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Four people were shot and killed, including an assailant, and at least three others were wounded on Sunday in two incidents, including one at a crowded shopping mall in Kansas City, police said.

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mrbs
April 29, 2007, 9:06 p.m.
here we go ... got to get them there guns . they keep jumping in peoples hands and shooting people
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Obaku
April 29, 2007, 9:08 p.m.
Yet another shooting in a 'gun free zone'.
I see a parallel to 'free spech zones'.
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jonmaverick
April 29, 2007, 9:10 p.m.
I don't think anybody is blaming the guns for the brutality of any of the recent killings, just for the efficiency.
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ADAGUY
April 29, 2007, 9:10 p.m.
Makes you wonder if anyone was there who normally packed heat when not in a gun free zone?
By the way, since it was a gun free zone, why didn't the shooter leave his gun in the car?
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Teech
April 29, 2007, 9:12 p.m.
Malls and Post Offices used to be relatively safe places....gives new meaning to "shop till you drop......"
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nikkibabe
April 29, 2007, 9:15 p.m.
So, what Bush and Laura going to do?. Go to Kansas and give lecture about constitutional right to buy guns and shoot in public places?. What a pathetic country.
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xtaylor0022x
April 29, 2007, 9:33 p.m.
lol, that was a good comment teech..it made me laugh =]
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vulcan20
April 29, 2007, 9:50 p.m.
And the reporter whips it into a frenzy again. The police said it was a long gun, so it was either an assult rifle or shotgun. I think the reporter is trying to build things into the story instead of just reporting the facts.
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PsychoHosebeast
April 30, 2007, 10:06 a.m.
Yeah right. It worked so well in the wild west, surely it'll be great this days--especially for sackless wimps that can't back up what they lay down.
The absolute fact is, what difference does it make if it's against the law to CCW? Anyone can carry a gun, whether it's illegal or not--so what's stopping you? Fear? Funny how people like you are afraid to break a simple CCW law, which, if you get caught, costs you a couple hundred bucks and you may lose your gun... seems like taking that chance is a small price to pay, given the chance that alternatively you may get your big chance to be a hero and blaze away at the mall gunning down lunatics.
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rimbaud
April 30, 2007, 12:40 p.m.
Why concealed weapons? Why not wear them like they did in the Wild Wild West?
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kfolive
April 29, 2007, 10:02 p.m.
Yeah lets keep making those guns because people kill people. This is not even a sane argument. Guns begat guns begat guns and forever more there will be large numbers of deaths that should have and would have never happened. I dont understand why people (being the perfect creatures that we are) dont get that. JEEZ!
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SlapALib
April 29, 2007, 10:11 p.m.
The revolution is finally starting. . .
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xtaylor0022x
April 29, 2007, 10:34 p.m.
kfolive-i would just like to say that i am a perfect creature. ooooooook? GET WITH THAT.
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jhnsm68
April 29, 2007, 10:41 p.m.
"Police said the mall shooter used "a long gun" and would not clarify whether it was an assault rifle or shotgun."
I guess the reporter for CNN thinks there are only two types of long guns, that being "assault rifles" and shotguns. It just shows how little reporters know ... or how closed minded they are
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billtheirishman
April 29, 2007, 10:53 p.m.
hello im new on netscape. as you can tell from my name im irish. well northern irish (UK) from belfast. netscape has been my default page for about a year and iv always been reading these stories of tihngs happening in america then casualy reading the silly arguments. but i hav to ask why are guns legal in america. i know its in your constitution that you have the right to bare arms. but whoever decided that is just being rediculous. the thought that in america anyone could be walking around with a tool specifically designed to efficiently kill people is scarey. i mean humans often act irrationaly and idiocly when angered.im not saying if guns were illegal there would be no murder, just people would lack the means to easily do it. i dont know if carrying a blade is legal in america, but you cant really go on a killing spree with a swiss army knife. someone would just knock your ballix in.
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Obaku
April 29, 2007, 10:59 p.m.
If you really need to be afraid of something, motor vehicles are the #1 cause of accidental death, consistently 40,000/year and up.
Heart disease kills 600,000.
Firearms? 1500/year. 3300/year die of suffocation, mostly by choking on food. You are about as likely to choke to death on that chicken bone as to shoot yourself or someone else.
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nikkibabe
April 29, 2007, 10:59 p.m.
Bush says he is fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq while he makes it a right for terrorists here in this country to buy guns and shoot civilians and students.
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billtheirishman
April 29, 2007, 11:10 p.m.
your government really needs to get its act together. my girlfriends dad said to me tonite " i dont like american music, americans and their music are full of s**t" . his views are generated from these rediculous stories we hear on the news every week. all these awful things happening and stupid f'ing overly patriotic americans going on about their "rights". they need to put a sock in it. your beautiful countries name is dragged threw the dirt every morning on the news. sort it out georgey boy. someone better sort it out or american will continue to look like an embarassing joke of a nation. they need to start with getting an intelligent president. i actually met george bush on his visit to belfast, at an event he was invited to. i honestly have never seen a more detatched idiot in my life. it was like saying hello to a brick with a stupid smile and s**t for brains. your leadership is the source of all problems.
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el-jefe
April 29, 2007, 11:48 p.m.
You do realize that there have only been 6 mass shootings (defined as 10 or more killed) in the United States in the last 40 years? (You can add a seventh if you go back 41 years and add in the Charles Whitman tower shootings, but Texas was a blue state back then.)
Of the 6, 3 happened in Texas, Oklahoma, and Florida; clearly red states. The other two happened in Georgia (which is a patchwork red and blue state that currently leans red), Colorado (ditto), and California (fairly blue even if they have a red governor).
Of course, since there are 44 states that have not had a mass shooting in the last 40 years, I'd say the data is pretty sketchy.
Incidently, in that same span of time, there were also mass shootings in Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and 2 in the UK. Deduce from that whatever you will.
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architekker
April 30, 2007, 12:14 p.m.
Well, most gun deaths comes from blue area. 3300 americans die a year from guns death. Most of them is from Los Angles (drive by shooting) and is a blue area. New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Wash. D.C. highest crime rate in the world is all gun control cities and blue area. Hmmm I wonder about that?
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billtheirishman
April 29, 2007, 11:20 p.m.
no obaku i wasnt refering to accidental shootings.....
and where the hell do you get the idea that the irish are the ones throwing stones? people have this idea of ireland as some sort of third world country. its rediculous, my dad works for microsoft for goodness sake. my brother is playing a ps3 inmy room as we speak. the local paramilitary groups parade around with their assualt rifles about 4 times a year. i guess they just dont kill INNOCENT people becasue we are better people.
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billtheirishman
April 29, 2007, 11:23 p.m.
sorry rickythegriff. i didnt mean to insult americans in general. i was just refering to the way you country appears to non americans. my cousin recently married in to a lovely family near san fransisco. im good friends with a good few americans and enjoy visiting twice a year. it really is a lovely place.