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Multiple victims in Pa. psych clinic shooting
CBS ^ | 3/8/2012 | KDKA

Posted on 03/08/2012 1:06:42 PM PST by sodpoodle

Two people are reportedly dead and several are wounded in a shooting at a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh, CBS station KDKA reports.

Police were looking for a gunman.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: crime; mentalhealth; pennsylvania; psychiatry; shooting; violence; westernpsych
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To: tet68

They just kill their children. /s


41 posted on 03/08/2012 2:44:27 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Jack Hydrazine

You could also say that antibiotics only “suppress” an infection and do not “solve” it — but they put the body in a position of better advantage to cope. The idea of a medicine as a fix rather than as a bandage to a wounded mind so that it can heal through slower means is being presented and then bashed as a straw man here.


42 posted on 03/08/2012 2:46:10 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: kcvl

And normally by other means than guns.


43 posted on 03/08/2012 2:46:36 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Exactly. Usually by their own hands such as drowning, driving a car into the river, chloroform, etc.!
44 posted on 03/08/2012 2:48:06 PM PST by kcvl
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Exactly. Usually by their own hands such as drowning, driving a car into the river, chloroform, etc.!
45 posted on 03/08/2012 3:03:54 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Or the woman in a suburb close to me (Naperville IL) who drugged her children silly then suffocated them with pillows in bed, in a mad desire to get back at a husband she wasn’t getting along well with.


46 posted on 03/08/2012 3:07:08 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: kcvl

The gunman got around:

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/03/08/upmc-2-dead-7-injured-in-western-psych-shooting/
There were shell casings found on the second floor as well, reportedly.
... the gunman may have been using a 9mm gun.


47 posted on 03/08/2012 3:16:28 PM PST by starvosan
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To: starvosan
Sometimes they really are out to get you...
48 posted on 03/08/2012 3:20:55 PM PST by null and void (Day 1143 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: no-to-illegals
report of an officer down .... dang it.

According to the story there are many more civilians that have suffered injures.

"Two people are reportedly dead and several are wounded"

49 posted on 03/08/2012 3:21:33 PM PST by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: sodpoodle

So sad. Prayers to the friends and families.


50 posted on 03/08/2012 4:10:16 PM PST by mojitojoe (American by birth. Southern by the grace of God. Conservative by reason and logic.)
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To: sodpoodle

Staged to give legitimacy to the anti-gun lobby and the unconstitutional anti-gun policies of our own government.


51 posted on 03/08/2012 4:11:50 PM PST by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see fascism elected at home.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yup.

a lot of this is due to the economy and cost cutting in mental health: less employees, less safe environments; less security...Add to that we have a sicker group of people who are now not in state psychiatric hospitals but are being “treated” in outpatient facillities with many patients being homeless.

...and with Obama care..this scene will only get worse..a LOT worse. congratulations to the Progressives!


52 posted on 03/08/2012 4:14:28 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (NEWT in 2012)
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To: Cboldt

‘See “Year of the shark” for an example’

Which was nipped right in the bud by Sept. 11.

Along with Chandra Levy-Gary Condit-mania.


53 posted on 03/08/2012 4:14:28 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: sodpoodle

The staff at this hospital already have their hands full with the poor patients who are there because of emotional problems. Imagine the chaos there now trying to keep the patients calm after seeing a gunman and police running around, shots fired, people and officer shot. I am sure tonight will be very difficult for all at the psych hospital. Prayers for everyone.


54 posted on 03/08/2012 4:14:53 PM PST by CitizenM (Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
"I’d like to see the statistics of people who have benefited from psychiatry in a constructive way, not just medicated with prescription drugs."

Then you want to see statistics on psychological counseling, not psychiatry.

55 posted on 03/08/2012 4:17:39 PM PST by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see fascism elected at home.)
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To: ronnyquest

So that is the only way that psychiatry solves psychiatric problems?


56 posted on 03/08/2012 4:42:02 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: 4yearlurker
Witness says everyone hit the deck.

...take it from one who was in a hold up, you can't get close enough to to floor

57 posted on 03/08/2012 5:34:33 PM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Doogle

It doesn’t sound like just one gunman to me.

From a news reporter on scene:

http://www.wpxi.com/videos/news/video-rick-earles-second-report-from-scene-of/vGT2Q/
“Yeah Peggy, [b]multiple police sources[/b] are now telling us this has turned into a [b]hostage situation[/b]. My sources are telling me—my police sources are telling me—that they have received three phone calls from people inside Western Psych claiming that they are now being held hostage by [b]two men with guns[/b]. ... But again, the very latest information is that this has now evolved into a hostage situation. .... We understand from our police sources that they have received three phone calls from people inside Western Psych claiming at this moment that they are being held hostage by two men armed with guns. ..... Now we are hearing the possibility that there may be [b]two to three shooters[/b] involved in this incident. ...Again we are getting all this information from our police sources. ... “


58 posted on 03/08/2012 6:03:50 PM PST by starvosan
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To: starvosan; All

Anyone else find it a little odd that no shooter information has been made available yet?


59 posted on 03/08/2012 8:02:43 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: starvosan

It’s still going on?

To listen to the local news here, you would think it was all resolved and that the “lone” shooter was killed early on.

What are they not telling us?

2-3 shooters? An Islamic cell?


60 posted on 03/08/2012 8:10:50 PM PST by GracieOMalley
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