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kpete

(71,990 posts) Sat Jan 25, 2014, 01:04 PM Jan 2014

Shooting at Columbia Mall in Howard County, Md

Police are at the scene of a shooting at Columbia Mall in Howard County, Md., WTOP radio is reporting.

Howard County Fire and Rescue say there is an active shooter in the mall, Spokeswoman Denise Weist told the radio station.

Weist says the department received the call at about 11:15 a.m. Saturday. Police and fire officials are on the scene. There are no immediate reports of injuries.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/25/columbia-mall-shooting/4893295/

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Shooting at Columbia Mall in Howard County, Md (Original Post) kpete Jan 2014 OP

seems like a daily occurrence now. either schools or malls. lapfog_1 Jan 2014 #1

Three confirmed dead (per CNN) etherealtruth Jan 2014 #2

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)

1. seems like a daily occurrence now. either schools or malls.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 01:10 PM

Jan 2014

soon it won't even make the news unless 5 people are killed.

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)

2. Three confirmed dead (per CNN)

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 01:23 PM

Jan 2014

Yet the proliferation of guns in the US are not a problem.

I always though "all' guns started out as legal guns ... yet I am told the "rights" of these guns is far more important than the lives of the dead.

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