Great Arrest by the 006 Pct! Nothing is Routine. #Tactics #Be Safe #NYPD pic.twitter.com/gFlku7MMbJ
— Chief Robert Boyce (@NYPDDetectives) July 3, 2014
Courtesy of New York Daily News: A man who was armed with two AR-15 assault rifles and carried a suicide note that said he wanted to “die in combat” was arrested in the West Village on Wednesday morning, police said.
Victor Greer, 46, of Reading, Pa., was pulled over about 1:15 a.m. while driving the wrong way down a one-way street — he was headed north on Seventh Ave. near Grove St., police said.
Inside his vehicle, cops found a .9-mm pistol, a pump-action shotgun and a box of ammo in addition to the AR-15 rifles — a high-powered killing machine that has been used in some of America's recent mass killings.
His suicide note read: “I want to die in combat, so I can go to heaven and meet God,” according to police.
Of course there was NO way to predict that this kind of thing could happen while living in a society which glorifies religion, gun ownership, and military combat in equal portions. Right?
Yeah I'm sure it can all be blamed on mental illness, and if not that, video games.
Why look to the obvious reasons, with their even more obvious solutions.
A religious whack job without an arsenal of guns is a religious whack job - biggest danger is likely a paper cut from some pamphlets he throws. A religious gun nut with a gun is a tragedy - and I've had enough of those.
ReplyDeleteThis happened in New York City (kind of unclear from the headline) and was just a random piece of good luck on the cops' part. If this nutjob had plans of mass murder in NYC, a lot of people don't know it but they are very very lucky.
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy that any unhinged guy with an arsenal could blow his top and murder untold numbers of innocent people just because this country has gone gun-crazy.
I'm wearing my bullet-proof backpack when I go out today!
Images: Stuff Open Carry Dorks Did To Celebrate The Fourth Of July
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Moms Group: Open Carry Texas Exhibits Poor Decision Making Skills
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Well Texas is in the grip of the insanity:
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In today's Texas, which is falling into the hands of gun nuts, border-sealers and talk-radio charlatans, George W. Bush would practically be considered a communist
...After nearly six years of pumping out cynical horror stories involving our nefarious president and a Washington bureaucracy run amok, the right-wing fear machine has managed to reduce its target audience to a quivering state of waking nightmare, jumping at shadows. If, to paraphrase Baudelaire by way of The Usual Suspects, the devil's greatest trick was to convince the world he didn't exist, the modern GOP's greatest trick might have been convincing its electorate that he does, and that the federal government exists as some kind of infernal machine. While impressive, this trick has also proved to be a very dangerous one, as states of panic have a tendency to produce rather extreme results.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/lone-star-crazy-how-right-wing-extremists-took-over-texas-20140701
If George Washington had those guns, he could have defeated the British army by himself.
ReplyDeleteHmm. "[T]hat made it a little scary"? I would have been terrified. I wish someone would sue these gun lunatics because our right to go about our normal, peaceful lives trumps their right to frighten us. Someone has to put a stop to this. And it should have started with the governor of Texas where all of this began. What a coward he is.
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‘You Don’t Want to Go There, Buddy’ Sarah Palin
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"Blasturbators"
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OMG OMG OMG That's perfect!