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06 Dec 2019, 10:38 am

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06 Dec 2019, 11:44 am

Umm... my Mom is in Pensacola right now seeing the doctor. And I used to live very close to the Corry Station! 8O


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06 Dec 2019, 12:10 pm

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
Umm... my Mom is in Pensacola right now seeing the doctor. And I used to live very close to the Corry Station! 8O


The situation has pretty much taken over the local TV stations where I am. They are saying that something I didn't fully understand was going on to have Baptist hospital on high alert and have armed guards at all entrances too.



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06 Dec 2019, 12:43 pm

My mom is ok.

But now these mass shootings are happening too close to home. I used to live in Pensacola...

I really am scared now... :(


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06 Dec 2019, 12:51 pm

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
My mom is ok.

But now these mass shootings are happening too close to home. I used to live in Pensacola...

I really am scared now... :(


I know, you and I have talked about pcola before. I am about 50 miles away.



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06 Dec 2019, 2:54 pm

Pensacola Shooting Updates: Gunman Was a Saudi Military Trainee

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Three people were shot dead early Friday at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., and the gunman was a trainee with the Saudi Air Force, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said.

A United States military official identified the gunman as Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani.

He was killed by a sheriff’s deputy.

“He was training in aviation,” said Capt. Timothy F. Kinsella Jr., the base’s commanding officer, who declined to comment on whether the shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism.

But Representative Matt Gaetz, whose congressional district includes Pensacola, said he was convinced the shooting, in which eight people were also wounded, was a terrorist act and blamed a lapse in federal vetting of foreign trainees.

The Pensacola base has long hosted international students for flight training. A couple hundred foreign students are enrolled in the program, Captain Kinsella said.

Among the eight injured were two deputies who were shot, one in the arm and one in the knee, but are expected to recover, the sheriff said.


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06 Dec 2019, 3:18 pm

I'm too disturbed and upset to be snarky...


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06 Dec 2019, 10:43 pm

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06 Dec 2019, 11:44 pm

I don't see anything about this on Huffpo.



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06 Dec 2019, 11:47 pm

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07 Dec 2019, 7:50 am

Magna wrote:
I don't see anything about this on Huffpo.


I am surprised, it was virtually all that I saw on the local news and also saw three or four mentionings of it when the national news shoe took over on ABC.



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07 Dec 2019, 9:47 am

You know what really angers me about this? The fact that the press is going to twist up this tragedy to push their political agenda on Americans again. :roll:


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07 Dec 2019, 9:49 am

That and the fact that if this had been a white American man instead of an Arab man doing the shooting nobody would be suggesting that this was terrorism-related. :roll:


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07 Dec 2019, 9:59 am

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
That and the fact that if this had been a white American man instead of an Arab man doing the shooting nobody would be suggesting that this was terrorism-related. :roll:


As far as the terrorism angle goes, the press is pointing the finger at the FBI as the ones to call it an act of terrorism. I am not sure if the Pensacola or DC office would be better to ask but I would confirm with the feds what they think before being disgusted with the media.



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07 Dec 2019, 10:04 am

My point is that even if this does turn out to actually be an act of terrorism, the press is just going to exploit it as more propoganda to convince Americans that all Arabic people are evil and out to get us.


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07 Dec 2019, 10:08 am

TheRevengeofTW1ZTY wrote:
My point is that even if this does turn out to actually be an act of terrorism, the press is just going to exploit it as more propoganda to convince Americans that all Arabic people are evil and out to get us.


I don't think so, they have shown several times a statement from Trump saying how he spoke with the Saudi president and the Saudi president said how Saudis generally love Americans, he is very sorry this happened, etc. I think that would be ommited if the press wanted to encourage the idea that all Arabs are evil.