Multiple People Killed in Shooting at Jacksonville Video Game Tournament
An unidentified suspect has been reported dead at the scene.
A mass shooting has at left multiple people, including the suspect, dead at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.
The shooting occurred early Sunday afternoon at the GLHF Game Bar in downtown Jacksonville where a Madden NFL video game competition was being held. According to Jacksonville Sheriff Michael Williams, 911 calls reporting that a shooting had occurred at the Jacksonville Landing mall, where the GLHF is located, were received shortly after 1:30 p.m. Law enforcement was reportedly on the scene within two minutes, and by 2:13 p.m., the Sheriff's Office had issued a tweet warning people to stay away from the area.
Mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing. Stay far away from the area. The area is not safe at this time. STAY AWAY #TheLandingMassShooting
— Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) August 26, 2018
According to the Sheriff's Office, three people were found dead at the scene including the sole suspect, 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore, Maryland, who died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. Another nine people were injured by gun fire, and two suffered injuries fleeing the shooting.
The Sheriff's Office is declining to state a motivation for Katz's alleged actions. The Los Angeles Times interviewed a participant in the tournament who said that Katz had been angered after losing a game.
Katz allegedly used at least one handgun in the shooting. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is investigating whether Katz's firearm was legally owned.
A Twitch live stream of the tournament reportedly captured audio of the shooting. One can hear the sound of multiple gunshots, the shouts of what sounds like injured victims, and the chaotic aftermath of the shooting.
Twitch livestream of Madden NFL tournament qualifier in Jacksonville broadcasts mass shooting, horrific aftermath https://t.co/kKcpNuGFRi pic.twitter.com/98FwkWMfOp
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 26, 2018
Multiple attendees tweeted out reactions to the shooting. One gamer reported being shot in the thumb. Another asked for thoughts and prayers.
Im good and safe. Not gonna report anything but a community that's filled with love, friends and family needs some prayer
— DUBBY (@DubDotDUBBY) August 26, 2018
The tourney just got shot up. Im leavinng and never coming back
— Drini Gjoka (@YoungDrini) August 26, 2018
This post will be updated as more information becomes available.
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Guns DON’T kill, it is Murderers who kill.
It’s just that certain noise they make.
Yes, it’s usually “Allahu Akkbar”…
“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good child with a gun. Happy shooting, kids.”
–Rep. Joe Walsh
https:// lawnews.tv/examples -of-kids-using-guns- to-defend- themselves /
Ya that’s about right. Or perhaps those kids should just submit and let those bad people do whatever they want to them, their families, friends and homes. Fuck off slaver.
+1
Tony would prefer to see mutilated and raped children over ventilated psychopaths.
Tony… Are you aware of the CDC study on defensive gun use?
Yeah, it says you are six times more likely to blow an intruders head off than your own head off? or something like that.
Even that study does not capture the importance of armed citizens is protecting themselves. Many people never tell of the times that they brandish a firearm to protect themself and never have to shoot the criminal attacking them.
The main stats for self defense come from dead attackers.
The Founders were smarter than Tony, Buttplugger, gillespie, hihn, Amsoc, hillary, Obama, welch xinfinity in adding the 2nd amendment to give us Americans a fighting chance in protecting ourselves.
Are you aware that gun nut lobbyists have gotten laws passed preventing the CDC from studying the subject?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should study guns?
Unless you are saying that guns are a disease. And if that is the case you just proved that Michael Savage is right about Liberalism.
You can just say you prefer to live in a state of ignorance Tony. If you ever choose differently, feel free to educate yourself.
The reason CDC funds were blocked for partisan studies on gins was because of the laughable reports from the early 90s. CDC can actually still stidy guns, and have since then. They just can’t do it for partisan reasons. Likewise other groups are free to study the matter.
But if you care to educate yourself, read up on the CDC study and defensive uses. Defensive uses dwarf murders by guns. But you’d prefer woken get raped rather than they have the ability to defend themselves.
And the reason the CDC didn’t publish this study, and the reason Reason even noted the retraction of the original study when it touted it is…. lizard people! Yes?
No they haven’t you lying sack of shit.
Nope, because no such law exists.
Why on Earth should the CDC study gun crime? Gun violence isn’t a disease. There’s no vaccine to be made or contagion to catch. The CDC has no business being involved. The only reason that they were involved was due to partisan politics, and higher ups at the CDC who had written the conclusion that guns were evil before the study even began.
