More Background on Aaron Ybarra

Huffington Post

The man charged with killing one student and wounding two others at a small Seattle college last week had stopped taking his medications because he "wanted to feel the hate," and he detailed his plans in a handwritten journal for two weeks before the attack, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

"I just want people to die, and I'm gonna die with them!" Aaron Ybarra wrote the day of the shooting, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said.

Satterberg released new details of the allegations as he filed charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and assault against Ybarra, 26. Satterberg is seeking a sentence of life in prison.

Authorities say Ybarra has been held without bail and is on suicide watch at the county jail since a student pepper-sprayed him and ended the rampage Thursday at Seattle Pacific University.

Ybarra's lawyer, Ramona Brandes, has said her client has a long history of mental issues but is aware of the trauma caused by the shooting and is sorry. She said Tuesday that no decision has been made yet on whether he will seek a mental-illness defense.

"We have to look at his symptoms he manifested in the past, his treatment and his jail records to determine whether his mental illness arises to the level of a defense. These are choices he's going to be involved in," Brandes told The Seattle Times. "He wasn't on his meds and he committed an action that is incomprehensible. Had he been on his meds, would this have happened? We'll continue asking that for all time."

More Background on Jerad Miller

Huffington Post

Jerad Miller was ready to share his anti-government views with just about anyone who would listen, views that telegraphed his desire to kill police officers and his willingness to die for what he hoped would be a revolution against the government.

He told neighbors, television reporters and the Internet. Once, on the phone with the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, he threatened to "start shooting people."

If local or federal authorities were monitoring his online rants and increasingly sharp threats, they aren't saying — not with police still investigating what triggered Miller and his wife to gun down two officers and a third man Sunday before taking their own lives.

Even if Miller had attracted the attention of law enforcement, authorities would initially have been confined to knocking on his door and starting a conversation to try to gauge whether he was a true threat. His opinions were free speech, protected by the First Amendment. And given limited resources and rules against creating government watch lists, it would be impossible to keep tabs on everyone who actively promotes beliefs that may — or may not — turn to violence.

"In this particular situation, I think we would all be kidding ourselves if we said the signs weren't there," Finch said.

In January, Miller called a recorded help line of Indiana's motor vehicles bureau after he was pulled over in Nevada and found to have a suspended license from the state he had recently left. At the end of the call, Miller said, "If they come to arrest me for noncompliance or whatever, I'm just going to start shooting people," according to agency spokeswoman Danielle Dean.

The bureau contacted Nevada's Department of Public Safety and provided a copy of the recording, which the department's investigation division forwarded to a state-run threat analysis center on Jan. 22, spokeswoman Gail Powell said. The threat center forwarded the information to the Southern Nevada Counterterrorism Center, a combined project of federal, state and local authorities.

What happened next is unclear; the counterterrorism center did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Is saying "I'm just going to start shooting people," really protected by the 1st Amendment? Isn't it a crime to say such a thing?  

Why don't we arrest all those who say such things? If found to be a real danger, these people need to be disarmed.

Ohio Man Shoots Toddler In The Head During Fight With Child's Mother

Huffington Post

Cleveland police say a man fatally shot his 2-year-old son in the head when he fired into the window of a home during a dispute with the child's mother.

Police say the boy was standing on a landing when he was struck early Tuesday and was taken to a hospital, where he died. The Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County medical examiner's office identified the child as Derrice Alexander Jr., of Cleveland.

Police say his father fled the scene and was later arrested but wasn't immediately charged.

Police Chief Calvin Williams says the man is a convicted felon and should not have had a weapon. He declined to give details about that criminal record.

Williams says the man seemed to be cooperating with investigators. They're trying to determine where he got the gun.

He was not charged immediately?????

A thought for you.

Gun Violence Victim Ryanne Mace's father, Eric, asks this question:

If we are the greatest nation in the world
and
our way of life is better than in any other country
and
we are a society of equitable laws
and
our most important resource is our people
and
the most precious among our people are our kids
and
we have the best and brightest minds in the world on our side
and
we order our society by the will of the people
then
why do people keep shooting each other and we can't seem to do anything other than post shit on Facebook decrying another tragedy has occurred?

