Active shooter at Columbia, MD, mall

That's the extent of the report right now.

 

Just someone exercising his Second Amendment rights.

 

There's a running thread around here somewhere.

 

One dead in a gun and ammunition store.

Did someone use a gun store as a means of committing suicide?

 

There is no gun store in that mall.

 

But, I heard it on MSNBC!

 

This story does not specify type of store.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/25/mass-shooting-howardcounty.html

 

It might be time to have a serious national conversation about the coverage of these incidents. As in: Unless you are in the immediate area, give them almost no coverage. People are dying every week due to copycat bullshit.

 

The Tree of Liberty must've just needed some watering.

 

Of all the dumb cop phrases, "active shooter" is right up there. Not very many inactive shooters, to my knowledge.

 

I think it is meant to convey a situation in progress. We use the term here in emergency situations.

I hadn't heard the term until the Washington Navy Yard incident. Agreed, it sounds like an oxymoron, but in the heat of a situation in progress, it conveys immediate danger and direction to those in the area to take action to shelter in place or run like hell.

 

News reports indicate the shooter in this incident is inactive; permanently.