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Masked gunman kills self after opening fire at Oregon mall, killing 2
Fox News.com ^ | 12/11/2012 | Unatributed

Posted on 12/11/2012 6:46:35 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts

A gunman who witnesses say was wearing camouflage and a white plastic mask opened fire in a shopping mall near Portland, Ore., in a rampage that left three dead, including the shooter, and multiple wounded, police said.

Authorities say police "neutralized" the gunman but have yet to elaborate on how he died.

Witnesses described a harrowing scene, as the gunman appeared to be dressed in body armor while firing off an estimated 60 shots from a semi-automatic rifle. One witness told KPTV that the gunman ran past her and her boyfriend and "had the look of death in his eyes."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 201212; anonymous; guyfawkes; guyfawkesmask; gwot; mallplots; mask; maskedman; oregon; portland; shooting; shoppingmall; suicidebycop; terrorism; waronchristmas
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To: GeronL
I have seen a girl who could fill out paperwork for her dad when she was a kid to being someone who can barely be bothered to read at all.

Myself, I used to thoroughly read the instructions to a new board game for the rest of the family and then explain to everyone how to play. Now, on the very occasional time I start a new computer game, I barely have the patience to nail down the basics.

And, as for sobriety, I barely drink. [Not that I'm a teetotaler: far from it. The time just slips away.]

So, I think that the onset of "glorious puberty" has something to do with it. :)

21 posted on 12/11/2012 7:49:25 PM PST by danielmryan
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Shep is a certifiable drama queen.


22 posted on 12/11/2012 7:51:56 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: struggle

Bath salts or Allaha akbar?


23 posted on 12/11/2012 8:05:57 PM PST by expat2
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

If you are going to off yourself why take others with you?
I have never understood that. To me this is the one of the many faces of evil.


24 posted on 12/11/2012 8:18:43 PM PST by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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To: expat2

If he yelled “Allahu Achbaw” as he killed we’ll probably never know about it unless we were there, heard him, and survived.
Media will only report such things grudgingly after eyewitness reports go viral to the extent that they can’t be covered up any more.

That mall was obviously a “target rich environment”; was it also a “Gun-free zone”?

Is it a coincidence that we are in the middle of Chanukah?

I have expected a lot more islamofascist attacks at such places around the time of our Judeo-Christian holidays for years, and am pleasantly surprised that they are not using the Islamokazi tactics here that they have been employing in Israel for many years now.

Regardless of what weapons or tactics lunatic (including Islamic) terrorists choose to employ, I am not particularly attracted to large shopping malls or movie theaters - especially at this time of year.


25 posted on 12/11/2012 9:04:56 PM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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Yikes. Oregon has good CCW laws. Wonder if this mall was a gun-free zone.


26 posted on 12/11/2012 9:07:26 PM PST by Rio (Tempis Fugit.)
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To: GeronL

LOL! You left out Zero!


27 posted on 12/11/2012 9:15:14 PM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, Forever in Rebellion.)
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To: Rio

Most malls have posted signs saying guns are not allowed on their property. This is why shooters go there; that and schools.

However, the most a mall can do to you is ask you to leave if they find out you have a gun. If someone else had been there with a gun, this guy might not have been able to shoot as many rounds as he did. Why don’t people understand that?


28 posted on 12/11/2012 9:15:40 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Rio
ran past her and her boyfriend and "had the look of death in his eyes

...and I thought my WIFE was the only one who could do that.

29 posted on 12/11/2012 9:16:02 PM PST by Rio (Tempis Fugit.)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Most malls have posted signs saying guns are not allowed on their property.

Well in that case, the shooter is in some serious trouble now. /s

30 posted on 12/11/2012 9:17:08 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: chris37

>>I would not be surprised to learn that he abused drugs and was on them at the time of this filming. His reasoning does not go from point A to point B at all.

Yeah both Holmes and Loughner seem like schizo’s and there are quite a few indicators that the pot is causing it. You smoke the stuff and it loads up in the fatty parts in your brains for a month. Imagine what heavy pot use (like kids today that wake and bake, get home and smoke, and then when their parents go to bed bake until 4AM) will do to a still forming teenagers mind.

That’s the biggest lie being sold to teens right now. You smoke a hallucinagen that stays in your brain a month, but it doesn’t harm you at all? Get real.


31 posted on 12/11/2012 9:20:34 PM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: dfwgator

Ha, ha, that is what liberals would have us believe. Sure, people like that obey laws and rules. If this guy had just seen the sign saying guns are not allowed at that mall, he would have turned around and gone home. *snort*


32 posted on 12/11/2012 9:23:11 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: arderkrag

Simple processing mistake by the bureaucracy between my brain and fingers.


33 posted on 12/11/2012 9:44:13 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Tweet from Michelle Malkin:

“Portland mall shooter rumored to have worn Guy Fawkes mask; Anonymous fears crackdown”

http://twitchy.com/2012/12/11/portland-mall-shooter-rumored-to-have-worn-guy-fawkes-mask-anonymous-fears-crackdown/

“Occupy Portland”?


34 posted on 12/11/2012 9:55:27 PM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Who was that masked man?


35 posted on 12/11/2012 10:03:08 PM PST by Tzimisce (What do you do when every every branch of the government is corrupt and aligned against you?)
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To: struggle

Sadly, I do not have to imagine.

I have used pot heavily in my life before, among other drugs.

I’ve waked and baked, got home and smoked all that. Started when I was 16 with the bad kids down the street. When i was 27 I moved into the high quality department.

I’ve been sober a number of years now, but not as many as I would like to be honest.

I would say, based upon my personal experience with the drug, that heavy use of pot and even occasional use of pot depending on the quality of it does have distinct mental side effects.

I would say that mental instability is one of those side effects. I do not believe those effects are permanent, and they do subside once the drug use is abated, but not immediately.

However I also have to add that during my time of use I never wanted to do what these guys did. Perhaps the drug serves to further inflame mental problems that may already exist outside of any additional drug use.

Based upon Loughner’s erratic ramblings in that video, I also suspect other drugs in addition to pot, perhaps harder hallucinogens such as LSD or mushrooms.


36 posted on 12/11/2012 10:04:39 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: GeronL

Very good connect.


37 posted on 12/12/2012 2:00:07 AM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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To: George Varnum

As soon as I read “plastic mask” I knew it was Guy Fawkes. I hit ctr+f and found your post.


38 posted on 12/12/2012 4:40:47 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: All

Bumping for updates.


39 posted on 12/12/2012 5:01:01 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("Liberalism is about as progressive as CANCER" -Alfonzo Rachel)
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To: GeronL
I always wonder why these guys don’t kill themselve first

I guess most of them do. That's why this doesn't happen everyday.

40 posted on 12/12/2012 6:00:02 AM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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