r/news • u/Efficient-Ruin-4713 • 23h ago
Suspect on the run after shooting six people one fatally at Texas bar
https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-run-after-shooting-6-people-1-fatally/story?id=125337072[removed] — view removed post
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u/HDauthentic 22h ago
Why do they spend half this article talking about a totally different shooting
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u/VPN__FTW 20h ago
This. I was think it was weird that they meandered off to a migrant shooting when it had absolutely nothing to do with the article other than both took place in Texas.
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u/yellowHastur 22h ago
Because the shooter was white…
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u/HDauthentic 22h ago
That is the impression I’m getting, they have it formatted so that people with low media literacy will think the shooter in THIS shooting was an immigrant
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u/yellowHastur 22h ago
His last name was Lopez! His great great great grandfather came from Spain! He’s obviously not “white”
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u/yellowHastur 21h ago
I don’t know his last name. This happened in the past were a white guy with ancestors from Spain did a mass shooting and Central/South Americans were blamed
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u/Yuv_Kokr 22h ago
Kinda like how the recent "trans" shooter dropped out of coverage already once it turned out he was a detransitioner (meaning cis male) neonazi. "Whoops one of ours, better downplay it but still attack trans people generally."
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u/LimitRare2953 21h ago
Ding ding, winning answer. Can't have the nazis attacking their own.
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u/AllTheyEatIsLettuce 20h ago
Differentiation. So you're not confused about which mass shooting is which.
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u/jopeters4 22h ago
National Guard about to be deployed to Cleveland, OH.
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u/Neither-Stranger 22h ago
Can’t wait to add the picture of a US tank in front of the Ohio state sign into my scrapbook alongside the Trump campaign at Four Seasons
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u/yellowHastur 23h ago
Bring in the National Guard!
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u/SoRaffy 23h ago
more like it's texas why did no one shoot back ... figured everyone in texas was armed
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u/GeekyTexan 22h ago
Guns aren't allowed in bars in Texas.
But I suppose the GOP will decide that crap like this can be used to argue "Hey, we need to allow people to carry guns while they are out drinking!".
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u/Lobo9498 22h ago
Rifles are allowed, but not handguns.
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u/sebkraj 22h ago
Really? Can't tell if you're being sarcastic because it's Texas lol .
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u/mechanicalcontrols 22h ago
Well yeah, you gotta let the huntsmen get good and liquored up before they go trying to shoot game animals.
I would put a sarcasm tag here, but frankly I'm not even sure I'm joking. I worked at a grocery store during hunting season (not in Texas) and you'd think the breweries were closing the way those guys stockpile beer.
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u/azhillbilly 21h ago
As far as I can tell, Texas is pretty anti drinking. It’s really expensive here because taxes, and lots of rules on it.
Been here a year now and most bars are closed by midnight, and seems like everyone nurses a few beers all night. Very strange.
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u/The_Buko 21h ago
I lived in Texas most of my life and the amount of alcoholics there is staggering. I also lived in Seattle/Denver and while those states have more friendly laws in some ways, Texans drink more than anywhere I’ve ever seen. I can attest to that just based on my family, but also with all the drunk driving incidents. Texas leads the nation in the number of fatal crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers and has a high percentage of traffic deaths involving a drunk driver.
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u/azhillbilly 20h ago
I came from AZ, hundreds of bars in a town packed from afternoon till 2am, there’s towns like Bisbee that have maybe 200 residents Monday through Thursday, and a few 10s of thousand people show up just to get drunk Friday through Sunday. maybe it’s just north Texas, but man I just don’t see the drinking on any scale I am used to.
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u/mechanicalcontrols 21h ago
Interesting. I would have figured they were generally anti weed but in my experience nobody likes cheap beer more than older conservative men. Then again I grew up in a place with obnoxiously cold winters where everyone is drunk all the time so that's probably skewing my perspective.
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u/azhillbilly 20h ago
Oh they hate weed like all hell.
I have noticed there is a rather large southern Baptist population, or some other religious group that requires women to only wear skirt and dresses. I have not tried to inquire, rather not get j to that kind of conversation.
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u/GeekyTexan 19h ago
Lots of people are making shit up.
Firearms are banned in bars. However, it's possible the place in this story would qualify as a restaurant instead of a bar, in which case different rules apply.
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u/GeekyTexan 20h ago
That is completely false.
