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On January 31st, a 32-year old man walked into a Target store in Omaha, Nebraska carrying a semi-automatic rifle and fired off several rounds. Thankfully no one was injured, except for the shooter him.
In a span of just 10 minutes, Joseph Jones entered a west Omaha Target store with an AR-15 style rifle, fired multiple shots and was killed by a responding officer.
In the last three years of his life, Joseph Jones was repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia and delusions that a drug cartel was after him. The Nebraska man once lay down on a highway in Kansas because he wanted to be run over by a truck, but officers tackled him as he ran in front of vehicles. Time and time again, his family and the police took away his guns.