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Title: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: Ptarmigan on December 13, 2013, 11:12:26 PM
Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24721367/arapahoe-high-gunman-held-strong-political-beliefs-classmates

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The teenage gunman who entered Arapahoe High School Friday afternoon and shot two fellow students with a shotgun was outspoken about politics, a gifted debater and may have been bullied for his beliefs, according to students who knew him.

Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson identified the gunman as Karl Pierson, an 18-year-old student.

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In one Facebook post, Pierson attacks the philosophies of economist Adam Smith who through his invisible hand theory pushed the notion that the free market was self-regulating. In another post, he describes himself as "Keynesian."

"...I was wondering to all the neoclassicals and neoliberals, why isn't the market correcting itself?" he wrote. "If the invisible hand is so strong, shouldn't it be able to overpower regulations?"

Pierson also appears to mock Republicans on another Facebook post, writing "you republicans are so cute" and posting an image that reads: "The Republican Party: Health Care: Let 'em Die, Climate Change: Let 'em Die, Gun Violence: Let 'em Die, Women's Rights: Let 'em Die, More War: Let 'em Die. Is this really the side you want to be on?"

Another leftist off the rail.  :mental:
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: Big Dog on December 14, 2013, 05:00:03 AM
What was his DU name?
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: biersmythe on December 14, 2013, 08:26:58 AM
YET ANOTHER LEFTIST GUNMAN WOW SHOCKER!!!!

Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: Dori on December 14, 2013, 09:34:53 AM
YET ANOTHER LEFTIST GUNMAN WOW SHOCKER!!!!

Has the Dumpster weighed in on this tragedy blaming the teabaggers? 

Egads, every wacked out school shooter has turned out to be a DUmmie.  Why hasn't a good investigative reported connected the dots about the dangers of liberalism?





Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: BlueStateSaint on December 14, 2013, 12:56:47 PM
Here's a story from Down Under.

http://www.news.com.au/world/two-students-injured-in-arapahoe-high-school-shooting/story-fndir2ev-1226783250108
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: Chris_ on December 14, 2013, 01:03:08 PM
Dec 2013: A student shoots up CO high school with a shotgun. Denver Post scrubs his self-described "socialist" beliefs.

Oct. 2013: Media retroactively blames right wing for JFK assassination. (Actually, LHO was a communist defector.)

April 2013: Tsarnaev bros bomb Boston Marathon. Media suggests RWNJ commemorating "Patriot's Day." (Actually, just more jihadist scum.)

Aug 2012: Floyd Lee Corkins shoots a security guard at the Family Research Council based on the Southern Poverty Law Center's "target list." Media: [crickets].

July 2012: James Holmes shoots up theater in Aurora, CO. Brian Ross suggests he's a TPer on live TV. (Just another unmedicated nutter.)

Jan 2011: Jared Lee Loughner shoots up campaign event of Rep. Giffords. Media: TP rhetoric is to blame. (An apolitical conspiracy theorist.)

Dec 2010: Clay Duke shoots at FL school board. Mike Malloy blames Glenn Beck. (Actually, Media Matters among his favorite sites.)

Sept 2010: James Lee takes hostages at Discovery Chan HQ. Media speculates: climate change denier? (An environmentalist who hates humans.)

August 2010: Amid GZM debate, Muslim cabbie stabbed in NYC. Media speculates it's a "rigth-wing nut job" (Actually, a lefty art student off his meds.)

May 2010: massive Times Square car bomb found. Bloomberg speculates it's someone upset about ACA. (Actually, plain vanilla jihadist scum.)

March 2010: John Patrick Bedell shot two Pentagon security. A right-wing extremist, media asked? (A registered Democrat and 9/11 Truther.)

Feb 2010: Amy Bishop shoots colleagues at University of Alabama faculty meeting. Gun-loving Tea Party suspected. (She was an Obama voter.)

Feb 2010: Joe Stack flies small plane into an IRS building. Anti-tax TP rhetoric blamed. (He quoted from the Communist Manifesto.)

Sept 2009: census-taker Bill Sparkman found hanged in rural Kentucky. Media speculated it was Tea Party. (He killed himself.)


Thanks to @gabrielmalor for the list.
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 14, 2013, 04:53:15 PM
Here's a story from Down Under.

http://www.news.com.au/world/two-students-injured-in-arapahoe-high-school-shooting/story-fndir2ev-1226783250108
Lines copied from article.

"Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with the gunman, described him as a very opinionated Socialist." We know the type well.
"....both seniors at Arapahoe High, said he had political views that were "outside the mainstream". Aussie for bat shit crazy I guess.
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: Chris_ on December 17, 2013, 11:15:16 PM
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Father of Colo. shooter questions son's discipline by teacher

The paper said Pierson contacted the paper to discuss the school's discipline of his son, though he would not say whether he had threatened Murphy. He said he and his ex-wife, Barbara, had been to several disciplinary hearings this year.

Murphy and school officials have not commented on the feud between the two.

Team co-captain Joe Redmond told the Post and NBC News that his friend of three years "had threatened to kill Mr. Murphy," but he could not say why.

"Speech and debate was his life, and the fact that he wasn't there crushed him a little bit and made him really tense and angry."
USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/16/arapahoe-claire-davis-karl-pierson/4038317/)
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: Bad Dog on December 17, 2013, 11:34:50 PM
They were discussing on the FOX Five this afternoon that the newspapers had altered quotes from two students striking the word socialist from their statement.  They then discussed the journalistic standards of altering quoted statements.  Bob, of course, thought it was okey dokey.
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: JohnnyReb on December 18, 2013, 04:26:06 AM
They were discussing on the FOX Five this afternoon that the newspapers had altered quotes from two students striking the word socialist from their statement.  They then discussed the journalistic standards of altering quoted statements.  Bob, of course, thought it was okey dokey.
The Liar-in-Chief lies so why not his propaganda ministry.
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: Dori on December 18, 2013, 10:56:23 AM
The kid definitely hated his coach. 

Something that Ann Coulter said on Hannity's show about this, was that how it seems to be young men going postal.

She also brought up the fact, that this is the age that Schizophrenia can manifest itself, and these insane episodes can be brought on by marijuana use. 
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: wasp69 on December 18, 2013, 11:56:44 AM
Thanks to @gabrielmalor for the list.

Quite a good list, too.  Really puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: BlueStateSaint on December 18, 2013, 12:08:11 PM
The kid definitely hated his coach. 

Something that Ann Coulter said on Hannity's show about this, was that how it seems to be young men going postal.

She also brought up the fact, that this is the age that Schizophrenia can manifest itself, and these insane episodes can be brought on by marijuana use. 

I wonder if he had been treated for depression with psychotropic meds in the past.
Title: Re: Arapahoe High gunman held strong political beliefs, classmates said
Post by: Ptarmigan on December 18, 2013, 12:12:45 PM
The kid definitely hated his coach.  

Something that Ann Coulter said on Hannity's show about this, was that how it seems to be young men going postal.

She also brought up the fact, that this is the age that Schizophrenia can manifest itself, and these insane episodes can be brought on by marijuana use.  

I wonder if he had been treated for depression with psychotropic meds in the past.

Reminds me of Jared Loughner.