"Law murky in cases where gun owners are mentally ill; Weapons seized for safekeeping often returned" by Michael Luo and Mike McIntire | New York Times, December 22, 2013
NEW YORK — The Russo case highlights a central, unresolved issue in the debate over balancing public safety and the Second Amendment right to bear arms: just how powerless law enforcement can be when it comes to keeping firearms out of the hands of people who are mentally ill.
They collectively kill more people than citizens but my $tatu$ quo paper of power tells me they are under siege.
Connecticut’s law giving the police broad leeway to seize and hold guns for up to a year is actually relatively strict....
As a result, the police often find themselves grappling with legal ambiguities when they encounter mentally unstable people with guns, unsure how far they can go in searching for and seizing firearms and then, in particular, how they should respond when the owners want them back.
“There is a big gap in the law,” said Jeffrey Furbee, the chief legal adviser to the Police Department in Columbus, Ohio. “There is no common-sense middle ground to protect the public.”
A vast majority of people with mental illnesses are not violent. But recent mass shootings — outside a Tucson supermarket in 2011, at a movie theater last year in Aurora, Colo., and at the Washington Navy Yard in September — have raised public awareness of the gray areas in the law. In each case, the gunman had been recognized as mentally disturbed but had never been barred from having firearms.
After the Newtown killings a year ago, state legislatures across the country debated measures that would have more strictly limited the gun rights of those with mental illness. But most of the bills failed amid resistance from both the gun lobby and mental health advocates concerned about unfairly stigmatizing people.
What remains is the uncertain legal territory at the intersection of guns and mental illness.
Examining it is difficult, because of privacy laws governing mental health and the limited availability of information on firearm ownership. But The New York Times obtained court and police records from more than 1,000 cases around the country in which guns were seized in mental-health-related episodes.
A systematic review of these cases — from cities and counties in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee — underscores how easy it is for people with serious mental health problems to have guns.
Over the past year in Connecticut, where the Times obtained some of the most extensive records of seizure cases, there were more than 180 instances of gun confiscations from people who appeared to pose a risk of “imminent personal injury to self or others.” Close to 40 percent of these cases involved serious mental illness.
Perhaps most striking, in many of the cases examined across the country, the authorities said they had no choice under the law but to return the guns after an initial seizure for safekeeping.
For example, the sheriff in Arapahoe County, Colo., had to return a .45-caliber pistol last year that officers had seized four months earlier after receiving a call that Jose Reynaldo Santiago, an Army veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, was walking around his home in the middle of the night in a catatonic state with a gun in the pocket of his bathrobe.
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"FBI unit works to curb gun violence; Holder says nearly 150 shootings have been avoided" by Eileen Sullivan | Associated Press, December 17, 2013
WASHINGTON — The FBI says it has helped to disrupt or prevent nearly 150 shootings and violent attacks this year, in part by steering potential gunmen toward mental health professionals. It is an achievement that stands out during a year when President Obama made curbing gun violence a priority, yet has had little success in getting new restrictions enacted.
More like they allowed only 150 to happen.
There have been hundreds of these disruptions since 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder recently told an audience of police chiefs, touting the behind-the-scenes work of a small FBI unit based out of Quantico, Va. In most cases, the FBI has helped potential offenders get access to mental health care.
Preventing mass shootings through threat assessments and treatment is an unusual tactic for an agency known for its crimefighting and not for interventions.
One year after the deadly mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, the White House’s biggest efforts to curb gun violence — attempts to reinstate the assault weapons ban and expand background checks for all gun purchases — failed without congressional support.
Mass shootings like the rampages in Newtown, Conn., the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard, and the Aurora, Colo., movie theater do not represent the majority of gun violence.
The constant citing of those events call them into question in one form or another.
See: Obama's Obsession
Sunday Globe Special: Aurora Anniversary
I'll deal with Sandy Hook below.
Yet when they do occur, the shock waves are strong. Many times there is the question of whether the shooter had adequate mental health treatment to prevent it from happening. Yet, in the national discourse about reducing gun violence, mental health treatment has received much less attention than banning assault weapons.
That's because of the connection to pre$cription pharmaceuticals, the funders of media advertisements and political campaigns.
The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit has been working with state and local authorities for years to profile potential offenders with the goal of preventing violent crimes like mass shootings.
So ALL the SPYING has been for PROFILING PURPOSES, too??
The prevented shootings and violent attacks from January through November represent 148 cases that a division of that unit, the Behavioral Threat Assessment Center, has conferred on during 2013. And that number is up 33 percent from 2012, Andre Simmons, unit chief of the center, said in an interview.
In the past year, this unit has received about three new cases a week referred by federal, state, local, and campus law enforcement, schools, businesses, and houses of worship, Simmons said.
And they what, need more money?
The Behavioral Threat Assessment Center gets involved when someone notifies law enforcement, for example, about troubling behavior, and law enforcement reaches the center to help assess the situation.
‘‘The people around that subject often become fearful that that outcome is catastrophic act of violence, such as an active shooting or some type of mass attack,” Simmons said.
That no one ever saw coming according to news reports regarding these lone nuts.
The center is staffed by agents and analysts of the FBI, the US Capitol Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives, and a psychiatrist. It helps local officials assess the threat the person of concern poses. And then the center recommends how to proceed.
Staged and scripted drills and hoaxes part of it?
Depending how far along the person is on the pathway to violence, Simmons said, the center makes recommendations based on the specific case. The recommendations could be arrest, if the person is involved in illegal activity, but most often, it is getting that person access to mental health care, he said.
As an example, Simmons referred to a case his unit consulted on a few years back. There was a man at a university who began to display bizarre behaviors coupled with an increasing interest in firearms, Simmons said.
This man created a makeshift shooting range in the basement of his home where he lived with roommates, and he used pictures of the roommates as bull’s-eyes for target practice. He also was involved in animal abuse, Simmons said, and he was making statements that were troubling.
Why was there not an intervention with George W. Bush then? That telegraphed the future of mass murder and torture based on lies, didn't it?
Collecting firearms and target practice are not illegal activities, but the roommates feared for their safety. So they alerted university authorities, Simmons said.
