Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings

[milestogo]

Source: The Guardian

Four people have been killed and 16 others injured in a shooting in western Mississippi during a high school football homecoming celebration, according to local officials early on Saturday.

The incident took place around midnight on Friday, John Lee, the mayor of Leland, a small city in Washington county, said to the Guardian in a telephone interview on Saturday morning. At least 12 of the wounded were being treated at nearby hospitals.

Lee said that an attack happened on a main street in Leland, where crowds had gathered for the town’s high school homecoming game against Charleston high school.

Few details have been confirmed, but local media reported that state senator Derrick Simmons said the shooting occurred during a gathering after the game.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/leland-mississippi-mass-shooting

[Mz Pip]

1. Trump needs to send in the military.

Mississippi is obviously a war zone.

[milestogo]

2. Yes we definitely need more guns there.

[groundloop]

3. Sadly it seems that even folks at DU have become desensitized to these mass shooting events.....

Nothing to see here, just another day in 'murica.

But hey, on a positive note, gun industry profits won't be affected.

[CTyankee]

6. I'm not. My family suffered tragedy due to gun happy places with weak or no gun control laws.

All you need is a fine mixture of anger, alcohol and ammo (with a handgun kept for "protection of the home&quot . I had one dead niece as a result.

[durablend]

7. Is anything going to be done about them?

Welp, there's your answer why everyone shrugs

[maxsolomon]

9. What would that look like if we weren't "desensitized"?

The never-ceasing carnage is desensitizing.

This mass shooting is undoubtedly of the young-men-with-beef variety. There is a massive surplus of firearms, they are easily and cheaply available to young men.

The GOP has effectively blocked any and all meaningful firearm regulation. There's essentially nothing that can or will be done to curb these types of incidents.

Not even sending in the Mississippi National Guard to police places where African Americans gather.

[ancianita]

4. Notice the red states above the national per capita shooting average,

notice the blue states below the national per capita... (no per capita stats found for 2023, 24, 25)...

So what's with the blue state criminality stereotype, huh?

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Leland is where Jim Henson was born. Home of Kermit the Frog.

[pfitz59]

8. Ho hum

no news here

[Aristus]

10. Whatever you do, do NOT disrupt the sacred Friday night redneck ritual of the fuhbawl game!

There's nothing else to DO out there in Nowheresville. Shooting will commence!...