irfaanator
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a couple. not in the US though
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Have you been in a mass/public shooting?
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richardhawk
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Not a shooting but I was at the below when cops started firing tear gas into the crowd.
I still say fuck the LAPD.
I still say fuck the LAPD.
AstroNut325
Member
Not a mass shooting. But there were several homicides on the block I lived on while growing up.
The Sarcastic Dude
Banned
No, and thank God for that.
They are more common than other places, but they are by no means "commonplace".
You guys have literally scared yourself into thinking this country is all some huge war zone. That's what happens when all you know about a country is what you read on sites like this.
I club hopped for years and never experienced a shooting. I've also never been in fear of being shot while going out. This is a huge country and most of it is extremely safe.
markofhavoc
Member
My school had a lock down, it turned out to be an umbrella. The other time was a false alarm as well, but when they lock you in the classrooms and you don't know it's a false alarm, it's freaky
cpp_is_king
Member
A lot of people who live here are equally scared. Look at our culture of fear, can't even let your kids walk outside anymore without getting a visit from cps and potentially arrested.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
One time driving on the crossbronx expressway through wash heights I saw a guy running and somebody chasing him and shooting at him with a revolver, it was crazy as hell and it was broad daylight too. Probably about 5 years ago.
When I was a kid, I was on summer vacation with my family in America and we were staying in some highrise apartment on the thirty somethingth floor. It was like 2:00 am and we heard some yelling down below that was coming from the some pissed off gangsters on the street. I think there was a standoff or something. The police showed up and started yelling through some microphone. My siblings and I were all up there laughing at the idiots on the street. I started hearing gunshots then police talking on radios. I'm sure those guys died since I didn't hear any ambulance. The standoff was long but once the police showed up, it ended pretty fast.
At least it's funny now.
I've had a whole bunch of lockdowns at my school (Manitoba). It was pretty much gunmen, bomb threats, bomb threats and more bomb threats - all fake. I got pretty used to lockdowns and enjoyed the break from schoolwork. There was one bomb threat that was actually scary because the police set up a barricade on our school's street. Myself and a bunch of other students thought the bomb might have been real so we crossed the street to get away from the school. Eventually, the teachers followed. I was secretly hoping for the school to blow up. It didn't. :/
thesaucetastic
Unconfirmed Member
Some idiot fired a gun into the air at a concert I was at. It caused a stampede, so that was not fun.
speculawyer
Member
I had a passenger guy in car pull a gun on me (standing around outside). I dove down into the grass. But the person just drove away. I assume it was just a couple of a-holes having what they felt to be fun.
Mass shootings are relatively rare. But they are so pointless and they could be reduced with fewer guns. But I guess we've decided that the periodic mass killing is the price of 'liberty'. For now.
Mass shootings are relatively rare. But they are so pointless and they could be reduced with fewer guns. But I guess we've decided that the periodic mass killing is the price of 'liberty'. For now.
MulderYuffie
Member
no thankfully
Sadly even as a 24 year old I am constantly told I look young, I couldnt imagine the laughter of me at 16 and 18 trying to get into a 21+ club. But thats all I do now, I dont even go to 18+ clubs because they usually have a lot of fighting
I was on a basketball court with about 15 other people when someone started shooting at it from across a field. Everyone was only 15-17, and the kids shooting were 15. Apparently someone in our pick-up game had stolen something from one of them.
It was pretty scary I guess. At first we didn't know what was going on, because the kids were shooting in little bursts that sounded like fire crackers, but then we heard the whizzing and a bullet hit a backboard. We ran, then laughed, and the cops caught the kids. Never knew what happened to them.
It was pretty scary I guess. At first we didn't know what was going on, because the kids were shooting in little bursts that sounded like fire crackers, but then we heard the whizzing and a bullet hit a backboard. We ran, then laughed, and the cops caught the kids. Never knew what happened to them.
timetokill
Banned
No, and I've never really thought about it outside of Compton.
theepicoftyler
Member
I started school at Northern Illinois University the year after the shooting there.
One of the classes at my elementary school found a gun on the playground during recess, though. I don't know if they ever arrested anyone or found out who left it there (likely could've been left by someone not associated with the school).
So in other words: No.
One of the classes at my elementary school found a gun on the playground during recess, though. I don't know if they ever arrested anyone or found out who left it there (likely could've been left by someone not associated with the school).
So in other words: No.
yongeandcollege
Member
LOL, the odds make a positive answer very unlikely. For me. no, of course not. Same as the vast majority of humans.
shit, why am i laughing at these lmfao
i can tell you that that's not true.
OP, I've been sitting on the couch at one of our houses which happens to be in a bad area and heard gunshots once. the neighbors were drug dealers dealing from the house and i guess shit went sideways. idk.
where in chicago do you live? I honestly don't see many gun stores (but i also live in the south loop so that may explain that), but even by our englewood property i haven't seen any. now street vendors, that's another story lmao
Blackstarhat
Member
I witnessed the police kill someone when i was 12.
