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Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
Originally posted by PaperbackWriter
He didn't get them in unnoticed. One of the "witnesses" stated they were sitting by the front door (of Macy's),
and saw him with the gun slung over his shoulder like a "backpack".
Whatever that means. A back holster maybe?
So no attempt to hide it.
Stores like Macy's hire their own store security during the holidays soooo, don't know how that got by without raising some eyebrows.
I saw that, after posting. That is even more odd.....walking through an entire large department store, with a visible gun? Do we have any reports that maybe people called that in, before the shooting started? That might explain the fast response time....though not sure about four SWAT teams. Do you have a link for that? That detail wasn't in the reports I read and heard.
Originally posted by PaperbackWriter
There were several different descriptions given by other "witnesses".
There were reports in the beginning of three people.
It seems very possible to me that they were dressed in the alternate outfits.
But, left and for all I know and suspect came out and started giving the narrative to the press.
It seems odd that the woman who reports seeing him and a gun (SO visible) didn't report seeing others with him. Have to wonder....who is telling the truth? Maybe she's a phony witness....
If there were others involved, and I think there were, then they had to have blended in to the shoppers, and taken off. Only question is, where did their guns go? Why do I think more than one? Well, as I stated in another post, the ONLY time my M-16 jammed in Basic was when we fired blanks. My buddy and I did that at a grenade range, and about two magazines in would do it. 60 shots, and his gun reportedly jams? Maybe the shots that hit people didn't come from his gun.
Originally posted by PaperbackWriter
It seems like a straight up role-playing game that is being passed off as "live" for the propaganda value.
There is no way that 4 SWAT teams showed up in about a minute which is what the Sheriff said and what
witnesses said.
That doesn't happen unless they were already in on the action.
Yeah....that's really odd. Seems clear at this point that the press can't be trusted (any of them) since no one seems to be questioning any of this script!
Originally posted by Ghost375
Originally posted by jacktorrance
reply to post by Ghost375
Why is it scary that people are making connections?
My point is they are NOT making connections and there aren't a ton of crazy coincidences.
People just keep saying and repeating there are a bunch of coincidences but they are NOT listed in this thread.
I don't know what you people are seeing. Please quote or explain the crazy coincidences you are seeing.
There's a couple of laughable connections, like they both used guns.... but that's all there is in the thread.
Originally posted by unphased
So you mean to tell me the guy is a SHOOTER....... yet he fired 60 rounds and only hit 3 people....??????
Originally posted by PaperbackWriter
I was listening to KXL livestream and posting on here as they spoke. They were using local news reports on the half hour and FOX news (Mike Ditka?) reporting. Several times they made a point of saying 4 SWAT teams of about a hundred LE were on the scene in about a minute.
That's interesting about blanks jamming a gun. That's what I think they were using. They may have spread shells around on the floor. It's just that the reason I use "witness" in parentheses, is I too, found the people and the tales they were telling as very suspect.
If it is a situation where there is once again a single cellphone video taken, it seems to have been taken during the live shooter training exercise they held at this mall earlier. But, who knows?
Major media has zero credibility in my mind.
Anonymity allows people to disassociate personal consequences with their actions. People tend to lose inhibition when anonymous. Masks allow anonymity. As an anecdotal example, see any anonymous internet forum ever.
Originally posted by Sandalphon
The super weird thing is that it's happened.
Big guns in a social area close to obligation holiday season. Another guy fell under a spell from something evil and went video gamer in real life with real weapons.
People are hiding scared because they don't have panic buttons by the cash registers in the stores like they ought to have. We need flashy things in the malls now too, for emergency evacuations.
The guy wore a mask. I don't care what they say it was, Anony-mask, Jason-mask, ski-mask, even the Scream mask, it doesn't matter. Someone planned an evil thing and went through with it. Maybe he didn't have a date for Christmas dance, I don't know. After the fact of shedding blood, I don't care what the excuse is, it'd be a lie. You go that far, enchanted or not, there will be consequences.
Maybe there were three guys. Maybe it was one. Maybe it was a couple dozen gun hobbyists and one psycho that ruined them all.
I know for sure, in conspiracy-ville, the details will be muted to keep copycats from doing it again. Of course this guy will have a history of having a life that resembles something normal, and some of ATS's readers may have known him or them. Maybe he's in the high school yearbook for "most likely to go psycho in a mall".
Today I'm blaming video games not guns.
What a year, and the world isn't even over yet.