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Media Blackout: Oregon Mall Shooter Was Stopped By An Armed Citizen

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While reports of Tuesday’s shooting at the Clackamas Town Center Mall in Oregon, dominated the national media, until Friday’s horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, one very important detail has been repeatedly (and intentionally) left out of the MSM’s coverage.
 
The shooter, Jacob Tyler Roberts, was confronted with an armed citizen, at which time he ran away and shot himself. By the time police arrived on the scene, Roberts was already dead.
 
That armed man was 22-year-old Nick Meli, who was at the mall shopping with a young woman who was babysitting her friend’s baby
 
 
This guy is somewhat of a hero.  He may have stopped more bloodshed. Of course we will never know and most people will never even hear about the guy but this is why you cant fix these kinds of problems by disarming people.  Thegovernment is trying tofix this problem the same way they are trying to fix Afghanistan.  Not going to work.  Make this viral if you can, let people know a gun saved lives that day.  ~Ophelia



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    • Anonymous

      You brainless man, if guns wasn’t as freely available as candy in the USA and drilled in to you from birth with your culture then these senseless crimes wouldn’t happen as much as they do in your so called :wink: peace loving country.

      • apache5

        People like you are the ones brainwashed, your an idiot!

      • Richard - Reporter

        There is no doubt that guns are freely available in the USA but the root of the problem is mental illness not guns. Americans seem to think that they can legislate their way out of a problem like this but it takes, research, and resources to control or even cure mental illness. It is very clear that one party in America seems to think that the government should provide and legislate “stuff” for their citizens but this is a problem that will not go away through government intervention. Studies from Brazil, Russia, UK and countless other countries prove without doubt that harsh gun control laws do make any significant (for that matter any) difference.
        Banning violent video games would probably have more of an impact.

      • Stan

        “A”….. I can appreciate your feelings on this because on the surface, what you say sure sounds good, but in reality simply is wrong. The deadliest mass shooting occurred in Norway, which has a total gun ban. Gun-Free-Zones simply become easy targets for perpetrators who have evil intent. Evil exists in this world and there is no law created by man that will stop it. Our society has degenerated and we can argue the causes and maybe do something about it, but until then, we need to arm our schools and stop creating gun free zones. That nut who killed those in the Aurora movie theater drove from his home and passed two other theaters to get to the one that declared on a placard “This is a gun free zone”. Figure it out…..

        April 9, 2011, 9:16 AM
        7 killed, 15 wounded in Dutch mall shooting

        Jul. 23, 2011, 12:17 AM
        At Least 91 Dead In Norway After Gunman Goes On Rampage At Youth Camp, Bombs Oslo

      • Smith

        If you want peace you must prepare for war.

    • Maya3ahau

      It is like any other “power” it can be used for good or evil. It is not the fault of the tool used.

    • Anonymous

      If guns are banned – only criminals and the government will have them. That’s NOT a democracy or a republic – that’s TYRANNY!

      Please – America – don’t be bamboozled. A man was just arrested in LA yesterday for killing his grandmother – with a BBQ fork. Are we stupid enough to think that only guns are used in murders? What’s next – no sharp implements? IF you want that life – there are two places you can go: a mental asylum or a jail. Oh dear – we KNOW there are sharp instruments in jails, they have murders all the time. Guess you’d best commit yourself to the local mental institution and hope there are no criminals there.

      A murderer will commit a murder if they have to use their bare hands. This “boy” was mentally unstable – else he would NOT have been on Prozac!!!!!

    • Anne Marie

      Guns are not killers, people who use them are. Rocks, Knives, tall buildings, they can kill. If there were no guns, people will find other ways to kill, they do it all the time in jails and prisons. People who think that taking something away from a bad person, that the bad person will not be able to kill, people who believe this ARE BRAINLESS!!!

