Possible Active Shooter: University of South Carolina

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Horn_in_Aggieland
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6:10p, 8/24/25


Here we go again. Not seeing any reports of victims.
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6:11p, 8/24/25
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In reply to Horn_in_Aggieland • 6:15p, 8/24/25
Horn_in_Aggieland said:

this guy the shooter or is he after the shooter?

looks like an umbrella.
probably just a rihanna fan.
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Horn_in_Aggieland
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In reply to TyHolden • 6:17p, 8/24/25
He sure doesn't look very active
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In reply to TyHolden • 6:18p, 8/24/25
TyHolden said:
Horn_in_Aggieland said:

this guy the shooter or is he after the shooter?

looks like an umbrella.
probably just a rihanna fan.

Sunny day.
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TyHolden
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6:21p, 8/24/25
It will soon be memory-holed if this is true....

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In reply to TyHolden • 6:26p, 8/24/25
Uh oh.
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Rapier108
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6:27p, 8/24/25
Almost certainly another hoax call, or some poor dude carrying a large umbrella.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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Horn_in_Aggieland
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6:30p, 8/24/25
Road games are going to be fun for the Gamecocks this season.

Free umbrellas for the first 10,000 fans!
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Rapier108
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6:32p, 8/24/25
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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TyHolden
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6:34p, 8/24/25
CNN gonna call out another polar bear?

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Psycho Bunny
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6:35p, 8/24/25
So has anyone actually been shot or is it some dude just walking around with a "large gun"
I don't need your help or your pity. I already have a mother and a therapist. That's enough torture, even for me
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In reply to Rapier108 • 6:35p, 8/24/25
Rapier108 said:


Why are there so many different vantage points of this one random dude? It's very weird.
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6:41p, 8/24/25
Another potential shooter?

When it rains it pours.
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6:42p, 8/24/25
To be fair, it is one of those scary, black AR-style (anti-rain) umbrellas.
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TyHolden
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6:43p, 8/24/25
We gotta ban umbrellas!!!
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6:43p, 8/24/25
But is it an umbrella with a high capacity magazine? An umbrella of war?
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In reply to one safe place • 6:47p, 8/24/25
one safe place said:
But is it an umbrella with a high capacity magazine? An umbrella of war?

only thing we can be certain of is that he is a white, MAGA male....\CNN
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6:49p, 8/24/25
So a white male can not walk around anymore with an umbrella. I thought this was America.
I don't need your help or your pity. I already have a mother and a therapist. That's enough torture, even for me
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In reply to Fenrir • 6:57p, 8/24/25
Fenrir said:
Rapier108 said:


Why are there so many different vantage points of this one random dude? It's very weird.

I would guess that when the initial report went out, people started looking out the windows for the shooter and this poor dude was just walking along right in the area where the shooter was reported to be.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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In reply to Psycho Bunny • 7:01p, 8/24/25
Psycho Bunny said:
So a white male can not walk around anymore with an umbrella. I thought this was America.

TBF, The Penguin has been known to carry a highly weaponized umbrella. And he's a major super-villain.
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7:09p, 8/24/25
They called in on an umbrella, but the secret service let a man with a gun, seen by hundreds, shoot the President? Wow.
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In reply to Ellis Wyatt • 7:16p, 8/24/25
Ellis Wyatt said:
They called in on an umbrella, but the secret service let a man with a gun, seen by hundreds, shoot the President? Wow.

Does make you wonder whose side the secret service was on.
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In reply to TyHolden • 7:28p, 8/24/25
TyHolden said:
We gotta ban umbrellas!!!

IF THEY OUTLAW UMBRELLAS ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE UMBRELLAS
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In reply to techno-ag • 7:40p, 8/24/25
techno-ag said:
Psycho Bunny said:
So a white male can not walk around anymore with an umbrella. I thought this was America.

TBF, The Penguin has been known to carry a highly weaponized umbrella. And he's a major super-villain.

He was obviously a Soviet agent looking to stab someone with the ricin-laced tip of his umbrella.
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7:40p, 8/24/25
We clearly need reasonable, common sense umbrella control legislation passed asap
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7:50p, 8/24/25
To be fair, the constitution does not reference open-carry umbrellas. It is a State issue.
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7:52p, 8/24/25
Rather than the description of the 'active shooter', I'd really like to know the description of the person(s) who called in the 'threat'.
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In reply to Gump 02 • 7:55p, 8/24/25
Gump 02 said:
To be fair, the constitution does not reference open-carry umbrellas. It is a State issue.

We don't know what is covered under that policy.
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In reply to zephyr88 • 7:55p, 8/24/25
zephyr88 said:
Rather than the description of the 'active shooter', I'd really like to know the description of the person(s) who called in the 'threat'.

Oh that's easy, it was the blue hair 250 pound chick, with black funky glasses from the 70's who mistook a umbrella for one of those scary AR-15 assault rifles that claim millions of lives each day. Fata**wanted her 15 minutes of fame and got it.
I don't need your help or your pity. I already have a mother and a therapist. That's enough torture, even for me
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7:57p, 8/24/25
CNN- There is active shooter crossing a bridge at University of SC ….. he's carrying a deadly rain umbrella

Next Week CNN - We need to remove guns that look like umbrellas
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7:58p, 8/24/25
Interestingly that 99% of OP's posts and topics started are on on shootings.


I'm Gipper
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8:04p, 8/24/25
A man and his umbrella are a pair o' souls.
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In reply to TyHolden • 8:56p, 8/24/25
TyHolden said:
It will soon be memory-holed if this is true....



Looks like "Patriot Broad" posted a fake alert re: black male. Took a few seconds to check Carolina Alert message history, which instead shows:

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Carolina Alert:An active shooter has been reported on the University of South Carolina's Columbia campus at Thomas Cooper Library.Subject is reported as a white male with black pants, approximately 6 feet tall and still in the area.Avoid the area. Evacuate the area or seek safe shelter and barricade yourself in a safe area as necessary until further notice. Defend yourself if you encounter the suspect. Obey public safety officials' commands.Public safety officials are on the scene.


https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/law_enforcement_and_safety/carolina-alert/recent-alerts/
https://tips.fbi.gov/
1-800-225-5324
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9:19p, 8/24/25
and australians everywhere have a sigh of relief that this didn't happen down under. if it had they were worried umbrellas would be banned next.
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