Investigators said they were able to stop the potential massacre at Park Valley Church in Haymarket thanks to someone who saw troubling posts on Instagram and called police
Authorities arrested a man who they say was minutes away from carrying out a mass shooting at a church in Northern Virginia on Sunday morning.
Rui Jiang, 35, was taken into custody with a loaded gun and extra ammo at Park Valley Church in Haymarket. Authorities said he was on a mission to kill.
“This was a thwarted diabolical plot to kill churchgoers in Haymarket, Virginia … and local law enforcement stopped it,” Chief Kevin Davis of the Fairfax County Police Department said.
“Minutes. Minutes. The congregation was making their way into the church. He was in the vestibule of the church about to enter,” Davis said. “So, minutes or seconds away.”
Not the person you’re responding to, but I’d thank any given dog before I thanked any given god, so why not
Dogs like being praised and talking to imaginary friends is a sign of mental illness so I agree.
Imaginary friends? The understanding of religions here is stunningly low
Just because you have a book written 2000 years ago by a bunch of xenophobic goat herders doesn’t make your imaginary friends any more legitimate than 4 year old Sally who’s parent’s won’t get her a cat.
See, this generalisation is extremely poor. That is a life system, not a set of imaginary friends. Not that I am religious at all, but you’re wrong on almost anything you think. And yet you like to look at yourself as smarter that those people, which you are not, and neither am I. Again, your logic is exclusionary and doesn’t really work irl. You better talk to different people and interact with different cultures cause you’re isolating yourself.
I grew up in a religious household and the more it was explained to me the less sense it made.
It doesn’t matter. These are just people living their lives. Trying to force a debate in this circumstance is really pointless. Again, what do you want them to say? Something like ‘thank science’? A lot of people grow in a religious setting. You’re not special for that. Beside, you can justify bad behaviours even without a religion, in this case the pointless hate for a couple of churchgoers is quite telling. I am quite sure they aren’t thinking about some Internet guy now, they’ll be probably grateful for what happened in that day. I’m done…
I’m glad you’re done and got that out of your system.
Have a nice day.
This isn’t debate class…and in real life you wouldn’t be a pleasant person to meet with that arrogance of yours. Again, this kind of thing can only exist online.
Really?
I was sure that I was in a debate class right now.
Didn’t you say you were done or are you just trying to pick a fight?
i’m tired of this stuff, you know, i left reddit partly because i have seen these comments for hundres of thousands times. Really. Your comments are the same i have seen before. Repetitive. The point is, your attitude wouldn’t work outside of this place. Enough with this altogether. Also the amount of politics i see here is not less than reddit, it’s stupid. I remember now why i never appreciated internet culture either. No picking fights, i need to get this out. I guess we change over time, i’m not one to enjoy these things after a while. And maybe this is exactly the feedback i needed.