Loud noises and false gun report panic shoppers in California

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Jim MacMillan

Shoppers could be seen running for safety inside the Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento, CA, on the day after Christmas, in this video which was shared via YouTube.

Mall security officials reported that teens were fighting in the food court when a sign fell, making a loud “bang” sound, “somebody said ‘gun,’ and things just went spinning from there,” according to a story at sacbee.com.

Sources are speculating that the 4,000 shoppers in the mall at the time may have been reacting to recent mass shootings, such as in Newtown, Connecticut, or the mall shooting in Happy Valley, Oregon.

Three teens were arrested.

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Ice cream and bullets

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Jim MacMillan

One of the goals of the #GunCrisis project is to disrupt the normalization of gun crime.

For instance:

Ice cream man said people are out to see what happened after the shooting, I can make some sales #Philly

— Randy Reid (@DubR54) May 18, 2012

Let’s stop acting like violent crime is a day at the park.

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Inquirer Editorial: The broadened castle doctrine clearly should be repealed

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Jim MacMillan

Restoring sanity to the state’s castle doctrine doesn’t mean going soft on crime.

At the same time, Harrisburg lawmakers could take other sensible steps to improve gun safety in the state, including requiring the reporting of lost or stolen weapons, enacting a one-gun-a-month limit on legal purchases, closing the so-called Florida loophole that allows Pennsylvanians denied a gun permit in their community to obtain a legal permit in another state, and requiring background checks for every

READ THE FULL POST: http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20120407_Florida_shooting_could_spur_Pa__gun-law_reforms.html

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