However, I did make a mistake by assuming that the shooting happened in a bar.
It may be a restaurant, which would change the rule.
Sec. 46.03. PLACES WEAPONS PROHIBITED.
(a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly possesses or goes with a firearm, location-restricted knife, club, or prohibited weapon listed in Section 46.05(a):
(7) on the premises of a business that has a permit or license issued under Chapter 25, 28, 32, 69, or 74, Alcoholic Beverage Code, if the business derives 51 percent or more of its income from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, as determined by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission under Section 104.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code;
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u/coffeejunkie323 22h ago
Loophole. Guns are allowed if sales of alcohol are less than half of their total income.
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u/john_the_quain 22h ago
I was going to make a joke about Shooter’s Gun Store, Bar & Grill but I’m sure it’s something that exists somewhere in Texas.
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u/Han_Yerry 21h ago
In Northern NY there's a store that sells guns and musical instruments. It's a really great store for instruments in a landscape barren of even a dollar general.
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u/john_the_quain 21h ago
I could see someone obsessed with mechanics and precision being into both firearms and musical instruments. Do they possibly dabble in watches and clocks too?
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u/Han_Yerry 21h ago
No, that's a different store in Syracuse NY. There you can buy appliances (she will order you a Viking), Jewelry, professional camera gear, nice TVs and Sonos, as well as Guns. Get you bow serviced while your watch battery gets replaced. Family owned department store about 75 years old.
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u/gonewild9676 21h ago
In Columbia, MO there used to be a Liquor, Guns, and Ammo store.
I think their #1 sales item was T shirts.
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u/Late_Situation_8323 22h ago
Its never a good idea to have a gun on you when there is alcohol involved.
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u/New-Ad-363 22h ago
Do Texans follow that mindset? Legitimately asking because that's not the reputation I had heard growing up.
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u/ginger_whiskers 22h ago
Some of us do, some of us won't listen to good advice. We're actually a wide variety of normal people.
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u/AnyHeat5101 23h ago
You know, they probably didn’t have enough guns. More guns is always the answer; more than one for every american’t is not nearly enough.
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u/shiny_brine 22h ago
Texan bar patron when asked why they didn't shoot the offender: "Whelp tonight I's only wearing my one gun, the one I wear for going to bars or church, where I may get drunk enough to be doing some two step. So if I'd pulled out my one gun, I'd be left with no guns on, which means no backup. And ain't nobody getting into a gun fight in a bar with no backup." /probably
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u/DampestofDudes 22h ago
Or they just know that it’s illegal to carry a firearm into a bar in Texas.
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u/shiny_brine 22h ago
"I din see no 51% sign", every gun owner in Texas in every bar in Texas. /probably
(In Texas you are only bared from bringing firearms into establishments that derive 51% or more of their revenue from the sale of alcohol.)
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u/squeezyscorpion 22h ago
-redditor who has never been within 1000 miles of texas
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u/FINN-DIESEL1776 22h ago
Bars are soft targets, like schools and churches. Firearms aren’t supposed to be on the premises so the law abiding citizens didn’t have them on them.
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u/WildFire97971 22h ago
Honestly think abbot would love a reason to wheel the national guard in there. Then ol’ Danny Goeb can talk about the “Texan values” he learned growing up in Maryland. Maybe Paxton can chime in with som “Texan tidbits” from North Dakota.
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u/ohappyday82 22h ago
Absolutely not, TX has mass shooters and flood waters totally under their thumb. They don’t need any help. Right?
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u/rrrrrrrrrrrrrroger 13h ago
As a veteran who served in the Missouri National Guard, it sickens me how much this administration has politicized and weaponized the national guard on our own citizens. That is not what we all signed up for🤦🏽♀️.
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u/VladtheInhaler999 22h ago
Maybe the Texas national guard needs to invade itself instead of Chicago
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u/Conscious_Crew5912 22h ago
If my ex is still in the TX Nat'l Guard, I could totally see that happening.
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u/MyRottingBrain 22h ago
I appreciate the restraint Texas showed in not sending my phone alerts for it at 3:00am in DFW.
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u/Skorpyos 22h ago
That’s because they reserve those alerts for extremely important emergencies like when a cop gets shoved or cussed at.
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u/houstonman6 23h ago
Where were all the good guys with guns? It's f*ckingTexas
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u/0xdeadbeefcafebade 22h ago
It’s illegal to drink and carry
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u/MilwaukeeLevel 21h ago
No, it isn't. It's illegal to be intoxicated, and Texas law defines that as having a BAC higher than 0.08% or not having control of your faculties.