Crime is the FBI’s territory. They have more than sufficient resources to do all the investigation that they need without distracting the CDC from their mission: controlling plagues.
Tony, why are you holding guns to a different standard than illegals?
Katherine Christoffel, M.D.: “Guns are a virus that must be eradicated…. Get rid of the guns, get rid of the bullets, and you get rid of the deaths.” in “Gun Control as Immunization.”
Patrick O’Carroll, Acting Section Head of the Division of Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control: “We’re going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths. We’re doing the most we can do, given the political realities.”
Their theory was guns are the germ of gun violence and that eliminating the germ will cure the disease and they needed to mount a crusade against guns. A medical approach to a criminological problem. If I had to fit gun violence to a medical model, it would be the immune system failure model.
CDC Additional Requirement 12 AR-12 banned using grant money in violation of the Anti-lobbying Act. CDC is part of the Executive Branch and cannot use funds from Congress to lobby Congress on specific legislation.The clique at CDC pushing the germ theory of gun violence to lobby Congress to act on gun control gave rise to AR-13: you can use grant money for empirical research on guns and violence, you cannot use grant money to lobby for gun control. This is usually represented by the Tonys as barring “research” on guns.
CDC on anti-lobbying act
CDC on yes, that includes gun control lobbying
“Yes, it’s usually “Allahu Akkbar”…”
At a gamer tourney they are more likely to be yelling ‘Admiral Ackbar’. In a fit of fan rage over the new trilogy.
Let’s be real here… They’re fucking terrible films. Rogue and Han weren’t bad though. They weren’t great but they weren’t bad.
I would have to say, nerd rage over how horribly their treated the old Calamari is understandable. The books had him as a major character for decades until they allowed him to die quietly in his bed, never wanting to retire his commission.
However, anyone who would do that would use an imitation lightsaber, not anything so clumsy and random as a projectile weapon.
Let’s see if Democrats follow Nick Gillespie’s advice from his column yesterday and, unlike those nasty Republicans, refrain from using a tragedy to further their political ends.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not holding my breath.
LOL. It wasn’t just his advice, it was the entire left making that argument. But being a leftist means never having to worry about consistency in your arguments from moment to moment. Doubleplus good doublethinkers.
Too late.
Local news interviewed the district’s representative (don’t know if state or federal, probably state) and he already launched into a gun control screed. This was at around 330 pm, before anybody knew anything. The Action News Jax (seriously) reporter cut him off to get back on to the ongoing situation.
Don’t you think it’s a little early to talk about people politicizing this?
Just think of the poor families and their political opinions!
I dunno, had people started politicizing it at the time the statement was made?
It was not too early.
James Call, “Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidates blame GOP inaction for Jacksonville shooting”, Tallahassee Democrat, 26 Aug 2018, 8:13pm
Banning knives like England would have prevented this tragedy.
Common sense knife control!
Won’t someone think of the children?
The Royal Knife Association has blood on its hands!
Hogg Heaven.
He’s already issuing orders to his goons aka Twitter followers.
Predicting 5 Pro-banning guns Reason articles by the end of august.
I was assuming he OD’ed like most other child actors wind up doing.
#ExtraSerious!
Conclusion: Remy was right about violent video gamez!
Suspected shooter was 20 years old
Too young to legally buy a handgun or get a carry permit. But MORE LAWZ!!!!1!!!
Commentary from before the shooting
“You are not gonna see much emotion from our guy ‘Bread’. He keeps to himself, he’s a man of business. He’s not here for the experience and to go out this that in the third(?). He’s not here to make friends.”
He Opened Fire After Losing Game
Enough is enough! BAN VIDEO GAMES!!
Ban everything!
Ban bans!
They would ban you saying bans if they could.
Ban losing!
If the Patriarchy didn’t impose these zero sum competitions on us, no one would ever die again.
Participation trophies for all!
You want proof? https://reason.com/blog/2018/06…..w-at-reson
18 legal age to buy any legal gun and ammunition where I live.
Don’t know anything about where he got weapon(s) or what type.
Not the issue
The federal Gun Control Act says no one under 21 may purchase a handgun. This applies to all purchases that ago though an ATF approval process (a large majority). So why do you think your state allows handgun purchases at age 18?
According to FL’s law enforcement website, minimum age of 21 to both any gun of any type in that state.
