# Breaking news - Shooting at Synagogue in Pittsburgh **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-shooting-at-synagogue-in-pittsburgh/823591 "2018-10-27T15:07:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-shooting-at-synagogue-in-pittsburgh/823591/101 "2018-10-31T03:57:59Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Churches traditionally (and I hate to have to put it that way but words escape me right now) have been more bombings. In terms of shootings the ones I remember inside a church were the result of domestic situations gone wrong. And in the case of the Temple in Carnegie it was just someone shooting up the empty building late in the evening - some Neo-Nazi if memory serves. I’m not saying there haven’t been _any_ like this in the US – just that they aren’t in my brain right now or what I expect. Charleston (Dylan Roof), 2015, is the most recent one I know how to find for the US. Maybe I’m just conflating the general “mass shooting in the US” with “religious troubles in the US”. ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-shooting-at-synagogue-in-pittsburgh/823591/102 "2018-10-31T08:34:12Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [My sympathies for your loss. I’m guessing Squirrel Hill wouldn’t count as _eruv_. Actually, there is an _eruv_ surrounding Squirrel Hill, and it is permitted to carry there on Shabbat. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-shooting-at-synagogue-in-pittsburgh/823591/103 "2018-10-31T18:02:25Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Charleston (Dylan Roof), 2015, is the most recent one I know how to find for the US. Maybe I’m just conflating the general “mass shooting in the US” with “religious troubles in the US”. Possibly. But however it is even that we have to think about it makes me sad no matter what. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-shooting-at-synagogue-in-pittsburgh/823591/104 "2018-10-31T20:55:56Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Churches traditionally (and I hate to have to put it that way but words escape me right now) have been more bombings. In terms of shootings the ones I remember inside a church were the result of domestic situations gone wrong. And in the case of the Temple in Carnegie it was just someone shooting up the empty building late in the evening - some Neo-Nazi if memory serves. I’m not saying there haven’t been _any_ like this in the US – just that they aren’t in my brain right now or what I expect. Well, it wasn’t a _ **mass** _ shooting, just one killed, but there was the case of Dr. George Tiller, who was shot and killed at his church on Sunday morning, in 2009. Dr. Tiller was the head of an abortion clinic that did late term abortions, and his killer stalked him to the church. I guess it’s alright to kill someone _ **after** _ they have been born, if you don’t like what they are doing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-shooting-at-synagogue-in-pittsburgh/823591.md?page=5)