[gracesdad]

“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! “

I was with you until this.

[randog]

I read a report that they boy just strolled into the mall with the rifle in is hand. Not concealed in a backpack, but in plain sight. I suppose it’s easy to armchair quarterback and say the signs were there all the time, but who believes that a homicidal murderer is in their midst? It’s such a rare event that people justifiably don’t believe that it will happen within their circle. However, when a camo-wearing kid strolls into the mall with his rifle grasped in his hand in plain sight...

[Just another Joe]

A person with CCW, in the right place at the right time, could have shortened this shooting spree drastically.

It amazes me that people don't see that.

[Mr. Mojo]

Just once I'd like to hear a friend/acquaintance of one of these murderers say something like "he was a very emotionally disturbed kid with violent tendencies -- a human time bomb. ...so this news of him shooting up a mall doesn't exactly come as a big surprise to me."

You know, the truth.

[Popocatapetl]

I heard an interesting Freudian slip about this on TV this morning.

The news guy referred to it as the “OBAMA mall shooting.”

He didn’t notice his mistake...

[Luke Skyfreeper]

I may send a letter to the local mall management asking them if I have the correct address to send a $10 to $20 million lawsuit if I should come in their mall unarmed at their direction and subsequently be shot.

There have been three major shooting incidents this year in “gun free zones.” It looks like the idiots running such zones would figure out that these are magnets for mass shootings, since the lunatics know they won’t be running into any opposition until the police arrive — when they’re already dead by their own hand.

[Sender]

FOX News now stating and showing on their “ALERT” that he used an AK-47, not an SKS.

[bboop]

Well, imho, he WAS a worthless piece of shit. He had chosen that road, and there he was, on it. So, at least he was on to the truth. And the woman who ‘rescued’ him after his parents kicked him out was probably a liberal. Honestly, she thought she could help him but ignored the parents’ input and all the reality happening in her own house. They had lived with him for years. Disgusting.

[mngran2]

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!

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.

[pabianice]

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

[redrunner]

. 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...

[stan_sipple]

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.

[peggybac]

They’re ranting and raving at: http://www.topix.net/forum/city/omaha-ne/TPGG9CHKHM16HL4T5

[spunkets]

"There was one classmate who claims he threatened to kill her and burn down her house."

The chief of the PD there reported Robby was a felon. This and the fact that he also made credible threats to kill his mother sounds like the basis for that, since he was locked up in a mental institution for that kind of thing. It's a juvy, so hte records are probably sealed.

"an SKS is NOT a “high powered” rifle!"

Yes, it is. It's in the class of rifles that would be used in the high power comp at Camp Perry, which would include AR15s and M1As in 223 and 308 respectively.