Here's another reason why we need sane gun laws; The 2nd amendment does not protect this kind of behavior, nor the weapons used. The NRA says, it's not the gun that kills people. Really? Could this kid have done this without a gun?
The father, a chaplain who volunteered with the local fire department, had been shot in the head with a military-style AR-15 rifle, sheriff’s officials said — the type of weapon used in the massacres in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo.
Teen admits killing family, officials say
They say the New Mexico boy described slaying his parents and 3 siblings and wanting to die in a shootout.
BY MATT PEARCE
A 15-year-old Albuquerque-area boy has confessed to killing his mother, father and three small siblings at their home over the weekend, according to a probable cause statement by the sheriff’s office.
The boy also told authorities that he wanted to “drive to a populated area” to “shoot people at random and eventually be killed while exchanging gunfire with law enforcement,” according to the statement, which was posted online Monday by local media.
But after the killings at his family’s home southwest of the city early Saturday, the boy went to church.
At the Albuquerque Calvary Church, where his father had been a pastor, he began to spin stories that would later unravel under interrogation. According to court documents, the boy told his girlfriend and her grandmother that his family had died in a car crash.
The document doesn’t say how authorities were led to the home, but after they discovered the bodies, the boy told Bernalillo County sheriff’s officials that he had found the bodies and hadn’t been home at the time of the shooting. According to the statement, he called his father’s body a “carcass.”
The father, a chaplain who volunteered with the local fire department, had been shot in the head with a military-style AR-15 rifle, sheriff’s officials said — the type of weapon used in the massacres in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo.
The boy’s case is being handled by the juvenile court system. He has not been charged as an adult.
His interrogator, who signed the statement as “A. Gaitan,” set out the boy’s initial comments to investigators: He admitted that, yes, he’d packed guns into the family van he drove to church; yes, he had fired them, but in the backyard, and only “in anger” after discovering his family’s bodies; and yes, he did touch the shell casings.
When the interviewer told the boy — who said he didn’t want a lawyer or an adult present — that his story didn’t make sense, the youth confessed, authorities said. He said he had “anger issues” and had been “annoyed” with his mother.
About midnight Friday, the boy began to feel homicidal and suicidal, took a .22-caliber rifle out of his parents’ closet and shot his mother in the head, the probable cause statement said. She was in bed with the boy’s 9-year-old brother. The youth shot him too, authorities said.
At that point, according to the sheriff’s documents, the boy “lost his conscience” and shot his 5- and 2-yearold sisters in the head in their bedroom, where they were crying.
The boy exchanged the.22 for the much higher velocity .223-caliber AR-15 that had also been in his parents’ closet, authorities said, then he hid in a bathroom until his father came home about 5 a.m.
The boy “stated he hid and waited until his father had walked past him and he then shot his father multiple times with the rifle,” the probable cause statement said. The statement’s author, Gaitan, said, “I asked [the boy ] if he had told anyone else about murdering his family, and he stated he had taken a picture of his deceased mother and sent it to his girlfriend.”
It’s not clear who owned the guns. Friends described the father as a former “gangbanger” before beginning his years as a chaplain. Neighbors told local media that the boy had been home-schooled and that the family’s children were forbidden from watching violent or objectionable media.
Authorities identified the victims as Greg Griego; his wife, Sara; and their children Zephania, 9; Jael, 5; and Angelina, 2. matt.pearce@latimes.com
I want to make a point here
and, in order to do that, I need to go back in time. Back to your childhood.
The setting is your bedroom. You’re fast asleep, beads of sweat are beginning
to pop up on your forehead and, just as you start to scream, your parent jars
you awake and says, “ There, there, honey. It’s OK!, you were just having a bad
dream.”
The reassurance isn't convincing so you protest, “But, I just saw the
boogeyman and he was chasing me!” This is the time when most parents confess, “The boogeyman is not real honey. I just made
him up to get you to clean your room.” Just like Santa and the Bunny, many of
us had that conversation and have outgrown the Boggeyman so we're not as easily swayed as those who missed out on it.
For the believers the “boogeyman scare” still works in getting them to fall in line. Some of you might remember the “bomb shelter” craze in the 50’s when many Americans were
convinced that the “red menace” was preparing to blow us into oblivion. There
were those very convincing TV ads of the “mushroom cloud” which were indeed scary.
This was a boon for the military industrial complex and the survivalists
movement. Other than these fear mongers getting rich I often wonder how many of those shelters, well stocked with
K-rations, were ever used? Yet, the nukes are still there. In fact there's even more than in the 50's, and they're bigger and better because we still waste billions of our tax dollars on stockpiling them. And, guess what, the fear mongers are getting richer without even doing a new TV ad, though, every once in a while, one of them might do a little "name dropping" like Iran or North Korea just to see if they still get a scare out of you.
But, most of that is in the past. The new "boogeyman" is here for your gun(s). So, I’m here today to reassure you; not as a parent, but
as concerned individual with children, that no one is coming to take your guns.
