CityPlace Doral is known as a family friendly gathering place with bars, restaurants and a movie theater.

A shooting at a bar in a popular outdoor mall in a Miami suburb early Saturday left two dead and seven injured.

According to local law enforcement, an altercation at a martini bar at the CityPlace Doral complex broke out around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, prompting a security guard working the scene to intervene. A man involved in the altercation subsequently produced a gun and shot and killed the guard.

“You start hearing shots. And it wasn’t one. It was one after another, after another, after another,” recalled Peter Andres Jordan, who was in the bar at the time.

Two police officers then shot and killed the alleged gunman, but not before one officer and six bystanders — five men and a woman, according to police — were wounded in the shootout.

  • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Classic pro-gun propaganda. Everybody is a “responsible gun owner” (despite that responsibility being entirely optional) until they shoot someone, then they’re instantly a “gang member” so they don’t count. Nevermind that the word “gang” doesn’t appear anywhere in the article and it easily could have been another generic conservative losing control of his emotions.

    But even if they were criminals, there is no magic gun fairy supplying them with firearms. The existing laws completely fail to identify criminals and straw purchases, but we’re forbidden from changing them because they’ll inconvenience gun owners.

    But don’t worry if you won’t pass a background check, gun owners still have you covered. Most states still allow private sales to happen without a background check, because the gun lobby staunchly opposes closing that loophole. But if your state isn’t one of them, you still don’t have to worry because “responsible gun owners” who irresponsibly store their firearms provide the black market with tens of thousands of stolen guns every year.

    Stop letting the problem insist they’re the solution.