The university reached out to the FBI behavioral analysts and worked with them to develop a strategy. Working with mental health officials and campus police, a caretaking interview was arranged with the man, Simmons said. And that meeting resulted in a voluntary admission to a psychiatric facility.
‘‘Once in that facility, he was deemed to be of such compromised state, that it turned into an involuntary evaluation,” Simmons said. ‘‘And the attending physician noted as well that it was not really a question of if he would attack, but when, given the statements that he made and the thoughts he was disclosing.”
This is getting kind of scary when you see voluntary turned into involuntary.
The center was launched in fall 2010. The unit’s existence is not common knowledge around the country. But awareness is growing, as the FBI has recently been sponsoring two-day conferences about the threat of active shooters, Simmons said.
What about the cops? They have the biggest guns of all and kill more people across this country. Plus they are getting even better stuff even though crime is down.
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"$100 million for mental health announced" by Josh Lederman | Associated Press, December 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden is pledging more funding for mental health as the White House prepares to remember the first anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
The White House said President Obama and Michelle Obama will observe a moment of silence at the White House on Saturday’s anniversary in memory of the victims.
With Obama in South Africa on Tuesday, Biden met with victims’ relatives to announce that $100 million will become available for mental health services.
About $50 million will be offered to help community health centers hire providers and add services for mental illness and addiction. The government aims to provide another $50 million in financing for rural mental health facilities.
The Obama administration has made mental health a focus since gun-control legislation stalled in Congress.
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Related: Obama tweaks firearm access rules
"On the face of it, this sounds like a great idea, especially with the well-documented link between prescription anti-depressants and acts of otherwise inexplicable extreme violence. But this approach is a classic slippery slope we should avoid. We know that when the public accepted that terrorists should not have constitutional protections, terrorists were people who committed acts of terror. Now armed with a "Get out of the Constitution Free" cared, the US Government now includes supporters of that Constitution, iundeed even people reading the Old Farmer's Alamanac, as "potential terrorists" and uses that designation to justify the wholly unconstitutional NSA spying on us all.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, used to declare who is or is not mentally ill, has come under severe criticism lately for defining virtually all human behavior as some form of mental illness in order to market prescription medications to people who do not really need them (and can quite often be harmed by them). Dr. Leon Eisenberg, one of the major researchers into ADHD, which is used to market SSRIs to young people, suggested shortly before his death that ADHD was really a fictitious disease created to boost pharmaceutical sales and definitely over-diagnosed in perfectly normal human beings.
The fact is there is no absolute scientific measurement that detects mental illness in a patient; it is a purely subjective determination by those in authority. In the former USSR, those who criticized the government were declared by default mentally ill, and the danger here is that Obama will do the same. Simply by declaring that anyone who doubts the governments word on things like Saddam's nuclear weapons, Syria's Aug 21 gas attacks, or 9-11 is mentally ill, Obama can craft a nation in which only government supporters retain their second Amendment rights.
Thus, despite its apparent positive purpose, Obama's use of mental illness to bypass the Second Amendment is all about disarming the American people, coming as it does from a government that gave military style weapons to Mexican drug gangs via the Fast and Furious program!"--Whatreallyhappened
MEDIC!
"In mass attacks, a new role for medics; US guidelines allow for riskier response tactics" by Michael S. Schmidt | New York Times, December 08, 2013
"In mass attacks, a new role for medics; US guidelines allow for riskier response tactics" by Michael S. Schmidt | New York Times, December 08, 2013
WASHINGTON — Federal officials and medical experts who have studied the Boston Marathon bombings and mass shootings such as the one in Newtown, Conn., have concluded that this kind of aggressive medical response could be critical in saving lives in future episodes.
What, the crisis drills that have been reported to be live didn't go so well?
What, the crisis drills that have been reported to be live didn't go so well?
In response to those findings, the Obama administration has formally recommended that medical personnel be sent into “warm zones” before they are secured, when gunmen are still on the loose or bombs have not yet been disarmed.
“As we say, risk a little to save a little. Risk a lot to save a lot,” said Ernest Mitchell Jr., the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s fire administrator, who released guidelines on mass casualty events for first responders in September.
The guidelines said that such events, which have led to more than 250 deaths in the past decade, are “a reality in modern American life” and that “these complex and demanding incidents may be well beyond the traditional training of the majority of firefighters and emergency medical technicians.”
Are they?
Are they?
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The new focus on moving faster to treat victims follows an earlier shift in thinking about how quickly the police should respond.
In the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado, where two disaffected students killed 13 people, no police entered the school until a half-hour after the shooting began and SWAT teams arrived to respond to a highly planned attack that involved a fire bomb and other explosive devices.
If you believe that rot of regurgitation of a conventional myth from the ma$$ media.
If you believe that rot of regurgitation of a conventional myth from the ma$$ media.
After Columbine, police officials made it clear that they wanted the first officers on the scene to act immediately rather than waiting for specially trained officers with body armor and high-powered arms.
“These events, like the shootings, are usually over in 10 to 15 minutes but it often takes over an hour for everyone to get there,” said Dr. Lenworth Jacobs, a trauma surgeon who created the Hartford Consensus, which brought together experts in emergency medicine and officials from the military and law enforcement after the Newtown shooting to determine better ways to respond to mass casualties.
“We’re seeing these events in increasing frequency and unfortunately we have to change how we approach them to keep death tolls down,” Jacobs said.
Maybe if responsible citizens were armed they could stop the killers even quicker.
Maybe if responsible citizens were armed they could stop the killers even quicker.
While the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan had saved thousands of lives by practicing combat medicine developed over years of responding quickly to battlefield injuries, the medical response to the bombings last April at the Boston Marathon provided a dramatic example on American soil of how lives could be saved by acting quickly.
Was that the point of that staged and scripted event?
Was that the point of that staged and scripted event?
The bombs went off near the marathon’s finish line, where many nurses and doctors were stationed to care for injured or ill runners, and which was close to major hospitals. The bomb victims received medical assistance almost immediately, and while three people were killed, more than 200 others who were hurt — including about a dozen whose limbs were amputated — survived.
These medical professionals took a risk: They did not know how many bombs there were or if they were putting themselves in the middle of a larger attack.