I was once walking to class and saw a car up the way stopped in the middle of the road with a couple of cruisers surrounding it and maybe 6-7 cops with all their guns pointed at whoever was inside. Realizing cross fire could happen, I immediately stopped being interested and got my ass to class.
highrider
Banned
My sister in law is from Wheaton Maryland and was at a house party in high school where somebody fired indiscrimatly in to the crowd gathered on the front lawn. She was shot just below her heart, almost killed her. She's 35 now, married, just had a kid. She still experiences health issues from it.
soulassssns
Banned
No
Closest I was to a shooting was there being gunshots outside my apartment one night. Never heard what happened, there was a shootout with cops in another area of the city a good 5+ miles away and the timing was way off to be related. Never did hear what happened there though.
Never had to run for my life, though the saddest part is that I'm waiting for the day I have to.
Never had to run for my life, though the saddest part is that I'm waiting for the day I have to.
mhayes86
Member
No, and I hope to never be within the vicinity of one.
On another note, I was in high school during the DC beltway snipings back in 2002, and we were instructed to avoid certain car makes/models, to not stand around outside before, during, or after school, and to gather in the cafeteria in the event of a shooting.
On another note, I was in high school during the DC beltway snipings back in 2002, and we were instructed to avoid certain car makes/models, to not stand around outside before, during, or after school, and to gather in the cafeteria in the event of a shooting.
Rabbi_Vole
Banned
Common?
timetokill
Banned
Yup. It's funny because in every thread you see people say they're afraid to visit the US because they think there are shootouts on the streets every day and twice on Sundays.
ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
Went and saw a Native American parade and two people were shot, like a quarter of a block away from me. This was in New Orleans.
I have never seen anyone shoot a gun in real life and only heard gunshots in areas where hunting is allowed in southern France.
Here in Belgium I have only actually even seen a gun once. And that was a drug dealer who put it to my head to rip me off.
Thinking on it, I'm pretty sure that wasn't a real gun after all and probably a replica of some sort. Even around drug dealing criminals, guns aren't all that common in this country.
Here in Belgium I have only actually even seen a gun once. And that was a drug dealer who put it to my head to rip me off.
Thinking on it, I'm pretty sure that wasn't a real gun after all and probably a replica of some sort. Even around drug dealing criminals, guns aren't all that common in this country.
TheVampire
Banned
No because I live in Australia where we banned guns and as a result don't have crazy people shooting up places with innocent bystanders around.
Coffee Dog
Banned
I personally haven't and don't think I likely will in the future, but I'm also alarmed at how many people in this thread have already posted that they have been.
Mass, no. Public, yeah.
When I was a lot younger, just outside the park at the back of my building (it was caged off). These guys had a table setup for poker/dice and all that. They played regularly. I guess once one of the guys couldn't afford the loss. Shot the guy who won. He lived, but yeah. That's the only one I've witnessed. Plenty have happened in the area that I missed by going home before the streetlights were up, thank God.
It was pretty common in my area 2006 and earlier. I never felt unsafe, weirdly enough.
E: I'm not American, though. Canada. Toronto.
When I was a lot younger, just outside the park at the back of my building (it was caged off). These guys had a table setup for poker/dice and all that. They played regularly. I guess once one of the guys couldn't afford the loss. Shot the guy who won. He lived, but yeah. That's the only one I've witnessed. Plenty have happened in the area that I missed by going home before the streetlights were up, thank God.
It was pretty common in my area 2006 and earlier. I never felt unsafe, weirdly enough.
E: I'm not American, though. Canada. Toronto.
Darth Karja
Member
I lived a few blocks from a guy who shot 5 cops. They went to serve a warrant and he was waiting in the house with an Ak-47.
With gunshots!
420bits
Member
As a swede that used to live in the ghetto Bergsjön... Not really, but not that far away from it either.
Had 2 guys shot down on the parkinlot outside my flat, thats like, 30m away or so. Neither of them died. Heard the shots and screams but kept my face away from the windows.
Had 3 guys in the houses behind my flat (so 30-50m in the other direction from the parkinglot) shot in the head (3 different occasions) they all died.
Then various torchings of flats (some self inflicted and others not) in surrounding houses. Some deaths but not sure it was due to fire or them being shot first, probably a bit of both.
They torched the entire garage under my flat (I lived on the 1st floor, so 2-3m above street-level and the garage was located under the street. No one died that time but around 90 cars got burnt down to the frame. Got evacuated from my apartement that time in the middle of the night as the firedepartement didn't think it was safe to stay.
I don't live there anymore
Had 2 guys shot down on the parkinlot outside my flat, thats like, 30m away or so. Neither of them died. Heard the shots and screams but kept my face away from the windows.
Had 3 guys in the houses behind my flat (so 30-50m in the other direction from the parkinglot) shot in the head (3 different occasions) they all died.
Then various torchings of flats (some self inflicted and others not) in surrounding houses. Some deaths but not sure it was due to fire or them being shot first, probably a bit of both.
They torched the entire garage under my flat (I lived on the 1st floor, so 2-3m above street-level and the garage was located under the street. No one died that time but around 90 cars got burnt down to the frame. Got evacuated from my apartement that time in the middle of the night as the firedepartement didn't think it was safe to stay.
I don't live there anymore
WeAreStarStuff
Member
No. I grew up in Northern Virginia. The only time I've heard a gun was when a cop put a deer out of its misery after it had been struck by a vehicle.
He stood right over the deer. ...and missed. He had to shoot twice; I was shocked at how loud a gun is.
He stood right over the deer. ...and missed. He had to shoot twice; I was shocked at how loud a gun is.
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