    • Caduceus

      During the Depression NYC was the largest city on the planet second only to London! During the Depression and into the 1950′s the New York City Public High Schools had….gun clubs! That’s right, VARSITY RIFLE CLUBS, ARCHERY CLUBS AND FENCING CLUBS!!! The rifle and archery ranges were in the basement of the schools! Andrew Jackson HS in Queens, one of the older HS’s that existed at the time, has had its rifle range in the basement walled off! Such notables as Stuyvesant HS had it’s Rifle Club established in 1905! HS gun, archery and fencing teams competed against each other just like basketball, foot ball and track teams did!! Imagine, high school kids, in the largest city on earth, armed with guns, bows and arrows, and swords, during a depression…. and yet not ONE incident of a gun massacre!! Why? Because in those days if a child misbehaved in school they were not sent to “time out” rooms or to “counseling” or pumped full of Ritalin! Rather, their parents were called and they LOVINGLY got the “hell” smacked out of them when they got home! Their school environment did not entertain the teaching of how to properly apply a condom, the glorification of homosexuality, the glorification of a relativistic pagan morality or the multicultural bastardization of American history! The schools then did not house day-care centers during school hours to accommodate the babies of their un-wed 10th graders!! The Pledge Of Allegiance was recited over the Loud Speaker along with the singing of “My Country Tis of Thee” in each room every morning! Teachers were respected, parents were respectful and children were taught right from wrong and obedience with consequences! Prayer occurred in school! A teacher could have a Bible on the desk! Christmas was celebrated for what it was, a “Mass” celebrating the “Mission” of Christ! The devil was the BAD guy, not a dark fad emulated by today’s morose empty-soul youths symbolized by their wearing of black Goth clothing. 20 innocent children viciously destroyed! The gun didn’t make him do it, the devil did! The same devil America invited in, when it kicked God out!

      • jambalaya

        So very well said! Thank you.

    • g-man

      uh.. he was an off duty cop.
      not an armed citizen.

      • Banderman

        Duh, pretty much the same, unless your claim is an off-duty cop is not an armed citizen.

      • StraightDopes

        You’re not making any sense, g-man. Are you saying that cops are somehow not citizens?

    • Blackie the faithful border collie

      If these pathetic arguments are given credence, then lets take it on to the next level. H bombs dont kill, people do, i want me a H bomb, now. Squawk!

    • SonicBrain

      Come on you people , who want to kill a mass number of people, they will kill anyway … was not the gun that kill innocent kids , but the guy behind it , the gun was just a tool used , if he did not have a fire weapon , would be a dirt bomb , a car , knife etc …. dont u guys ready the news whats happen in another countries ? get out from the box !

    • Anonymous

      We can never do that, because criminals never obey any law, that is the fact you conveniently left out. Law-abiding citizens will do that as the title indicates.

      Therefore, using plain logic, when you ban guns, ONLY THE CRIMINALS WILL HAVE THEM.

      The proof is in all the massacres where the victims were unarmed! Throughout history all massacres occur when the victims are unarmed.

      As further proof of your illogic, that you think is workable. Lemme ask you this.

      I will do as you say and ban guns under one condition. THAT YOU GUARANTEE ME THAT CRIMINALS WILL NOT HAVE ONE EITHER.

      But you can’t right, SO GET OFF MY BACK.

    • Anonymous

      “when you ban guns, ONLY THE CRIMINALS WILL HAVE THEM”

      or the political tyrants, or the Nazis, or the military.

      An unarmed society is a herded society.

      What if the citizens of various countries that Nazi Germany invaded were armed like America? Nazi Germany would have disintegrated and died in moments…end of war, end of Nazis. no concentration camps, no trains…just dead Nazis.

    • Cap-Z-ro

      I wonder how many bullets the guy that stabbed all those people in China had in his knife ?

    • cr8r

      Exactly. Today NPR ran a story on a more potent form of avian virus that was lab created and could wipe out main livestock in days. No bullets needed there to weaponize that virus. Should we have gun control? You decide, but for me the greater issue is bringing back basic respect for each other and our rights to a full life. Show me people who care about each other, yet most of us won’t even great each other in the street with eye contact and we say oh well it’s a cultural thing. Learn to look a strange in the eye and see the same humanity in them and then the rest might fall into place. We are losing the human connection with others and once you dehumanize someone else it’s easy to pump them full of bullets, or pills, or some virus.

    • StraightDopes

      lol

      :lol:

      It was probably a very large knife. Congresswoman McCarthy would call it an “assault knife.”

    • StraightDopes

      Bahh – comments aren’t nesting correctly. I was replying to Cap-z-ro

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