Welcome to Chicken Little America, Where People Panic Over Nothing

By Bob Owens

Twice this weekend, my fellow Americans engaged in mass panic over absolutely nothing.

In Raleigh, NC, reports of an “active shooter” at the food court in Crabtree Valley Mall led to a full on panic that put 12 people in local hospital emergency rooms with injuries resulting from falls and being trampled.

The panic appears to be completely unfounded. There were no shooting victims, no signs of bullet impacts anywhere in the mall, no shell casings, no suspects, and no arrests, all because there was no shooting.

Police were called to the Triangle’s largest mall just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday on the report of gunshots fired, but, after four hours of searching, they found no shooter, no one who had a gunshot wound and no shell casings.

“We have not determined that there was a shooter,” said Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown on Saturday. “We’re looking at all possibilities.”

Security was increased at the mall Sunday, but police said that after interviewing all witnesses to the incident, there is …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms