A 31-year-old man has killed six people and sent several others to the hospital in the latest U.S. mass shooting in a Virginia Walmart store.
“Several people were killed and injured in a shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, including the shooter, police said, just days after a gunman killed at least five people and injured 25 at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub.
It was not clear whether the shooter died of self-inflicted injuries, public information officer Leo Kosinski said in a media briefing. The police have so far not provided any details about the shooter, but several media outlets have identified him as a manager at the store.
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| Andre Bing, a 31-year-old resident of Chesapeake, Virginia, has been identified as the shooter. |
At 10:12 p.m., police responded to a report of a shooting inside a Walmart, Kosinski said, adding that ‘less than 10’ people were dead but declining to give the exact number.
Kosinski also said no shots were fired at police ‘to his knowledge’.
‘We're only a few hours into the response, so we don't have all the answers yet’, the City of Chesapeake said. ‘We do know there are multiple fatalities plus injuries and the shooter is confirmed dead’.
Walmart said in a statement early Wednesday that it was ‘shocked’ at the shootings at its Chesapeake store, and that it was working closely with law enforcement.
A spokesperson for Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, which has the area's top trauma center, told television station WAVY that five patients were being treated there.
‘Sickened by reports of yet another mass shooting, this time at a Walmart in Chesapeake. I'll be monitoring developments closely’, Virginia senator Mark Warner tweeted on Wednesday”. -Reuters
Of course, this latest killing spree has prompted the establishment media to unsurprisingly drum up support for congressional action on gun control amid this current rash of mass shootings across America.
One of the questions often asked by those supporting gun control is why the United States has so many gun deaths compared with other Western industrialized countries.
The first reason is that there are nearly five times more people in the United States than in the most populous European countries.
The second reason is that gun homicides are predominantly a racial phenomenon. As the U.S. continues on track of becoming a European minority country, it should be readily apparent that it will also become more violent and homicide.
Young African-American males alone, consisting of 3% of the U.S. population, commit 52% of America’s homicides by themselves.
If lower gun death rates are the desired result, it is clear that reducing the number of guns will not help and could serve to make matters considerably worse by disarming the law-abiding public, rendering it helpless against the criminal element of the populous.
It is for this reason that logic dictates that if gun control proponents are successful in their attempts to reduce the guns per capita rate, the gun homicides per capita rate will rise in proportion to the percentage of the African and Latin population in the general population.