All You Need to Know About Why "The Mall will be Closed Today"

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Meanwhile:

A man in a private security uniform stabbed eight people at a Minnesota shopping mall ... [Chief Blair] Anderson said the man reportedly made at least one reference to Allah and asked a victim if they were Muslim before attacking them. But he declined to call it an act of terrorism, saying the motive was still unknown.

Uniform? Mall security?  The guys supposed to provide protection after requiring patrons to be disarmed?  And good call there Chief -- guaranteed not to offend the "right people"! Using that same "logic," I guess Maj. Hassan didn't commit an act of terrorism either.

And what stopped him? A man with a gun. Duh.

I took this at a local mall in Akron, one that recently lost a major anchor and is quickly turning into a ghost town:

Sorry, guys -- if you want to compound brick-and-mortar non-competitiveness with a requirement to put my life in your deliberately indifferent and potentially malicious hands, I really can get most of what I need without checking my safety at the door.

By the same token, some of the higher-end malls around here are packed on weekends, with everybody out shopping like there's no tomorrow.

Perhaps they have a point.