Thursday, December 06, 2007

What exactly is Mall Security???

The latest chapter in the Psycho Rules (because we let it), some 19-year old loser who lost his job at McDonald's and his girlfriend too went to a major mall in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday with a gun and shot 8 holiday shoppers to death. Now z always found these tragic episodes problematic, here you have one psychotic a-hole who wanted to "go out in style" (he also shot himself of course, they always do) against hordes of innocent people, I know your first impulse is to flee and find cover, fear is a great paralyzer (I'm thinking out loud here as I always do) but the larger issue is how do you define Mall Security? They don't even carry guns or tasers, some of them are ex-cons and you don't even see them patrolling the mall all day, chances are they're in the Mall Security office glancing at about 4 or 5 TV monitors on the wall if they're not dozing off already. Ditto VA Tech. Z is just tired of reading about these predictable tragedies every few months (they seem to follow a cycle), do we just passively accept our victimhood?

12 comments:

  1. We need to nip this national problem of Mall Security in the bud before the terrorists start to make plans. OBL must be watching this on TV and think how easy it is, the a-hole was a test-case.

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  2. What makes me angry is that we give the loser who did the shooting the coverage he desired. He knew his name would make headlines, that gave him pleasure and maybe even gave him motivation to do what he did. I wish the media would not name him, or show his face.

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  3. A smaller example of what I mean when I say we let the Psycho Rule, subject has already been touched upon here (lol) but the place with the bad water, some boss'll come in and worry about something stupid - "move this over here, move that over there" - and you're thinking when are they gonna make an arrest? btw not my goal in life to wear a suit and walk in and tell people this goes over here and that goes over there when there's nothing wrong with anything. They did this with my Barnes & Noble, moved all the categories around 'til I couldn't find anything, WHY? I dunno.

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  4. I think some people just move things around to make themselves appear useful.

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  5. and important, bingo Beth

    again, not my goal in life to walk in a store and cause trouble and you have to hear it all day before they even come in, "oh, so-and-so is coming" and everyone gets the shakes. 1/2 the time they never show up, I think it's to throw everyone off and they're on a power trip the whole time.

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  6. Anyway, to your original posting, I am sure OBL has been scoping out malls already, and this is the prime time of year for a hit at one. Very scary stuff out there.

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  7. Beth's point is right on the money with respect to media attention. They just don't get it. And shame on Drudge for posting his flippin' mug with the headline "Why?".

    Why do you think you buffoons?

    Geez...and it of course goes back to my point about civily committing people who have these sorts of tendencies. They're a freekin' public safety concern for us all.

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  8. Looks like you were right soapie about this kid having mental problems. But his step-mom knew he was suicidal and didn't get him the help he needed? I think what we've got is a big problem with either denying problems exist or looking the other way because it's easier than trying to help.

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  9. My brother suffers from mental health issues. He's got them largely under control now but for a long time, it was difficult working with the "system" (as it were) to get him the necessary treatment he needed. Most family members don't have the expertise necessary to help their loved ones to the extent that they need it. And, many "experts" often give very different diagnoses.

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  10. If I may bring the I-man into the discussion here. Watching the "Today" show this morning and they had on two of the loser's friends and after the interview Meredith Vieira expressed sympathy for the killer, he had a hard life and had much suffering. So how come the I-man never got one iota of the sympathy he and Cho and other mass killers get?

    BTW, massive suffering does not cause one to go out and do these things, if that were the case holocaust survivors would be basket-cases mowing people down. MOST mentally ill people are not the least bit prone to violence but anyway the loser/a-hole had free will just like the rest of us, moral autonomy and all the rest and it just points up the absolute weirdness of modern-day liberalism to say (in so many words) Don Imus is more evil than all of them combined. Bizarro.

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  11. Soapie, I can imagine how relying on experts and not knowing where to turn when they contradict each other can be frustrating for a family. But I would have to think that the Z-man is correct in saying that not all people with mental imabalnces are violent or have tendencies towards it. It does seem like usually though in cases such as this Omaha kid, he led on to his family or friends what he was going to do, but nobody took him seriously. That is the tragedy in all this, I think,it could have been avoided.

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  12. Now this guy was caught by the security camera but there were no security people around and how exactly did he hide that big old rifle? The police chief there naturally said they didn't have time to react but I would fire the whole lot of them. In this Age of Terror and Psychos they said they thought he might have been a shoplifter. I mean come on here, Winona Ryder is so yesterday.

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