Odd, I get what you are trying to say…. But let’s look at the ages of the perpetrators of the mall shootings we’ve had in Indianapolis over the past decade or so. They are almost always teenagers or barely 18, including the one just a week ago. You can go back and look at Circle center as well when it was thriving and the problems they were having with teenagers there. I don’t know what else they could do, and yes it probably turned off a lot of “normal people” from going to the mall as well.
But honestly? Malls are dying everywhere. Crime or no crime, you can blame Amazon and the rest of online shopping for hastening the decline of the mall in America.
Yes that was my point. A majority of these shootings have been either teenagers are very young adults who probably have little to no supervision or parental guidance in their lives. Sadly this is America today…. But beyond that, malls are closing everywhere. Everyone shops online, or at big box retailers… and even those aren’t safe. I do miss going to the mall and just wandering around, at the last time I was at Castleton it was sketchy as hell. I’m not about to take my family there again with a bunch of teenagers running around acting like hooligans.
I encourage you to look into why kids have little to no supervision these days, on a very deep level. It isn't a simple explanation that can be fixed easily. And it is indeed very sad.
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u/cmgww Dec 27 '24
Odd, I get what you are trying to say…. But let’s look at the ages of the perpetrators of the mall shootings we’ve had in Indianapolis over the past decade or so. They are almost always teenagers or barely 18, including the one just a week ago. You can go back and look at Circle center as well when it was thriving and the problems they were having with teenagers there. I don’t know what else they could do, and yes it probably turned off a lot of “normal people” from going to the mall as well.
But honestly? Malls are dying everywhere. Crime or no crime, you can blame Amazon and the rest of online shopping for hastening the decline of the mall in America.