Is there no end to this crazy crap ?

[Fourtyfive]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/16/california-mall-on-lockdown-after-shots-were-fired/

 

[Oh Shoot]

Is it the 28 Days Later type Rage Virus starting?

 

- OS

[Hershmeister]

Bbbbut they ban large cap mags in CA. How could this have happened. /sarc

[GlockSpock]

This is odd. From what I gather, he was just shooting into the air and into the ground. He knew that especially after CT, this would frighten many people and gather nationwide attention. 

 

So I see three reasons why he'd do so:

 

1) He likes attention

2) He likes scaring people

3) He is a political activist "protesting" the "loose" gun control laws in the country.

 

What the hell would you all do in a situation like this? Assuming that you are concealing and just happen to be strolling through the parking lot and someone starts firing several magazines worth of rounds into the air and the ground, what could you do? I would certainly feel that my life and well as the lives of others around me were in danger. Would you stop the threat? Would you get your loved ones out of there instantly? Would you seek cover and keep an eye on him to see if he was going to start shooting people?

 

I don't think there is a right answer here. Assuming that all you know at the time is someone is shooting bullets into the air, what can you do? 

 

1) Stop the threat 

        His family would get a lawyer and run right through you. It'd turn out he was only shooting blanks. Your life as you know it would be over with. At best,

        you would be in financial ruin. At worst, you would spend some time behind bars.

 

2) Get your loved ones and yourself out of there instantly

        Possibly the best choice. But then it would turn out that he thought he was Rambo and was shooting Russians. Many people would die that day, and then

        you would have that on your conscious for the rest of your life. Your loved ones would live, but you would always feel that you didn't do enough.

 

3) Seek cover and keep an eye on him to see if he was going to start shooting people?

        If you have loved ones with you, you would be putting them in additional danger. Have them stay with you and you are keeping this close to this nut. Have 

        them run away and it would turn out that there were multiple nuts and they ran right towards another one. If you wait until the guy starts shooting people, 

        that would be once again something you would feel that you could have prevented. If he doesn't start shooting people, then I guess you played the lottery 

        and found the one win-win situation for you.

 

In all seriousness, what would you do? I would certainly feel threatened by someone shooting into the air in such a manner. But legally, is there enough to go on simply by someone shooting into the air?

[enfield]

Take care of you and yours.

 

If we had laws that stopped people from doing stupid, dangerous things, we'd all be living in cages.  I'd rather have freedom, messy as it is.

[Jesse]

my wife says its always men doing this crap.   she has a point.

[GlockSpock]

my wife says its always men doing this crap.   she has a point.

 

So we should just skip the guns and ban all the me...oh wait.

 

:shake:

Edited December 16, 2012 by CZ9MM

[monkeylizard]

my wife says its always men doing this crap.   she has a point.

 

No, she doesn't.

 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/ny_deadly_dolls_00c8lg1GHjpMRiR0EpUIaJ

[G27ATT]

In this day and age, I'll take door number two. Unless there were kids around. Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk 2

[Sam1]

 

 

1) Stop the threat 

     

 

In all seriousness, what would you do? I would certainly feel threatened by someone shooting into the air in such a manner. But legally, is there enough to go on simply by someone shooting into the air?

That's exactly what I would do

[Guest 6.8 AR]

That does sound like a political activist. Bring it on, fools! You will make the case against you, real fast. And some of

you may get shot.

 

Smashing in the opposition's(and even their own)party's HQ windows have been done. Defacing and tearing down

the opposition's signage is usually where it ends, but we may be seeing things go to another level. If you think about

how they derided the Tea Party events, which were as orderly as can be, and cleaned up afterwards. Then see how

messy and full of filth the occupy stuff went down, you might see a trend, but with some of their own telling the cowards

to do revolutionary things, there could be more bad things brewing.

 

Van Jones has been caught on tape pushing for this kind of "crap". I'll bet there are others, like certain union leaders,

of late, threatening violence. It might not be obvious to some, but just wait and see.

 

Go ahead. Call it tinfoil all you want. :D