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(51,022 posts) Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:13 PM Jul 30

How can someone walk in Manhattan like that and no one took action?

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How can someone walk in Manhattan like that and no one took action? (Original Post) question everything Jul 30 OP

A lot of places you can carry an assault weapon Diraven Jul 30 #1

I am never surprised by most people's lack of observation sarisataka Jul 30 #2

This is actually the most important thing by far. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 30 #4

Because 'Murica. RockRaven Jul 30 #3

Perhaps because he wasn't actually *walking around* NYC?.. Princess Turandot Jul 31 #5

Also, it's easy to think "somebody should have stopped him" before he walked into the building, but... LudwigPastorius Jul 31 #7

thanks. it probably is better to talk the real situation .. -(nt)- stopdiggin Jul 31 #8

Could have been ICE or something, who knows nowadays? Silent Type Jul 31 #6

Diraven

(1,605 posts)

1. A lot of places you can carry an assault weapon

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:28 PM

Jul 30

And it's totally legal until you point it at someone. Probably not Manhattan though. But people have been trained in this county to just ignore gun nuts.

sarisataka

(22,007 posts)

2. I am never surprised by most people's lack of observation

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:32 PM

Jul 30

Most are focused on their phones or some personal matter that they could miss a freight train.

Even if someone did notice, what would one expect them to do? Calling 911 is about the only sane option

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,088 posts)

4. This is actually the most important thing by far.

Reply to sarisataka (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:59 PM

Jul 30

I'm old, as in trombones year old (think of the song) and I'm constantly amazed that people think their phones are the most important thing in their lives. They don't read books. They don't watch good documentaries. They just watch crap, or post endlessly on FB.

But yeah, in almost any big city in this country someone can walk the streets carrying an assault rifle.

The real question to ask is Why On God's Green Earth are people allowed to have assault rifles.

I only wish that all those who support such ownership are themselves or their loved ones killed or at least maimed by someone with such a rifle. The truly sad thing is that those murdered had nothing at all to do with him or why he thought it would be a terrific idea to shoot people.

RockRaven

(18,059 posts)

3. Because 'Murica.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 11:35 PM

Jul 30

This is the country and society that Americans have chosen to have.

Every single vote for a Repug for any office in DC since 1980 has been a vote for this.

Princess Turandot

(4,886 posts)

5. Perhaps because he wasn't actually *walking around* NYC?..

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Thu Jul 31, 2025, 12:03 AM

Jul 31

The guy drove to his chosen location, double parked his car in front of the building, and then walked about 110 feet across a small interior plaza to the building's doors.

(From Time via Yahoo)
Surveillance video, Police Commish Tisch said, showed that a lone male exited a double-parked black BMW outside the building between 51st and 52nd streets. He carried an M4 assault rifle in his right hand and entered the building’s lobby, where he opened fire on and killed an NYPD officer and a woman who was taking cover.