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CA Bar shooting leaves 12 dead, including police sergeant
Fox News ^ | 11/08/18 | Katherine Lam, Stephen Sorace

Posted on 11/08/2018 6:41:53 AM PST by Pining_4_TX

Without saying a word, a mysterious man in black clutching a semi-automatic pistol opened fire on a California bar packed with college students celebrating "country night" Wednesday — claiming the lives of at least 12 patrons, including a veteran sheriff's sergeant nearing retirement, before officers found the gunman dead.

Hundreds of people -- including students from California Lutheran University, private Christian school Pepperdine University and California State University Channel Islands -- were inside Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif., for the country music event when shots suddenly rang out at about 11:20 p.m., Ventura County police said. Police said at least 30 shots were fired and the gunman, armed with a .45-caliber handgun, used a smoke device to disorient and confuse his targets.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: borderlineshooting; ca; guns; ianlong; leo; officerdown; police; shooting; smokebombs; smokegrenades; thousandoaks
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Dems already vowing to take away guns.
1 posted on 11/08/2018 6:41:53 AM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

CA has an involuntary civil commitment law. Sounds like it should have been used.


2 posted on 11/08/2018 6:43:40 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Suspect was 29 years old - no name yet


3 posted on 11/08/2018 6:45:07 AM PST by 11th_VA ("When passions are most inflamed, fairness is most in jeopardy." - Susan Collins)
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To: mewzilla

So far they are only reporting the man’s age and not his identity, even though they know his identity.

And a country bar where nobody was armed???? Only in California and other gun-control states.


4 posted on 11/08/2018 6:45:11 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (..Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you.. Joshua 1:9)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Seems to me some folks that want to end it all but don’t have courage to just off their self opt for suicide by police or to commit such a bad crime they have no choice but to do it.


5 posted on 11/08/2018 6:45:22 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Pining_4_TX

CA has ridiculous restrictions. Doesn’t seem to matter, and they refuse to see it, basically because they are lazy and stupid and Democrat - but I repeat myself...


6 posted on 11/08/2018 6:45:46 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Please pray for the victims’ families. The brave police officer who ran towards the gunfire was a longtime police officer.


7 posted on 11/08/2018 6:46:16 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (..Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you.. Joshua 1:9)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Has the perps Facebook page been wiped yet?


8 posted on 11/08/2018 6:46:43 AM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: 11th_VA

Almost 10 hours into Coulter’s Law. The 4chins have a name. No idea if it is correct.


9 posted on 11/08/2018 6:47:22 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: dljordan

This is why we have Coulter’s Law.


10 posted on 11/08/2018 6:47:48 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: dljordan

Now that is a good question. If he is a white male, we all know how this is going to go.


11 posted on 11/08/2018 6:47:55 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (..Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you.. Joshua 1:9)
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To: Pining_4_TX

LAT is reporting the 29 YO perp used his mother’s car. I’m thinking mentally ill perp. Bet he was on someone’s radar and they screwed up, or family was in complete denial.


12 posted on 11/08/2018 6:48:25 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: Pining_4_TX

So much for their restrictive assault weapon laws.


13 posted on 11/08/2018 6:49:22 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Many Los Angeles County LEOs live in Thousand Oaks
14 posted on 11/08/2018 6:51:27 AM PST by oldbrowser (The government did not create the people. The people created the government.)
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To: SkyDancer

People in the bar were wearing Reagan-Bush ‘84 shirts and had marine tattoos. Going to a country music night and went to christian colleges. Sounds like conservatives were targeted.


15 posted on 11/08/2018 6:52:47 AM PST by jyo19
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To: mewzilla

5150 Only good for 72 hours. I’ve had to call one in twice.


16 posted on 11/08/2018 6:54:08 AM PST by null and void (Leftards don't know what 12000 illegal aliens marching thru Mexico know - America's a Great country!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

College kids’ bar


17 posted on 11/08/2018 6:54:23 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: SkyDancer

So much for their restrictive assault weapon laws. ................................ Was it a Thompson or a M-3A1? 45 CAL?


18 posted on 11/08/2018 6:54:25 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: antidemoncrat

“Oh, make no mistake,
it’s not revenge he’s after,
it’s a reckoning.”
- Doc Holiday in ‘Tombstone’


19 posted on 11/08/2018 6:55:11 AM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: Pining_4_TX

Sounds like gang violence, some sort of gang initiation, or a thug trying to rob the bar.


20 posted on 11/08/2018 6:55:53 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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