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Six people killed in mass shooting in Plymouth, England
reuters ^ | 08/12/2021 | Kanishka Singh and Paul Sandle

Posted on 08/12/2021 5:20:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Six people were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth in southwest England on Thursday evening, in an incident described by the British Home Secretary as "shocking".

Two females and three males, including the suspect, died from gunshot wounds at the scene of the incident, the Devon and Cornwall Police said in a statement. Another female died a short time later in hospital, the police added.

Sharron Turner, 57, who lives behind the scene of the shooting, told The Times newspaper that a gunman had "kicked in" the front door of a semi-detached house before shooting a young mother and her daughter, who was aged about five. Turner said she had been told that the man, who was dressed in black and grey, was armed with a semi-automatic weapon.

After the attack, the gunman escaped through a park behind the house and shot two dog walkers, The Times reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; england; gunlaws; nogunsforbrits; plymouth
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To: RaceBannon
Cromwell was a brutal military dictator who brought about the deaths of 600,000-1000000 people. He was no hero by any stretch of the imagination.

The extent of “fatal persecution” of Catholics and dissenting Protestants by Henry VIII and Edward VI is generally exaggerated, as is the persecution of Protestants by Mary I. During the reign of Elizabeth the religiously motivated murder of Catholics and dissenting Protestants ticked up into the thousands, but pales in comparison to the scale of Cromwell’s slaughter.

If your ancestors were plantation settlers in Ireland (assuming you’re referring to the Portadown drownings) — they went for a swim less for being Protestants and more for decades of brutal occupation as a foreign, so-called elite ruling class, replete with dispossession, starvation, enslavement, religious persecution and massacres of the natives. The occupier victims of 1641, generally speaking, deserve to be mourned no more than Nazis killed by the Polish resistance.

41 posted on 08/12/2021 7:42:36 PM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: Qui is

Guns are banned there, that’s why this even never happened..move along folks, nothing to see here.


42 posted on 08/12/2021 7:53:12 PM PDT by packagingguy (Kit)
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To: TheDandyMan; RaceBannon

I would also note I’m not a grouchy Irish apologist, my own ancestors were settlers in Ireland as well (later on, well into the 1700s) — German surname so I would assume there was some link to Hanover. Be that as it may, they had no right to be there brutalizing the Irish on their own land.


43 posted on 08/12/2021 7:57:17 PM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: BatGuano

An ordinary decent criminal is a crook in it for the money, and isn’t looking to physically harm people. As opposed to a terrorist, serial killer, etc who are trying to harm or kill people.


44 posted on 08/12/2021 8:40:20 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: miserare

He was anti catholic, but he didn’t differ from British monarchs much in that regard. For his time, he tried to save England from monarchy.


45 posted on 08/12/2021 9:07:18 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: DesertRhino

Thanks to Cromwell some of my ancestors of Irish persuasion were given free transport to Charlestown in the colony of South Colonia where they were given employment opportunities in the western uplands.


46 posted on 08/12/2021 9:51:42 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: sushiman
London and pretty much all of the UK is highly safe.
STATUnited Kingdom United States HISTORY
Intentional homicide rate1.17
Ranked 74th.
4.7
Ranked 7th. 4 times more than United Kingdom

Murder rate722
Ranked 34th.
12,996
Ranked 9th. 18 times more than United Kingdom

Murder rate per million people11.68
Ranked 94th.
42.01
Ranked 43th. 4 times more than United Kingdom

Murders722
Ranked 34th.
12,996
Ranked 9th. 18 times more than United Kingdom

Murders per million people11.68
Ranked 94th.
42.01
Ranked 43th. 4 times more than United Kingdom


47 posted on 08/13/2021 1:03:52 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: sushiman

I was in London, Brighton and Cornwall in 2019. My nieces have been hiking over Devonshire to Bristol.

It is very safe


48 posted on 08/13/2021 1:04:39 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; sushiman
Demographis is destiny

Plymouth shooting: Jake Davison named as gunman who killed five:


49 posted on 08/13/2021 1:06:05 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: GaryCrow; Chewbarkah
Plymouth shooting: Jake Davison named as gunman who killed five

Crane operator Jake Davison, 23, used a long-barrelled gun and kicked in the door of a house before shooting a woman, believed to be his mother, plus her five-year-old daughter in Plymouth last night.

The man, dressed in black and grey, then ran into the street and continued his rampage, firing randomly at passers-by on Biddick Drive as he made his way to a nearby park.

Davison also shot a young girl as she walked her dog with her family along with another innocent bystander.

After randomly firing at terrified passers-by, he then turned the gun on himself following the bloodbath just after 6pm yesterday.
Not Moslem
50 posted on 08/13/2021 1:10:02 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: DesertRhino

“Save England from monarchy”????

England is built due to monarchy. Without the Wessex kings conquering Essex, Kent etc. and Danelaw there wouldn’t have been an Angle-land.

Cromwell set up a dictatorship that was worship than Chucky I’s rule. That’s why when he died, the public was quick to get Chucky part II


51 posted on 08/13/2021 1:11:23 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: BenLurkin
He apparently used a shotgun. Shotguns are not banned.

There are many 'guns are banned in UK' comments on this thread. Local media here in Devon this morning (I live in the same county) are saying that he used a shotgun. Shotguns have never been banned in the UK - in fact there are probably more legally owned shotguns here than at any time in history, because of the growing popularity of countryside shooting sports.

The shooter has been named locally as Jake Davison.

52 posted on 08/13/2021 1:13:56 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: EvilCapitalist; GaryCrow; Chewbarkah

It was Jake Davison


53 posted on 08/13/2021 1:18:06 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: DesertRhino
For his time, he tried to save England from monarchy.

Cromwell dissolved parliament and ruled just like a monarch. He is a perfect example of, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

54 posted on 08/13/2021 4:34:25 AM PDT by tlozo
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To: TheDandyMan

You know your Irish history!


55 posted on 08/13/2021 10:23:54 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: BenLurkin

First, the 1996 Dunblane Massacre, then the 2011 Cumbria killings, and now this . . . what the heck is going on on that side of the pond?


56 posted on 08/13/2021 1:18:18 PM PDT by PatriotarchyQ
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To: BenLurkin
Update...

'Police gave shotgun BACK to Plymouth gunman after giving him an "anger management class" just a month before rampage which followed his mother's pleas for mental health help'

57 posted on 08/13/2021 5:46:40 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: BenLurkin
Update...

SHOCK AT GUN RETURN Cops failed to trawl Plymouth shooter Jake Davison’s online activity before giving him back his gun

58 posted on 08/14/2021 4:23:32 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: PatriotarchyQ

If that’s you time frame, not much, apparently.


59 posted on 08/15/2021 12:58:37 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: Qui is
But I thought guns were banned in the UK.

That would come as a bit of a shock to my local gun shop:

The Countryman of Derby

60 posted on 08/16/2021 3:37:33 AM PDT by Da_Shrimp (Dum vivimus, vivamus!)
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