We can't stop natural disasters.
We can't stop disease.
We can't keep time from taking our loved ones away.
but
We have decided consciously not to fix this.
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
End of rant.

Good point, Eric, the opposition wants nothing to be done and do everything they can to keep the status quo, or make the situation worse.

The reinterpretation of the Second Amendment by the McDonald and Heller decisions do not block meaningful action being taken in the form of registration and background checks, yet there is no meaningful gun regulation in the United States.

20 million shit laws need to be replaced with one effective set of laws.

Which is what the "pro-gun" side fears most.

Gun-mounted Flashlights Linked to Accidental Shootings

The Denver Post

Ronny Flanagan took pride in his record as a police officer in Plano, Texas. He had an incident-free career. He took safety training regularly. He was known at the range as a very good shot.

Yet he killed a man when he was simply trying to press a flashlight switch mounted beneath the trigger on his pistol.

In a deposition, Flanagan expressed his remorse and made a prediction.

"I don't want anyone to ever sit in a chair I'm in right now," he said. "Think about the officers that aren't as well trained, officers that don't take it as seriously, and you put them in a pressure situation, another accident will happen. Not if, but will."

Flanagan was right. Three months after the October 2010 shooting in Plano, a 76-year-old man took a bullet in the stomach from a New York police officer trying to switch on the same flashlight model.

At least three other people in the U.S. over the past nine years have been shot accidentally by police officers with gun-mounted flashlights, an investigation by The Denver Post found. Two victims were fellow officers.

In Colorado, Denver's police chief banned the use of tactical flashlights with switches below the trigger guard after two officers accidentally fired their guns last year.

One of the officers may have shot a suspect when his finger slipped from the flashlight switch to the trigger, firing a bullet into a car window of the fleeing driver.

Other large Colorado police and sheriff's departments contacted by The Post said they have recorded no flashlight-related accidental gunshots. But many have imposed restrictions similar to Denver's.

Lawful Florida Gun Owner Shoots and Kills his Friend Unintentionally - No Charges - Lengthy Investigation Continues

Kyle Guessford, the shooter

Austin Brunson, the dead friend


Local news reports

Manatee County, Florida -- A roommate was showing off his new pistol and accidentally shot, and killed, his roommate.

Kyle Guessford and Austin Brunson were at their home on 50th Avenue in Bradenton with two other people who were visiting.  Kyle was in his room checking out several accessories he had just purchased for his pistol and came out his new firearm in his hand.

As he entered the living room he switched the weapon mounted flashlight on and the firearm discharged hitting Austin in the head. 

Austin was pronounced dead when the EMS arrived.

There was no fighting or arguing prior to the incident which appears to be accidental. The investigation continues.

Moe gun bans?

NRA board member, Tood Rathner. tweets:

Bloodancers?  What's that on your back, dipshit?

It seems that Rathner is prone to tweeting stupid shit.  And for all his bullshit, would make sure that the Nazis were well armed in the hope that he could be a hero like the people who rebelled in the Nazi Ghettos--not realising that he was only hastening his demise in a less dignified manner.

He is the type of Jew that felt "oh, that Mr. Hitler doesn't mean all the things he says about Jews", but instead of feeling that Jews have weathered anti-semitism before--he thinks he can out shoot them.

In this case, he is too dumb to see the reality of the situation because his judgement is clouded by his moronic ideology.  He is a different type of holocaust denier--he is the type who didn't properly learn the lessons of history.

The fact that Rathner can sit with Ted Nugent after Nugent's comments  and not want to kill him is more than enough proof that Rathner is a total fuckwit.

Then, Rahtner is dumb enough to spout racist horseshit seals my argument.

Dude, we don't disarm the moes--only the stooges! But, you need to worry since you seem to fall into the category of a "stooge". A really serious stooge, Rathner.

And you aren't even funny.