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febrewary t1_jdb43jd wrote

To clarify we don't know if it's actually an active shooter situation yet. Lot of people reporting they've heard gunshots but no actual confirmation of anything

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Beneficial-Back-8013 t1_jdb8b4p wrote

I live literally three blocks away. I just found out about this from a friend. I dont hear any sirens or anything right now so I am praying its under control and nobody got hurt. I have friends in LBPD and friends that live on campus, praying that they are all safe and sound. Trying to get info.

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Beneficial-Back-8013 t1_jdbd3pe wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,313,391)

Stay safe!! I have several friends in the LBPD. They are great!! I am sure they will catch them in no time. I live a few blocks away and my cousins house is across the street. We have heard no sirens or anything. A friend of mine messaged me about it a little while after it started. Praying for everyone on campus and everyone in LBPD responding to this situation.

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tjbowman t1_jdbi1gc wrote

From what I know from my sources, no one is shot it's a female with a revolver. Multiple departments on site and they are searching building by building.

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timhamilton47 t1_jdbi2ni wrote

My daughter has been sheltering in place with a group of people in the Great Hall. She said SWAT was there, but told them to stay there. They’ve been there for four hours.

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EmbracedByLeaves t1_jdbk3qp wrote

Replying to febrewary (#2,312,706)

Pretty sure no gunshots. Was down the street all night.

People that have never heard gunshots think everything is a gunshot.

Reports are some dickhead with a gun. Same with police scanner. Nobody has confirmed anything.

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tjbowman t1_jdbqgkd wrote

No gun at all, it was a curling iron

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buddy0813 t1_jdc4tkd wrote

Replying to NotTobyFromHR (#2,315,179)

This is so ridiculous that I thought you were joking, but that's really what it says. How on earth do you mistake a curling iron for a gun? And how did they think shots were fired? This is so bizarre.

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thebaddmoon t1_jdc6nv8 wrote

Replying to buddy0813 (#2,315,251)

A few years ago I was in a mall in boca raton. I was in the tesla store sitting in the drivers seat of a tesla playing with all the fart noises etc when I looked up (the car faced out the store window into the mall corridor) and saw a sea of people running for their life and screaming, literally trampling each other and tripping. I jumped out the window of the car and locked myself in the back office with the other people who were in the store. We were there for almost an hour before the police came and escorted us out. They ran us through a back hallway that connected to all of the stores and lead to a loading dock where we exited into the parking lot. We passed the SWAT team as they were coming into the building. Across the street from the mall at a restaurant we heard a young girl who had heard the shots and got separated from her mom. I called my parents, told them I was safe, and a few hours got on my plane and headed back to Newark.

When my plane landed and I took my phone off of airplane mode, I googled the Boca Raton mass shooting and the headline read “popped balloon mistaken for active shooter causes mass hysteria”.

It’s fascinated me ever since that the fear of being shot is just below the surface enough that once one person ignited it, it spread throughout an entire mall like a contagious disease.

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Engibineer t1_jdc8r21 wrote

Replying to thebaddmoon (#2,315,373)

There was a panic and stampede I think at JFK a couple of years ago. People were evacuated to the tarmac. It turned out that the alleged gunfire that set it off was people clapping to celebrate something happening on one of the TVs.

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whskid2005 t1_jdcfg77 wrote

Replying to thebaddmoon (#2,315,373)

I worked at a mall in NJ. We had quite a few “active shooter” situations. The trouble is most people are not entirely sure of what a gun sounds like so that motorcycle backfire or tire pop that then echoes around the mall corridors COULD be a gun so they freak out. Then people see them freaking out and it spirals out of control because everyone would rather be safe than sorry because WHAT IF. The one real situation involved someone who wanted some attention before killing themself so they popped off a few rounds sending the mall into a complete lockdown. The cops finally found the person in a construction area in the mall. Sad situation.

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Unknown_Species666 t1_jdcfqfc wrote

Glad some can get this message even if there was nothing to worry about. Better safe than sorry

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vague_diss t1_jdcgos4 wrote

Replying to buddy0813 (#2,315,251)

Asking the wrong question- why do we live in a country so heavily armed, with so few mental health resources, that we have to worry about anything gun shaped? Why do we have to have lock down drills and shelter in place plans to begin with?

How do you mistake a curling iron for a gun? Could it be we’ve already had over 100 mass shootings this year? Could it be a generation of kids trained monthly to “run, hide, fight” are rightfully suspicious and scared for their lives?

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s55555s t1_jdcjfpo wrote

I was up all night over this. It is bizarre.

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s55555s t1_jdcjqd7 wrote

I was on Twitter the whole night. The feed was infested with bots. Horrible.

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the_last_carfighter t1_jdcoexm wrote

Replying to whskid2005 (#2,316,151)

>I worked at a mall in NJ. We had quite a few “active shooter” situations. The trouble is most people are not entirely sure of what a gun sounds like

So the NRA is right we need way more guns so this doesn't happen. Big ol /s on that one because here we are.

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weylandyutanicmc t1_jdcyrch wrote

Replying to vague_diss (#2,316,297)

Because we have a gang problem. That's where you get almost all your mass shootings from, and the news pushes that like it'll happen to you.

If you don't hang out with gangs, you aren't going to get shot.

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Ok_Key3652 t1_jdd0ur6 wrote

alert … when you want to see a Sasquatch it’s a lot easier to see one

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dolomanc t1_jddf3rk wrote

Someone possibly armed is not an active shooter

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my_fake_acct_ t1_jddqpmm wrote

Replying to weylandyutanicmc (#2,320,445)

Here's yesterday's https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/22/us/colorado-denver-school-shooting/index.html

Here's the attempted one the day before https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/heroic-security-guards-stop-armed-man-devil-mask/story?id=98026971

Here's Monday https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2023/03/20/suspect-in-custody-after-shooting-at-lamar-high-school-in-arlington-injures-2/?outputType=amp

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weylandyutanicmc t1_jddvdv7 wrote

Replying to my_fake_acct_ (#2,321,151)

You've got two murders and a maybe, none of those even qualify as mass shootings due to the highly targeted nature. None are indiscriminate, and at least one of the two was almost certainly gang related, proving my point.

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Sudovoodoo80 t1_jdep8x0 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#2,324,637)

That is what the US has been doing for the last 20 years, making it easier for the law abiding to get and carry guns. Has gun crime decreased in any way? Or has it increased? Maybe if we want a different outcome, we need a different approach. Maybe more guns isn't the answer to preventing gun deaths.

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