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Reporter and Cameraman Shot Dead On-Air

Rossman92
Rossman92 Posts: 3,650
in Not Sports Related
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/26/us/virginia-shooting-wdbj/
All over the news here in the U.S today. This is one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen and I cannot imagine what would make anyone want to do something like this. I'm very frightened to know that I have people like this living in my country. Please keep your thoughts and prayers with the families of the victims
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  • CAFC Luke
    CAFC Luke Posts: 228
    This is genuinely horrific. I watched the footage earlier and watching the anchor attempt to carry on at the end is horrific. Thoughts and prayers to all involved
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    Saw this on CNN a couple of hours ago and they showed the footage. The poor reporter carrying out the story was nearly in tears!
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    I saw the news alert from BBC on my phone, astounding that someone would do this - or is even capable of it.

    Perhaps more alarming is that it's being put down to a "disgruntled employee".

    Thoughts with the family, no one goes to work without expecting to get home safe of an evening, let alone a journalist.
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,650
    I am punching myself for watching the footage. I'm absolutely mortified
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Just when you thought you'd seen it all ................ shocking.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    edited August 2015
    Fox News reporting now that the shooter filmed himself doing this from his own perspective and started posted it on Twitter....
  • hudson-son-son
    hudson-son-son Posts: 2,645
    cafctom said:

    Fox News reporting now that the shooter filmed himself doing this from his own perspective and started posted it on Twitter....

    I unfortunately watched this, it is legit.
  • Fiiiiiish
    Fiiiiiish Posts: 1,671
    Chilling viewing, awful.
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,866
    This is the shooter Bryce Williams

    http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wdbj-adds-two-veteran-reporters/46832
  • smiffyboy
    smiffyboy Posts: 4,314
    Unreal RIP
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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Not that I expect any will but please don't post the video on here.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    What I saw was horrible, but luckily not graphic.

    I don't understand America a lot of the time.

    What is the NRA of America going to say?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Dazzler21 said:

    What I saw was horrible, but luckily not graphic.

    I don't understand America a lot of the time.

    What is the NRA of America going to say?

    Probably the same as they said after the Charleston shootings in June - blame the victims for not carrying guns themselves.

    It is beyond comprehension that they know the solution but won't do anything about it.

    RIP to the victims today.
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,650
    The shooter is now reportedly dead
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,650
    Dazzler21 said:

    What I saw was horrible, but luckily not graphic.

    I don't understand America a lot of the time.

    What is the NRA of America going to say?

    Don't get me started on those ignorant bastards
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
    Dazzler21 said:

    What I saw was horrible, but luckily not graphic.

    I don't understand America a lot of the time.

    What is the NRA of America going to say?

    Unfortunately the NRA response will be largely predictable, guns don't kill people, people do, blah blah, platitudes and meaningless quotes will abound. They suggested the way to stop school massacres was to arm the teachers, so don't expect a measured, logical, sane response.

    They see anything in absolutes, people like this killer are the "bad guys" and the way to stop them is to arm the "good guys". They seem to have a childlike nativity about how complex human nature really is, how someone can appear to be a good guy, or actually, to all intents and purposes even be one, but the right combination of circumstance can cause them to do bad things. Unfortunately the NRA are willing to keep pressing for laws that allow "bad guys" to easily get guns, so that the "good guys" (which in the world of the NRA is them and their members) can continue to have them.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    edited August 2015
    RIP to those poor innocent people just doing their job. So avoidable...

    On the insanity of gun control in the U.S. it's worth watching Jim Jefferies' rant if you haven't already.

    http://youtu.be/HTyQ4Q8z-D8
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    edited August 2015
    fucking hell!!!!!

    you know, i once said that news reporting is getting so close to the news, when it's actually happening, that i wouldn't be surprised, if one day, we actually saw someone killed on tv and now we have!

    r i p those who have died so tragically.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,485
    Have avoided watching the video, not something I want to see. Just so devastatingly sad that there are people capable of this. RIP to them both.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,786
    Yes, the problem of guns in America will just not go away. Barbarism that is all based on the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. Drafted at a different time in American history by people who should have had the intelligence to have seen the can of worms they were creating. And now, to get that taken out is, politically, almost impossible to do.

    So many innocent deaths can be attributed to that Second Amendment.
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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    What is to stop there being another amendment restricting gun ownership?
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    edited August 2015
    Another reason never to buy The Sun again...



    Words fail me why anyone would think that's acceptable.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,786
    MrOneLung said:

    What is to stop there being another amendment restricting gun ownership?

    Nothing, apart from people. Sad.
  • Rossman92
    Rossman92 Posts: 3,650
    Please please please someone tell me that's a wind-up
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Every way you turn this world of ours is fucked up!
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Is that front page for real?!
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,786
    It's got to be a wind up.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    Unfortunately not
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,736
    This paper has to go the way of the News of the World. #scum
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Horrific incident but do not see why it has to be our lead news story over here.

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