The new FEMA guidelines have been embraced by state and local officials. But they have heightened concerns about the risks to first responders and whether response times for victims could grow even longer should medics be wounded in a danger zone.
They have also raised the specter that terrorists may target the first responders as they have in Iraq. In recent years, the Al Qaeda affiliate there has in many instances detonated a car bombs and then as medical personnel have arrived on the scene detonated more bombs….
So when do the CIA-Duh car bombs start going off across AmeriKa?
So when do the CIA-Duh car bombs start going off across AmeriKa?
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"Final report on Sandy Hook school shootings released" by Matt Flegenheimer | New York Times, December 28, 2013
Authorities in Connecticut released a final report Friday outlining the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012, providing the most complete account to date for one of the nation’s most wrenching massacres.
It contained hundreds of photographs, hours of video, and voluminous crime scene reports, but took care to conceal the most graphic crime scene images.
Yet painfully detailed descriptions accompanied the often-redacted pages....
Why redacted? Don't they want us to know the truth?
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Related: Sandy Hook Police Report Contains No Evidence That Mass Shooting Took Place And Strengthens Notion That Event Was A Fabricated Hoax
The truth is the Sandy Hook hoax is unraveling and everyone knows it.
"Boston remembers Newtown victims" by Gal Tziperman Lotan | Globe Correspondent, December 15, 2013
No large public memorial services were planned in Newtown on Saturday to give residents the opportunity for peaceful reflection....
Boston has had 39 homicides so far this year, according to Boston Police Department figures; 32 of them involved a firearm....
One of those mothers, Tina Chéry, who founded the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute after her 15-year-old son was caught in a gang shootout in 1993, later said she was glad to see so many people addressing gun violence. But she said she was also disheartened there were only a few people of color in the room.
Especially when they are the main victims of US empire abroad.
More should be done, Chéry said, to bridge the divide between predominantly white suburban cities and towns with little awareness of violence in urban communities of color and the neighborhoods where shootings are more commonplace.
“Race has a lot to do with it, but we don’t always like to talk about it,” Chéry said. “Murder is murder, death is death. How do we talk about healing and reconciliation where we know it’s needed? . . . That’s why we’re here.”
It's why I'm here.
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Also see:
The time fraught with pain, Newtown couple perseveres
Complete fiction with crisis actors for an interview, or parents whose children have been abducted into sexual slavery?
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A teenager who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire Friday with a shotgun at a suburban Denver high school, wounding a fellow student before killing himself....
The scene unfolded on the eve of the Newtown massacre anniversary, a somber reminder of the ever-present potential for violence in the nation’s schools….
That is just too coincidental!
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson identified the shooter as Karl Halverson Pierson, 18. The sheriff did not elaborate on any possible motive....
Two suspected Molotov cocktails were also found inside the school, the sheriff said. One detonated, though no one was injured.
The school was swiftly locked down. Within 20 minutes of the first report of a gunman, officers found Pierson’s body inside the school, Robinson said.
Several other Denver-area school districts went into lockdown as reports of the shooting spread. Police as far away as Fort Collins, about a two-hour drive north, stepped up school security. The shooting came a day before the anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., attack in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
I'm getting the feel of another staged psy-op, folks.
Arapahoe High students were seen walking toward the school’s running track with their hands in the air, and television footage showed students being patted down.
Like we would believe anything we see on ma$$ media TV anymore.
Robinson said deputies wanted to make sure there were no other conspirators. Authorities later concluded that Pierson had acted alone.
Of course -- if this event even happened at all.
Arapahoe High stands just 8 miles east of Columbine High School in Littleton, where two teenage shooters killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves in 1999. The practice of sending law enforcement directly into an active shooting, as was done Friday, was a tactic that developed in response to the Columbine shooting….
Oooooooh! Yup, what a coincidence!
Nearby neighborhoods were jammed with cars as parents sought out their children. Some parents stood in long lines at a church. One young girl who was barefoot embraced her parents, and the family began to cry.
Since Columbine, Colorado has endured other mass shootings, including the killing of 12 people in a movie theater in nearby Aurora in 2012.
But it was not until after the Newtown massacre that state lawmakers moved to enact stricter gun control laws.
Two Democratic lawmakers were recalled from office earlier this year for backing the laws, and a third recently resigned to avoid a recall election.
Meaning Coloradans said from my cold dead hands.
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"More could have been hurt in Colo. shooting; Teen went to school with several weapons" by Dan Elliott and P. Solomon Banda | Associated Press, December 15, 2013
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — An 18-year-old who wounded a fellow student before killing himself at a suburban Denver school had entered the building with a shotgun, a machete, and three incendiary devices in his backpack and had ammunition strapped to his body, authorities said Saturday.
Now he had a machete and all this gear on, huh? And he wimped out and killed himself?
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said Karl Pierson likely was motived by retaliation against a faculty member — probably a librarian at the school — when he opened fire Friday at Arapahoe High School. Robinson said it appears the librarian was the initial target, but that Pierson planned to hurt multiple people....
The sheriff believes the teen intended to harm many more people but ended up killing himself less than two minutes after entering the school because he knew a sheriff’s deputy was closing in.
I'm sorry, but this story stinks.
Students described Pierson as an outspoken, sometimes goofy, and smart student who often would talk about his beliefs during class, sometimes even debating his teachers. They also said he was an Eagle Scout who finished at the top of speech competitions.
And he was PRO GUN CONTROL and a DEMOCRAT!!
Why do other media organizations explore things in depth while my shit corporate pre$$ gives me shallow and superficial slop?
Pierson competed in extemporaneous speaking — in which students prepare short speeches on current events — in the National Forensic League’s national tournament in June in Birmingham, Ala. He didn’t advance to the elimination rounds, the league said.
This year’s school yearbook also listed him as being a member of the cross-country team.
Students said Pierson held communist views and liked to discuss current events and issues, offering his own solutions. None said Pierson was bullied for his beliefs….
Oh, he was a commie? Then he deserved to die, right?
Pierson, whose parents were divorced, lived at least part of the time with his mother in a higher-end neighborhood in suburban Highlands Ranch. The front door of the home was covered with plywood Saturday after authorities conducted a search overnight.
