>>>This is about 2 miles from where I live. New mall, looks like many across the nation.
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>>>http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/3287203/
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>>>Yeah, malls are really a safe place for your 12-year old to be walking around alone.
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>>Of course it's not safe:
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>>1. The mall is in the U.S.
>>2. Not everyone in that mall had guns
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>>It'd be too expensive to move the mall to another country. The solution, then, is to make sure everyone in the mall has a gun. Then it'll be perfectly safe.
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>Not sure what the whole gun thing is you have going on there. I don't think I was taking sides with that.

At just about the same time you started this thread, John Harvey started one on "Guns or Knives".

Rather than just bemoan the problem at the mall, I thought I'd offer a constructive, all-American solution to the obvious problem. A synthesis of the two threads, as it were.