There was a mass shooting at a FedEx location in Indianapolis last night and some of the early reports from the scene are an excellent reminder of why we should all refrain from arriving at any early conclusions about the incident or from using it to push whatever pre-loaded agenda we might be interested in pushing.
Look at this quote from one of the witnesses to the shooting…
“I saw a man with a sub-machine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle, and he was firing in the open. I immediately ducked down and got scared,” he said.
Was it a sub-machine gun or a rifle? It can’t be both. So already we know we have some extremely unreliable eyewitness testimony to sort through. He also used the words “automatic rifle” which is almost certainly not the case. Whatever it was, it was likely a SEMI-automatic weapon, not an automatic one.
My personal rule is that I don’t trust any information that comes in the first 48 hours after any mass shooting. We’ll see. But in the meantime, I will refrain from arriving at any conclusions.