Plymouth shooting

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/significant-ambulance-response-deployed-to-incident-in-plymouth-12379946

[youngmafbog]

//A terrorist with a gun would have killed far more so speculation has been far wide of the mark//

Not necessarily, you can get guns in this country but automatic weapons are very costly and difficult and the underworld would steer clear of selling them due to the ramifications after the event.

This means the guns used will have minimal firepower so by the time 5 people have been shot everyone will have run away and be hiding, if they had any sense.

[naomi24]

Sigh ...

[naomi24]

That to untitled ^

[pastafreak]

The gunman has been named.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-58197414

Why oh why does 50% of the stories in news seem to end up focused on a particular ethnic/religious group

[naomi24]

There you go. No jitterbugging required.

[ichkeria]

Tora meant let’s all pretend it’s not an Islamic terror attack when we all think it is.

Tho why anyone would think that baffles need a little as mass shootings tend not to be terror related odd as it may seem.
The last one in this country was the one in Cumbria I think

[youngmafbog]

//Why oh why does 50% of the stories in news seem to end up focused on a particular ethnic/religious group//

1. 50% are not focussed on a particular ethnic/religious group.

2. Where they are it is because the authorities often are reluctant to give out descriptions when they are. As NJ said much speculation could be stopped if they were more open, they must have known pretty quickly on this one.

[ichkeria]

There is already a photo of the killer on the website. Police said it wasn’t terror related hours ago.
So I can’t see how anyone can be faulted for not jumping to conclusions

[roopower]

The police have asked people not to speculate......

[anneasquith]

How disappointed must ttt be this am ?

[naomi24]

My post was a statement of fact, ichkeria. It’s what happens here - regularly. Where’s the insult - and why the smile?

[Gromit]

Anne,
The music may have stopped but TTT is still dancing.

[pastafreak]

I "jumped to conclusions" when I read the first local report last night. I'm familiar with the area, it's only a mile or so up the road from me...an ordinary neighbourhood. Not a place for terrorist incidents. But if course some people will always think they know otherwise.
Now if it had been at the Dockyards nearby,I may have jumped to a different conclusion.

[pastafreak]

It's about time ttt got caught out.