GUNS!
posted on February 1st, 2006, 3:37 pm
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posted on February 4th, 2006, 2:55 am
LOS ANGELES - A woman who went on a deadly rampage inside a postal facility believed that she was threatened by a conspiracy among workers there, authorities said Friday.
Jennifer San Marco left writings at her New Mexico home alluding to a vague plot involving the plant where she once worked, a local medical facility and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, said sheriff's Sgt. Erik Raney in a telephone interview.
"She obviously felt that the post office was out to get her in one way or another," Raney said. "That establishes as good of a motive (for the killings) as we can determine at this point."
Also found in the woman's home was a check for cash with the notation "will," indicating San Marco left a will, "and that may shed more light on what's happened here," Raney said.
San Marco shot six postal employees Monday night and committed suicide at the Santa Barbara Processing and Distribution Center. Authorities also linked her to the killing of a former neighbor, bringing the death toll to eight.
Raney said that despite a history of mental illness, San Marco managed to buy the gun and ammunition used in the killings from two New Mexico pawn shops.
Paul Castillo, owner of Ace Pawn and Antiques, told the Santa Barbara News-Press that San Marco bought the gun for $325 without saying why she needed the weapon.
She filled out an application for a background check, which didn't turn up any problems, and picked up the gun two days later, Castillo said.
Also on Friday, mourners attended the funeral Mass for Charlotte Colton, a mother of three who was shot in the head during the rampage.
"If there was anything she did it was love boldly and fearlessly," said Colton's niece, Katrina Baggao de la Cruz, the News-Press reported. "You simply wanted to be a better person around her."
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thare is no way to make shere pepal how should not have a guns dont get a gun.
all we can do is make wepond less avilbal by lowering the amont of guns in armerica.
posted on February 4th, 2006, 10:34 pm
posted on February 5th, 2006, 2:57 pm
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Teen Wanted in Mass. Gay Bar Attack Caught
By NOAH TRISTER, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 55 minutes ago
GASSVILLE, Ark. - Two days after a violent rampage at a gay bar in Massachusetts, authorities said the teen suspect fled 1,500 miles to Arkansas where he fatally shot a police officer and a 33-year-old woman.
Jacob D. Robida, a high school dropout who friends said glorified Naziism, was shot twice in the head in a gun battle with police Saturday, officials said. He was critically injured.
After Thursday's hatchet-and-gun attack at Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford, Mass., which injured three people, police said the 18-year-old fled in a green Pontiac and picked up Jennifer Rena Bailey, at her Charleston, W. Va., home.
"Apparently she's had a prior relationship with this guy and had been corresponding with him," said West Virginia State Police Sgt. C.J. Ellyson.
They were driving through the northern Arkansas town of Gassville when Officer Jim Sell pulled them over for a traffic stop. The teen twice shot Sell, 56, said Massachusetts prosecutor Paul Walsh Jr.
Witness Maryann Hoyne said she saw the officer's squad car bumper to bumper with Robida's car, and heard three gunshots. Sell was on the ground and Robida got back into his car and drove off, she said.
Robida returned a moment later to retrieve his gun, which he had left at the side of the officer, said Hoyne, manager of the Brass Door Motel in Gassville.
About 25 miles away, Robida drove over spike strips set out by state troopers and drove with two punctured tires into downtown Norfork. Robida's car then careened into several parked vehicles to avoid a police barricade.
"When he wrecked he started firing at our officer and a state police officer, and the officers returned fire," said Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery.
The teen shot the woman in the car with him before he was wounded in the shootout with police, Walsh said. State police wouldn't confirm Walsh's account and said ballistics tests would determine how the woman died.
Robida was taken to a Springfield, Mo., hospital, according to Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler.
One victim of the Massachusetts attack — which police have called a hate crime — said he was "elated" the teen had been apprehended.
"Right now I'd like him to be able to regain consciousness and answer some questions," said Bob Perry, who was released from a Boston hospital Friday. He had a black eye, a five-inch gash on his right cheek and a bullet hole in his back.
Another victim remained hospitalized, and officials would not disclose the location of the third. Police said Robida would be charged with attempted murder, assault and civil rights violations in the attack.
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its two easy to just say ya thay where crasy so what ya gona do.
it will keep haping over and over untell you make accese to guns much harder. of cores limiting guns wont stop all gun abuse but will **** tham down and save countless lives.
posted on February 5th, 2006, 7:50 pm
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if you wont to tell me some thing use the pm buton dont post it on the forum.
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Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter By LYNN BREZOSKY, Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Vice President &nsbp; &nsbp; **** Cheney accidentally shot a 78-year-old hunting companion during a weekend quail hunting trip after the man went to retrieve a bird and Cheney failed to spot him.
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Harry Whittington, an Austin attorney, was in stable condition late Sunday in the intensive care unit at a Corpus Christi hospital, where he was flown after the shooting late Saturday afternoon at the Armstrong Ranch.
The vice president visited with Whittington and his wife before returning to Washington on Sunday. Cheney "was pleased to see that he's doing fine and in good spirits," said Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride.
Whittington sent word through a hospital official that he would have no comment on the incident out of respect for Cheney.
