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Active shooter reported in Odessa, Texas
Newswest 9 ^ | August 31, 2019 | Victor Blanco

Posted on 08/31/2019 2:50:31 PM PDT by luvie

ODESSA, Texas — UPDATE: ACTIVE SHOOTER REPORTED STAY INDOORS FOR BOTH cities

Police confirm a second shooter is in the areas driving a stolen mail van.

Officials are responding to an active shooter in Odessa.

According to the Department of Public Safety, the shooter is in all Gold Passenger car armed with a rifle and headed from Odessa to Midland.

Several people [now reporting 30 shot in Midland and Odessa] have been injured including police and civilians.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; activeshooters; banglist; braking; midland; nra; odessa; onthemove; secondamendment; shooting; texas; tinfoilmagnet
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To: crusty old prospector

Thank you for that summary


141 posted on 08/31/2019 4:39:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: frnewsjunkie

Totally agree. It’s a moral and spiritual crisis. The really bad thing is that most of the churches have lost their way too and can’t help.


142 posted on 08/31/2019 4:39:29 PM PDT by livius
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To: Toespi

“he knew who he was.”

“He” or they?


143 posted on 08/31/2019 4:40:09 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Spktyr
Taking on a reported rifle with a pistol is not generally a winning tactic.

It worked pretty well in Dayton.

I'd rather take on a terrorist using a rifle with a pistol than something else that might be available - like a chair, or a beer bottle, or a tire iron.

144 posted on 08/31/2019 4:40:37 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: napscoordinator

While open carry might be legal, it is politically incorrect and you will be persecuted for it by society and brainwashed tribe if you do. So very few actually do.


145 posted on 08/31/2019 4:40:40 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: dljordan

They stopped this idiot on a traffic violation and he just took off and started shooting from his vehicle. he’s dead.


146 posted on 08/31/2019 4:42:18 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: LUV W
They stopped this idiot on a traffic violation and he just took off and started shooting from his vehicle.

If that is true, and it seems likely, why were there so many reports from police of multiple shooters? You would think they would know about the beginning of the rampage given an officer was involved, and would not be reporting multiple shooters:

From the Midland Police Department, here

"Update * We believe there are two shooters in two separate vehicles. One suspect is believed to be at the Cinergy in Midland and the other is believed to be driving on Loop 250 in Midland. The two vehicles in question are: gold/white small Toyota truck and a USPS Postal van."

147 posted on 08/31/2019 4:47:30 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: LUV W

Doesn’t everyone carry in Texas?


148 posted on 08/31/2019 4:49:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone (If the Bible is true America will be damned by God.)
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To: livius

All quite true and irrelevant. There are many ways to “go off the rails” that don’t involve mass murder. The same pharmaceutical companies with their billions who pushed to have every moderately intelligent male child put on calming drugs for non-existent behavioral problems, owns the government that makes your laws.


149 posted on 08/31/2019 4:56:41 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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To: livius

Been reading about the run up to civil war I. They also had a lot of low intensity violence at first described as random. The society of the time was coming apart.

We are in a worse state than 1857


150 posted on 08/31/2019 4:57:14 PM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
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To: LUV W

Vid of police taking down shooter, at link....scroll down...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415079/Multiple-injuries-reported-active-shooter-incident-Odessa-Texas.html


151 posted on 08/31/2019 5:00:59 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: redgolum

Tension stirs up marginal people. I don’t think it’s a plot, but definitely, I agree with you that these times are tense and full of anger, and I think this is provoking unstable people.


152 posted on 08/31/2019 5:01:19 PM PDT by livius
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To: freeandfreezing

In Dayton, the rifle user was confined in a bar, not in a moving vehicle and the backstop was the wall of the building.


153 posted on 08/31/2019 5:04:14 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dljordan
"It’s going to be a hard road since so many men now are such limp pussies."

That needs repeating... Especially the "Millennials" with all their big bad tattoo's and macho commie attitude's.. I think the real America's, the ones who love our constitution, are about ready to get mad...

154 posted on 08/31/2019 5:04:32 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: freeandfreezing

Because there is a lot of difference between 30 people getting shot in one instance and one person getting shot in one instance in urban Chicago. Most of the urban killings generally are a bad dude shooting another bad dude. Sometimes there are innocent bystanders but not usually.


156 posted on 08/31/2019 5:13:28 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: NoLibZone

Most do. But when you have an idiot in a car shooting randomly as he drives at a high speed down the roads, it’s hard to react in time. He’s now dead, though.


157 posted on 08/31/2019 5:15:52 PM PDT by luvie (The bravery and dedication of our troops in keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American!)
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To: Dave W

There’s innocent bystanders all the time in ghetto shootings. And these shootings have got to stop too.

By coincidence I heard Elvis’ 1969 song “In The Ghetto” tonight. Sad song, and Elvis had a beautiful voice so it seems doubly sad.

But nothing has changed, despite decades of Great Society, affirmative action, etc. and these young black guys have no concern about how many other people they’ll hit when they’re trying to take out their “enemy.” There was just a shooting where 10 people, most of them totally uninvolved with and unknown to the shooter, were shot by a gangbanger trying to take out an “enemy.”


158 posted on 08/31/2019 5:25:18 PM PDT by livius
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To: Yossarian

No, because my sentiment remains the same. I’ve carried for 29 years, and not just to protect my own worthless ass.


159 posted on 08/31/2019 5:31:03 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going no than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: livius
The only conspiracy that occurs is in the reporting, where killings by Muslims, gays or blacks mysteriously disappear 
Like the time Badlands, a notorious gay bar in the West Village was shot up around 1991. The media had a feeding frenzy when it came out that the suspect was the "son of a preacher man." The media really wentape sh*t when it turned out his father was not just any preacher but an NYPD chaplain. THEN, his mug shot was put on the front covers of the Post and Daily News. A Black guy, wouldn't ya know it, and just like that the story....silently....faded........away.
160 posted on 08/31/2019 5:35:23 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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