Has a mass shooting ever happened near you?

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One just happened today near where i live. pretty scary. I was even in the area where this happened earlier this morning. this shooting happened later in the afternoon!

meetkitty123 · Accepted Answer

Yes it was quite sad. It was a school shooting and the saddest part was before that year so the year prior we were trying to buy a home in a certain town and we prayed endlessly for this house and it fell through we were so depressed and we didn't understand why. well thank God for unanswered prayers because the following year my daughter would have been in that school during that shooting.

Pink2000 · Accepted Answer

No never but there was a bombing.

llorando · Answer

A mass shooting never happened nearby where i live.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

In the country never, but when I lived in the big city, daily and nightly thing with gangs. I was more concerned with the random shootings than mass shooters, cause I did have my car shot up before, few bullet holes while I was working or where I lived got randomly shot too.

Police are useless, call them to say hey my place was shot and my car and they didn't even bother to collect any evidence, here is the police report. Contact your insurance to get it fixed.

By standers would get shot by stray bullets from the gang battles, even children and it was a normal thing.

I personally am far more concerned about the gang warfare than mass shooters.

There was a mass shooting at a mall but very minor as only two people shot before a off duty cop took the shooter out.

supercutebutt · Answer

Last year a MAGA gun nut asshole murdered his 15yo stepdaughter by shooting her in the back four or five times as she tried to get her baby brother to safety next door and then he shot the neighbor lady in the leg who was trying to help them. It was just two blocks from me. Then he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after he barricaded himself in his house for a couple hours like a fucking pussy. The whole street was closed down all day because of this maniac. Rot in Hell. And because 3 people were shot and not 4, it doesn't even count as a mass shooting. But it should. Because it was. Cailin :(

CrazyGirl2 · Answer

Yes, the Pulse Nightclub anti-gay terrorist attack, in Orlando! I was just a kid at the time… I think I was about 11, but I remember it so vividly! It seemed that everyone we knew either directly knew someone who was attacked, or knew someone with a family member or friend how was impacted by it. It was such an awful time.

SaoirseS · Answer

Glad you're safe! No mass shootings in my immediate area, but there have been a few in the metro area. A couple years ago a removal car I was driving from an unattended death scene took a couple bullets in a bad neighborhood. I didn't realize it until I tried to accelerate on an on-ramp and the car quit due to some damage from the bullets.

bolverk · Answer

Yes.

The Cumbria shootings was a spree shooting which occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, taxi driver Derrick Bird, killed twelve people and injured eleven others before killing himself in Cumbria, North of England.

The shootings began in mid-morning in Lamplugh and moved to Frizington, Whitehaven, Egremont, Gosforth, and Seascale, sparking a major manhunt by the Cumbria Constabulary, with assistance from Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers. Thirty crime scenes across Copeland were investigated.

I was looking after my nephew that day and he was a bit put out that I would not let him and his friends go to the local park as we had no idea which way Bird was travelling.

Has a mass shooting ever happened near you?

Subarugirl · Answer

I was about two miles away from this when the shooting happened.

KrisPW · Answer

Worst to happen around me was a nutjob ramming her car into the crowd at a parade. I was in that town at the time, but didn't live there. Killed several and injured a lot more as I recall. Seeing 4-5 life flight helicopters lined up and down the street was pretty intense.

Middleman · Answer

I did, partly. Years ago whilst living in the UK someone had died at the end of my street after a shooting in the evening. Another time whilst waiting for a bus to arrive, I'd witnessed in broad daylight someone shooting the back of a small Ford hatchback that was driving on the street with an Uzi, literally spraying it and shattering the rear windscreen before the perp ran away. Luckily the driver survived the incident. That was one of my first ever witnesses of a shooting incident.

Slartybartfast · Answer

15 year old girl got hit by a random bullet today near me.

My ex mother in law came home to a hole in her bed because the guy downstairs discharged his 45 through the ceiling.

There's a bullet hole at head level in the screen around my swimming pool.

People who live in the country side don't understand the problems idiots with guns cause in a city.

Moose304 · Answer

NO! However, one of the ladies I see is a Kiwi that was born in New Zealand. She was in Aramoana, New Zealand when 13 or 14 people were shot and killed about 32 years ago. She was about 15 years old then and was close enough she remembers hearing some of the gunshots. Her family moved to the US about 3 years later.

Cherry234 · Answer

I'm not sure if there was a mass shooting near where I live but I do remember once there was a shooting in a town near where I live. I think this was 2 or 3 summers ago if I remember correctly.

Agent_Elflord · Answer

I moved out of my hometown, but some time later a black supremacist (I think he was one of those hoteps or black Hebrew Israelites or whatever they’re called) shot and killed 3 catholic white guys outside of a catholic charity organization’s building, like a day or two after shooting and killing a security guard at a motel.

Also where a group of guys shot up a superbowl party, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was gang related.

Apulu_Imback · Answer

No, hell I haven't even seen a gun firing. I live in a pretty safe place but their are just theft cases. Nothing serious happens here.

Lyndsielee666 · Answer

Nah but in 2009 someone chopped his friend up and burned his body parts in his backyard a few houses down from me

zagor · Answer

Yes, right across town at a club I had been to a couple times. I had also stayed at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, where the gunman in the Vegas country concert shooting fired from. And at a place on the east coast that I traveled to for work before.

petitedollbabee · Answer

Never a mass shooting nearby me. The last “shooting” that happened in my town was just a gang shooting, one person got shot and died. And that was about 5 years ago.

musicbrain5 · Answer

Shootings happen in my city, but not mass shootings.

MrsTurkleton · Answer

Yes. We were all told to stay indoors while the police looked for the guy….. he killed himself later that days. That evening & for a long time after, there was a eerie feeling around the whole area. It was a shock for everyone.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

Nah I’m in the UK,  we did have someone steal a quad bike the other week. I have experienced it in other countries, was in Colombia at a bar when a guy shot two others in the next bar, restaurant.

On_cloud_wine · Answer

I was working at my job when a mass shooting took place less than a mile away

MysticAngel5000 · Answer

Yes, unfortunately. There was one almost 3 years ago (will be 3 years in August) about a half hour from where I live. 9 people were killed and 27 were injured. The shooter was killed by police.

menina · Answer

That is pretty scary. I'm glad to hear that you're fine. No, a mass shooting has never happened near me. At least not since I moved to the neighborhood.

TransAm85 · Answer

Last year this Christmas parade in Waukesha, WI. Now this summer state fair is going to have all high tech security and you can only bring in ur ID and credit card.

AndrésC64 · Answer

Depends on what you mean by near. But there was a school shooting in Oxford, Michigan which is under 50 Mi away.

John_Doesnt · Answer

You're more likely to die from getting shot than dying in a car accident in America. It is the land of the free: you are free to get shot, free to pay more for healthcare at a lower quality and free to pay more in taxes than Jeff Bezos.

ShadezMcgee · Answer

Parkland hit close only because the guy came into my town after committing it with the idea to do another one there.

Lynx122 · Answer

Oh 42% of people on this site live in the US.

Zeus_66 · Answer

I've had two happen near me. But although they are obviously horrific events, chances are insanely low of ever being involved in one.

LovingLoverReturned · Answer

You got to be able to read the atmosphere.. any tense looking confrontations, gtfo

Koneko911 · Answer

Yes at the landing on a day I planned 2 visit with my brothers. Only reason we didn't go is I got randomly sick

CTHuskyMan · Answer

Sandy Hook happened not too far from me; in fact, in the same county that I happen to live in. :(

Miristheiss · Answer

No, not exactly.  One happened in my city. I guess I was a mile away if that counts.

Guardian45 · Answer

In 2012, I was trapped in a police lockdown of a major shopping centre shooting in a busy food court, with seven victims:1 Male, dead3 Male, critical1 child, critical2 Female, serious

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

A mass shooting never happened nearby where I live

TroyDT · Answer

None of which I am aware. The only shootings I hear about are the occasional home invader who gets an unpleasant surprise from the owner.

Likes2drive · Answer

Not that I’m aware of but plenty of terrorists acts near me since I’m only 30 miles from Manhattan

GlassTop · Answer

No never mass shootings. Just shootings from angry drivers or fights in bars.

love_conquers_lust · Answer

Ah, good ole’ Brandywine. Watching a swat team come out of their truck.

LordOfThePines · Answer

A mass shooting, no thankfully. But we have had a lot of shootings this year due to a local gang war.

driven159 · Answer

I just walked out of a Walmart Mc Donold's in Las Vegas was just in my car when a couple shot and killed two police officers

Xyliana · Answer

I'm in San Antonio about an hour away from Uvalde where the mass school shooting happened sadly. I'm not sure if you'd consider that close however.

Sparkie460 · Answer

Thankfully a mass shooting never happened in my area.

Kasabiian · Answer

No, thankfully I do not live in that nuthouse gun crazy country.

Slim57 · Answer

Closest shooting but not mass shooting happened about 45 mins away outside of a mall I was just at days before

Blomman · Answer

No, I don't live in USA.

DS_Madking · Answer

yeah thats mostly and 3rd world or america problem

Wise4myage · Answer

Thankfully no.

EnglishEuropean · Answer

Yes, 20 miles away.

Sillyboi98 · Answer

Nope! I live in the suburbs

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

Don’t think so no

CubaPirate · Answer

Thankfully not

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