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OT: Reporter and camerman shot on live tv in Virginia

This is my local CBS affiliate. It's a real shame. FYI, if you don't own a hand gun in this area, you're probably in the minority. It's a lot different than NJ. By the way, the people were killed at Smith Mountain Lake where highway 122 crosses the lake in an area full of transplants from the Northeast and Midwest.
 
So his birth name is Vester Lee Flanagan. However, he was a former employee of the station that was on air as the name Bryce Williams. Strange.

Maybe he had a criminal past.
 
What exactly do you mean by this? Are you suggesting to add even more gun laws/regulations like the ridiculous and borderline unconstitutional ones that states such as NY/NJ have, or merely to strictly enforce existing laws/background checks (which I may agree with)?

Thank you. Criminals, murderers and crazy people don't follow gun laws. BTW NJ has TWO background checks for every handgun gun purchase. One for long guns. And one just to be able to be eligible to purchase firearms at the beginning.
 
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WTOP in Washington is running live updates: As it happens.

The gist of the reports is that the shooter seems to be Vester Flanagan, as mentioned above, and that the police are pretty close to apprehending him.

No indication that the jealous lover hiring a hit man story is remotely correct, but I think everyone has figured that out.
 
So his birth name is Vester Lee Flanagan. However, he was a former employee of the station that was on air as the name Bryce Williams. Strange.

Maybe he had a criminal past.

It's not at all unusual for people to use different names on air than they have in real life, particularly if someone else in the business already has your name or if you think your name is difficult for some reason. (If your actual name is, oh, Barack Obama, you're going to use something else on air, even just substituting your middle name for your first name.)
 
read on another forum he posted it on his facebook too. this guy needs to be put down
 
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Who's account? The fiance's account is still there

The shooters account. He wore a gopro cam on his head while he committed the murder.

Posted video of that on his account..absolutely bone chilling. Twitter suspended it.
 
The video of the shooting is all over social media now. A quick search should turn it up.
 
That is not the guy, Roko.

If so, that photo looks nothing like the ones on the news.
 
I just saw the video of him recording his shooting of the victims. It is very disturbing. He also just posted his manifesto.
 
LOL. Yeah - ecause the death penalty or life in prison isnt enough.

Heres a hint - the way to stop this stuff, or make it ridiculously rare is to get rid of guns.

Until then, this is the cost of freedom - you want wide spread, easy gun ownership - this is the obvious result - some of the people who take advantage of that will be crazy or seriously criminal.
Death Penalty and Life is prison is way too easy my man. It's an easy way out. If psycho paths want to kill people, they will kill people. They will find guns, or have weapons made and kill people. It's not like this dude was sitting around and someone came at him and he shot them. He meticulously planned out that he wanted to kill people. He made a choice, now whether it was with a gun or machete, he was going to kill people.
 
Nope sorry but that is not the answer. Two things need to happen which would just constitute a nice start. The first is we have to revamp the mental health system which deinstitutionalized people with serious mental issues into an outpatient setting that started in the 1970's and replace it with long-term inpatient care for the mentally ill. Second, we need to make it much tougher for people to obtain firearms. That being said you still are not going to stop things like this morning from happening but at least we would have a fighting chance.
Agreed, I'm not on the "no guns" or "all guns" side. My personal opinion is you should only be allowed to have weapons for hunting purposes and personal protection (for example, you can personally protect yourself with a handgun you don't need an automatic weapon to do so).
 
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