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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Jul 16, 2015.

  1. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

  3. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

  4. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

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

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    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
     
  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    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.
    ...
    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
     
  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    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
     
  8. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    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?
     
  9. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member


    Source?
     
  10. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    And there lies the problem.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Why?

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

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    You always piss 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.
     
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