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I would really like to know exactly how Augusta Mall Security plans to enforce a five year ban. I'm not being sarcastic, I'd just really like to know.

they really can't, but if he is found on mall property he will be charged with criminal trespass.

They give that ban to everyone they find on property who commits a crime. Shoplifters get the same thing. No big deal but the AC felt they had to point it out I guess.

Sure is nice not to read about a home invasion; robbery; or another killing for a change. Keep up the good work RCSO!!!

what in the hell was alex doing carrying a gun anyway?

Is it really that bad to be banned from the mall? So you can't buy overpriced clothes anymore or watch gangbangers hit on teenyboppers. I've been in a self-imposed mall ban for about 2 years now.

GuyIncognito... do you seriously think that the only people who go to the mall are gangbangers or teenyboppers? You remind of me of a very haughty and cowardly person I once had the unfortunate experience of knowing.

When did Deputy Cramer get a warrant or obtain permission to enter and search the premises of the Cinnabon kitchen?

jnharding,Deputy Charles Cramer was in the food court when he saw a silver reflection coming from Mr. Travis' pants pocket, the report said.

An office does not have to have a warrent if they are in a "plain view search". It would have been extremely unwise, not to mention a complete disregard for the welfare of people at the mall if the officer had not pursued finding the gun and arresting the offender.

So this person was in the kitchen area? Does Alex work or did he work at the Cinnabon? And now he is unemployeed? Why was he carrying a gun to work at the mall. Oh maybe so that incase someone in Augusta decides to commit sucide and take out half the shoppers with him he will have protection at the mall to defend himself with? Possible maybe?

Boy I heard the mall was bad, but dang!

I think its downright unconstitutional that he was banned from the mall for simply possessing a firearm. The article says nothing about whether he was licensed to carry the gun. Are all guns banned, or just certain guns carried by certain people? I'm quite certain the NRA would be interested to know how Augusta Mall is trying to curtail the 2d amendment. There's a lot of presumptions being made about the two paragraphs presented. Frankly, no mall is safe and if I want to carry a gun, particularly in a place like Augusta Mall, I should be allowed to do so legally.

Ignore the liberal crowd dani. Any person with common sense knows that Deputy Kramer did the right thing pursuing the thug that could have resulted in the loss of innocent life. I was there and I know what kind a person he was. He was showing it off like some big shot. A decent law abiding citizen would have never done that. In fact, you would have never known they had it in the first place.

Amen dani & scumridder

All of you that are defending Alex, let him hang out with you and your love ones if you have any. As for me, if I have to carry a gun my plan is to use it. You might step on my toe and don't say excuse me, then I am [filtered word], you might get shot. So good job RCSD. One down many more to go.

You know the AC is a rag, are you really surprised?

good answer opinonatedwoman. it's scary that so many on here know so little about the law.do you really think a 19 yr old has a permit for a weapon? you cannot carry weapons into the mall, folks! baroness, we're not quite back to the wild west yet.imagine if we all carried weapons at say a ballgame and a fight ensued? that's why you can't legally.we are still a civilized society and will be even better when we can wead out the trash who will not live by our laws

wait if it was in view how was it concealed? lol

i don't know mr travis and i am not defending him, but, i wonder how many of the people that have been killed at malls would have loved for someone to have had a gun and killed the shooter before he killed innocent people? the cops cannot be everywhere all the time and with all the senseless crime we are experiencing around the country i think it is time to pack some heat and help the poor over-worked and under-paid cops!

Ok, say the officer saw the young man with the gun and decided that since the 2nd Amendment says we can possess firearms, just ignores him. The guy with the gun opens fire on innocent mall shoppers. If this were the headline, and you read this, you would ask why the officer did not arrest the man when he saw that he had a gun. Think about it, I read this paper every day and the rants and raves are always trashing someone's actions. Today, you trash the fact that the officer arrested this man for carrying a gun in the mall. Tomorrow, someone goes to a mall and guns down people, when cops saw that he had a gun, and you'll be trashing that officer b/c he did nothing to stop him. Everytime I read this paper, I see someone trashing police officers and their actions. Why such hatred for cops? I don't hate cops, and I don't love them, but when there is a headline that includes them, I put myself in their position and try to see which person was at fault. Yes, the cop that bought a teen some beer-he was WRONG, but the one in the mall, I think, did the right thing. Obviously this is only my opinion, but I'm glad everyone was safe once the day was over.

Well said mommato, I don't think a 19 year old need to be walking around with a loaded weapon at the mall or any where else in public. I know there is a lot of bad peoples out there just waiting to take advantage of someone, but how can we tell the good from the bad. If I had seen him with a weapon I would not have felt comfortable in the area with him. I would have call RCSD and reported it. Because there was no need for the weapon at the mall, if he was a cop that is different, but other than that, he was a threat to the public.

I am just curious. Is there a law permitting carrying a concealed snake in the mall?

I think the officer did the citizens a favor by arresting the person with the gun. Let's think here people why would you carry a gun if you didn't plan on using it. I do recall just this past holiday a teenager went crazy and shot and killed innocent people in a mall for no reason at all. If he rampaged the mall then we would blame security for not doing there job. "D@mned if you do and D@mned if you don't."

baroness, I have a denim purse Rambo loves to hide in. I use to take him with me to a lot of places till I became afraid someone would snatch my purse.

By the way did the teenager work at Cinnabon? If he did I guess since he is banned from the mall he is basically out of a job. (what a shame)

Its so funny. When the white people saw his name. He automatically became a thug. What a coincidence. Even though he didn't even commit a crime. Then one poster said he was showing it off. Who would be stupid enough to show off a gun in the mall. The utah mall shooter, the white kid who actually killed people. Never was called a thug. He was just called a kid with a trouble past. What a coincidence. Just the columbine shooters, never once called thugs eithr.

Now I only carry him in my purse if my husband is with me. When it is warm weather, I carry him around my shoulders if I am going through a drive thru or the pet store. Also a bank walkup teller machine. He loves to go bye bye.

He stays right around my shoulders, but he expects to be petted. He is also curious.Most people only have to be near him less than 5 minutes and they are not afraid of him anymore.

I'm all for allowing weapons in the mall, so long as you leave it with the nice lady at the informantion desk.