Words cannot describe how angry and sad this makes me...
Robert A. Hawkins is a 19 year old who had nothing better to do with his life than go to a mall and shoot a bunch of people at a popular mall in Omaha Nebraska. He killed himself as well. I couldn't feel less sorry for him, but my heart goes out to the innocent victims of his spree. He certainly chose a loser way to go out.
Police: Nine killed in shooting at Omaha mall, including gunman - CNN.com
FOXNews.com - Gunman Kills Eight, Then Kills Himself, at Omaha Shopping Mall - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
If you are going to kill yourself kill yourself. Taking other people out with you is the ultimate loser thing to do. According to CNN he had a rifle.
Many of you know I used to live in Omaha so this hits home for me. I've been in that store and used to shop at the Westroads Mall shopping center all the time.
So now people will want to talk about gun laws? Here in Colorado it's legal to carry concealed weapons if you have a permit. In Nebraska you cannot have concealed weapons. I am all for people having concealed guns and here's why. If somebody near this kid had been carrying a concealed gun, this guy wouldn't know that. As quickly as he had fired his first few shots he would have found himself dead on the floor, stopped in his tracks.
This also makes me wonder why malls don't hire armed guards. Everybody is afraid to put guns in all of the places they need to be nowadays and sidestepping the issue isn't going to fix anything.
This really gets to me though because there is nothing those shoppers could have done. Nobody feels right carrying a gun in plain sight, so in states where concealed weapons are illegal, odds are most people just don't carry them.
My heart goes out to the friends and family of the victims in this tragedy.
Robert A. Hawkins is a 19 year old who had nothing better to do with his life than go to a mall and shoot a bunch of people at a popular mall in Omaha Nebraska. He killed himself as well. I couldn't feel less sorry for him, but my heart goes out to the innocent victims of his spree. He certainly chose a loser way to go out.
Police: Nine killed in shooting at Omaha mall, including gunman - CNN.com
FOXNews.com - Gunman Kills Eight, Then Kills Himself, at Omaha Shopping Mall - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
If you are going to kill yourself kill yourself. Taking other people out with you is the ultimate loser thing to do. According to CNN he had a rifle.
Many of you know I used to live in Omaha so this hits home for me. I've been in that store and used to shop at the Westroads Mall shopping center all the time.
So now people will want to talk about gun laws? Here in Colorado it's legal to carry concealed weapons if you have a permit. In Nebraska you cannot have concealed weapons. I am all for people having concealed guns and here's why. If somebody near this kid had been carrying a concealed gun, this guy wouldn't know that. As quickly as he had fired his first few shots he would have found himself dead on the floor, stopped in his tracks.
This also makes me wonder why malls don't hire armed guards. Everybody is afraid to put guns in all of the places they need to be nowadays and sidestepping the issue isn't going to fix anything.
This really gets to me though because there is nothing those shoppers could have done. Nobody feels right carrying a gun in plain sight, so in states where concealed weapons are illegal, odds are most people just don't carry them.
My heart goes out to the friends and family of the victims in this tragedy.