Active shooter at Columbia, MD, mall

[Dick Whitman]

That's the extent of the report right now.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Just someone exercising his Second Amendment rights.

 

[93Devil]

There's a running thread around here somewhere.

 

[YankeeFan]

One dead in a gun and ammunition store.

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

 

[VJ]

There is no gun store in that mall.

 

[YankeeFan]

There is no gun store in that mall.

But, I heard it on MSNBC!

 

[Boom_70]

This story does not specify type of store.

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

 

[Dick Whitman]

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 bull****.

 

[MisterCreosote]

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

 

[hondo]

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

 

[Vombatus]

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.

 

[ifilus]

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

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

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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 bull****.

I think pretty low on the reasons people do this stuff is, some other guy did it, my turn!

 

[Mark2010]

Still, far too many of these. Sometimes I wonder if it will happen at a mall where I'm at. Seems totally random, so maybe it could happen in your neighborhood, too.

 

[RickStain]

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 bull****.

I think pretty low on the reasons people do this stuff is, some other guy did it, my turn!

There's real, tangible, scientific evidence that the media voluntarily reducing the coverage of suicides brings down the suicide rate. There's no reason to think that mass shootings don't work the same way, and a lot of reason to think they would.

 

[Uncle Frosty]

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 bull****.

I think pretty low on the reasons people do this stuff is, some other guy did it, my turn!

There's real, tangible, scientific evidence that the media voluntarily reducing the coverage of suicides brings down the suicide rate. There's no reason to think that mass shootings don't work the same way, and a lot of reason to think they would.

So, no need to take aways guns, just take away coverage of gun-related crime?

Brilliant.

 

[RickStain]

So, no need to take aways guns, just take away coverage of gun-related crime?

Brilliant.

It's hard to be *that* wrong that many times in such a short post.

1) That's a false choice fallacy.
2) Nobody said anything about "taking away" media coverage. I specifically said "voluntary" reductions in coverage.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Rick's evidence in a prior thread that speculated about the effect of reducing media coverage was what convinced me that it may be part of the solution.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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 bull****.

I think pretty low on the reasons people do this stuff is, some other guy did it, my turn!

There's real, tangible, scientific evidence that the media voluntarily reducing the coverage of suicides brings down the suicide rate. There's no reason to think that mass shootings don't work the same way, and a lot of reason to think they would.

Suicide rate rose between 2000-2010. Is that when the media started writing about suicide again?

 

[RickStain]

The experiments with media voluntarily reducing coverage weren't in America.