there was a shooting this afternoon at one of my local malls in Omaha, NE. It was in the Von Maur store. 9 killed, including the shooter who left a suicide note saying "I'm going out in style", and 5 in critical condition.
I've always been skeptical/contemptuous of the theological position that suicides go to hell. Except for situations like this . . .
My condolences to the victims and their families.
As if there isn't already *enough* to dislike about holiday shopping. <_<
it was a dorky looking 20 year old white guy who's girlfriend apparently recently broke up with him.
I will never understand people and how their brains work. This is the first disaster/tragedy to hit my city since I've been alive.
Good heavens man! This really brings home just how much darkness is in humanity, and how twisted our time, our culture, is. I can't comprehend it. In my darkest moments, when I was young and foolish, I contemplated hurting myself, but never hurting someone else because of my misery.
:(
I fail to see how this is "going out in style". It has been done before..there is no style to it whatsoever.
This is just too bad.
According to the news, not only did his gf recently break up with him, but he was thrown out of his house (for reasons unknown at the moment) and was recently fired from his job at McDonalds. Apparently he called up his ex-gf just before he did it, told her he left her a note and said "It's too late. Now I'll be famous". He used a freaking assault rifle. How can people be so terrible? I'll never understand why anyone would take people out like that simply because their life is at a low-point.
I always feared an event like this would happen sooner or later in this city. Part of me is glad it didn't happen at a school though. My university is just a few miles down the road from that mall.
I don't get how someone like this could get their hands on an assault rifle. I know stores like Wal-mart sell hunting rifles, but a freaking assault rifle? How in the world??
So far nobody I know was directly involved in the incident, but they also haven't given out names of the victims yet.
God, here I am trying to write a 10-page term paper the day before it's due (like always. I'm a bad procrastinator) and this happens. How am I supposed to concentrate? The last half of my paper is pretty messed up because of this, lol.
that is awful news. How stupid and selfish can that person be?
This really gets me angry.
This is another terrible tradagey like the many others that have happened latley ...where has the respect for human life gone to? God has his reasons but it doesnt make it any easier for those of us who cant understand why ...my heart goes out to all those lost and their familes. Im all for the right to bear arms in this country but it seems its far too easy for messed up people to get their hands on the kind of weapons most people shouldnt have access to. :(
He was a dumb mixed up kid who didn't even know what style is. What he did didn't do anything to help anyone out, all he did was hurt others. He even left others hurting forever with their lost by the way he did it. If he had been a soldier who had been sent on a possible suicide mission to take out a terrorist base and had choose to die to save others, that might be style by the way he had done it. Killing yourself might relieve you of your problems but it leaves others with the problems. What he did solved no problems, just caused more for other people. There is enough problems with this world without adding more for others to have to live through.
:( I'm really sorry to hear that. A lot of people in this country are still very much undermedicated.
Like my Dad has said, "It's an awfully perminant solution to a temporary problem." My thoughts go out to the families of the victims.