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The Allen Premium Outlets in Texas have a gun-free zone policy. So, we can stop blaming Texas gun laws for the mass shooting tragedy today. We can instead blame the murderer and ask the better question: If there were armed Texans there...
Twitter ^ | May 7, 2023 | Kyle Becker

Posted on 05/07/2023 12:11:32 PM PDT by grundle

The Allen Premium Outlets in Texas have a gun-free zone policy.

So, we can stop blaming Texas gun laws for the mass shooting tragedy today.

We can instead blame the murderer and ask the better question: If there were armed Texans there, would he have been killed sooner?


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To: cowboyusa

Here you go.

21 posted on 05/07/2023 1:41:57 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: grundle

Anyone else here that the murderer was shouting about justice for the guy that died in the NYC subway. And death to whites.
Is that confirmed?


22 posted on 05/07/2023 1:45:22 PM PDT by Revel
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To: grundle

Dallas news is already reporting that the shooter was”right wing” so this one will stay in the news.

We will probably get a visit from Joe Biden to be exploited for political advantage.


23 posted on 05/07/2023 2:01:32 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: Revel

No, but if you find the link, please post.


24 posted on 05/07/2023 2:03:38 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: grundle
Facepalm ....

🤦‍♀️ 🙄


25 posted on 05/07/2023 2:13:44 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: grundle

The families should sue the mall for no security and for allowing guns in a gun free zone


26 posted on 05/07/2023 2:14:56 PM PDT by I got the rope
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To: Jane Long

Did some checking around. It was in a tweet, but the world is that the tweet was a lie.


27 posted on 05/07/2023 2:18:18 PM PDT by Revel
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Depends on your local police. Lots of video on You Tube of corrupt cops detaining people, soliciting a trespass, and then arresting someone even though this is illegal.

Some of the police departments pulling this crap are in Texas. And after this event you can expect more than a few Texas cops not to give a rip about the law or your rights. Especially in Democrat run jurisdictions like Austin or SA.


28 posted on 05/07/2023 2:19:09 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: grundle

If you don’t want people carrying guns on your property in Texas, there are 2 specific signs you have to have posted, a 30.06 sign for no concealed carry, and a 30.07 sign for no open carry. The numbers refer to code sections. I have been there many times, and never saw either sign. It has been awhile, so they could be newly posted.


29 posted on 05/07/2023 2:35:00 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: MeganC

I’ll take my chances on encountering corrupt cops before I’ll trust to the absence of criminals. I also try to avoid malls and such anyway.


30 posted on 05/07/2023 2:44:25 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: grundle

So, why did the location not provide armed guards since they asked everyone to disarm. This hound be a this or that liability issue.


31 posted on 05/07/2023 3:09:16 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Go Woke, Go Broke. Every Time Trump Says Something, I'm Closer to Anyone But Trump.)
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To: No name given

I am very pro-carry and wish more responsible citizens were armed.

However, there was little that anyone could have done to react quickly enough to prevent that first group from being slaughtered and likely the second group that was off-camera to the left as he walked out of view. He gunned them down in seconds and they had no cover against a rifle at pretty close range with zero warning.

Horrific. There are demons among us and no guarantees in this life.


32 posted on 05/07/2023 3:42:55 PM PDT by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: grundle

The local media is already framing it as domestic terrorism and white supremacy.


33 posted on 05/07/2023 3:48:07 PM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: KC Burke

Dad had a Stetson he treated like gold.


34 posted on 05/07/2023 4:09:17 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: grundle

Neutralized. That’s a word I have seen in the news a lot recently. In Louisville KY just minutes from my home, Police Neutralized a Mass Shooter at a Bank.
In Nashville Tn Police Neutralized a Mass Shooter at a Christian School,
In Allen TX Police Neutralized a Mass Shooter in an Outlet Mall.
There is a common thread in many recent Mass Shootings, The first person to engage the Mass Shooter with a Gun managed to Neutralize the Mass Shooter!
More proof that someone using a gun is the best method of stopping Mass Shootings. Why does it have to be a Police Officer.
In last years Indiana Mass Mall Shooting it was a civilian from Indianapolis Elisjsha Dicken, 22 Who Neutralized the Mass Shooter saving countless lives.


35 posted on 05/07/2023 7:42:27 PM PDT by cquiggy
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To: grundle

I completely ignore such ‘gun free’ signs.


36 posted on 05/07/2023 9:17:42 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: moovova
Ahh, the good old days when “outlet stores” were truly cheaper.

I remember that. Sweaters for the entire extended family for Christmas. Even K-Mart, S. Kleins and other discount department stores up until the 70s had great deals. There was a wonderful women's clothing outlet place in Hagerstown, MD called L'Aiglon that was a quickly slapped together building on a bare bulldozed lot with shower curtains over the cinder block fitting rooms. I got exquisitely well-made dresses there when I was still a "sample size"! Eventually that site has morphed into a massive, fully built-out Premium Outlet mall with the ususal suspects: Bass, Ann Taylor, Under Armor, North Face, etc.

These days, the only discount store I still go to expecting an actual discount is Ollie's. Even they have gotten expensive since the plandemic.

37 posted on 05/08/2023 5:10:28 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Albion Wilde
There's a chain of stores around here called Hamrick's. (NC, SC, GA, TN.) The wife loves them and can spend hours there. Predominately women's clothes, a smaller section of men's, a shoe section, some bric-a-brac, doodads, cosmetics and food items at the front of the store. A mix of name brand stuff plus unknown makers. Most things are discounted, some heavily. Big, nice stores but it has the feeling of the old time factory outlets. It's funny but, if we're heading south on I-85, we always stop at the Hamricks in Gaffney. There's a Tanger Outlets directly across the street from Hamrick's, but we never set foot on the Tanger property. Tanger is comparable to Premium Outlets...same thing, really.

Gotta say...L’Aiglon (Biberman Brothers, Inc.) had an interesting history. The owner committed suicide in 1933 because of financial difficulties during the Great Depression...but the store survived until 1975!

38 posted on 05/08/2023 7:33:55 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

Thank you for the tip about Hamrick’s! I do get to the Carolinas from time to time, and will look for it! I kinda like Rose’s (in NC and southern VA) for household items and miscellany.


39 posted on 05/17/2023 4:48:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Albion Wilde

You’re welcome!


40 posted on 05/17/2023 5:14:39 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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