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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on March 11, 2009, 04:14:05 AM
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This could be the impetus for a new AWB. Note the type of weapon used is way down the story (you've got to go to the link), but some idiot will call it an "assault weapon."
Ala. man kills at least 9, including 4 relatives
By JESSICA GRESKO and DESIREE HUNTER, Associated Press Writer Jessica Gresko And Desiree Hunter, Associated Press Writer – 19 mins ago
SAMSON, Ala. – Nine people were gunned down in a terrifying rampage across two Alabama counties by a lone shooter who authorities said burned down his mother's home with her inside, killed his own relatives on their porch and shot apparent strangers and police before killing himself.
Tuesday's shootings in a mostly rural area near the Florida border were believed to be the work of Michael McLendon, who lived with his mother and had once worked at a local metal plant.
The bloodshed began when McLendon burned down his mother's house in Kinston, according to Coffee County Coroner Robert Preachers. Authorities found Lisa McLendon's body inside, but they had not determined how she died or whether she was a 10th victim of her son's spree.
McLendon then drove a dozen miles southeast to Samson, in Geneva County, where he took down nine victims, including four members of his family. The rampage ended another 12 miles farther east in Geneva at the metals plant where McLendon had once worked. After a shootout with police, McLendon killed himself.
Investigators declined to comment on a motive for the shootings, in which at least four other people were injured, including a child. The victims' names have not been released.
More at the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_re_us/south_alabama_shootings
Just from a cursory look at the article, it would seem that this guy was the proverbial ticking time bomb. Prayers for the victims.
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Crap. I've got ex-inlaws and nieces that live in all three places mentioned. :thatsright:
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I lived there for the first four years of my life, I'm sure someone I know knows a victim.
Prayers out for those who lost loved ones.
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Actually I did not see that it ever did identify what kind of weapon he used except it was a rifle, and (apparently incorrectly) called it an 'automatic weapon' as the broadcast news is saying it was a semiautomatic while remaining vague about exactly what it was.
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Actually I did not see that it ever did identify what kind of weapon he used except it was a rifle, and (apparently incorrectly) called it an 'automatic weapon' as the broadcast news is saying it was a semiautomatic while remaining vague about exactly what it was.
The media mis-labels guns all the damn time.
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The media mis-labels guns all the damn time.
Stems from not knowing anything about em except bullets come out of the pointy end
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Stems from not knowing anything about em except bullets come out of the pointy end
True.
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My condolences to anyone who lost loved ones in this senseless violence.
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