Sunday, November 3, 2013
What Was the Motive Behind Paul Anthony Ciancia's Actions at LAX?
According to KTLA, in the days leading up to Friday’s LAX shooting, Ciancia sent a series of “angry, rambling” text messages to family members, including one to Ciancia’s younger brother that made Ciancia’s father think his son was suicidal.
“Their younger child got a text message from Paul stating that there were some comments in there about his well-being and he wanted to possibly take his own life,” Chief Allen Cummings told reporters. Ciancia was apparently disgruntled about the Transportation Security Administration, saying in a note that they had violated his constitutional rights. He apparently referred to himself as a “pissed-off patriot.”
According to HLNTV, Ciancia had material on him that expressed anti-government and anti-TSA sentiment. He also may have been a believer in The New World Order, generally considered a conspiracy theory in which a group of elites are thought to be forming a one-world government.
I blame Orlin Sellers and all the other arm-chair government haters who spout their poison continually which every once in a while motivates some deranged young man to act.
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If you're not angry with the government, given all the facts at present, you're not paying attention. Right now, there are better ways to deal with what is going on, but anger is justified.
ReplyDeleteSOunds like treason to me.
DeleteSadly, the mass shootings have become a part of the American fabric. Much like nanotechnology, they appear to be doubling in density every few years. It will take quite a stretch of domestic tranquility to convince me that this is not continuing. To me, it's breaking down into roughly four categories. School shootings, random public massacres, disgruntled former employees or students and those with a beef against the federal government. Timothy McVeigh being the grandfather of the latter class, albeit his choice of weaponry was more sophisticated.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to see all four problems relating back to the near worship of guns as fetish in this country. Idiots that get out their guns while binge drinking with friends and end up cutting a hole in someone's head. Boys in Texas out for a hunt on Grandpa's ranch with too many beers. Just playing with guns in general instead of treating them with caution. Pages and pages of NRA gear from fashion to ammo holsters. Little tiny rifles for boys and girls. Perfectly normal people squandering their time and treasure at shooting ranges. A group that will not appear in public without their body holsters loaded up and ready to go. A U.S. senator defending the psycho killer George Zimmerman.
I don't see it so much as the price of freedom as the price we pay for the mass indoctrination and propaganda of outlets such as talk radio and FOX News. Mostly just to keep the people angry and cowed and submissive.
I personally have no problem with TSA since they got rid of the full body x-ray machines.
It's obvious that you don't like guns, but how about not being so sarcastic or ill-willed against those of us who do? I'm sure you do things that I don't enjoy, but to each his own.
DeleteToday, I did a photoshoot with a friend of mine for my western novel to be released in December. He took pictures of me in the woods on a ridge behind another friend's farm. I had my black-powder revolver with me. (And my Sig Sauer pistol, but it was concealed.) It was a lot of fun. And that's my point--we harmed no one and enjoyed our time.
The hobby I engage in doesn't kill 30,000 people a tear.
DeleteGreg, your little tale of fun at the photo shoot is anecdotal in the extreme. There are too many of you lawful gun owners who are irresponsible and dangerous. Too many of you contribute to the gun flow into the criminal world where most of the gun violence takes place.
DeleteYou cannot hold all of us responsible for the bad acts of a few. That kind of fallacy--the hasty generalization--is the origin of racism and other forms of bigotry, as you've amply demonstrated here many times. The vast majority of us kill no one and harm no one. But your side requires no evidence to push your agenda, so it's no surprise that you make these statements.
DeleteBut your side include the violators. Those violations cause the deaths.
DeleteAnd it's not "a few." It's closer to 50% of you.
DeleteMy side does not include the violators, since I don't support harming innocent people. And no, fifty percent is an assertion without evidence. Until that's proven, I call bullshit.
