Crazed gunmen shooting up mall near our house

[nosmas]

It just happened so reports are still comming in. They went to the top floor of Van Maur and started shooting down on people at random. Appears to be more than one shooter but details still sketchy. Ten people or more reported shot, one confirmed dead at this point.

Omaha, NE.

 

[SVFootball]

some people are just so fucked up....

 

[nosmas]

Tell me about it. Only three city blocks from our place. Things starting to settle down. Mall is still on lock down with everyone inside in a panic. Happy holidays...

an individual in full camo has been taken into custody... unknown as to his involvment.

 

[lynx]

How freaking crappy!

 

[Kcm3000]

people taht do that shit should be tortured and then killed. this world is so fucked up right now, damn

 

[Tom]

times like these...

oh yeah, let's just keep crankin out those violent video games. just what we need an entire generation of tower shooters.

 

[nosmas]

Nine confirmed dead. Shooter killed himself. 14 injured. Two in critical condition. Rifle used.

 

[nosmas]

19 year old who left suicide note that said "I am going out in style" believed to be the shooter.

 

[nosmas]

The reports comming in now are insane. I dont have cable so I only know what the local news is reporting and what I have posted is what has been stated by the police briefing but the interviews of the employees comming out of the mall are NUTs.

Hug the ones you love tonight.

 

[Ashop]

It just happened so reports are still comming in. They went to the top floor of Van Maur and started shooting down on people at random. Appears to be more than one shooter but details still sketchy. Ten people or more reported shot, one confirmed dead at this point.

Omaha, NE.

Man,,sad news. People are truly crazy in this day and age.

 

[nosmas]

The gunman did time in the same jail as I did last month and was there when I was. I dont recognize the name so I am waiting for his pic to be released.

 

[HUTCH]

Crazy man...Sickening...Tom im starting to agree about the whole video game thing...

 

[SVFootball]

what a fucking shame

 

[nosmas]

He was fired from his job at Mcdonalds. Thats was the trigger. He was on anti depressants and troubled. They interviewed a woman who he had been living with (the mother of his friends... the family apparently took him in) and she said he had been fired from McDonalds today and was very upset.

 

[JustWannaBeHuge]

I have to disagree with Tom and Hutch. I don't think video games has anything to do with it. I worked in tv for 6-7 years, I've written several *short films* that were horror based, I also grew up watching horror movies all the time with my dad, yet I've never gone out and hurt/kill anyone in real life. I don't think we can blame video games/movies on real life violence. I blame parents for not teaching their kids the difference between right and wrong and how precious human life is.

IMO, if someone is *pushed over the edge* by a video game or movie, than even if you would have never exposed that person to it, it would have been something else to push them over the edge to turn them into a killer.

What about the 50 yr old man that goes into his job for no reason and blows half the staff away? I doubt it if he was playing *HitMan* on the Playstation every day.

I love movies and I would see this all the time where the news and BS lawyers blame movies for the kid/adult that committed murders and it just bugs me.

 

[froog]

from the same area originally....scary shit! talked to all of my family and everybody is safe! prayers go out to everyone!

 

[bhumik]

That is SOO fucked up. Shit like this only occurs cause the media glorifies it. They give it unenecessary attention.

Take the Virginia Tech shooting. On the news each day every day for months. And then Choe sung lee (or whatever his name is) his tapes came out and they played that shit on live TV. This just pushes kids over the edge. Hell I am Extremely sane, and I was still intrigued by the dudes tapes. I cant even imagine a dude thats half way mental. Just needs some media glorifying and he will be pushed off the edge.

The truth is Media needs to be controlled. Screw the fifth amendment (kinda). But shit like this cannot be just covered by media as they please.


American youths are really messed up. I still believe america is the greatest country in the world and there is no place like USA period. but they need to realize and wake up.

Why are there so many drug addicts in USA, cause every school teaches about drugs and its so out in the open. If no one talked bout it , and there was no DARE no one would even know what marijuana is. I was born in a asian country and shit didnt even know what LSD, weed, coke and any of those drugs were. I never knew them didnt want to bother knowing them.
But in USA then they teach it to you and they tell you not to do it. Some youth are bound to get intrigued and they are like hmmm this sounds cool . let me try it.


anyways Messed up.

 

[HUTCH]

I have to disagree with Tom and Hutch. I don't think video games has anything to do with it. I worked in tv for 6-7 years, I've written several *short films* that were horror based, I also grew up watching horror movies all the time with my dad, yet I've never gone out and hurt/kill anyone in real life. I don't think we can blame video games/movies on real life violence. I blame parents for not teaching their kids the difference between right and wrong and how precious human life is.

IMO, if someone is *pushed over the edge* by a video game or movie, than even if you would have never exposed that person to it, it would have been something else to push them over the edge to turn them into a killer.

What about the 50 yr old man that goes into his job for no reason and blows half the staff away? I doubt it if he was playing *HitMan* on the Playstation every day.

I love movies and I would see this all the time where the news and BS lawyers blame movies for the kid/adult that committed murders and it just bugs me.

Well it definetly does not apply for everyone...I loved Grand theft auto, and all those games and would have never thought of going around murdering people...But its kinda like drugs, some people can snort a couple lines and be satisfied with that, while the guy next to snorts his line and gets hooked for life...Lots of people disagree that video games do not promote real life crime but just about everyone agrees that "thugs" are thugs because they are trying to be like in the music videos or the scarface movie...

I dont think our kids should be sheltered from guns on TV and all that...But in the right scenario I see how video games can contribute to erratic behavior...

 

[Ironmanpits]

Sensorship is never an answer ... we are losing enough rights every year as it is. People make choices every day ... some good, some bad. My best friend committed suicide last week by an O.D. on Oxy-Contin ... his choice ... nobody to blame, can't hold the pharmacuetical co. liable because he chose to use the product other than directed.
JMO

 

[oldfella]

Very sad, This is all over our news down here. i saw this and sat up saying....not again!!!! My heart and prayers go out to all those affected by this insanity. Bad time of year for all of this also. Damn.

Glad to hear you and hngry were not shopping today nos. this stuff just gets too close to home bro!!!