Four Dead and 18 Hurt in Alabama Mass Shooting

Monday, September 23, 2024

At least four people have been killed and 18 injured in a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, police say. "Multiple shooters fired multiple shots on a group of people" late on Saturday in the Five Points South area of the city, Birmingham police officer Truman Fitzgerald said.

Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 08:31 AM | 24 COMMENTS | permalink

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Thank the NRA for the proliferation of guns in America and all the carnage they cause.

#1 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-22 04:33 AM

"There have been more than 400 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed."

The answer from the right always seems to be more guns.

#2 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-22 04:36 AM

Meh. Less MAGATS

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-22 04:44 AM

Not Well Regulated Faux Militia maneuvering, as the Not Well Regulated Faux Militia is wont to do. Membership? Automatic. Training? You're kidding, right?

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-22 05:51 AM

#3. Not so fast.

Birmingham is perhaps Alabama's least MAGA cities, with a large non-MAGA minority population and a large, well-educated middle/ and upper middle class population. And the Five Points is Birmingham's more upscale commercial district has some of the area's best restaurants and id a very creative part of the Birmingham scene. More likely the victims were the exact opposite of stereotypical MAGA types.

#5 | Posted by Augustine at 2024-09-22 07:17 AM

Well that's not swell.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-22 11:23 AM

Thanks NRA! Where was the good guy with a gun?

#7 | Posted by a_monson at 2024-09-22 09:35 PM

Thanks NRA! Where was the good guy with a gun?

#7 | Posted by a_monson

A Birmingham cop who was interviewed said the shooters were using the "Glock switch" that turns a pistol fully automatic.

#8 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-22 11:22 PM

PS A_MONSON

Your comment was my first thought too.

#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-22 11:25 PM

3, 5, 6: I had friends who grew up in Birmingham decades ago. Their fathers were literally rocket scientists brought down from Ann Arbor to work on the space program. Much different from the rest of the state.

Cultural note: They were at University of Alabama-Birmingham in the mid- to late 70s. Two of the speakers brought to campus in those years were Allen Ginsberg and Hunter Thompson. I met the latter in '78. Life highlight.

#10 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-09-23 09:14 AM

Harsh librul rhetoric is takin' lives!!!!

#11 | Posted by anton at 2024-09-23 09:33 AM

#10 | Posted by Dbt2

Huntsville is actually where most of the rocket scientists were congregated and I dare say much different. (A lot of actual Nazis among them.) That town is full of the well educated. Today there is a massive difference between the two for sure.

I do agree with Augustine - Birmingham is one of the least MAGA cities. Of course having a black population of 70% might have something to do with that.

#12 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-09-23 03:39 PM

#12 | Posted by GalaxiePete

I read a book years ago about those days from the viewpoint of both Americans and German scientists, Peendemunde, Huntsville, etc. Some of the stories were funny, German scientists driving like bats out of hell down backroads around Huntsville, for instance.

James Michener also wrote quite a bit about that era in his book, "Space."

The stories about the U.S.-Soviet race to get to the German rocket scientists at the end of the war are really interesting.

#13 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-23 04:55 PM

12. Standing corrected. Huntsville.

Damn chemicals.

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-09-23 08:49 PM

@#12 ... Birmingham is one of the least MAGA cities. Of course having a black population of 70% might have something to do with that. ...

Back in the 80's I went to the Birmingham area to spend a long weekend with a Frat Brother and his wife.

They lived in the suburbs.

Their neighbor was a local sheriff.

When they talked with him on a "next-door neighbor" social level, they just went along to let him speak.

Both my Frat Brother and his wife related stories to me about the conversations they had with that neighbor.

They both were quite aghast of the unapologetic racism of his comments.

Within a year, they left that area ...

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-23 09:05 PM

Why will Democrats always turn any community into a hell hole of violence, disrespect, crime and uncivility? Who goes to a social event late at night in Birmingham? Can't Dems ever just act like self-respecting people?

#16 | Posted by Robson at 2024-09-24 08:14 PM

- turn any community into a hell hole of violence, disrespect, crime and uncivility?

But enough about Trump/Vance and their rape of Springfield, Ohio.

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-24 08:31 PM

Crime is down and gun laws work for law abiding citizens.

#18 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-09-24 09:06 PM

The "rape" of Springfield was mostly carried out by partisan country/USA hating Democrats ( NGOs, temp employment agencies being generously paid, who wanted it turned into a poverty stricken community of foreign workers, and politicos. Isnt this the citizens country, not foreign invaders who have no right to even live and work in USA?

#19 | Posted by Robson at 2024-09-24 09:07 PM

Windows shot out at Kamala Harris' Arizona campaign office

www.rawstory.com

This is typical for supporters of the-------------.

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-24 09:40 PM

#19

That's according to your brain on Trump.

In the real world, most of the people of Springfield know you're an idiot and blame Trump/Vance for their unwanted hate mongering.

Springfield blames Trump for their problems now... even the Trumpers do, they just won't call him by name. Because they, too, are idiots.

"Springfield GOP leaders blame Trump for woes -- but won't criticize him by name

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WSYX) " Donald Trump gives credence to claims that Springfield's legal Haitian immigrants are eating dogs and cats.

"It's a ridiculous rumor," Springfield Mayor Rob Rue said.

"That's just ludicrous," agrees Clark County Commissioner Melanie Flax Wilts.

However, neither mentions the former president by name.

Turns out that's a trend.

Who's to blame for the 33 bomb threats in Springfield and multiple death threats against the mayor and other public officials?

"All these federal politicians that have negatively spun our city, they need to know they're hurting our city, and it was their words that did it," Rue said."

abc6onyourside.com

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-24 10:06 PM

Read this article about First Diversity Staffing in Springfield OH and other issues like the federal govt paying off NGOs which all started long before the local rumors about Immigrants eating pets. This is about big money, big business, migrant misery, and our US govt failing to serve its citizens. www.washingtonexaminer.com

Read about it there is more to it than you know.

#22 | Posted by Robson at 2024-09-25 07:11 AM

there is more to it than you know.

#22 | Posted by Robson

The story of your life, ROBSON.

#23 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-25 07:42 AM

#22

Trump asked Big Oil for a billion dollars to do their bidding, and you are concerned about big money?

The people of Springfield say it's your cult leader who is causing their misery.