The “British are not coming” The bad men in the red coats left centuries ago
and went back across the big pond.
There is no “big black boogeyman” leading a pack of “big black
panthers” coming to rip down the gates of your communities, kill the security guards,
disarm the alarms, knock out the street cameras and motion detectors, and cut
your water, phone, and electricity off so they can knock down your double
bolted door and execute you and your family in your sleep. This boogeyman, just
like those in the past, are not real. They were just made up to scare you into
doing what the spin masters that create them want you to do. Unlike your parents, who probably had good intentions, the folks scaring you today have little or no concern in your welfare. They simply want to get rich on your money.
So where is this boogeyman coming from? Who is doing this you might
ask? We know it's not your parents. It's not the government, even though a lot of folks would not agree with that one. In this instance it’s the gun
and ammo industry, and organizations like the NRA that do their bidding and,
who skillfully weave these scary tales.Some refer to them as “the merchants of death.”They are very good at what they do. First they convince you that the NRA
is a “charitable” 501(c) 3, tax- exempt organization who’s mission is to ??????
Here’s an example of their charitable works;
This is charitable? Only if scaring you and your children is an act of charity.
If the NRA is a charitable organization as they claim to be, then where are they when these massacres occur? Why are they not putting up tents and loading them up with grief counselors to help those who got in the way of a gun? That is charity.
The purpose or mission if you want, of the NRA is “fear mongering” and they and the interests they represent make millions of dollars from, not only wars, but massacres like the one in Newtown. The fear
campaigns generated by the NRA on behalf of the gun and ammo industry are very
effective in converting death and fear into millions of dollars to fill the pockets of the gun and ammo industry, organizations like the
NRA and the campaign coffers of politicians that pander to them.
For example, in the month
since the Newtown massacre, millions of frightened Americans stood in block
long lines in front of gun stores to franticly buy up all the guns and ammo
they can get their hands on. Americans own enough guns and ammo to easily bring
down every man, woman, child, and their pets, in this country several times
over. Americans are so frightened that the only thing stopping them from
getting more guns and ammo is that inventories have dried up as this ad proclaims.
Note; I have to admit that when I Googled
this link I thought it was for a fast food chain selling “ammo” sandwiches. AMMO-TO-GO!?!?
Based in the heart of Texas, Ammo To Go is an online ammunition store that stocks factory new ammunition, custom loaded ammunition, and military ammunition. Ammo To Go is the primary online source for Military Surplus, Incendiary, Raufoss, Tracer, and Specialty Shotgun ammo. Ammo To Go supplies sportsmen, hunters, and law enforcement throughout the United States. Contact us at 979-277-9676 or email sales@ammotogo.com.
Please stay a while and look through all the ammo we have available by clicking on the type of ammo you are looking for in the categories section to the left.
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In an effort to serve our online customers effectively, we are temporarily suspending walk in sales of ammunition. We will welcome walk in customers again once we have processed our current backlog. If you have already placed an order for local pick-up, you may pick up your order in our office, once you have been notified that it is ready.
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Had I not read a little about AMMOTOGO my first impression was "OMG! it's a porn site" But after peeling my eyes off the GUN-TOTIN BIKINI CLAD GALS I came across "military ammunition"and a sundry of equally lethal stuff I had to admit it is a great way to get the customers attention. A very good one at that. Sort of a take on the terrorists, "virgin" dream but a far cry from the horror of what that Bushmaster one of the girls is holding unleashes.
The point I’m trying to make
here is simple; Americans need to wake up and realize that all this rhetoric
about your rights and guns being taken away is nothing more than a bad dream. A
skillfully woven tale created by some very sophisticated and cynical people who
want to scare you so bad that you’ll be begging them for more guns and ammo and
losing a lot of sleep if you don’t. These people have no problem sleeping,
dreaming of their cash registers being filled the brim by those who are so
frightened the boogeyman they are willing to spend their last dollar to protect
themselves against it; real or imagined.
As a side note, what's this "military surplus" about? I thought our military was hurting for more funding, short on supplies. What are America's gun merchants doing selling and profiting from stuff paid for by the taxpayer? Maybe the pentagon needs to wake up so we can get back to spending our tax dollars where there really is a shortage, like food, housing, education, employment, healthcare. All those nasty "entitlements" the fear mongers want us to give up in order to protect ourselves from the "boogeyman."
So, Wake up America! Take your kids to a horror movie
or go to Disney Land and take a ride in the House of Horrors. You want a boogeyman? That’s where you’ll find
him.
You'll find a lot of went to a mere 400 people. Forbes 400 They are not all scoundrels, mind you. Some even go so far as to share their wealth with those of us that are less fortunate. And there's plenty of us around. Poverty abounds. The middle class is an endangered species, and if the so-called conservatives have it their way you can bet your bottom dollar (if you have one) that things will get much worse. How much worse can it get? Here's some interesting numbers;
By sitting on their growing investments, the richest five richest Americans made almost $7 billion each in one year. That's $3,500,000.00 per hour. The minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 per hour.
