Off Topic At least 50 killed in Florida Night club shooting

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what I don't understand is surely that when the first shot was fired, why no more police arrived. Also, no panic buttons at the entrance of the night club or metal detectors - especially bearing in mind the US has been the victims in some horrific terrorist attacks in the last few years.

Do they have panic buttons and metal detectors at all night clubs in the UK?.
 
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Owen Jones storms off set in the SKY news review last night. Jones said the attack was aimed at the LGBT community. The Sky presenter and Julia Hartley-Brewer said sure, but it's also another example of young people killed for enjoying themselves like in Paris.

Jones (who is gay apparently) didn't know any of those killed, yet he reacted in a pretty hysterical way, when a more measured approach would have surely been more appropriate. Diane Abbot has come out in his support.
 
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Owen Jones storms off set in the SKY news review last night. Jones said the attack was aimed at the LGBT community. The Sky presenter and Julia Hartley-Brewer said sure, but it's also another example of young people killed for enjoying themselves like in Paris.

Jones (who is gay apparently) didn't know any of those killed, yet he reacted in a pretty hysterical way, when a more measured approach would have surely been more appropriate. Diane Abbot has come out in his support.

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The gun laws, or lack of them, in this country are ludicrous, however as we've seen in other western countries if you're mad enough to to want to commit these murders then you can always get weapons anywhere.
 
seems strange when you can go into and out of a shop in a high street and set off a security alarm (even by entering) and yet there is nothing to protect against guns in nightclubs. On Friday I went out with some young friends and I got asked for ID and was searched before going into a nightclub. (I am in my 40's FFS) so hardly likely to start any trouble.
 
seems strange when you can go into and out of a shop in a high street and set off a security alarm (even by entering) and yet there is nothing to protect against guns in nightclubs. On Friday I went out with some young friends and I got asked for ID and was searched before going into a nightclub. (I am in my 40's FFS) so hardly likely to start any trouble.

There probably were metal detectors, however, I doubt they would have deterred a heavily armed nutter, hell-bent on a massacre. Reports suggest the security guard raised the alarm and there was shooting between them before he went inside.