BREAKING NEWS: Up to 5 shot in possible sniper attack at Omaha mall, WOWT TV rep

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

BREAKING NEWS: Up to 5 shot in possible sniper attack at Omaha mall, WOWT TV reports - Trying to get a story - it's on MSNBC and FOX now.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Update - 1 death, maybe 2.  A report coming in saying that one suspect has a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Possibly another in custody.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

That anti-shopping preacher has gone too far this time.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

New report: 1 dead, 10 shot.

Suspect reported to be in custody.

[Boris]

AP is reporting that eight people have been killed

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

AP is reporting that eight people have been killed

MSNBC said 9 confirmed now.

[Joe Republic]

Cue Harry/WalterMitty in 3... 2...

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Last update - 8 killed plus the shooter killed himself = 9 deads.

[Ban my account ffs!]

That's pretty awful.  This kind of stuff makes me sad.

[Gabu]

wtf?

[Smash255]

yet another example of a nut with a gun

[Gabu]

yet another example of a nut with a gun

Was he using a sniper rifle?  If so, where would he even get one?  I can't imagine those being legal.

[MasterJedi]

yet another example of a nut with a gun

Was he using a sniper rifle?  If so, where would he even get one?  I can't imagine those being legal.

ex-special forces?

[Verily]

yet another example of a nut with a gun

Was he using a sniper rifle?  If so, where would he even get one?  I can't imagine those being legal.

ex-special forces?

He was "19 or 20" according to the news reports.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

yet another example of a nut with a gun

Was he using a sniper rifle?  If so, where would he even get one?  I can't imagine those being legal.

That was the original story - we'll have to see what the official report reveals in the days to come.

[dead0man]

I've heard (no site) that it was an SKS and that he stole it from his step dad.  Just local rumors as far as I know.

edit-verification of SKS...stolen from stepdad still just rumor as far as I know.

[Hash]

Thank you dear Second Amendment.

[Angel of Death]

The fastest way to your own Wikipedia article (that doesn't get deleted)

[dead0man]

Thank you dear Second Amendment.

How does the 2nd play in here?  He didn't get the gun through legal means (as far as anyone knows).

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Are there any nuts on DailyKos or elsewhere trying to draw an inference from the fact that President Bush was in Omaha earlier yesterday?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Are there any nuts on DailyKos or elsewhere trying to draw an inference from the fact that President Bush was in Omaha earlier yesterday?

No - but all the media mentioned that he had cleared the area (probably to dispell that thought).

[Boris]

Anyone know if the massacre was caught on security cameras?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Anyone know if the massacre was caught on security cameras?

Preliminary reports said yes - but I'm guessing it won't be released for a while (if at all - depending on families' wishes).

[AkSaber]

Thank you dear Second Amendment.

Yeah, it's the gun's fault, and not the work of an evil human being.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Thank you dear Second Amendment.

Yeah, it's the gun's fault, and not the work of an evil human being.

Was he really evil though?

Why does this stuff seem to always happen in America but is quite uncommon everywhere else (I can think of only three of this types of incidents happening in Europe since I learnt to read - The recent massarce in Finland, That school shooting in Germany a few years back and Dunblane. And in the latter case it wasn't a teenager doing the shooting. This seems too great in the States in comparsion; and certainly too great to be blamed on "evil" people, whoever they are.)