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Omaha Mall Shooting .. Vanity Post
Vanity Post ^ | 12/06/07 | CometBaby

Posted on 12/06/2007 7:02:50 AM PST by CometBaby

As some of you know, I am from Omaha. Just my opinion, for what it’s worth, but I’m watching the reports on TV and Radio, both locally (here in Omaha) and nationally and I’m getting ticked off .. I have to speak out.

I've been listening to people who knew this kid, on a local radio station, talking about threats he has made. There was one classmate who claims he threatened to kill her and burn down her house. Then there are the friends from his clique who are defending him. One even supposedly threatened to kill another student who was talking about what a horrible person he was to do such a thing.

I am sick and tired of being told about how “shocked” the people who knew him were (that he would do such a thing). In spite of knowing he’d been in trouble with the law, was suicidal, depressed, emotionally disturbed, and had ideas of killing people.

The lady (he lived in her house) knew he had just dropped out of school, was emotionally unstable, diagnosed depressed, suicidal, just lost his girlfriend 2 weeks ago, just got fired from his pathetic job, that he felt he was nothing but a worthless piece of shit and didn't want to be a burden to anyone, anymore. This kid was probably exhibiting all of the classic signs of a time bomb, waiting to go off. And to top it off, he was supposedly playing with guns… the night before the killing spree!!

OF COURSE NOBODY EVER SAW IT COMING !!!!!

I can already feel the Brady minions coming out of the woodwork to grab up the SKS’s because nobody recognized this blatant danger to our community. And one other thing .. an SKS is NOT a “high powered” rifle!

Next, we are going to see signs all over the Malls saying not to bring in weapons. And how long before some nutcase announces that these poor victims deserved this, for wasting gas driving to the Mall (celebrating the HATED Christmas season, no less) in the first place! Who could have imagined it would ever come to this?

Makes you think it’s a real good idea to just shop online .. no hassles, no taxes and you don’t have to take your life into your hands! Thanks for letting me vent a bit.


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To: CometBaby

Still being reported as “an AK-47 assault rifle” on Fox.
8*(


101 posted on 12/06/2007 8:45:02 AM PST by pabianice
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To: AppyPappy

They CAN be dangerous. If you don’t acknowledge the obvious, you are living in denial. If you are living in denial, then SURPRISES will continually happen. Either you are aware/ ‘wise as a serpent, gentle as a dove’/ or you PRETEND that no one would ever do something bad. It’s really just binary.


102 posted on 12/06/2007 8:48:48 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: SkyDancer

I hate malls too. I make a plan, go to one store, exit. They suck the breath right out of you. And the PEOPLE just schlub along, walking slowly, no passing lanes, kids out of control. And then I start thinking — ‘yegad, these people VOTE.’ Online shopping suits me just fine.


103 posted on 12/06/2007 8:51:32 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: ER Doc

The magazine on an SKS holds ten rounds.
If the magazine is modified to a banana clip, it holds 30 rounds.
One trigger pull, one round at a time.

I thnk the banana clip makes the weapon look like a machine gun. So if it looks like a machine gun, and fires bullets, it has to be a machine gun assult rifle /sarc


104 posted on 12/06/2007 8:53:38 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: CometBaby

I’m with you. The signs were there. But if you are feeling sorry for a victim and want to be FRIENDS, you will not act like an adult. I’m glad she had to deal with the bodies — it was a real consequence of her (non)actions.


105 posted on 12/06/2007 8:53:47 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: CometBaby
. The author of Rage of the Random Actor was just on WJR in Detroit and talked about strategies to stop these "random" occurances... Very interesting interview... You can read the first chapter here...
106 posted on 12/06/2007 9:01:17 AM PST by redrunner (We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: RoadTest
And they would have said, “We can’t do anything. No law has been broken”.

You are wrong. A law was broken. He was a felon in possession of a firearm. And it was a stolen firearm.

But you miss the point entirely. Even if the police did not do one thing .. I would have done what I could. I don't care if ten people behave irresponsibly ..so long as I do the right thing. Now do you get it?

