Holy umbrella-gun, it's the Penguin. Call Batman to lock down the mall.
Posted on 04/19/2011 9:24:16 AM PDT by pabianice
The Burlington, MA, Mall was locked-down this morning after a patron screamed that there was a man carrying a rifle in the mall. Approximately 300 police and an undetermined number of local fire departments were dispatched to deal with the emergency. It was just announced that there was no gunman; just a shopper with an umbrella.
Even for the vicious, Liberal, anti-gunners in MA, this may be a record. Perhaps someone can sum-up the total $ cost in emergency services and lost business.
My all time favorite was the semi-automatic machine gun used in a NYT article to describe the Barrett that was supposedly at WACO.
I think they are standard issue in MA. Especially Cambridge.
Holy umbrella-gun, it's the Penguin. Call Batman to lock down the mall.
This incident reminds me of the contrast between a student shooting up a cafeteria here in Springfield Oregon and the Virginia Tech shooting. At Virginia Tech when a student noticed the shooter was reloading, the response was to tell everyone they had a chance to run away. In Springfield Oregon one student jumped the shooter the moment he saw the slide lock back. Unlike Eugene, which is a university town just across I-5 , Springfield is still “backward” enough to have real people. Evidently there are none in MA.
Maybe John Steed would be alright in MA. A concealed sword may still be legal. Then again...
Nope, concealed sword will still get you locked up.
Burlington, which is north of Boston, is in the middle of the route between Boston and Southern NH (mostly the Nashua area.) It is a place when the snooty from SNH come down to buy stuff, and the folks from the suburbs go shopping. Personally, the only thing in Burlington that has any appeal is the Lahey Clinic which helps people.
The only firearms most of these people see are on TV.
I bet it was one of those “sawed off” umbrellas. The kind that can be concealed in a coat pocket.
That’s better than someone thinking it’s an umbrella when it’s actually a rifle.
Somewhere on one of the NH liberty-oriented forums, maybe the Free State Project, there are pictures of a guy in a kilt walking around with a sidearm on the belt, samurai sword, and an AR-15 across his back. He was doing it to prove a point. Again...no panic in the Granite State.
Don't worry, it won't hurt anyone.
Imagine the turnout if he’d also been smoking, with a Happy Meal in his pocket.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/19/us-mall-gun-massachusetts-idUSTRE73I4DL20110419
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/19/massachusetts-mall-evacuated-gunman-reported-inside/
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1331853&format=comments#CommentsArea
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/burlington/2011/04/burlington_mall_evacuated_afte_2.html
How appropriate that Burlington Mall is where Paul Blart Mall Cop was filmed! I thought it was South Jersey Mall.
Bond, do be careful with that bloody thing!
bttt
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