At least nine people were critically injured early Sunday when a gunman opened fire in a busy entertainment district in Tucson, Arizona, before police officers shot him and stopped the threat, authorities said.
The shooting occurred around 2 a.m. local time in downtown Tucson, as the streets were teeming with people out for a night on the town, Officer Frank Magos, a spokesperson for the Tucson Police Department, said at a news conference Sunday.
Right, here it is Monday and this Lemmy posting is the first I’ve heard of the incident. In civilized times, this would have been front-page news from coast to coast. Now, a mass shooting elicits just a shrug of the shoulders, a “oh yeah, again, well whatever” response, and the “media”, such as it is, ignores it.
There was another 9 victim (1 dead) mass shooting in Denver around the same time I think at a nightclub that I only heard about a few days later.
We had a similar one in here in Minneapolis a few days ago too, I know about it because I still lurk the local subreddits otherwise I wouldn’t know about it.
I hadn’t heard about that one. It’s depressing to realize how much shootings have become non-news