107 posted on 12/06/2007 9:03:10 AM PST by CometBaby (You can twist perceptions .. reality won't budge!)
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To: mngran2
Has this actually happened, or are you just sending yourself into a tizzy over imagined insults? Take a deep breath and go for a nice walk or something.

No, it hasn't happened. I am projecting. But this happened here in Omaha .. its very real to me, so I am venting a lot of frustration.

108 posted on 12/06/2007 9:06:37 AM PST by CometBaby (You can twist perceptions .. reality won't budge!)
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To: CometBaby

Hindsight is easy. I don’t believe it’s likely that you can surmise what you “would have done” “if you had been there”.


109 posted on 12/06/2007 9:10:57 AM PST by RoadTest ("It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. - Psalm 119:26)
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To: Hazwaste

What you said........I agree.


110 posted on 12/06/2007 9:15:15 AM PST by BARLF
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To: CometBaby
comet baby: this wasn't the first violent incident with kids at westroads. I remember several incidents of gangs etc causing mischief there. No doubt this delinquent was very familiar with this mall for that reason.
111 posted on 12/06/2007 9:25:32 AM PST by stan_sipple
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To: ichabod1

“I noticed Fox had the shooter’s picture on their chiron this morning. A little thumbnail image right above the time on the lower right-hand part of the screen. Disgusting.”

My wife had FNC on last night and Greta VS was asking why someone would do this. The answer of course was to get publicity, notariety, celebrity, etc from the MEDIA. They will show his picture, make his name a household word, pictures of him will be pasted all over the news looking like a male model. THE MEDIA RESPONSE IS WHY THEY DO IT.


112 posted on 12/06/2007 9:37:02 AM PST by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: Hacklehead

John Lott wrote a piece on this today......

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315563,00.html


113 posted on 12/06/2007 9:38:47 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: randog

Our local news site says security cameras showed he had it concealed balled up under his clothing.


114 posted on 12/06/2007 10:26:56 AM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska

I stand corrected then.


115 posted on 12/06/2007 10:47:21 AM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: Hazwaste
To answer your question, if the shooter had instead decided to drive a Toyota Prius through a crowd of people, the media would instead be wondering how such an ecologically sensitive individual had been so wronged by the Bush administration that he lost control of his car in his desperation and accidentally ran over some people.

On an unrelated note, I will never own a hybrid. From now on, I will refer to hybrids as "assault vehicles". I am awaiting a great small diesel that is approved by the emissions nazis. One like most of Europe already has.

116 posted on 12/06/2007 10:54:43 AM PST by Sender (You are the weapon. What you hold in your hand is just a tool.)
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To: Red Badger

hey, where can i get one of those for my house? ;)


117 posted on 12/06/2007 10:59:40 AM PST by MK11
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To: MK11
http://www.mysecuritysign.com

Here's one for your school, too.......

118 posted on 12/06/2007 11:06:44 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: SoldierMedic

“Don’t forget, he even showed her the SKS the night before. Did it elicite any reactions of concern? Nope.”

My jaw dropped when I’d heard that...what the hell was she thinking when she saw it?? Apparently nothing. Just unbelievable.


119 posted on 12/06/2007 11:10:25 AM PST by SHEENA26
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To: randog
A lot of false information is probably flying around out there, not sure that is true, and don't mean to insinuate that anyone is deliberately falsifying anything. A local girl who graduated in 2001 and moved to Omaha was one of the victims. The store chain is owned by a local scion of a weathy family who bears that store name and owned the original store here for a couple or more generations.

There is always a lot of conflicting information to sort through after something as horrible as this happens. The Trolley Square shooting was mentioned, said the shooter was shot by police. I had read here repeatedly that it was an off-duty policeman who happened to be carrying and having dinner with his wife. So I go to look up a credible source, and cbs (thinking most libs would accept that) says it wasn't clear who shot him, words to that effect. But I don't have time to rehash all that and what is the point other than lives were saved imo in that incident because that guy was there. So I decided to stay out of that.

120 posted on 12/06/2007 11:31:21 AM PST by Aliska
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