# Mass shooting at Indianapolis airport FedEx facility **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129 "2021-04-16T05:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/1 "2021-04-16T05:31:46Z")
The news is reporting that the gunman killed himself and that there are mass casualties. [Here is a link](https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/watch-live-impd-response-to-multiple-people-shot-in-commercial-area-on-southwest-side/) to local news reporting on the incident. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/2 "2021-04-16T08:04:36Z")
Oh no. Not again. Sickening ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/3 "2021-04-16T09:35:52Z")
From the IndyStar: > **[8 dead, more injured in shooting at FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport](https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2021/04/16/fedex-shooting-indianapolis/7249099002/)** > > Eight people died and more were injured in a shooting at the FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/4 "2021-04-16T09:44:23Z")
Every year, there are more shootings in Indy than the year before, and more incidents like the one above. No break during the pandemic. I don’t know if it’s just because the population has been growing, or because something else is going on, but gun murders seem to be an almost nightly event anymore. Disappearances are more common as well, judging by the number of “Have you seen…” posters, but not as much as gun murders. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/5 "2021-04-16T11:57:16Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > gun murders seem to be an almost nightly event anymore. And yet one psychopath adulterated some Tylenol and weeks later all medications were packaged in a way to thwart further attempts. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/6 "2021-04-16T12:00:58Z")
Sing it. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/7 "2021-04-16T12:30:41Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Every year, there are more shootings in Indy than the year before, I could work up some sort of numbers, but that would be too depressing. What is really shocking this year is not the frequency of mass killings, but how very many more people are killed in each one. Eight dead in one event used to be rare. The number dead per event was in the range of four-point-something. Now it is 5.4. There is just a lot of evil out there. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/8 "2021-04-16T12:46:02Z")
Dylan: “How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?” Perhaps at some point we’ll decide that enough is enough. I’m not holding my breath. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/9 "2021-04-16T15:55:42Z")
Tragic. And on CNN this morning I saw that in the last month there have been something like 40 mass shootings. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/10 "2021-04-16T18:33:46Z")
I think that the statistics are inflated by what amounts to street crime, in the country’s roughest neighborhoods - essentially guys who are “in the life” shooting at each other. Now, I don’t mean to imply that this is NOT a problem, and that it shouldn’t be addressed, but it’s not exactly the same thing that most people think of when they hear the words “mass shooting.” The only reason I bring it up is because people shouldn’t live their lives in fear that they may be randomly shot at the grocery store or their workplace. Obviously it does happen, but the odds are very low. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/11 "2021-04-16T20:35:52Z")
Why even make flagpoles that go all the way to the top anymore? It’s a waste of rope. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/12 "2021-04-16T23:36:15Z")
Last year police were called to the shooter’s home on a report of a man making suicidal statements. He identified himself as such and admitted he had just bought a shotgun, which was confiscated, and he was taken to hospital for mental health treatment. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Every year, there are more shootings in Indy than the year before, and more incidents like the one above. No break during the pandemic. I That was something I sort of noticed that touches on what **Lamoral** also mentioned – my perception from media was that after the initial shutdowns, “common” criminal acts soon began going back up to “normal” but it seemed like this sort of “shooter just goes berserk in a place of business or public venue” incident seemed to drop out of sight, until now in 2021. Was that a real thing or just a perception and what caused it? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-at-indianapolis-airport-fedex-facility/940129/13 "2021-04-16T23:52:08Z")
It’s hard to hold a mass shooting in a “place of business or public venue” when both of those categories are shut down and everyone is at home. Pretty sure that’s at least a factor.