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.
Still being reported as “an AK-47 assault rifle” on Fox.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
Hindsight is easy. I don’t believe it’s likely that you can surmise what you “would have done” “if you had been there”.
What you said........I agree.
“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.
Our local news site says security cameras showed he had it concealed balled up under his clothing.
I stand corrected then.
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.
hey, where can i get one of those for my house? ;)
Here's one for your school, too.......
“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.
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.
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