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Up to 30 injured in Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting: report
Sapa-AFP | 05 August, 2012 20:08

Up to 30 people were injured Sunday during a shooting at a Sikh temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where two shooters could still be inside holding children as hostages, local media reports said.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel pointed to reports that the head priest of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek was locked inside a restroom with a cell phone.

It said about 50 people were at another temple in nearby Brookfield for a morning service and many went outside after learning of the shooting in Oak Creek.

The president of the temple was among those shot, according to the newspaper, adding that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were among the law enforcement officers who had responded at the scene.

A police dispatcher earlier told AFP that several people had been shot, but could not confirm how many people were injured or whether any one had been killed.


http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2012/08/05/up-to-30-injured-in-wisconsin-sikh-temple-shooting-report

Seriously, time to look at the gun laws over there.

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I have a few friends who are Sikhs and wear turbans. They state they are commonly mistaken for Arabs/muslims/alqueda/terrorists largely because of their skin and the fact that they wear turbans. A lot of post 11th Sept attacks by Americans were against those who thought Sikhs were terrorists.

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Gun laws is one thing but education would be better.


Oh I quite agree - but what the state can't easily do is go round all the stupid people and educate them. They try, there is a school system I'm certain, but it just doesn't work for some people.
What they can do, however, is deal with the number and type of guns you're allowed buy, who buys them, how much ammunition they're allowed, or - a radical idea - just ban them unless it's for professional animal population control and hunting, in which case it's child's play to specify what is legal and what isn't, and who gets to have a gun.

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Just as an aside, just read a statistic in The Week that suggests USA home gun ownership is now a third, and has been declining since the 70's :|

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just ban them unless it's for professional animal population control and hunting, in which case it's child's play to specify what is legal and what isn't, and who gets to have a gun.

because its worked for heroin, cocaine,prostitution?

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Hardly the same; junkies have never walked into a crowded area and started doping innocent bystanders into a narcotic stupor.
We've not seen a 'dozen people wounded after mass drug snorting' headline, have we?
And besides, once again, how many being shot does it take before the USA stops and wonders if the free and easy approach to guns isn't the best idea?

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Another day, another gun massacre in America.....

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This is more terrorism than massacre, and gun control will have little effect on terrorism.

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Labelling it a terror attack only means the person responsible had some ideology in his head. It's still a massacre.
My guess is he was still able to walk into a shop and buy the weapons he used. I highly doubt that some overseas group smuggled in weapons to this chap in order to simply shoot some folk in a temple.

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