And he was a communist?
Challon Winer, who lives across the street from Pierson’s home, said he often would see the teen mowing the lawn or shoveling snow. ‘‘I noticed that he didn’t look extremely happy, but he was a teenager,’’ subject to the normal moods of that age group, Winer said.
What teen is happy doing that? I'm an old man and I'm not happy doing that.
Winer said Pierson’s mother, Barbara Pierson, has worked with the Neighborhood Watch group and sometimes sent e-mails reminding residents about safety precautions.
He said he didn’t know the family well.
After the shooting, authorities removed students in an orderly procession — a demonstration of aggressive security measures developed by police and schools after the 1999 shooting at Columbine, some 8 miles west.
Yeah, this whole event has a staged and scripted psy-op feel to it!
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The fact that the point is being emphasized by my agenda-pusher raises even further suspicions:
"Security strategy saved lives, Colo. governor says; Bold response may have averted a worse tragedy" by Dan Elliott | Associated Press, December 16, 2013
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Governor John Hickenlooper on Sunday credited security procedures adopted after the 1999 massacre at nearby Columbine High School for helping to put a quick end to last week’s shooting at Arapahoe High School....
Karl Pierson, an 18-year-old student, may have been nursing a grudge against the teacher — a librarian and head of the school debate team — since September. Pierson was on the team and had been disciplined by the librarian for reasons yet to be disclosed, the sheriff said. He said Pierson threatened that teacher in September....
Pierson excelled at speech and debate and was passionate about the team, friends said. They described him as a smart student who apparently did not shirk from confrontations in class.
Then he was the bully?
‘‘He’s a funny kid. He’s smart. He’s in the Eagle Scouts, a very intelligent kid. Did not like being wrong,’’ said August Clary, who was a friend of Pierson. ‘‘If you’re arguing with him, it’s going to be — that’s a feat if you win an argument against him.’’
‘‘He would not be afraid to tell someone how he feels,’’ said Zach Runberg, 18, a senior in Pierson’s English class.
Pierson legally bought a shotgun on Dec. 6 at a local store, and he purchased ammunition the morning of the shootings. He managed to ignite a Molotov cocktail inside the school library before he killed himself, as a fast-acting school security officer, a deputy sheriff, closed in, Robinson said.
That officer’s aggressive response prevented more casualties, Robinson said. It is a tactic adopted nationwide after Columbine, in which first responders cordoned off the school before pursuing two student gunmen inside. The two killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.
‘‘It’s nice to see how well the system worked. It’s a remarkable improvement from before. This could have been much, much worse,’’ Hickenlooper said.
After the Aurora, Colo., theater shootings and the Newtown, Conn., school shootings, Hickenlooper acknowledged that the latest shooting raised again questions about guns and violence. But he noted that Pierson ‘‘didn’t seem to exhibit any signs of mental illness,’’ and he cautioned that the investigation was in its early stages.
Isn't being a communist a sign?
‘‘Everyone in Colorado is asking the same questions,’’ the governor said. ‘‘On the one hand there is a deeply held conviction for the freedoms laid out in the Second Amendment, but also a very, very strong conviction about the safety of children and the safety of the community.’’
Chipping away at those rights again!
Friday’s shooting, he said, ‘‘defies any explanation, and you know we are searching for some pattern.’’
Police said Pierson fired six shots from a pump-action shotgun between the moment he walked into Arapahoe High School and the moment he killed himself in a library. The attack lasted just 80 seconds….
And he had all that gear on? Seems like he would have a hard time moving.
In his weekly radio address last week, President Obama said the nation has not done enough to make its communities safer by keeping dangerous people from getting guns and healing troubled minds. Gun restrictions backed by the president in response to the shooting faced stiff opposition and ultimately stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
‘‘We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal troubled minds. We have to do everything we can to protect our children from harm and make them feel loved, and valued, and cared for,’’ Obama said.
Disgusting coming from the drone missile dropper of the planet.
Observances to mark the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., were held around the country Saturday....
About 100 people gathered in Tucson as former representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband planted a yellow rose bush in a memorial garden created after the 2011 shooting there that nearly killed her. Giffords’s husband, Mark Kelly, said it was important to pause and support families of the Newtown victims.
In Denver, a day after the attack at Arapahoe High School, more than 200 people gathered to sing and offer prayers for the Newtown victims and families.
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Also see: Support grows for injured Colorado student
"Colo. student, 17, shot last week by classmate dies
LITTLETON — A suburban Denver high school student who was shot in the head by a classmate died Saturday afternoon, hospital officials said in a statement. ‘‘Claire Davis passed away, with her family at her side,’’ the statement from Littleton Adventist Hospital said. Davis, 17, was shot at point-blank range at Arapahoe High School on Dec. 13 by Karl Pierson, 18, who was armed with a shotgun, Molotov cocktails, and a machete. Davis appeared to be a random target, officials said (AP)."
Community mourns death of teen shot at Colo. school
"Michael Davis said Pierson ‘‘allowed himself to become filled with anger, rage, and hatred. . . . The fact is that Karl was so blinded by his emotions he didn’t know what he was doing.” Davis said his daughter’s last words were to ask Pierson, ‘‘Oh my gosh, Karl, what are you doing?” That was her way of trying to illuminate the emotional darkness that had enveloped Pierson, Davis said."
Meanwhile, out at the airport:
"Accused denies killing TSA agent at LA airport" Associated Press, December 27, 2013
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — The man authorities say killed a Transportation Security Administration screener and wounded three others during a rampage at Los Angeles International Airport last month pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and other felony charges.
Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, who was wounded in a gunfight before his arrest, occasionally touched a bandage on his neck and spoke in a hoarse voice during a three-minute arraignment before a federal magistrate at the West Valley Detention Center.
The defendant acknowledged his name in a near-whisper and that he had read his 11-count indictment.
Trial was set for Feb. 11 in a federal court in downtown Los Angeles. A conviction could bring the death penalty.
Authorities say the unemployed motorcycle mechanic arrived at the airport’s Terminal 3 on Nov. 1 with the intention of killing TSA workers. Officials have said Ciancia had a grudge against the agency, but they have not indicated what prompted it.
