Shooting at the parade

[Otter]

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[alpha_omega]

Originally Posted by MAYHEM

The mayor said the parade will not be canceled

Originally Posted by wazu

Yeah, he was adamant that parades aren't going to stop.

Thanks for the info.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by The Franchise

Unfortunately there are people who look at it like it’s their dream to be able to stop that. Those people would be happy to play Rambo.

But I’m sure someone will tell me that those people don’t exist.

There are probably some people like that but I would bet that they are extremely rare.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by MAYHEM

There’s one account that says a group of teens shot at two other big guys. The teens may have been gang members but why assume the other two they shot at were

You guys are making an inane distinction. It doesn't matter what "shirt they wear" in the sum of things. In a gang or not in a gang, the shooters are psychopaths. If they hadn't done it then they would have done it somewhere else at some other time and statistically probably have already committed such acts or witnessed such acts.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

So you know PLENTY of people just whipping their guns out? Come on...

Perception vs reality, I would imagine.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Lzen

There are probably some people like that but I would bet that they are extremely rare.

Agreed. If it weren't rare, we'd have seen it at the Parade.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Kman34

I think I heard there was close to a million people there.. That’s a security nightmare… Give em a break..

Yeah, I know. And perhaps I'm being too critical. But it happened right up front. Did nobody notice that things were getting heated? I would think that there would be police/security looking over the crowd for signs of this very type of thing, especially since the players were on the stage.

You ever notice those guys around Mahomes after games? Those are security guys and they are looking over the crowd for signs of people with bad intentions.

[MAYHEM]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

You guys are making an inane distinction. It doesn't matter what "shirt they wear" in the sum of things. In a gang or not in a gang, the shooters are psychopaths. If they hadn't done it then they would have done it somewhere else at some other time and statistically probably have already committed such acts or witnessed such acts.

The young kid tackled appeared to have an illegally modified firearm so it is more likely he could be in a gang

But some accounts say the big guy returned fire. How do we know he didn’t have a legal firearm and was defending himself?

All the people in this thread saying they themselves had
guns at the parade legally, why assume the big guy didn’t have a gun there legally? ( I personally think no one should be bringing firearms to a parade, but legally they can)

Truth is no one knows and can’t identify good guy v bad gu, and the very assumption that the guy that got shot at was a gang member shows that

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by MAYHEM

The young kid tackled appeared to have an illegally modified firearm so it is more likely he could be in a gang

But some accounts say the big guy returned fire. How do we know he didn’t have a legal firearm and was defending himself?

All the people in this thread saying they themselves had
guns at the parade legally, why assume the big guy didn’t have a gun there legally? ( I personally think no one should be bringing firearms to a parade, but legally they can)

Truth is no one knows and can’t identify good guy v bad gu, and the very assumption that the guy that got shot at was a gang member shows that

When I say "shooters" I mean the aggressors, not someone legally defending themselves.

[Katipan]

Wow.

That's why you pieces of shit are Broncos fans.

[pugsnotdrugs19]

That's terrible. Whoever did that... fire em into the sun.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by Katipan

Wow.

That's why you pieces of shit are Broncos fans.

If this is legit, that's ****ing disgusting!

This shit needs to be blown up all over Twitter so whoever did this can be held accountable in the eye of the public!


Clay: this is got your name written all over it, buddy. Time to get to work.

[Katipan]

I'm holding the paper.
I kind of want to puke.

[Mr_Tomahawk]

THAT is some bullshit right there.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Originally Posted by Katipan

I'm holding the paper.
I kind of want to puke.

Unreal.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Lmao, Iowa "Military Background" Douche should have gotten out of the area/situation he was in, but instead he decides that without any police around that he is going to get onto the hooligans and set them straight. Old man yelling at idiots is surprised when idiots do idiot things and his wife gets her dome rocked by a rock.

What a man showing his kids how big of a badass he is instead of just getting them to a safer location. Seems like it worked out well.

Yea, it wasn't very good judgement to take young kids like that to a parade. No way I would have did that unless it was at the start of the route our something where you could get in get out see the buses and move on. I shared his post because it seemed weird with all the law enforcement that was said to be there that it was pretty chaotic at that intersection before the ceremony started. As I also said, it validates what I saw on TV when Jesse Palmer, from the NFL Network, was pelted in the back of the head with something when they first came on air.