Active Shooter In Jersey City; 2 Gunmen Shooting At Cops, 1 Officer Down

[GloRida]

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Jers...rc=trend_click

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/act...sey/index.html

https://twitter.com/i/status/1204477761726898177

There is an active shooter situation unfolding in Jersey City on Tuesday afternoon. The incident began around 12:40 p.m. local time.
According to scanner traffic, two gunmen are firing at police officers and random people. The gunmen are reportedly shooting from inside a bodega.

[.455_Hunter]

Active shooter or robbery gone bad?

Oh wait, I forgot- EVERY shooting incident is an active shooter event until disappointingly proven otherwise.

[BPTactical]

But Jersey laws are already in place to prevent such acts right?
















Right?

[waffles]

Maybe this headline is better?:
Well-Regulated Militia Opens Fire In Jersey City; Cheap Thoughts And Useless Prayers Now Being Rushed To The Scene ... more on this soon-to-be-forgotten-and-then-repeated story as it develops ...

This is a good post. Also, if at the time or the reporting it's an active incident, the perp is indeed an active shooter. It's a bad look to see a report about cops and innocent bystanders being fired upon and to respond about how active shooter is an incorrect term or that shooting at people/having whatever gun in Jersey is already illegal.

[.455_Hunter]

This is a good post. Also, if at the time or the reporting it's an active incident, the perp is indeed an active shooter. It's a bad look to see a report about cops and innocent bystanders being fired upon and to respond about how active shooter is an incorrect term or that shooting at people/having whatever gun in Jersey is already illegal.

Before the term "Active Shooter" entered the current lexicon, how did we describe events such as this?

[.455_Hunter]

Who is "we" that you ask about? The people on this site? I think I've seen these horribly tragic events described here on this site as "a fake news hoax with crisis actors paid by Soros & the Lib Dims". Maybe instead of using the objectionable term "Active Shooter" that offends such sensitive feelings here, we can suggest the media, reporters, police officers, EMTs & others responding to the scene stop using that displeasing verbiage & start using more gun-sensitive words. Maybe instead of "Active" they can say "Currently Doing" and instead of "Shooter" they could say "Human with a weapon that fires bullets" and the headline would be "Human with a weapon that fires bullets currently doing attempted murder and successful murder". Better?

You triggered brah?

[.455_Hunter]

Since being "adopted", the term "active shooter" is now misapplied and overused, in my opinion, especially in the first discriptions of an event.

Every shooting incident, whether it's c-store robbery with shots fired and hostages or a guy roaming a mall killing people en masse in now an "active shooter".

It's like headlining "Stock Market Crashes!" every time the index drops a hundred points.

You are free to disagree.

[waffles]

Before the term "Active Shooter" entered the current lexicon, how did we describe events such as this?

An actively-occurring shooting without any other details? I remember shooting or shootout. Active shooter frankly seems like the perfect term to describe a presently-occurring event involving some sort of shooting.

[def90]

I believe this has been determined to be a Drug Deal/Bust gone bad..

[GilpinGuy]

Excellent! Infighting amongst ourselves. Exactly what the anti-2A folks want to see.