Police responding to shooting at Texas mall, multiple people injured
Source: REUTERS
May 6, 20236:22 PM EDTLast Updated 4 min ago
May 6 (Reuters) - Police were responding to a shooting at a busy suburban Dallas mall on Saturday that left multiple people injured, authorities said.
There was no word on deaths or the number of people injured at the Allen Premium Outlets mall where the shooting took place, about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Dallas.
Video footage from local media showed police officers hurrying shoppers out of the mall, with squad cars and emergency vehicles parked near entryways.
Blood could be seen on sidewalks outside the mall and white sheets covering what appeared to be bodies.
Allen Police Department and Collin County officials were not immediately available to comment.
"Law enforcement is on the scene at Allen Premium Outlets. An active investigation is underway. Please avoid the area until further update," the Allen Police Department said in a Twitter post.
Allen, Texas, is a community of about 100,000 people.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-responding-shooting-texas-mall-texas-multiple-injured-2023-05-06/
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Too many, too many, too many in this crazy land are not safe. Are not here anymore. 
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TEXAS MALL SHOOTING
- Outlet mall in Allen, Texas
- Man arrived in car, stopped at H&M
- Got out and immediately opened fire
- Video shows him shooting at random
- 'Pile of bodies' in front of H&M sign
- At least 5 dead, others injured
- Suspect confirmed dead
- Motive unknown
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and to the Gunpublic for which they shoot, one Guntion
under Guns, unregulatable, with ammo and death for all."
WTF is up? So many toxic men in this country!
That was how the CNN anchor put it.
The youngest victim is only five years old. One of nine victims. And that’s just what we know about now.
For years now, after one massacre or another, I have written some version of the same article, explaining that the nation’s current gun free-for-all is not traditional but, rather, is a symptom of the takeover of our nation by a radical extremist minority. The idea that massacres are “the price of freedom,” as right-wing personality Bill O’Reilly said in 2017 after the Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas, in which a gunman killed 60 people and wounded 411 others, is new, and it is about politics, not our history.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution, on which modern-day arguments for widespread gun ownership rest, is one simple sentence: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” There’s not a lot to go on about what the Framers meant, although in their day, to “bear arms” meant to be part of an organized militia.
As the Tennessee Supreme Court wrote in 1840, “A man in the pursuit of deer, elk, and buffaloes might carry his rifle every day for forty years, and yet it would never be said of him that he had borne arms; much less could it be said that a private citizen bears arms because he has a dirk or pistol concealed under his clothes, or a spear in a cane.”
Today’s insistence that the Second Amendment gives individuals a broad right to own guns comes from two places...
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2023
Often gun-lovers don't even bother with Thoughts-n-Prayers anymore.
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...Hey Gov. Abbott! Isn't time for you and your state figure out what is happening in your state?
Waco, Sutherland Springs, El Paso, Dallas, Fort Worth, Uvalde, Cleveland, Allen!
These just some of towns where there has a mass shooter kill your own state’s citizens. It’s time for less violence and more accountability and action from your state alone! Yes, there are mass shooting incidents in our states and way too many here in the last few months and years, nearly all of them are happening in the state of Texas where you are the governor. I’m not asking too much, but it’s high time to be a little more than concerned! Just how many more innocent lives will be lost before your cowardly inactions finally stop? It’s not about gun rights or freedom, it’s about protecting your own constituents who live in Texas!
for the correction.