After entering the terminal, police say, Ciancia began spraying the area with semiautomatic gunfire, killing 39-year-old TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez and wounding two other uniformed TSA officers and a traveler.
All lies!
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Related:
LAX Hoax
LAX Question Answered
Parking This Post About the LAX Shooting
Explosions at LAX
The agenda is literally blowing up in their faces.
"Man breaches Ariz. airport security" Associated Press, December 27, 2013
PHOENIX — A man has been arrested after climbing a fence at the Phoenix airport on Christmas Day and running out to a plane that had just landed, police said Thursday.
Robert Edward Bump, 49, got onto the taxiway around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and started banging on the engine of a Southwest Airlines plane, said Officer James Holmes, a Phoenix police spokesman.
No injuries were reported, and Holmes said passengers were never in danger.
In New Jersey, a man was arrested Wednesday after authorities found him on the tarmac of Newark Liberty Airport. It’s not clear how 24-year-old Siyah Bryant of Jersey City ended up on the tarmac. Bryant was charged with trespassing.
Workers in the tower at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport spotted a man climbing the fence and running onto the tarmac and then the taxiway near Terminal 3. The pilot was alerted and turned off the engines before the man reached the aircraft.
Bump showed signs of drug and alcohol impairment and was booked on a misdemeanor charge of entering a restricted area at the airport, Holmes said. Police said Bump is homeless.
"Final report on Sandy Hook school shootings released" by Matt Flegenheimer | New York Times, December 28, 2013
Authorities in Connecticut released a final report Friday outlining the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012, providing the most complete account to date for one of the nation’s most wrenching massacres.
It contained hundreds of photographs, hours of video, and voluminous crime scene reports, but took care to conceal the most graphic crime scene images.
Yet painfully detailed descriptions accompanied the often-redacted pages....
Why redacted? Don't they want us to know the truth?
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Related: Sandy Hook Police Report Contains No Evidence That Mass Shooting Took Place And Strengthens Notion That Event Was A Fabricated Hoax
The truth is the Sandy Hook hoax is unraveling and everyone knows it.
"Boston remembers Newtown victims" by Gal Tziperman Lotan | Globe Correspondent, December 15, 2013
No large public memorial services were planned in Newtown on Saturday to give residents the opportunity for peaceful reflection....
Boston has had 39 homicides so far this year, according to Boston Police Department figures; 32 of them involved a firearm....
One of those mothers, Tina Chéry, who founded the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute after her 15-year-old son was caught in a gang shootout in 1993, later said she was glad to see so many people addressing gun violence. But she said she was also disheartened there were only a few people of color in the room.
Especially when they are the main victims of US empire abroad.
More should be done, Chéry said, to bridge the divide between predominantly white suburban cities and towns with little awareness of violence in urban communities of color and the neighborhoods where shootings are more commonplace.
“Race has a lot to do with it, but we don’t always like to talk about it,” Chéry said. “Murder is murder, death is death. How do we talk about healing and reconciliation where we know it’s needed? . . . That’s why we’re here.”
It's why I'm here.
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Also see:
The time fraught with pain, Newtown couple perseveres
Complete fiction with crisis actors for an interview, or parents whose children have been abducted into sexual slavery?
Four R.I. town councilors face recall vote over gun issue
R.I. councilors who riled gun owners saved
Guns in New England: R.I. town sends a message
N.Y. gun charges increase with new law
"The law was adopted after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., by a gunman police said used a semiautomatic rifle and 30-round magazines to kill 20 children and six adults. The law does not totally disarm New York’s citizens."
Going to do it incrementally.
Meanwhile, back out in Colorado:
"Student wounds 1, kills himself in Colo. school shooting; Police say teacher was the target of the gunman" by Dan Elliott and Ivan Moreno | Associated Press, December 14, 2013
R.I. councilors who riled gun owners saved
Guns in New England: R.I. town sends a message
N.Y. gun charges increase with new law
"The law was adopted after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., by a gunman police said used a semiautomatic rifle and 30-round magazines to kill 20 children and six adults. The law does not totally disarm New York’s citizens."
Going to do it incrementally.
Meanwhile, back out in Colorado:
"Student wounds 1, kills himself in Colo. school shooting; Police say teacher was the target of the gunman" by Dan Elliott and Ivan Moreno | Associated Press, December 14, 2013
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A teenager who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire Friday with a shotgun at a suburban Denver high school, wounding a fellow student before killing himself....
The scene unfolded on the eve of the Newtown massacre anniversary, a somber reminder of the ever-present potential for violence in the nation’s schools….
That is just too coincidental!
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson identified the shooter as Karl Halverson Pierson, 18. The sheriff did not elaborate on any possible motive....
Two suspected Molotov cocktails were also found inside the school, the sheriff said. One detonated, though no one was injured.
The school was swiftly locked down. Within 20 minutes of the first report of a gunman, officers found Pierson’s body inside the school, Robinson said.
Several other Denver-area school districts went into lockdown as reports of the shooting spread. Police as far away as Fort Collins, about a two-hour drive north, stepped up school security. The shooting came a day before the anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., attack in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
I'm getting the feel of another staged psy-op, folks.
Arapahoe High students were seen walking toward the school’s running track with their hands in the air, and television footage showed students being patted down.
Like we would believe anything we see on ma$$ media TV anymore.
Robinson said deputies wanted to make sure there were no other conspirators. Authorities later concluded that Pierson had acted alone.
Of course -- if this event even happened at all.
Arapahoe High stands just 8 miles east of Columbine High School in Littleton, where two teenage shooters killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves in 1999. The practice of sending law enforcement directly into an active shooting, as was done Friday, was a tactic that developed in response to the Columbine shooting….
Oooooooh! Yup, what a coincidence!
Nearby neighborhoods were jammed with cars as parents sought out their children. Some parents stood in long lines at a church. One young girl who was barefoot embraced her parents, and the family began to cry.
Since Columbine, Colorado has endured other mass shootings, including the killing of 12 people in a movie theater in nearby Aurora in 2012.
But it was not until after the Newtown massacre that state lawmakers moved to enact stricter gun control laws.
