Four Marines killed in a rampage shooting, coincidentally occurring a few weeks after another one

[heyabbott]

You and Baron should talk more often. Lot in common.

Nothing should minimize what this Muslim terrorist did and no one think that there are not more just like him. There are 6,600,000 Muslims in the U.S. If only 1% are militant losers who can't hack it inAmerica, like many others already here who are disaffected by American life, we've got a serious problem. But the Roof and McVeighs and Auroa and Sandy Hook are just as dangerous and they too have demographic identifiers.

 

[Songbird]

Obama is NOT Going to Like What I'm About to Say, But I'm Saying it Anyway - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com

 

[old_tony]

Ohio sailor shot in Chattanooga passed away | NBC4i.com

Fifth military member dead. I wonder what their boss thinks.

Has the official determination of "workplace violence" been announced yet?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Has the official determination of "workplace violence" been announced yet?

Well, it was violent and happened in the workplace...

 

[YankeeFan]

Investigators are still searching for the motive. I hope they find it soon so we can pay some attention to whatever is the underlying cause.

Looking for a motive
Investigators are still digging into the past of gunman Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, described by those who knew him as a devout Muslim, an accomplished student and a well liked peer.

Authorities in the United States and abroad are working to figure out what might have motivated the 24-year-old to shoot up a recruiting center at the strip mall, then drive to a Navy operations support center about 7 miles away and stage another attack. He died in a gunfight with law enforcement.

Chattanooga shooting: Mourning the victims - CNN.com

 

[YankeeFan]

And, no surprise, he was a pot smoking loser:

A few months before he killed five U.S. service members in a shooting rampage here, the 24-year-old gunman, who often joked that he was just an "Arabian redneck," was smoking marijuana with friends.
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Abdulazeez also struggled to find work after he graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an engineering degree. He briefly landed a job at a nuclear power plant in Ohio but was dismissed when he failed a background check. He told friends he had failed the company's drug test after smoking marijuana.

Tenn. gunman used drugs, struggled with clash of faith - The Washington Post

 

[YankeeFan]

Please note that the usual subjects don't want to talk about an angry person taking a gun and killing multiple people. It's always has to be religion, flags, etc...

As with any gun related murder, I want to know who was the original purchaser of the weapon and if this person was legally allowed to own it.

Looks like he bought them himself, and bought them legally:

Abdulazeez's friends said he liked to shoot guns, drive four-wheelers through the mud and hike in the mountains. Within the past year, he bought two assault rifles — an AK-74 and an AR-15 — and a Saiga 12 pistol-grip shotgun from an online weapons site. Abdulazeez and his friends would drive out to the Prentice Cooper State Forest, where they would blast away at the state park's gun range. None of his friends thought twice about his decision to purchase military-style assault weapons.

Tenn. gunman used drugs, struggled with clash of faith - The Washington Post

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I was reading elsewhere about guns and society, but this Chattanooga thing wasn't mentioned. Seems odd such a thing would be completely ignored. Are we sure this really happened?

 

[93Devil]

I was reading elsewhere about guns and society, but this Chattanooga thing wasn't mentioned. Seems odd such a thing would be completely ignored. Are we sure this really happened?

Source?

 

[93Devil]

Looks like he bought them himself, and bought them legally:

Abdulazeez's friends said he liked to shoot guns, drive four-wheelers through the mud and hike in the mountains. Within the past year, he bought two assault rifles — an AK-74 and an AR-15 — and a Saiga 12 pistol-grip shotgun from an online weapons site. Abdulazeez and his friends would drive out to the Prentice Cooper State Forest, where they would blast away at the state park's gun range. None of his friends thought twice about his decision to purchase military-style assault weapons.

Tenn. gunman used drugs, struggled with clash of faith - The Washington Post

And there lies the problem.

 

[YankeeFan]

And there lies the problem.

Why?

At the time he purchased them, what grounds were there for denying him his right to own them?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Investigators are still searching for the motive. I hope they find it soon so we can pay some attention to whatever is the underlying cause.

Looking for a motive
Investigators are still digging into the past of gunman Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, described by those who knew him as a devout Muslim, an accomplished student and a well liked peer.

Authorities in the United States and abroad are working to figure out what might have motivated the 24-year-old to shoot up a recruiting center at the strip mall, then drive to a Navy operations support center about 7 miles away and stage another attack. He died in a gunfight with law enforcement.

Chattanooga shooting: Mourning the victims - CNN.com

You always pish and moan about this, but they aren't just going to say, "radical Islam," and call it a day. "Motive" includes who were his specific associates, why this particular target, etc., etc.