Reuters
There are no signs that Alexis, 34, was targeting anybody in the September 16 shooting at the Navy Yard in southeast Washington, said Valerie Parlave, the FBI assistant director in charge of the Washington field office.
"We have found relevant communications on his electronic media, which referenced the delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves for the past three months," Parlave told a news conference.
Surveillance video released by the FBI showed Alexis driving a rented blue Toyota Prius into a Navy Yard parking garage shortly before 8 a.m. Carrying a backpack, he then entered the Naval Sea Systems Command building, site of the shootings, through a door.
The brief video also shows Alexis, armed with a Remington shotgun and wearing dark clothing, descending a stairway and walking along corridors in a crouch position, weapon held at the ready.
People can be glimpsed at the end of one corridor. Alexis peeks around corners and, at one point, aims the shotgun into a room but does not fire.
Parlave said Alexis, a government technology contractor, had in his possession the shotgun, which had a sawed-off barrel and stock, and a pistol he obtained during the shooting.
"MY ELF WEAPON"
Scratched into the shotgun were the phrases, "End to the torment," "Not what y'all say," "Better off this way" and "My ELF weapon," photos released by the FBI showed. "ELF" is believed to stand for "extremely low frequency."
I guess this settles the question of whether or not he made a rational and calculated choice to target the Navy Yard because of its gun-free status. I suppose some will still claim this.
One thing that concerns me is how many other gun owners are being controlled by these brain waves.
What do you think? Please leave a comment.
"One thing that concerns me is how many other gun owners are being controlled by these brain waves."
ReplyDeleteLets look at the concept. I actually think that someday this privacy issue might come up. We have made some startling advances in medical technology in recent years, and sooner or later, we'll likely figure out how to read the big processor we know as the brain. ELF is likely not the way since its speed is measured in characters per minute.
The ELF sites, located in Wisconsin were dismantled (This is where I throw in with evil background music, "they say") in the early 2,000's. It was run for communication with submarines, which would mean Navy. And of course, who is in charge of the Navy? That would mean that for the past several years, the Obama administration has been talking to gun owners. That seems to working for him as well as "Fast and Furious".
And while adjusting my foil beanie, one must ask the question, if the government IS talking to gun owners, what do you think they would be saying to them? Would it be "shoot up the Navy Yard"? Or (throw in that evil music again), "common sense gun laws"
As Will Rogers often said, "be thankful we don't get the government we pay for".
Mikeb, why won't you listen? It's not that these wackos necessarily target gun-free zones, though some perhaps do. It's the fact that the people in those zones can't fight back effectively. That's the problem.
ReplyDeleteGreg, you and the rest of your fanatic friends used to say exactly that - gun free zones are a magnet to the mass shooters because they're full of sitting ducks. But, after I beat the shit out of that nonsense argument over and over again, you abandoned it for the safer one you just outlined.
DeleteLying gun-rights fanatics like yourself have no compunction moving the goal posts like that.
We've said all along that some of these wackos choose gun-free zones as targets of opportunity. Some. It's your own love of the false dichotomy that blinds you to what we've actually said.
DeleteThe "deliverance" duo hear all sorts of voices. They are being controlled by the NRA, which sends out signals daily. The fake professor receives them on his left molar tooth.
ReplyDeleteGood one. You made me laugh out loud.
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