Two Democratic lawmakers were recalled from office earlier this year for backing the laws, and a third recently resigned to avoid a recall election.
Meaning Coloradans said from my cold dead hands.
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"More could have been hurt in Colo. shooting; Teen went to school with several weapons" by Dan Elliott and P. Solomon Banda | Associated Press, December 15, 2013
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — An 18-year-old who wounded a fellow student before killing himself at a suburban Denver school had entered the building with a shotgun, a machete, and three incendiary devices in his backpack and had ammunition strapped to his body, authorities said Saturday.
Now he had a machete and all this gear on, huh? And he wimped out and killed himself?
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said Karl Pierson likely was motived by retaliation against a faculty member — probably a librarian at the school — when he opened fire Friday at Arapahoe High School. Robinson said it appears the librarian was the initial target, but that Pierson planned to hurt multiple people....
The sheriff believes the teen intended to harm many more people but ended up killing himself less than two minutes after entering the school because he knew a sheriff’s deputy was closing in.
I'm sorry, but this story stinks.
Students described Pierson as an outspoken, sometimes goofy, and smart student who often would talk about his beliefs during class, sometimes even debating his teachers. They also said he was an Eagle Scout who finished at the top of speech competitions.
And he was PRO GUN CONTROL and a DEMOCRAT!!
Why do other media organizations explore things in depth while my shit corporate pre$$ gives me shallow and superficial slop?
Pierson competed in extemporaneous speaking — in which students prepare short speeches on current events — in the National Forensic League’s national tournament in June in Birmingham, Ala. He didn’t advance to the elimination rounds, the league said.
This year’s school yearbook also listed him as being a member of the cross-country team.
Students said Pierson held communist views and liked to discuss current events and issues, offering his own solutions. None said Pierson was bullied for his beliefs….
Oh, he was a commie? Then he deserved to die, right?
Pierson, whose parents were divorced, lived at least part of the time with his mother in a higher-end neighborhood in suburban Highlands Ranch. The front door of the home was covered with plywood Saturday after authorities conducted a search overnight.
And he was a communist?
Challon Winer, who lives across the street from Pierson’s home, said he often would see the teen mowing the lawn or shoveling snow. ‘‘I noticed that he didn’t look extremely happy, but he was a teenager,’’ subject to the normal moods of that age group, Winer said.
What teen is happy doing that? I'm an old man and I'm not happy doing that.
Winer said Pierson’s mother, Barbara Pierson, has worked with the Neighborhood Watch group and sometimes sent e-mails reminding residents about safety precautions.
He said he didn’t know the family well.
After the shooting, authorities removed students in an orderly procession — a demonstration of aggressive security measures developed by police and schools after the 1999 shooting at Columbine, some 8 miles west.
Yeah, this whole event has a staged and scripted psy-op feel to it!
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The fact that the point is being emphasized by my agenda-pusher raises even further suspicions:
"Security strategy saved lives, Colo. governor says; Bold response may have averted a worse tragedy" by Dan Elliott | Associated Press, December 16, 2013
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Governor John Hickenlooper on Sunday credited security procedures adopted after the 1999 massacre at nearby Columbine High School for helping to put a quick end to last week’s shooting at Arapahoe High School....
Karl Pierson, an 18-year-old student, may have been nursing a grudge against the teacher — a librarian and head of the school debate team — since September. Pierson was on the team and had been disciplined by the librarian for reasons yet to be disclosed, the sheriff said. He said Pierson threatened that teacher in September....
Pierson excelled at speech and debate and was passionate about the team, friends said. They described him as a smart student who apparently did not shirk from confrontations in class.
Then he was the bully?
‘‘He’s a funny kid. He’s smart. He’s in the Eagle Scouts, a very intelligent kid. Did not like being wrong,’’ said August Clary, who was a friend of Pierson. ‘‘If you’re arguing with him, it’s going to be — that’s a feat if you win an argument against him.’’
‘‘He would not be afraid to tell someone how he feels,’’ said Zach Runberg, 18, a senior in Pierson’s English class.
Pierson legally bought a shotgun on Dec. 6 at a local store, and he purchased ammunition the morning of the shootings. He managed to ignite a Molotov cocktail inside the school library before he killed himself, as a fast-acting school security officer, a deputy sheriff, closed in, Robinson said.
That officer’s aggressive response prevented more casualties, Robinson said. It is a tactic adopted nationwide after Columbine, in which first responders cordoned off the school before pursuing two student gunmen inside. The two killed 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves.
‘‘It’s nice to see how well the system worked. It’s a remarkable improvement from before. This could have been much, much worse,’’ Hickenlooper said.
After the Aurora, Colo., theater shootings and the Newtown, Conn., school shootings, Hickenlooper acknowledged that the latest shooting raised again questions about guns and violence. But he noted that Pierson ‘‘didn’t seem to exhibit any signs of mental illness,’’ and he cautioned that the investigation was in its early stages.
Isn't being a communist a sign?
‘‘Everyone in Colorado is asking the same questions,’’ the governor said. ‘‘On the one hand there is a deeply held conviction for the freedoms laid out in the Second Amendment, but also a very, very strong conviction about the safety of children and the safety of the community.’’
Chipping away at those rights again!
Friday’s shooting, he said, ‘‘defies any explanation, and you know we are searching for some pattern.’’
Police said Pierson fired six shots from a pump-action shotgun between the moment he walked into Arapahoe High School and the moment he killed himself in a library. The attack lasted just 80 seconds….
And he had all that gear on? Seems like he would have a hard time moving.
In his weekly radio address last week, President Obama said the nation has not done enough to make its communities safer by keeping dangerous people from getting guns and healing troubled minds. Gun restrictions backed by the president in response to the shooting faced stiff opposition and ultimately stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
‘‘We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal troubled minds. We have to do everything we can to protect our children from harm and make them feel loved, and valued, and cared for,’’ Obama said.
Disgusting coming from the drone missile dropper of the planet.
Observances to mark the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., were held around the country Saturday....
About 100 people gathered in Tucson as former representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband planted a yellow rose bush in a memorial garden created after the 2011 shooting there that nearly killed her. Giffords’s husband, Mark Kelly, said it was important to pause and support families of the Newtown victims.
