On 5 November 2017, (click here) a gunman clad in black opened fire on parishioners at a Sunday service at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing at least 26 people. Within hours of that massacre, fake news sites were shamelessly exploiting the tragedy for personal gain by disseminating fabricated information about the shooter. One common theme to such fake news stories was that the shooter was connected to the “Antifa” movement:...
The right wing extremists will do anything to prevent the truth come to the surface. If everyone is screaming about an anti-fascist movement there is no more room for the fact this killer was a White Supremacist.
Not every place in the USA is a Sutherland, Texas where their policing is left up to the people to defend their homes and lives.
The only way to control this is to control the guns. This man had a huge background that would have prohibited him from purchasing guns, yet he had at least one. Why?
November 6, 2017
...Ann Stefanek, (click here) a spokeswoman for the Air Force, confirmed that Kelley was court-martialed in 2012 on two charges of assaulting his spouse and their child. He was confined for a year, given a bad conduct discharge and reduced in rank to E-1, or airman basic, Stefanek said.
Records show that Kelley's first marriage ended in divorce in 2012. He remarried in 2014; the status of that relationship was unclear.
Two ex-girlfriends told NBC News that Kelley's behavior became disturbing — even violent — after they broke up with him.
"Years after dating me he would try to bribe me to hang out with him," former girlfriend Katy Landry told NBC News in a Facebook message. "He ended up assaulting me. He would stalk me by repeatedly calling me — even prank calling me saying really weird stuff.
"That was another thing about him — he was very sick in the head...He would tell me very sick strange things," she said, without providing details....
This is yet another angry white man that got a gun when he should never have had one. Other such incidents occurred in the USA, this is not in isolation to the fact, when killers carry out their own agenda it is ENABLED by a relative or friend, ie: Sandy Hook, the shooter in New York State was given a gun by his girlfriend. There is also the shooter that should have never been able to buy the gun because of his background, but, with a clever agenda Dillan Roof beat the system.
Aaron Alexis, the Washington Navy Yard shooting, never should have been able to obtain a gun, with some question as to his employment due to mental illness. Yet, he had access and a weapon. There is James Holmes and Seung-Hui Cho.
The stories are many and they are often the same, including the identity issues with immigrants that kill; ie. Fort Hood, Pulse Club in Orlando, the San Bernardino killers.
The Americans that kill as in Las Vegas don't really have a motive, simply they were allowed to obtain weapons and unleash there fury, ie: Stephen Paddock and George J. Hennard.
All these men have one thing definitely in common, they had reached a depression over their purpose. They had reached a low spot in their lives and they chose to take it out on others.
There is no way of knowing if a man depressed is going to kill. There is no way of controlling the guns they use. The only way to take control of these ever escalating mass killings is to take the guns off the shelf. We know it works and it did work during the years of "The Assault Weapons Ban," which was allowed to "Sundown" by George W. Bush.
The Hennard Case is worth noting. His roommate blacks, Hispanics and Gays. He had a disdain for women. 14 of the 23 killed were women and stated, "bitch" before killing two of them.
The day before the killings was Case's 35th birthday. The day after the killing in Killeen, Texas there was a crime bill to be voted on which included a gun control measure. The people dead in Killeen were the constituents of a US Representative who opposed the gun control measure. He changed his vote after the massacre, but, the measure did not pass anyway.
The gun organizations wanted to pass a concealed carry law. Governor Richardson vetoed it, but, George W. Bush then passed it. A daughter of two of the victims, her mother and father, campaigned for the bill to conceal carry. More than likely Ms. Hupp would have been outgunned since the killer carried a Glock 17 (designed and used by police officers with a clip of 17 bullets/rounds) and Ruger P89 (a semi-automatic pistol with a maximum clip of 15 bullets, but, has a gun site) . Ms. Hupp believed she was the answer to mass killings, but, she was wrong. The deaths of innocent people have occurred time and again in Texas regardless of concealed carry.
People that own guns feel better about their chances and there is the remote chance they could have ended the killing spree, but, to put it into perspective, these shooting happen fast. In the case of Sutherland Springs, the killer already did his killing before he was discovered and followed in high pursuit by two men immediately in the area of the church. That delay in reaction time is where the killer is able to disarm any chance of another gun against them. Killers, most of the time, in the USA believe they have a moral reason to carry out their killings But, in reality most of the time they are depressed over their lives, so they justify killing those perceived to cause their personal pain.
Lower the number of guns on the street and deaths of Americans will slow. That is a fact. There is no disputing these facts.
I think THE GUN EXPERIMENT of the political right wing should come to an end. Americans have died due to the "free and open access" to all kinds of weapons and accessories because of the Political Right Wing Gun Experiment.