The Star Tribune reports on the deranged 25-year-old man who tried to kill his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend. That's an old picture of a 2006 arrest.
Alan J. Sylte Jr. failed to hit the girlfriend but seriousley wounded a responding cop and eventually killed himself.
This is another of the daily examples we see, which are the direct result of lax gun laws and attitudes. Shame on the gun-rights advocates who want to keep it this way.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
There's not a lot of information in the news story as to what was going on in the shooter's life. The article say's he was "facing discharge", hard to tell what that means.
ReplyDeleteIf he was being discharged for reasons related to emotional instability it might be important to let his hometown cops know what was going on with him. I can't say if that's legal. It sounds as if he was more than a bit out of whack.
I wrote about this earlier; he had two firearms with him. Surrounding schools were locked down for a long time before it was discovered he was actually dead.
ReplyDeleteSo......wonder where he got the guns; was it from a family member or friend, or did he get them one step removed from a family or friend on the street, from a criminal who got them........from a family member or friend, or a robbery where the guns were unsecured.
Dog Gone,
ReplyDeleteCould he have taken the guns from the National Guard armory? He was being discharged. In other words, he had been a member of Laci's well-regulated militia. You always suggest that the shooter got his weapons from irresponsible private gun owners. Does it occur to you that there are other sources?
To everyone,
A twenty-five year old who was dating a seventeen year old? Was the relationship going on for a while? If so, somebody should have stepped in a long time ago.
Greg Camp is beginning to sound like a fundamentalist on the whole sex thing. But, then, it's easier to blame icky, bad sex than a nice, clean, inanimate object for a cop getting shot and the shooter then killing himself.
ReplyDeleteThe cop was shot in the head at pretty much point blank range. Either he's "Gabby Giffords Lucky" or he was shot with something other than a .38, .45, .40 or 9mm round. There has been no report of his having been that lucky.
When was the last time you were in a military armory, Greg Camp. Weapons are assinged to specific people and must be accounted for. They used to be issued on hand receipts when I was in the USAF (my unit housed the armory, such as it was, on the base where I worked for 2-1/2 years), I have no idea how they do it now, but I'm pretty sure that weapons accountability is still pretty high on the list of things you don't want to fuck up.
Nah, until I hear otherwise I'm gonna go with he obtained his weapon, legally or not, from a somewhat more mundane source.