CARRY AT YOUR LOCAL MALL: More Christmas season gang violence at “no guns” Wisconsin Mall

Carry.  Your.  Gun.

Especially at your local mall, which seem to have become havens for feral youth to hang out and get into arguments and “disputes”.

Madison, Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal) – One person was injured in a shooting Saturday afternoon at East Towne Mall that sent a panic through shoppers and closed the mall six days before Christmas and on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain said a 19-year-old man was taken to a hospital with a non-life-threatening leg wound after a dispute between two groups of teenage males at the mall turned violent.

“We don’t believe this is related to terrorism. This was obviously not a mass shooting. This is not an active shooter,” DeSpain said. “This is an incident where we had young people as we have seen in many areas of the city who were in a dispute and one of them pulled out a firearm and unfortunately shot a gun in the middle of East Towne Mall on the busiest shopping day of the year.”

Of course, the East Towne Mall is a GUN FREE ZONE.  Even for off-duty cops.  Nothing like hanging out the welcome mat from violent criminal predators!

Clearly, these gang bangers paid about as much attention to that mall policy as you should.

Here, in fact, is that mall’s “Code of Conduct”.  What a joke.  Emphasis added.  How many of these things have you seen from unruly teens on your last visit (however many months or years ago that might have been) to your local mall?

1. Using obscene language, obscene gestures, or racial, religious or ethnic slurs.
2. Violence, threats of violence, fighting, physical abuse or physically or verbally threatening any person, or hostility of any kind.
3. Annoying others through noisy or boisterous activities, unnecessary staring or following someone through the mall and parking lot.
4. Sexually explicit language or conduct.
5. Yelling, screaming, singing, playing musical instruments, radios or other sound generating equipment or otherwise communicating in a manner which creates noises of sufficient volume to impinge on the hearing or peace of other mall patrons.
6. Standing or stopping on stairs or escalators in such a manner as to impede the flow of pedestrian traffic. Improper use of escalators, elevators or stairs.
7. Running, wrestling, horseplay, skating, skate boarding, rollerblading and/or riding a scooter; or otherwise being disruptive or creating a disturbance, obstructing or interfering with the free flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic or with patron’s view of doorways, windows, and/or other merchant or mall displays. Bicycles and Segways must be used in accordance with bicycle and vehicle safety rules.
8. Assembling, demonstrating, parading, picketing, marching, walking abreast in groups and/or loitering for the purpose of disturbing the peace or any unlawful purpose, disrupting the shopping enjoyment of customers, or disrupting the intended business use of the mall.
9. Any form of solicitation, sales of products or services, or distributing handbills, leaflets, commercial advertising or promotional material of any kind or offering samples of items, which are sold, available for sale or available in exchange for a donation or contribution without prior written permission of mall management.
10. Engaging in any act, activity or behavior which by its nature is illegal and/or in violation of any statute, law, rule or ordinance.
11. Attendance of children (under age 18) during school hours unaccompanied by a parent, teacher or legal guardian (excluding school holidays and home schooled students). Unaccompanied children ages 16-17 may produce proof of reduced school hours or completion thereof.
12. Displaying or wearing any item which depicts sexually explicit activity, illegal activity or obscene or offensive language, wearing clothing or lack of clothing that is likely to create a disturbance or embroil others in open conflict or that offends community standards of decency, or that impinges on the sensitivities of others in the mall.
13. Failing to wear shoes and a shirt.
14. Gang activity, including wearing of apparel intended to indicate gang membership or to communicate gang behavior. This includes the use of gang symbols or slogans.
15. …Carrying or displaying weapons of any kind except those carried by certified law enforcement officers in the performance of their duties.  Yes, even off-duty cops are prohibited from carrying at the mall, per policy.
    
16. Being intoxicated and/or possessing or being under the influence of illegal drugs.
17. Possessing any open container of alcohol or consuming alcohol anywhere except in businesses licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.
18. Selling or providing alcohol or tobacco products to underage persons; purchasing alcohol or tobacco products by underage persons.