*buy not both
buy both?
You can buy a long gun at 18.
Since handguns are used in more crimes, they are restricted to people over 21.
Plus, there was a “This is a gun-free zone” sign.
Couldn’t this asshole read?
Looks like at least 7 people injured. One reported as in serious condition. Three said to be stable and some minor injuries.
Six of the victims taken to UF Health which is the only level one trauma center in Jacksonville.
ISIS?
I guess Wayne La Pierre was right after all. Of course he has never called for the regulation or banning of such games. Reason owes him an apology.
Wayne La Pierre … has never called for the regulation or banning of such games.
THEN BAN LA … Wait, what were we talking about?
Banning the hail Mary play in Madden. It’s bullshit that leads to shootings.
How many shot and killed in Chicago yesterday and today ? no biggy though ,correct?
It doesn’t matter, because Florida has bad gun laws!
Am I doing this right?
Doing it wrong. Shooter was white so it can be televised. If he was a minority or Muslim, not a peep.
To be fair, the New Mexico child murdering ISIS muslims have more of their story come every day. The media hates it.
Vox literally put out a video saying ms13 was simply misunderstood.
Are you serious? The media so full of shit that they dont even use the word propaganda for what they do.
Refuse to give vox even a fraction of a penny… But a description. link
I never pay for a MSM paywall or subscription. It tickles me that they are dying the death of a thousand paper cuts.
Please do not bring up how many people were shot in Chicago last week.
It embarrasses the gun grabbers and BLM members.
What a shitty post. We could find this crap anywhere.
Tweets and everything?
Blech!
Might as well be at TMZ.
They are now saying 2 dead and the shooter who shot himself. David Katz 24 from Baltimore MD.
Did he win?
He lost.
He represented buffalo last year. He was probably stuck playing with Josh Allen as QB. Not saying he should have shot the place up, but I understand.
To be fair, this guy was a loser for years.
He lost?
Then he deserved to die.
Discipline must be maintained at all costs.
So he killed fewer people than Gawain Wilson.
It’s too early to talk about anything except about how people who have talked too early are assholes. It’s pretty much always time for that
Excuse me, but I think the only thing we know for sure is that gun owners are murderers.
I’d comment, but I lhave a self-imposed 48 hour silence period after every instance where an angry fucking imbecile incel goes off his oxy and buys a gun from someplace like the liquor store. Given the frequency of such attacks there’s probably a chance I could tell you how important the 2A is to my life sometime between November 9 and 11 of 2019. Shall I pencil you in?
The 2A is a collective right, created to facilitate slavery.
I know this from my extensive historical awareness of life in colonial America.
Why are you so racist?
Precisely. Furthermore, the only guns whose ownership is protected today are 18th century muskets, since that’s all that existed when the Constitution was written.
You are obviously very mixed up. Libertarianism is about forming a police state so we can ship Mexicans back to Guatemala? not about a.) proving you aren’t a nutcase or b.) about to shoot your wife before you buy a gun. Those things should be allowed.
#NRA4EVAH
#TRUMP_IS_A_VICTIM_LIKE_AL_CAPONE
OBL, Incomprehensible Bitching, and new OBL all posting in a row?
This tragedy is justified just for this.
It’s the Trifecta! Only Zuuuuuul!
OBL, Incomprehensible Bitching, and new OBL all posting in a row?
The technical nerd term for this is “software laser”. Let’s just hope they don’t build up a critical reaction and crash the entire comments database.
No, wait, my bad. Software laser would only apply if they were bots, not parodies. So, if the Hihnbots get into it with each other, we might have a problem on our hands.
So, you’re saying that the 2A supports my right to own any firearm available at the time of the signing of the Constitution?
*prepares construction of a Puckle gun*
I have to admit, I’d never wanted a flintlock machine gun before, but now that I’m allowed to have one…
Furthermore, only Judaism and Christianity are protected by Freedom of Religion since those were the only readily-available religions available in the U.S. at the time of the Constitution.
? The 2A is around so that people can have a shootout with the federal government when the antichrist comes along. Everyone knows this.
Impossible. The 2A is a collective right, meaning that it allows the government to arm the military.
Otherwise, it would be unconstitutional for the military to have weapons. There’s simply no other place in the constitution for that.
Why do you think it says militia?
Article I Section 8 gives Congress the power and authority to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States. Not the 2A.
