shootings in KC

[imjustagirl2]

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.

 

[93Devil]

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.

 

[imjustagirl2]

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.

 

[93Devil]

You do not want to live in fear.

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

We just have the internet to tell us quicker now.

 

[buckweaver]

You do not want to live in fear.

Go back to the archives of a paper and you will see people were just as ****ing 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>.

 

[chazp]

You do not want to live in fear.

Go back to the archives of a paper and you will see people were just as ****ing 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.

 

[Shaggy]

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

 

[lisa_simpson]

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.

 

[Oz]

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.

 

[doubledown68]

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.
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Ditto for Metro North. That sort of thing couldn't happen there, because the place is desolate anymore.

 

[Oz]

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.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

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

 

[kingcreole]

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.

My high school sweetheart and I took in several movies at Ward Parkway. It is a decent area.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Found out last night I know someone whose mother works at that shopping center. She was off yesterday, thankfully.

 

[Pilot]

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.

Not dead ... not too alive either.

 

[Lugnuts]

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

The answer: Pack heat, IJAG.

 

[Big Chee]

You do not want to live in fear.

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

We just have the internet to tell us quicker now.

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[Oz]

Turns out my mom and brother were at that mall the day before, to see some other real estate people who work there. That office was right near where the shootings happened, so we're all thankful they're OK.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

You do not want to live in fear.

Go back to the archives of a paper and you will see people were just as ****ing 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>.

What I found interesting about this is that it said most newspapers in the country kept this on their front page until Lindbergh's flight a week later. Which is really no different than what CNN did with the virginia tech shootings. My question is, was anyone boohooing and bitching in letters to the editors back then that they were covering it too much?

 

[buckweaver]

Can't answer that question on the road (newspaperarchive.com could.) But from having read my share of papers from that era, i can tell you there was much reader griping about the good ol days -- the Gay Nineties! -- when things were smaller/safer/calmer/insert euphemism for "better" here, in the opinion pages. But people were arguably more jaded then, in the wake of the War To End All Wars, that this bombing might be akin to a bribe-taking politician in 1976, before the shock of Watergate wore off. A big deal, but we just saw way worse.