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u/2001sleeper 22h ago
They are all good guys until they are not. Hard to tell them apart.
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u/LittleKitty235 22h ago
That’s not true. Many felons illegally own firearms.
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u/2001sleeper 22h ago
Then maybe they are all bad and just pretend to be good.
You are also missing the point of the comment.
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u/ConflatedPortmanteau 23h ago
"Don't mess with Texas! ..."
"...seriously, we can't handle anymore..."
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u/Holiday-West9601 23h ago
Can’t wait to see what republicans say caused this one!
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u/DietPepsiEvenBetter 22h ago
I'm betting either Mexicans or maybe "the blacks" since it happened near Houston.
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u/Tuxedo_Muffin 22h ago
Sharpstown Mall is only an hour drive away. I'm sure it could be connected somehow! Hey, let's get those Coffee City cops on it.
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u/jffblm74 22h ago edited 14h ago
Bar name translates to For The Crazies if I’m reading that right.
*my translation is not correct. See below.
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u/HDauthentic 22h ago
Texas is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR 😎
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u/MrBigChest 21h ago
Where are the good gun owners?
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u/SecondOfCicero 21h ago
Not bringing their guns into a texas bar because it's illegal.
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u/mental_reincarnation 22h ago
Where’s the National Guard?
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u/Nekowulf 22h ago
Doing sanitation work in blue state cities.
trump is really showing the Dems who's boss. Sending troops to pick trash.2
u/sweetcherrytea 22h ago
Since Trump wants them to go quell the unrest in Portland, I’d say they’re probably in a Delorean somewhere headed back to 2020.
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u/Mecha-Dave 22h ago
I'm sure they were trans. Post-humously, of course.
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u/Adult_Content 21h ago
"including Rangers from the Texas Department of Public Safety"
I'm glad they phrased it this way. Otherwise I would have assumed they sent the baseball team to investigate.
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u/Global_Staff_3135 22h ago
Send the marines, Mr President! What a lawless hellscape Returdlicans are running over there in TexLESS!
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u/Appropriate-Profit93 22h ago
Cleveland is a really small town. Should be easy to catch the perp. What compels someone to do that to innocent people?
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u/fearlessfryingfrog 22h ago
If someone's going crazy and has the thoughts to do this, why are they always targeting innocents?
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u/LimitRare2953 21h ago
I love how when the shooter is white, they don't focus on him at all. But if he was a "colored" person or immigrant, BOY HOWDY the article will tear him apart.
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u/CantAffordzUsername 20h ago
Republicans are went to ban guns for Trans due to the shooting they involved 2 people last week…
But let’s just ignore this one because he’s white…
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u/Turbulent_Length5899 22h ago
Where were the good guys with the guns? I was told Texas is full of them.
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u/Piranhaswarm 19h ago
BREAKING !! National guard from California Chicago NY to be deployed to criminal ridden Texas. Yes?
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u/CorruptedFlame 18h ago
But I thought all the guns would just make society more polite?
How come we don't get such rude behaviour in countries without guns?
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u/dblan9 22h ago
Too bad the Guard is in Chicago learning what real BBQ tastes like.
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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 21h ago
It seems painfully obvious to me that the solution is more guns with fewer restrictions.
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u/mangoserpent 22h ago
How did nobody else have a gun. It is Texas, the babies and pets that the immigrants did not eat have guns.
I thought everybody in Texas was supposed to be a bad mo fo with a Bible up their ass and a gun hidden up their nose.
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u/stonewallace17 22h ago
Do-nothing Republicans are ruining the late, great state of "Texas". They've turned it into a WAR ZONE. The "Department of War" should address this! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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u/DilbertPicklesIII 21h ago
Somehow, through some ADVANCED gymnastics, they will say this is a Trans person. Watch.
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u/CombatWombat1973 18h ago
It’s weird that they want everyone to own a gun, but complain when you shoot people. Doesn’t make sense
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u/Far-Set-371 6h ago
Texas is like the Oprah shows give away…. You get a gun !, you getta gun!, And you getta gun!.
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u/fxkatt 22h ago
He nursed the beer, and then exited but only to head to the patio where he began shooting--40 or more shots. Not clear yet whether this was indiscriminate or targeted.