include women. Which is to say under federal statutory law, women have no second amendment rights. Why feminists don't about that I will never know. While it may not be enforced that way, that is how the law is written. And the dictionary act and then SCOTUS defined "people" as meaning "corporations", and apparently their respective multinational fiduciary interests. So if a foreigner incorporates in the U.S. they probably have more right to bare arms than a woman citizen under federal statutory law. Again, how it is written, not how it is enforced.

    My point is that nobody is articulating either the problem or the solution, and that credibility of statutory or bench law on this matter is far from sacrosanct. Generally I'm with you, that the smaller risk is with a fully open system. That isn't to say that there isn't a lawful way to implement gun control intelligently. But such a way will never happen, because congress doesn't want it to happen. They want to use the issue to forment disruption. Which is why all you hear is a din of fundamentalist twaddle, with both parties conspiring to mine their half of the dupes for every sent they can get.

    If you aren't considering third parties, then you aren't considering a two party system.