Our unregulated capitalist financial system allows a few well-positioned individuals to divert billions of dollars from the needs of society. If the 400 richest Americans lumped together their investment profits from last year, the total would pay in-state tuition and fees for EVERY college student in the U.S.
The combined net worth of the world's 250 richest individuals is more than the total annual living expenses of almost half the world—three billion people.
Within our own borders, the disparity is no less shocking. For every one dollar of assets owned by a single black or Hispanic woman, a member of the Forbes 400 has over $40 million. That's equivalent to a can of soup versus a mansion, a yacht, and a private jet. Most of the Forbes 400 wealth has accrued from nonproductive capital gains. It's little wonder that with the exception of Russia, Ukraine, and Lebanon, the U.S. has the highest degree of wealth inequality in the world.
Now. this is something we might actually appreciate. The gun worshipers are eating their own! They are literally shooting themselves (or each other) their "shoot & run for cover" shows.
These gun nuts have no problem in demonstrating to the saner among us why there needs to be tighter regulation of these so-called "shows". The last time I ever attended a "show" I don't recall being able to buy what was on display. I just got handed brochures and business cards.
Thanks to those who appreciate guns, we can now add 5 more to the list of gun related injuries. Way to go folks!
According to the following report, the person I referred to in previous posts, as "the NRA's Joe the Plumber" is trying to eat his words. I venture to guess that it's because he now realizes he has become the "poster boy" for those who support gun control. There's a consensus growing that, with people like him out there it's all the more reason to have background checks and gun control!
The report entitled;
Unhinged Tactical Response CEO threatens to ‘start killing people’ over Obama’s gun control
click pic to play video … right click and “save target as” to download … The CEO of a Tennessee company that specializes in weapons and tactical training is threatening to “start killing people” if President Barack Obama moves forward with gun control measures.In a video posted to YouTube and Facebook on Wednesday, Tactical Response CEO James Yeager went ballistic over reports that the president could take executive action with minor gun control measures after the mass shooting of 20 school children in Connecticut last month.After the Drudge Report likened Obama to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin on Wednesday, pro-gun conservatives expressed outrage over the idea that the White House could act without Congress.“Vice President [Joe] Biden is asking the president to bypass Congress and use executive privilege, executive order to ban assault rifles and to impose stricter gun control,” Yeager explained in his video message. “Fuck that.”“I’m telling you that if that happens, it’s going to spark a civil war, and I’ll be glad to fire the first shot. I’m not putting up with it. You shouldn’t put up with it. And I need all you patriots to start thinking about what you’re going to do, load your damn mags, make sure your rifle’s clean, pack a backpack with some food in it and get ready to fight.”The CEO concluded: “I’m not fucking putting up with this. I’m not letting my country be ruled by a dictator. I’m not letting anybody take my guns! If it goes one inch further, I’m going to start killing people.”As The Atlantic noted on Wednesday, gun advocates can stop “freaking out” because Obama cannot ban assault weapons or close the gun show loophole without Congress.The president, however, can take small steps like modernizing the background check system and limiting importation of assault rifles.By Thursday morning, the video promising violence in response to gun control measures had been removed from Yeager’s YouTube page, but the link had not been removed from Facebook.
Did I miss something? Were the network news programs on ABC-CBS-NBC sold to Big Pharma and are now 1/2 hour drug Infomercials with a splatting of actual news now and then?
No matter what half-hour network news channel you flip to you will be bombarded with somewhere around 15 minutes of "ask your doctor" Big Pharma ads touting some new and improved excelsior to treat anything from and overactive bladder to a runaway leg. About 10 seconds of each ad is devoted to "side effects" up to, and including death! Guaranteed to solve any bladder or leg problem for good.
What would Cronkite or Murrow have to say if they were still with us? probably nothing because they would not be hired by the networks.
If you try to find an explanation to this transition from news to drugs you have to go back a few years and dig into obscure reports that very few of us would read.
I was able to find something in an article written in 2008 that stated;
Advertising in the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Overview
Open a copy of Reader’s Digest, or simply turn on the TV:
American consumers are bombarded by advertising from the
pharmaceutical industry. “Big Pharma,” the most profitable
industry in America, spent $4.2 billion in 2005 on DTC
advertising.3 It also spent about 35% of its revenues on marketing
and administration in 2001, an extremely high percentage
for any industry.4 Most of this money was spent by
companies trying to attract patients to use their drugs.
Pharma markets to consumers in many ways, including
print ads and TV commercials. It also markets by investing
in relationships: sponsoring research by doctors, inviting
physicians as members of advisory boards or speakers’
bureaus, giving donations or funding trips, and holding symposia.
In 2000, the ten largest pharmaceutical companies
spent $1.9 billion on promotional events alone.5 Free product
samples also help sway doctors to prescribe a particular medicine.
In her book The Truth About the Drug Companies, Dr.
Marcia Angell reports that in 2001, drug companies spent
$5.5 billion to promote nearly $11 billion worth of free samples
to physicians; and in 2005, pharma spent $7.2 billion
