That's interference. I hope they're charged accordingly.
The BN forum rules allow you to wait up to 48 hours before making your thread. You made a thread without first knowing all the facts, which is fine if you want off-the-hip commentary, but it doesn't serve discussions of substance.
I'm not accusing you of political agenda. You started a thread on a story we know very little about, and then regret that people aren't waiting until we know more. Well, Higgins, you didn't wait either. We all just jumped in, you, me, everyone. Non of us have very much information so there's nothing to post but random commentary.
That's what happens when you just want to be the first to make a thread on something.
And the cops aren't? That's no excuse to knowingly refuse entrance to LEOs who identified themselves. These employees are just making it worse. If I were breaching that door I would feel certain that an armed criminal were cornered and about to make their last stand.
Unfortunately Maryland is a may-issue state and you have to basically be a LEO or a criminal to have a gun.
Of course it is. Anything within the last 48 hours is braking.
There's nothing wrong with making such threads. It just didn't make sense that you would make a thread to share updates as they became available, and then 'like' a post that was telling everyone to wait until we know more before posting at all. The 2 just don't jive together. Did you want updates, or did you want to wait?
You know how these things always, always go. There's a shooting, then before the sun is down the media has as many bodies and crying people in front of the camera as possible. Then the politicians line up in front of the cameras disavowing 'weapons of war' being 'on the streets'. Within a couple weeks we'll be talking about a new gun control bill being proposed as a direct result of this shooting. Those are updates you can expect to see, and you said you do expect to see updates on this thread.
Unfortunately that's really true at an individual level as well, not just media. I admit it, when I saw "3" I kind of felt dismissive of it. Truth is we have little murders day in and day out, I didn't realize how many really til I ended up in Phoenix for a year and now SoCal. Boise was pretty tame, but it's also tiny and fairly uniform. The only real reason it made national news is because it was 3 at a mall. Had it been 3 young, innercity kids on the street or drive by type, it'd only be local news.
It was a misunderstanding. We've moved on.
Like mall/school/public places are becoming. Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Unless one is oblivious to the fact that it is becoming nearly the same with rate of occurrence. I sure don't think it's my imagination that this sort of shoot 'em up at schools/public places where the death toll is under 5 is becoming pretty regular.
All I've said is that the frequency is increasing to the point that we are becoming enured to it in response to a person noting that because of only 3 dead it won't stay in the news long. Like it or not, that's accurate. It's not a good thing, it's just an factual thing.