2A guarantees “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” in part for personal military preparedness training for militia or volunteer military service, but also for all traditional lawful purposes including self-defense in the home.
Get with 18th and 21st century 2A and RKBA. Gun control is so 19th and 20th century, like the draft.
You’re right.
The colonialist should’ve turned over their muskets to the Brits in the late 1700’s.
This way, we would all be sipping tea and speaking the King’s English properly, and isn’t giving up their guns a small sacrifice to be told what to do, how to do it, and when to do it by a foreign power?
“after every instance where an angry fucking imbecile incel goes off his oxy and buys a gun from someplace like the liquor store.”
Examples please…..anything…?.none. Fuck off slaver.
Typical year’s report of FBI Uniform Crime Reports show about 700 homicides by unarmed assailants. People are murderers.
Criminologist Marvin Wolfgang personally hated guns. He also studied 588 homicides in detail, going into the background of murderer and victim, circumstances of the murder, etc. and concluded:
More than the availability of a shooting weapon is involved in homicide. Pistols and revolvers are not difficult to purchase [illegally on the street] … The type of weapon used appears to be, in part, the culmination of assault intentions or events and is only superficially related to causality. To measure quantitatively the effect of the presence of firearms on the homicide rate would require knowing the number and type of homicides that would not have occurred had not the offender_ or, in some cases, the victim_ possessed a gun. Research would require determination of the number of shootings that would have been stabbings, beatings, or some other method of inflicting death had no gun been available. It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shootings could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal. Probably only in those cases where a felon kills a police officer, or vice versa, would homicide be avoided in the absence of a firearm.
In homicide, motive and opportunity are bigger factors than means.
And it was only years later that it dawned on Wolfgang to consider the self-defense use of firearms to stop or prevent murder.
Particularly, North Americans are murderers. You guys have a violence issue.
We really don’t. There are just certain people who abuse their freedoms because no one ever holds them accountable in their lives. Then one day they snap and it’s some how everyone else’s fault that shitty parents, shitty school admins and shitty police departments won’t do their jobs.
I was more referring to the general homicide/violent crime statistics, not isolated cases.
Compared to Europe and parts of Asia, sure. Compared to South America, Africa, and the other parts of Asia, not at all.
Yea, but.. the US is a western, civilized nation. Switzerland has pretty libertarian gun laws (for a European nation), yet a tremendously low homicide rate.
Switzerland is much smaller than the US with a more homogenic population. It’s not really comparable to the size and makeup to the US.
Then take Germany. Restrictive gun laws admittedly, but still.
I can’t argue with this.
Its time to ban all people from the planet.
This way there will be no murders and no more polluting the environment with their damn plastic straws.
All gun owners?
Trolls cross-talking and being cross-ignored.
Troll? I’m afraid you have me wrong. I think Trump is the greatest President since Abraham Lincoln. Just look at the beautiful example he sets for America. I’m not trolling? just remarking on how great America is thanks to his moral example.
Point-set-match
GUNS ARE NOT A RIGHT!
CAN YOU EVEN READ? *smirk*
The 2nd Amendment is only to arm a revolutionary army against BIGOTS like you *smirk* hatesconstitution1789 *snort*
I suppose you think Lenin wasn’t a libertarian *snort*
New Hihn-tard psuedonym already?
Nooo, not even close to new. He’s had this one for ages.
I suppose you think Lenin wasn’t a libertarian *snort*
Wow. The programmer for this hunk of junk really phoned it in this round.
Never trust a Bills fan.
I was raised by a Bills fan. What more evidence do we need?
Nobody alerted CPS for the child abuse?
I mean it might have just been a mass suicide. If I was at a tournament to watch a shitty sim football game, in Fl, i would kill myself too
Maybe you should give it a shot anyway.
No sense going off half-cocked for this sort of thing.
He should have watched war documentaries to see what shooting people was like.
He evidently shot people and did the American taxpayer a favor by saving of public defender fees, court costs, and prison costs.
All over stupid game. Evidently that was what it was over.
Nah, not my stlye. Imma keep sippin on my bourbon and watching the lessers off each other.
So I guess we can look forward to another round of video game hysteria too.
This case is almost a perfect crossover. We have video games, football, guns (maybe even assault weapons! Laser sight is the same thing, right?), young loner, white dude… all we needed for the ultimate soapbox case would be a minority victim who was somewhere in the LGBTQAI pantheon and advocated for antifa. I’m sure they are already digging for an alt-right angle for the shooter.
