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

Guns don't kill people. Knives kill people. At least in this case that's what they were trying to do.