According to reports from journalist Keaton Fox of ABC13, a mass shooting was just committed in a restaurant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
OKC: Shooting at Louie's on Lake Hefner, witnesses say the shooting was inside the restaurant. An OKC police source tells me it's believed to have started in the kitchen area. At least 5 injured.
— Keaton Fox (@keatonfox) May 25, 2018
UPDATE: It appears that early reports were incorrect and only two people were shot and a third injured through some other altercation.
Lake Hefner shooting update: A man walked into the Louie’s restaurant and opened fire with a gun. Two people were shot. One person has been taken to a hospital with serious injuries. A bystander with a pistol confronted the shooter outside the restaurant and fatally shot him.
— Oklahoma City Police (@OKCPD) May 25, 2018
⚠️ ALERT: The only confirmed fatality is the suspect. He was apparently shot-to-death by an armed citizen. Three citizens were injured, two of whom were shot. A large number of witnesses are detained. There is no indication of terrorismat this point.
— Oklahoma City Police (@OKCPD) May 25, 2018
This shooting comes on the heels of the deadly massacre in Santa Fe, Texas, where two teachers and eight students were gunned down in cold blood. It has also been just a month after James Shaw Jr. used his bare hands to prevent more deaths at the hands of a crazed gunman in a Waffle House in Tennessee.
In spite of what appears to be an ever-more common occurrence, the NRA is clinging to their sales pitch claiming guns aren’t the problem, and in the wake of the Santa Fe shooting, even the brave survivors-turned-activists from Parkland, Florida weren’t able to drum up the same fervor they’d managed to maintain since their Valentine’s Day tragedy.
This is what always happens – the gun smoke clears, the blood is painted over, and Americans move on with their lives. The successful PR campaign the NRA has spent decades perfecting is working, and it’s costing American lives.
This cannot continue.
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