Katharine Armstrong, the ranch's owner, told The Associated Press that the accident occurred after Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of a car to shoot at a covey of quail.
She said Whittington went to retrieve a bird he shot. Cheney and the third hunter, whom she would not identify, walked to another spot and discovered a second covey of quail.
Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," said Armstrong, who was in the car.
"The vice president didn't see him," she said. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."
Armstrong said the shotgun pellets broke the skin.
"It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that," she said.
The accident was not reported publicly by the vice president's office for nearly 24 hours, and then only after it was reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on its Web site Sunday.
McBride said the vice president's office did not tell reporters about the accident Saturday because they were deferring to Armstrong to handle the announcement of what happened on her property.
Armstrong said everyone at the ranch was so "focused" on Whittington's health Saturday that it wasn't until Sunday she called the Caller-Times to report the accident. Her ranch is about 60 miles southwest of Corpus Christi.
Sally Whittington told The Dallas Morning News her father was being observed because of swelling from some of the welts on his neck. His face "looks like chicken pox, kind of," she said.
Emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington before he was taken first to a hospital in Kingsville and then transferred to Corpus Christi.
Whittington has been a private practice attorney in Austin since 1950 and has long been active in Texas Republican politics. He's been appointed to several state boards, including when then-Gov. George W. Bush named him to the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year and is "a very safe sportsman." She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.
The 50,000-acre Armstrong ranch has been in the influential South Texas family since the turn of the last century. Katharine is the daughter of Tobin Armstrong, a politically connected rancher who has been a guest at the White House and spent 48 years as director of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. He died in October. Cheney was among the dignitaries who attended his funeral.
Cheney was legally hunting with a license he purchased in November, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department spokesman Steve Lightfoot said.
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Associated Press writers Nedra Pickler in Washington and Paul J. Weber in Dallas contributed to this report.
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Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter By LYNN BREZOSKY, Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Vice President &nsbp; &nsbp; **** Cheney accidentally shot a 78-year-old hunting companion during a weekend quail hunting trip after the man went to retrieve a bird and Cheney failed to spot him.
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Harry Whittington, an Austin attorney, was in stable condition late Sunday in the intensive care unit at a Corpus Christi hospital, where he was flown after the shooting late Saturday afternoon at the Armstrong Ranch.
The vice president visited with Whittington and his wife before returning to Washington on Sunday. Cheney "was pleased to see that he's doing fine and in good spirits," said Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride.
Whittington sent word through a hospital official that he would have no comment on the incident out of respect for Cheney.
Katharine Armstrong, the ranch's owner, told The Associated Press that the accident occurred after Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of a car to shoot at a covey of quail.
She said Whittington went to retrieve a bird he shot. Cheney and the third hunter, whom she would not identify, walked to another spot and discovered a second covey of quail.
Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," said Armstrong, who was in the car.
"The vice president didn't see him," she said. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."
Armstrong said the shotgun pellets broke the skin.
"It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that," she said.
The accident was not reported publicly by the vice president's office for nearly 24 hours, and then only after it was reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on its Web site Sunday.
McBride said the vice president's office did not tell reporters about the accident Saturday because they were deferring to Armstrong to handle the announcement of what happened on her property.
Armstrong said everyone at the ranch was so "focused" on Whittington's health Saturday that it wasn't until Sunday she called the Caller-Times to report the accident. Her ranch is about 60 miles southwest of Corpus Christi.
Sally Whittington told The Dallas Morning News her father was being observed because of swelling from some of the welts on his neck. His face "looks like chicken pox, kind of," she said.
Emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington before he was taken first to a hospital in Kingsville and then transferred to Corpus Christi.
Whittington has been a private practice attorney in Austin since 1950 and has long been active in Texas Republican politics. He's been appointed to several state boards, including when then-Gov. George W. Bush named him to the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year and is "a very safe sportsman." She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.
The 50,000-acre Armstrong ranch has been in the influential South Texas family since the turn of the last century. Katharine is the daughter of Tobin Armstrong, a politically connected rancher who has been a guest at the White House and spent 48 years as director of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. He died in October. Cheney was among the dignitaries who attended his funeral.
Cheney was legally hunting with a license he purchased in November, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department spokesman Steve Lightfoot said.
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Associated Press writers Nedra Pickler in Washington and Paul J. Weber in Dallas contributed to this report.
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people will always create use and abuse weapons of all kinds, our very first tool was a weapon or a tool to create weapons, it's in our nature, it's a part of us, if you take the guns away, some other weapon will replace it, there would no longer be dry by shootings but people would stab eachother instead, guns don't kill people, people do!
ps: i'm anot a fanatical gun collector like you all appear to be
though i have a zastava M57 7,62mm and an old revolver rast & gasser 10mm used by austro hungarian army in ww1 and italians in ww2 in mint condition.
ps: i'm anot a fanatical gun collector like you all appear to be
though i have a zastava M57 7,62mm and an old revolver rast & gasser 10mm used by austro hungarian army in ww1 and italians in ww2 in mint condition.
posted on July 5th, 2006, 10:00 pm
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