In Denver, a day after the attack at Arapahoe High School, more than 200 people gathered to sing and offer prayers for the Newtown victims and families.
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Also see: Support grows for injured Colorado student
"Colo. student, 17, shot last week by classmate dies
LITTLETON — A suburban Denver high school student who was shot in the head by a classmate died Saturday afternoon, hospital officials said in a statement. ‘‘Claire Davis passed away, with her family at her side,’’ the statement from Littleton Adventist Hospital said. Davis, 17, was shot at point-blank range at Arapahoe High School on Dec. 13 by Karl Pierson, 18, who was armed with a shotgun, Molotov cocktails, and a machete. Davis appeared to be a random target, officials said (AP)."
Community mourns death of teen shot at Colo. school
"Michael Davis said Pierson ‘‘allowed himself to become filled with anger, rage, and hatred. . . . The fact is that Karl was so blinded by his emotions he didn’t know what he was doing.” Davis said his daughter’s last words were to ask Pierson, ‘‘Oh my gosh, Karl, what are you doing?” That was her way of trying to illuminate the emotional darkness that had enveloped Pierson, Davis said."
Meanwhile, out at the airport:
"Accused denies killing TSA agent at LA airport" Associated Press, December 27, 2013
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — The man authorities say killed a Transportation Security Administration screener and wounded three others during a rampage at Los Angeles International Airport last month pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and other felony charges.
Paul Anthony Ciancia, 23, who was wounded in a gunfight before his arrest, occasionally touched a bandage on his neck and spoke in a hoarse voice during a three-minute arraignment before a federal magistrate at the West Valley Detention Center.
The defendant acknowledged his name in a near-whisper and that he had read his 11-count indictment.
Trial was set for Feb. 11 in a federal court in downtown Los Angeles. A conviction could bring the death penalty.
Authorities say the unemployed motorcycle mechanic arrived at the airport’s Terminal 3 on Nov. 1 with the intention of killing TSA workers. Officials have said Ciancia had a grudge against the agency, but they have not indicated what prompted it.
After entering the terminal, police say, Ciancia began spraying the area with semiautomatic gunfire, killing 39-year-old TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez and wounding two other uniformed TSA officers and a traveler.
All lies!
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Related:
LAX Hoax
LAX Question Answered
Parking This Post About the LAX Shooting
Explosions at LAX
The agenda is literally blowing up in their faces.
"Man breaches Ariz. airport security" Associated Press, December 27, 2013
PHOENIX — A man has been arrested after climbing a fence at the Phoenix airport on Christmas Day and running out to a plane that had just landed, police said Thursday.
Robert Edward Bump, 49, got onto the taxiway around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and started banging on the engine of a Southwest Airlines plane, said Officer James Holmes, a Phoenix police spokesman.
No injuries were reported, and Holmes said passengers were never in danger.
In New Jersey, a man was arrested Wednesday after authorities found him on the tarmac of Newark Liberty Airport. It’s not clear how 24-year-old Siyah Bryant of Jersey City ended up on the tarmac. Bryant was charged with trespassing.
Workers in the tower at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport spotted a man climbing the fence and running onto the tarmac and then the taxiway near Terminal 3. The pilot was alerted and turned off the engines before the man reached the aircraft.
Bump showed signs of drug and alcohol impairment and was booked on a misdemeanor charge of entering a restricted area at the airport, Holmes said. Police said Bump is homeless.
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Related: Government to Give Americans False Flag as Christmas Present
And at the bottom of it all?
"The FBI Appears To Be Involved In Staging Or Covering Up Active Shooter And Terror Hoax Events Every Six Weeks
December 31, 2013
Source: Lee Rogers, Blacklisted News
It is a known fact that the FBI is the biggest source of domestic terrorism in America. Since there are no legitimate domestic terrorists for these clowns to catch, they are creating them instead. The reason they are engaging in such ridiculous behavior is because they have to justify their pointless and ridiculous jobs. It also serves as a great way to justify different political agendas and boost cable television ratings. For years they have been entrapping useful idiots and masterminding various terror plots. They’ve also been involved in the investigation of various staged hoaxes so the hoax itself can be covered up properly and the official narrative propagated to the masses. Perhaps even more insane is that many of these staged events appear to now be occurring roughly every six weeks. It is true that these events don’t always happen six weeks apart but usually the FBI doesn’t go much longer than two months before they are involved in another highly questionable event. After all, there are undoubtedly a number of logistical challenges that go along with staging these elaborate hoaxes so perhaps they can't always stick to the planned schedule. The guys over at the No Agenda podcast have been observing this phenomenon for quite some time now and it looks like they could be on to something.
Specifically let’s take a look at the latter part of 2013 since it has followed this pattern very closely.
Related: Government to Give Americans False Flag as Christmas Present
And at the bottom of it all?
"The FBI Appears To Be Involved In Staging Or Covering Up Active Shooter And Terror Hoax Events Every Six Weeks
December 31, 2013
Source: Lee Rogers, Blacklisted News
It is a known fact that the FBI is the biggest source of domestic terrorism in America. Since there are no legitimate domestic terrorists for these clowns to catch, they are creating them instead. The reason they are engaging in such ridiculous behavior is because they have to justify their pointless and ridiculous jobs. It also serves as a great way to justify different political agendas and boost cable television ratings. For years they have been entrapping useful idiots and masterminding various terror plots. They’ve also been involved in the investigation of various staged hoaxes so the hoax itself can be covered up properly and the official narrative propagated to the masses. Perhaps even more insane is that many of these staged events appear to now be occurring roughly every six weeks. It is true that these events don’t always happen six weeks apart but usually the FBI doesn’t go much longer than two months before they are involved in another highly questionable event. After all, there are undoubtedly a number of logistical challenges that go along with staging these elaborate hoaxes so perhaps they can't always stick to the planned schedule. The guys over at the No Agenda podcast have been observing this phenomenon for quite some time now and it looks like they could be on to something.
Specifically let’s take a look at the latter part of 2013 since it has followed this pattern very closely.
