shootings in KC

Apparently two incidents, four dead, including a shooter. They don't know if they're related, but the second one was at a shopping center.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18384740/

I don't know that I feel comfortable anywhere anymore.

 

You have a better chance getting killed on the highway then you do by one of these asshats. And I dealt with the DC sniper and the idiots trying to track him down. (I'm still looking for a white guy in a box delivery truck).

That said, we do need tougher gun laws.

 

Um, isn't the highway anywhere?

I just meant usually in a car, you know anything can happen. But once you're inside a store or a classroom, you used to feel safe. Now, you just never know.

 

You do not want to live in fear.

Go back to the archives of a paper and you will see people were just as fucking crazy 50 years ago as they are today.

We just have the internet to tell us quicker now.

 

Bingo. And a lot more attention whores nowadays, too.

But there was never a time when we were "safe". It wasn't a shooting, but the worst school-related tragedy didn't come last week or in 1999. It was 1927 -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster">in Bath, Michigan</a>.

 

Disturbing. It shows that there are always physcos out there and any of us could be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

Doesn't this happen once a week at Bannister Mall in KC? Or am I too far removed from my childhood?

 

Shaggy, I don'r recall this happening on a regular basis at Bannister, but the Bannister Mall that we would remember ceased to exist a good four or five years ago, at least. My parents tell me that the property still has a few tenants but it's got a date with the wrecking ball in the not-too-distant future. Of course, Ward Parkway itself hardly resembles the mall I knew and frequented as a teenager as well.

 

Saw "The Show" and "Dead Man Walking" among other movies at the Ward Parkway Mall years ago. I have a friend who lives literally across the street from this mall, in a quiet neighborhood. Sad to hear this news.

 

Shaggy, I don'r recall this happening on a regular basis at Bannister, but the Bannister Mall that we would remember ceased to exist a good four or five years ago, at least. My parents tell me that the property still has a few tenants but it's got a date with the wrecking ball in the not-too-distant future. Of course, Ward Parkway itself hardly resembles the mall I knew and frequented as a teenager as well.
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Ditto for Metro North. That sort of thing couldn't happen there, because the place is desolate anymore.

 

Is Metcalf South in Overland Park the same way these days? I don't remember it being a hot spot 10 years ago, I can only imagine what it's like now.

 

Are you still more likely to be killed by someone you know than someone you don't know?