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BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports of g

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:43 pm
by NordicTexan
http://www.khou.com/news/national/Lockd ... 38691.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

KHOU didn't have any details. Timing with the shutdown in interesting.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:49 pm
by anygunanywhere
Can't be. Guns are banned in DC. Must have been fireworks orsomething.

Anygunanywhere

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:53 pm
by Kythas
Reports of one Capitol Hill police officer wounded, and the shooter in custody.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:06 pm
by Pecos
With Guns ban in DC theres no way anybody could have had a gun????? :headscratch

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:21 pm
by RoyGBiv
Oh Goody.... A distraction from the Government shutdown and "Ted Cruz is committing budget jihad" stories. "rlol"

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:31 pm
by anygunanywhere
It was an AR-15 gone bad.

Anygunanywhere

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:55 pm
by philip964
It appears it is a mom armed with a car with a baby in the backseat.

Sounds like all gun shots are from Capital Police.

Mom is dead. Baby is ok.

Attempted to ram several different baracades with her car.

Maybe suicide by Police Officer.

Sad.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:07 pm
by Dragonfighter
philip964 wrote:It appears it is a mom armed with a car with a baby in the backseat.

Sounds like all gun shots are from Capital Police.

Mom is dead. Baby is ok.

Attempted to ram several different baracades with her car.

Maybe suicide by Police Officer.

Sad.
Maybe a Toyota.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:09 pm
by O6nop
U.S. Capitol Police on the plaza around the Capitol said they were working without pay as the result of the shutdown.
Unpaid... out of the goodness of their own hearts? .... deferred pay? Does this mean they were actually off-duty cops? Are they allowed to carry in D.C. off-duty? It just seems odd.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:45 pm
by bizarrenormality
anygunanywhere wrote:Can't be. Guns are banned in DC. Must have been fireworks orsomething.
They're not banned for those who kiss the ring.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:54 pm
by Kythas
Turns out now she was unarmed and all the shots fired were from the police.

The woman apparently rammed one of the barricades in front of the White House, then kept driving. The police chased her and rammed her car into a light pole. They then opened fire on her as she exited the vehicle, killing her. She had a small child in the car who was unhurt.

http://freepatriot.org/2013/10/03/updat ... ital-hill/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:57 pm
by Kythas
O6nop wrote:
U.S. Capitol Police on the plaza around the Capitol said they were working without pay as the result of the shutdown.
Unpaid... out of the goodness of their own hearts? .... deferred pay? Does this mean they were actually off-duty cops? Are they allowed to carry in D.C. off-duty? It just seems odd.
Those who are deemed "excepted" (the official term for "essential" - it was changed in 1996 because some people's feeling were hurt by being called "non-essential") are required to report for work, unpaid.

They will eventually get their pay as back pay when a budget is eventually passed.

Here's the crazy part: the last time a government shutdown happened, those who were deemed "non-essential" also got back pay for their furlough time, even though they didn't work. So it seems you're better off being "non-excepted", as this whole thing might just turn out to be a paid vacation.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:18 pm
by rbwhatever1
The beginning of the free stuff ending...

One can hope.

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 8:44 pm
by texanjoker
philip964 wrote:It appears it is a mom armed with a car with a baby in the backseat.

Sounds like all gun shots are from Capital Police.

Mom is dead. Baby is ok.

Attempted to ram several different baracades with her car.

Maybe suicide by Police Officer.

Sad.
She probably wanted to tell some politician the baby was his. In seriousness one officer got hurt chasing her. I wonder what her agenda was. :smash:

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Lockdown at US Capitol following reports

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:10 am
by anygunanywhere
texanjoker wrote: I wonder what her agenda was. :smash:
She needed a new barryphone.

Anygunanywhere