I suppose it's better than their cafeteria food.
"Chick-fil-A-carrying gunman guilty" by Jessica Gresko | Associated Press, February 07, 2013
WASHINGTON — A Virginia man pleaded guilty Wednesday to wounding a security guard at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group, a shooting that made headlines in part because the man was carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches.
Floyd Corkins II, 28, acknowledged in a plea agreement that he intended to kill as many people as possible during the August shooting at the Family Research Council. He also planned to target other organizations that oppose gay marriage if he wasn’t stopped.
Corkins intended to smear the sandwiches in the faces of his victims to make a statement about gay rights opponents, he acknowledged during a hearing Wednesday. Chick-fil-A was making headlines at the time because of its president’s stated opposition to gay marriage.
According to the plea agreement, he told FBI agents who interviewed him after the shooting that he wanted to use the sandwiches to ‘‘make a statement against the people who work in that building . . . and with their stance against gay rights and Chick-fil-A.’’
Prosecutors said Wednesday that Corkins was allowed to enter the downtown Washington headquarters of the Family Research Council on Aug. 15 after he said he was interviewing for an internship. After approaching a security guard and being asked for identification, he took a pistol from a backpack he was carrying. He fired three shots, and one of them struck security guard Leonardo Johnson in the arm. But Johnson managed to wrestle away the gun, and police arrested Corkins.
Corkins acknowledged as part of his plea agreement that he had taken a number of steps to plan the shooting. He bought the pistol the week before and practiced firing it. He also visited the headquarters of the Family Research Council, and he purchased the Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches the day before the shooting.
Corkins was filmed picking out the gun by a French television crew doing a piece on the ease with which firearms can be purchased in the United States.
Reminds me of the luck of the Naudet brothers who just happened to catch the first plane crash in the WTC (if that is indeed what we saw).
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Also see: Gay Gunman Hated Chick-fil-A Sandwich
Chick-fil-A Against Gays
Time for me to go get some chow.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Deep-fried food may raise stroke risk
Then I need not worry.
