Collectivist and cognitively dissonant Obama supporter shoots up a town meeting. Think his politics will get major mention in the dinosaur media?
Three dead, three injured as gunman opens fire on town hall meeting in Pennsylvania
On his Facebook page, Newell said he voted for President Barack Obama but was upset with his administration, citing the President’s failure to close down Guantanamo Bay and the continuing federal crack down on medical marijuana. He also posted an image on his page in support of the Second Amendment, along with a lengthy note opposing gun control. On his Twitter page, he tweeted in support of a petition to “eliminate armed guards for the President, Vice-President, and their families, and establish Gun Free Zones around them.”
In a comment at Mother Jones last year, Newell wrote: “if you bring an AR15 to a public meeting & parade around with it you should go to jail I believe in the second amendment, but there is a difference between the second amendment & terrorizing people!”
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Another Democrat goes on a shooting rampage. Maybe we need Democrat control. Just a thought.
lol. Really? The original dispute had to do with the guy having a massive junk collection on his property and the zoning weenies freaking out over it and fining the guy every chance they got.
You're not taking issue with a man for bearing arms at a public meeting, are you?
His crime was shooting indiscriminately. Let's not put ourselves in a position where we have called an action crazy but we actually believe everyone should be permitted to do so.
Sure, he abandoned his prior view that no one should be allowed to do that, but he abandoned it in the right direction.
Some of his reasons for wanting to kill those responsible for his plight were actually good reasons:
1. Guantanamo Bay allows the government to get away with indefinite detention.
2. No one has a right to tell you what to put in your own body.
3. His position on eliminating guards for Presidents was correct. You need to be able to defend your rights against the government (but he was wrong about wanting to set up Gun Free Zones).
All of these are good reasons to kill the government officials responsible for these violations of our rights.
It's like the case with Gabby Giffords: A nut job shot her, and indiscriminately shot others; But that doesn't mean that didn't deserve to be killed for her position on gun control.
The government is using crazy or indiscriminate people to discredit the view that it is sometimes necessary to kill government officials to stop their violations of our liberties.
Let's not help them take more of our liberties by suggesting that the IDEA of walking into a public meeting with a weapon is crazy:
The Federalist No. 28
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa28.htm
In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers ... [t]he citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.
The Federalist No. 46
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa46.htm
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole. The same combinations, in short, would result from an apprehension of the federal, as was produced by the dread of a foreign, yoke; and unless the projected innovations should be voluntarily renounced, the same appeal to a trial of force would be made in the one case as was made in the other.
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Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes.
Comforting to see a spate of "OTW" comments on the Ross Twp. PA debacle here, too ! But to clear some things up . More reliable, (and maybe factual) reprts have Newell shooting into the Municipal Bldg. from the outside with a .223 Ruger Mini-14 . He then left that weapon in his truck, armed himself with a .44 Mag revolver and entered the building. Two individuals inside tackled him and Newell was wounded during the fracas.
FWIW Newell seems to have been a recluse living on marginal means. It also appears Ross Twp. officials have been very patient with Mr. Newell over an extended time frame, but were also facing public pressure over the property conditions and Newell's refusal/inability to even attempt to comply with zoning/sanitary regulations. (Its also possible, [but not reported] his taxes were in arrears, leading to the Twp's foreclosure.)
JMPO, but I suspect this whole tragedy might have been averted had any of the "complainers" offered Newell a little "neighborly help" such as some part-time work, some food and assistance in solving his issues on a "one to one" basis. It might only have taken a few "sympathetic ears" ! >Jeff
We are told that leftists are morally superior to the rest of us, and yet they are largely responsible for the vast majority of the horrific acts in human history.
Blaise Pascal once said:
"The righteous man thinks he's a sinner, and the evil man righteous."
Any questions?
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