This dispute appears to be a local one, and tragic both in origin and outcome. Four are dead and two injured after a gunman began shooting through walls into a city council meeting in northeastern Pennsylvania, ViaRaw Story:“All I saw was the holes go through the hall,” said Pocono Record reporter Chris Reber, who was at the meeting in the Ross Township municipal building. “I saw smoke and plaster flying out, blowing out through the walls.”“I was the only person who crawled out. Everyone got behind a table. Some of the supervisors were over on the side throwing up.”The shooter had a pistol with a scope and starting shooting through the walls. He shot several people and then went to his car to retrieve another weapon.The gunman, identified as Rockne Newell, had a long-standing dispute with the town government and FEMA over the condition of his property.Police have identified the gunman as 59-year-old Rockne Warren Newell. His property had recently been seized by the county sheriff.
is this a picture of those who support guns, having it come back on them, you would think those states that support it and the disservice they are doing to those same people would not put them in the cross hairs as well as the innocents?
all though the authorities were within their laws they still have those with guns, not saying they should cower, but they need to pay attention to who they are trying to enforce against may a different approach might have saved lives.
It's difficult to tell what role politics and rhetoric might have played in the tragedy. He was aggrieved to be forced from his home and left to live in his car. I would be, too. Yet he objected to gun safety laws and was also disappointed that more hadn't been done to legalize marijuana.On his Facebook page, Newell said he voted for President Barack Obama but was upset with his administration, citing the President’s failure to close down Guantanamo Bay and the continuing federal crack down on medical marijuana.He also posted an image on his page in support of the Second Amendment, along with a lengthy note opposing gun control. On his Twitter page, he tweeted in support of a petition to “eliminate armed guards for the President, Vice-President, and their families,andestablish Gun Free Zones around them.”
they had to know this guy was someone of interest concerning safety they knew he had guns, sure they were aware of his social network postings and still they steam rolled him with law, not condoning his actions but i think it could have been avoided with a little compassion and common sense.
