BREAKING: Seven children wounded in mass shooting in Indianapolis mall

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA -- Police were on patrol soon after 11:00 p.m. Saturday near the Circle Centre Mall in downtown Indianapolis when they heard gunshots ring out,  Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told Fox 59.

The police ran toward the gunfire near West Maryland Street and located a "large group of juveniles" and found that six of them had gunshot wounds, Police Deputy Chief Tanya Terry said at a Sunday morning news conference, according to CNN.

The mall is in the heart of the Hoosier capital’s downtown nightlife district, with multiple busy bars and restaurants nearby.

Seven children between the ages of 12 and 17 were wounded in a mass shooting. They were all taken to a local hospital, one child was in critical condition initially but has since been upgraded to stable condition.

By Easter Sunday morning, the four boys and three girls were all in stable condition.

At the time of this posting, it is not known what led up to the shooting and no suspects have been taken into custody.

It's obvious that the Democrats are going to make heartfelt calls for more gun control because they never let a tragedy go to waste. But let's not kid ourselves, it isn't the guns that are violent and more gun control, even confiscating guns from law abiding citizens, isn't going to solve the problem with street violence. 

Fathers in the home is a good first step along with familial lessons in moral clarity.

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Indianapolis shooter who killed 8 has been ID'd

Indianapolis, IN -- a mass shooting at a FedEx facility that took place late Thursday night leaves eight people dead and several others wounded. Some have been taken to the hospital and others took themselves there under their own power.

The shooter, a 19-year-old man opened fire at the facility which is located near the city's airport--he is also dead from a self-inflicted gun shot wound, according to Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Genae Cook. His name is being withheld to avoid others who seek notoriety in their small lives and may become copycats in such crimes.

Cops say five people have been hospitalized following the gunfire, including one person with critical injuries. The remaining four are in stable condition.

FedEx employees are among the dead, the company has confirmed.

Four victims were killed outside the facility and four were killed inside, according to Craig McCartt, deputy chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. He stated the gunman used "some sort of a rifle."

McCartt spoke at a Friday press conference stating the shooter came to the FedEx facility then "got out of his car and pretty quickly started some random shooting outside the facility."

"There was no confrontation with anyone that was there, there was no disturbance, there was no argument," McCartt explained. "He just appeared to randomly start shooting and that began in the parking lot and then he did go into the facility for a brief period of time before he took his own life."

President Biden has called the shooting "the latest in a string of tragedies" and has ordered flags to be "lowered at half-staff at the White House, public buildings and grounds, and military posts and embassies."

This will now become a political issue for the left who believe that if the shooter, or any shooter, wasn't legally permitted to own a firearm, they would obey the law and these shootings would never happen.

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Donald Trump's Pence can't stop the flow

Indianapolis -- They're pouring into Europe and now they're pouring into the United States--Syrian refugees that we know of, and possibly covert jihadists, that we may soon know of. 

It isn't a fact that jihadists are among the refugees coming into the country; it's a vow by ISIS and they tend to keep their word when it comes to promises. 

It probably pays to believe them.

Republican Gov. Mike Pence's order, several months ago, to block state agencies from helping the Syrian refugee resettlement has been overturned by a federal judge. Since that time 150 refugees have arrived in Indiana.

Groups that assist refugees believe that more will arrive this year, in spite of lawyers for the state appearing before federal appeals court on September 14 to attempt overturning the judge's decision. The judge said Pence's order "clearly discriminates" against refugees from Syria.

And if that means by letting in Syrian refugees that we will be letting in a few scattered ISIS terrorists, well that's just too bad. 

To be fair, Syrians make up less than 10% of the refugees who've resettled in Indiana since October, according to federal records that never tell a lie. Syrians only make up a small fraction of the 10,801 refugees the Hussein Obama administration said late August had been taken in by the U.S. under a year-old resettlement program.

In order to protect the people of his state, Pence attempted to halt Indiana's participation in the refugee influx after the Paris terrorist attacks. He didn't believe the federal government was adequately screening Syrian refugees. Perhaps he got that idea from the questions airport security asks, such as: "Did you pack that bag yourself?" and "Are you a terrorist?"

Pence's position on the flow of Syrian refugees hasn't changed and Donald Trump made it clear that if he becomes president, he would suspend Syrian arrivals until he knows what the hell is going on. In other words, he still sees them as a security threat, and if you believe ISIS, you wouldn't blame him nor Pence.

Disclaimer: not all Syrian refugees are terrorists.

Pence's state administration has tried to withhold funding to resettlement groups for services such as job training and not hating Christians and Jews seminars, but it has not denied them federal help obtaining health care benefits and food stamps, courtesy of the American taxpayers.

"My administration will continue to use every legal means available to suspend this program in Indiana unless and until federal officials take steps to ensure the safety and security of our citizens," Pence said in a statement.

There have been a total of 1,447 refugees who arrived in Indiana from Oct. 1 to July 31, mostly from Myanmar.

Pence asked Archbishop Joseph Tobin in December not to have Catholic Charities resettle Syrian families in Indianapolis, but they flipped him off thrice and went ahead anyway. Greg Otolski, the archdiocese spokesman said that families wait two years or more to come to the U.S. [Mexicans not so much].

"It is one of the critical pieces of what we do to be welcoming to people from across the world who need a safe refuge," he said, [in spite of many of them refusing to acclimate to our customs and laws, he forgot to add]. What he did add was: "We're going to keep providing that service for families who are really fleeing horrible violence in various parts of the world, not just Syria."

Clearly, the intentions of Catholic Charities are as commendable as they are naive.

Disclaimer: not all Catholic Charity members are naive--just the ones who make decisions.


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