A 27-year-old man was killed and 24 other people were shot after gunfire erupted early Sunday morning in Akron, Ohio, during what a police official said was a big birthday party.

Officers responded to 911 calls shortly after midnight, reporting shots fired and multiple victims struck in the area of Kelly Ave. and 8th Ave., according to a statement from the city’s mayor and police chief.

The shooting took place during a “large birthday party” that earlier in the night had more than 200 people in attendance, Akron Police Chief Brian Harding said in a Sunday evening news conference.

In the shooting’s aftermath, authorities found the scene “littered” with spent shell casings that stretched down a whole block, the police chief said.

  • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Drop the bullshit. You’re using short people and lone women as human shields for your hobby.

    Are we really supposed to believe your dogshit gun laws are an act of feminism? You’ve put 100% of American women in more danger by arming criminals, rapists and domestic abusers and you want to claim it’s all worth it because the less than 20% of women who want to carry guns are possibly safer.

    Which of course they’re not anyway. The moment they know a man is an actual threat (and not some fedora wearing weightlifter with a longsword who has pinkie promised he would never shoot them) is when that man grabs them or pulls a weapon on them.

    You know what happens next don’t you Mr Action Hero? If the man is already in grappling distance, she gets disarmed and then killed with her own weapon. If the man has already pulled his gun, she gets shot before she can aim and fire her gun.

    The best thing women can do to keep themselves safe is to avoid men who are walking red flags, like gun-owners that throw women under the bus for their own self-interest and awkwardly brag about martial arts training and being immune to stun guns.