On September 16th 2013 an alleged mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard occurred
where 12 people were said to have been killed. The gunman was
identified as a civilian contractor named Aaron Alexis. The only proof
offered of the incident was surveillance video showing what was said to be Alexis walking through a few hallway areas with a shotgun.
There have been no photos or video showing anybody who was wounded or
killed by gunshots in the incident. The FBI was heavily involved in
this investigation. This incident based upon all the facts provided
appears to have been a totally manufactured hoax.
On November 1st
2013 an individual by the name of Paul Ciancia was said to have gone to
a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport to shoot TSA
agents. He was said to have killed a single TSA agent before being
shot by police. Despite the fact that the shooting was said to have
happened at an airport security checkpoint which would be equipped with
multiple video cameras, no video footage of the incident has been
released thus far. A couple of police officers were even caught on
camera by a news chopper wheeling out a dummy on a wheelchair as if it were a real victim. At a press conference
the police announced that they had practiced for this event indicating
they had conducted drills depicting this exact same scenario before the
live event. The FBI man who stood right behind the police chief
appeared to be quite unhappy when he mentioned this at the press
conference. This incident based upon the information we have also
appears to be a completely staged hoax.
On December 13th
2013 the FBI claimed they stopped a middle aged white man by the name
of Terry Lee Loewen from setting off a bomb at the Mid-Continent Airport
in Wichita Kansas. Loewen an aviation mechanic at the airport was
said to have been sympathetic with Al-Qaeda. According to the official
story, Loewen began having an online conversation with someone who he
thought was a like-minded individual but actually turned out to be an
FBI employee. The FBI had him under constant surveillance and actually provided him with a fake explosive device
so that he could launch a suicide car bomb attack at the airport. When
Loewen went to the airport with the materials he was arrested. This is
despite the fact that there was no proof that he tried to set off the
alleged bomb. Despite this supposedly happening at the airport, no
surveillance video showing this man doing these things has been made
available. His ex-wife described Loewen as easy going and quiet raising
further questions about the official story. At the very least, this
was a clear cut case of the FBI entrapping this man and masterminding
the plot. Even the Wichita Eagle wrote
a piece questioning if Loewen was a victim of FBI entrapment. It is
also possible that the entire story is a fabrication since much of the
evidence is highly questionable.
So in recent history we have
three highly suspicious events that appear to have all been staged or
covered up by the FBI. These events have all happened roughly six weeks
apart from one another. If this pattern continues we should expect
another staged hoax with FBI involvement to occur sometime around the
last week of January to the first week of February. It should be
interesting to see if something happens within that general time frame.
If it does we will keep reporting on this phenomenon until the douche
bag terrorists at the FBI quit making this operation so obvious.
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Related:
"A nurse embroiled in a custody fight with his ex-wife attacked his former in-laws, his onetime boss at a hospital that fired him, and his current wife in a rampage that left four dead, including the gunman."
"Gun journalist is suddenly a pariah; Column on limits brings threats, gets him fired" by Ravi Somaiya | New York Times, January 05, 2014
BARRY, Ill. — “I’ve been vanished, disappeared,” Dick Metcalf, 67, one of the country’s preeminent gun journalists, said in an interview in December on his gun range here, about 100 miles north of St. Louis. “Now you see him. Now you don’t.”
He fall into a CIA black hole site?
He is unsure of his next move, but fears he has become a pariah in the gun industry, to which, he said, he has devoted nearly his entire adult life.
His experience sheds light on the close-knit world of gun journalism, where editors and reporters say there is little room for nuance in the debate on gun laws. Moderate voices that might broaden the discussion from within are silenced.
Related:
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
I'm tired of pot-hollering-kettle agenda-pushers posing as jews media, sorry. It's instructive insofar as it tells you where you should stand on the issues. If they are for it, be against it; if they agin' it, you be for it (with the very rare exception).
When writers stray from the party line promoting an absolutist view of an unfettered right to bear arms, their publications — often under pressure from advertisers — excommunicate them.
Almost like looking in a mirror isn't it, Glob?
“We are locked in a struggle with powerful forces in this country who will do anything to destroy the Second Amendment,” said Richard Venola, a former editor of Guns & Ammo. “The time for ceding some rational points is gone.”
That is kind of the way I feel on so many points, although I reject the irrational label as defined by those who limit political boundaries and frame the debate in narrow terms due to the intere$ts they repre$ent.
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Yeah, that's them!
At least gun violence is down in Chicago.
Related:
"A nurse embroiled in a custody fight with his ex-wife attacked his former in-laws, his onetime boss at a hospital that fired him, and his current wife in a rampage that left four dead, including the gunman."
"Gun journalist is suddenly a pariah; Column on limits brings threats, gets him fired" by Ravi Somaiya | New York Times, January 05, 2014
BARRY, Ill. — “I’ve been vanished, disappeared,” Dick Metcalf, 67, one of the country’s preeminent gun journalists, said in an interview in December on his gun range here, about 100 miles north of St. Louis. “Now you see him. Now you don’t.”
He fall into a CIA black hole site?
He is unsure of his next move, but fears he has become a pariah in the gun industry, to which, he said, he has devoted nearly his entire adult life.
His experience sheds light on the close-knit world of gun journalism, where editors and reporters say there is little room for nuance in the debate on gun laws. Moderate voices that might broaden the discussion from within are silenced.
Related:
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
I'm tired of pot-hollering-kettle agenda-pushers posing as jews media, sorry. It's instructive insofar as it tells you where you should stand on the issues. If they are for it, be against it; if they agin' it, you be for it (with the very rare exception).
When writers stray from the party line promoting an absolutist view of an unfettered right to bear arms, their publications — often under pressure from advertisers — excommunicate them.
Almost like looking in a mirror isn't it, Glob?
“We are locked in a struggle with powerful forces in this country who will do anything to destroy the Second Amendment,” said Richard Venola, a former editor of Guns & Ammo. “The time for ceding some rational points is gone.”
That is kind of the way I feel on so many points, although I reject the irrational label as defined by those who limit political boundaries and frame the debate in narrow terms due to the intere$ts they repre$ent.
--more--"
Yeah, that's them!
At least gun violence is down in Chicago.