Remember guys, Madden Football video games are just murder simulators.
All snarking at political opportunists aside, screw this guy sideways. Someone needs to write a pamphlet for these murder-suicide guys so they can get it right…. suicide first…
Dollars to doughnuts that this area of jacksonville has numerous businesses that dont want guns in their establishments.
Yep. The Landing was a gun free zone, and by Florida law all bars are gun free zones.
Well then how could this possibly have happened if it’s a gun free zone? Riddle me that.
You mean signs do not magically ward against guns?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Well duh. They put the sign in English, not with druid runes.
And if people disobey those signs?
does the U.S. Army intervene?
18 U.S.C. ? 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus
Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Fun facts:
On the morning of September 23, 1957, the nine Black high school students faced an angry mob of over 1,000 Whites in front of Central High School who were protesting the integration project.[7] As the students were escorted inside by the Little Rock police, violence escalated, and they were removed from the school.[7] The next day, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 1,200-man 327th Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to escort the nine students into the school.[7] By the same order, he federalized the entire 10,000-man Arkansas National Guard, in order to remove them from the control of Governor Faubus.[7]
So the right of the people to keep and bear arms can be waived before entering these safe, gun-free zones. How is that working out in practice?
Can anyone expkain why this shooting is more newsworthy than this shooting ?
Probably because the Jacksonville shooting was linked correctly.
*slow clap*
Because that is not how human fear works.
Why is a shark attack news when 20 more people were killed or injured by ordinary trauma in the area the same day?
Why does an airplane crash get huge attention when many more people are killed by traffic accidents?
Human fear is not statistical nor is it rational. It comes from other parts of the brain and body. It is a physical response.
But that is not what you are asking.
This is very true.
But you left out the part about officials playing on those human fears to increase their power. So in your example about traffic deaths or terrorism, there is a need to play up the dangers of terrorism in order to get people to willingly throw away their rights. The officials can’t get that kind of traction from a car wreck.
Same goes for shootings. Crazy white people start shooting in a mall or school, and white “normals”
will start calling to rescind 2A just like the terrorists made them want to rescind the 4th and 5th.
The officials are smart enough to know that playing up inner city gun battles by criminals might well have the opposite effect of people actually demanding their 2A right and wanting to defend themselves.
I was trying to link to this shooting . (I was using a phone to type my first comment here.)
Remember when this made national news?
Thanks for linking to a more interesting and relevant shooting.
2 killed? Why is is a big deal while ignoring what goes on in inner cities on a weekly basis?
Because this was in a toss-up state a couple months before an election.
Did this shooting make national news?
http://www.aol.com/article/201…../21269410/
Well, the fact that it happened at an event where hundreds of people in attendance were well-plugged into social media to begin immediately sharing their experiences/reactions and the initial audio of the shooting was broadcast as part of the Twitch stream from the event might just have a little something to do with it….
“2 killed? Why is is a big deal while ignoring what goes on in inner cities on a weekly basis?”
Probably because Chicago (and Mexico for that matter) are doing such a better job at population control for the past few years, whereas Jacksonville is just starting out .
Subtitle: ‘”An unidentified suspect has been reported dead at the scene.”
“According to the Sheriff’s Office, three people were found dead at the scene including the sole suspect, 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore, Maryland”
What do “unidentified” mean?
Reason is such a clown show
Obviously, time for common-sense gaming control.
Clearly this stems from the NFL disrespect of the National Anthem.
We must immediately disband all proffesional football teams and the NFL.
For the children.
Well, “Florida Man” stories appear to have taken an ominous turn this year…
He’s actually from Baltimore, which might explain a lot.
The boomers were the divorce generation, and their progeny are in shambles
I am amazed that gun free zones have mass shooting issues while gun ranges do not.
Our problems would be solved if more non murdering people had easier access to a wider variety of firearms.
I have heard one report on shooter Katz having outspoken political beliefs and they were not what you would think, but I won’t repeat a sketchy first report.
“Katz had a history of mental illness and was prescribed anti-psychotic medicine, court records revealed.”
“Florida shooting suspect had history of mental illness, court records show”, independent.co.uk, 27 Aug 2018.
If the Second Amendment is so horrible, why do so many people try to visit, immigrate and sneak into These States? Why not go to places with Kristallnacht gun laws?