DeleteGreg,
DeleteI like to spend time outdoors as well. On Halloween, my wife and I played hooky and took the retrievers out to a sacred Kumeyaay mountain. We just about had the whole park to ourselves. The wife took a little nap on Flat Rock while the dogs and I scouted out a new trail around the hilltop. There is also a valley that is the source of one of the tributaries of the San Diego River. I like to go down into the creek and cut a trail through the willows and wild berries to see how close I can get to the waterfall.
That sounds like a good day, Flying Junior.
DeleteBut Greg, doesn't it send a shiver up your spine the think Junior did all that unarmed?
DeleteWhy would it?
DeleteYou are the one who claims "sides." This guy was certainly not on the anti-gun "side." And yes, if you promote guns, reject any gun control, then you have to live with the fact these nuts are on your "side." You cannot reject the behavior of those who agree with your thinking. It's their behavior that fuels the gun control "side."
DeletePoor ole Mikeb can't differentiate between being anti-government and being pro-Constitution. People like Mikeb love the government and hate the country. Sad, really.
ReplyDeleteorlin sellers
You got it exactly backwards, I hate the government too, but my feelings are not so out of whack that I contribute to the problem like you do. I'm not so irresponsible that I encourage whack-jobs like Ciancia the way you do with your bullshit rhetoric. And, let's not forget your best, I don't blame the 50 women a month who are murdered by their partners with guns for their own deaths, like you do.
DeleteMikeb, you hate Republicans who are in government. That is more in line with the truth. Do we ever read any disparaging remarks here about Obama, Pelosi, Reid, or the rest of those weasels with a (D) behind their name. NO!
DeleteHave I ever advocated violence against anyone on your blog, or anywhere else. NO! That can not be said about yourself. You want Control, and if Control means abusing rights, coercion, or force, you will happily apply any measures to have your anti-liberty crap enforced, the key word being 'force'.
orlin sellers
You hate government, but you trust government to administer the rights of millions of Americans? Mikeb, I really don't understand your thinking.
DeleteActually I've criticized Obama a good bit.
DeleteIf you have criticized Obama it was only because he wasn't enough of a dictator.
Deleteorlin sellers.
And let's not forget that Laci and Democommie both expressed their desires to see violence done to me.
DeleteOf course you blame someone other than the shooter.
ReplyDeleteWho did you blame when that guy shot up a Family Research Center carrying a Chic Fil A bag?
Of course you want to shirk your part in all this. Gun rights fanatics share in the blame for gun violence regardless of who pulls the trigger.
DeleteUp above, you blamed Orlin Sellers for rhetoric- specifically encouraging wack-jobs with bullshit rhetoric. So who do you blame for the Family Research Center shooting? Was that Orlin's rhetoric too?
DeleteI support liberty. I advocate for it. But that doesn't make me responsible for unhinged people who can't participate in an adult conversation.
DeleteI'm not angry with the government. Give me one good reason why I should be? I was angry about the wars started by GWB. That did not make me give up on the idea of government. Will not be voting republican any time soon!
ReplyDeleteWork within the system for change. Orderly transition of power. This is the hallmark of a civilized nation. No sympathy from me for McVeigh or any other late-comer of this idea of distrusting government. Ruby Ridge? Waco? These are celebrated causes for idiots. I trust my local, state and federal police. Frankly, it seems a little bit subversive to characterize federal agents as anything less than self-sacrificing public servants, if not outright unpatriotic. Sure, you can hate the government and love the constitution, Orlin. What the fuck are you talking about sympathizing with this killer? You're an idiot.
Remember, Reagan aspired to president. That is a political office.
You trust law enforcement, despite repeated stories of their wrong-doing? You trust the government, despite repeated violations of our rights--and I don't just mean gun rights here?
DeleteI don't hate government, but I see it as something that must be watched constantly and restrained always.
This guy is another product of the rightwing media who constantly put out a stream of poison about the government. Limbaugh, Savage - they should all be shot for treason.
ReplyDeleteI agree they share in the responsibility for this.
DeleteIt's sad watching two supporters of gun control discussing how they'd like to see celebrities shot for political reasons.
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