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Two people were killed and 11 others injured when a gunman opened fire Sunday at a popular waterfront mall in Jacksonville, Florida, where a video game tournament was being held.
Graphic recordings from the scene captured gunshots and the screams of terrified attendees taking cover.
Drini Gjoka, who was competing in the event, tweeted about the shooting in the immediate aftermath. “The tourney just got shot up. I’m leaving and never coming back,” he wrote at 1:37 p.m. Four minutes later, he tweeted that a bullet struck him in the thumb, and later called Sunday the “worst day of my life.”
“I will never take anything for granted ever again. Life can be cut short in a second,” he said.
WIBC host Tony Katz noted that many on social media and the mainstream press used the tragedy as an opportunity to push their political narrative:
“The politicizing of the Jacksonville story is important, and we have to talk about it. It did not take a minute before people were already screaming about the NRA, about gun owners, about the Second Amendment, rather than talking about what was wrong with this guy that he lost a game and decided to take out his anger and frustration by killing people.”
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