Posted on 11/06/2004 10:00:35 PM PST by Reagan is King
Distraught over the re-election of President George W. Bush, a Georgia man traveled to New York City, went to Ground Zero and killed himself with a shotgun blast, police said yesterday.
The suicide victim, Andrew Veal, 25, was discovered just before 8 a.m. yesterday when a worker for the Millennium Hotel looking at Ground Zero from an upper floor saw a man lying atop the concrete structure through which the 1 and 9 subway lines run.
The worker, thinking the man was sleeping, alerted colleagues and the Port Authority police were notified.
But when they got to Veal's body, they realized he had killed himself with a shot to the head from a .12-gauge shotgun.
No suicide note was found, but according to a Port Authority police source, family members said Veal, a registered Democrat, was despondent over Bush's defeat of Sen. John Kerry. A second source said Veal, who lived in Athens, Ga., and worked for the University of Georgia, was also adamantly opposed to the war in Iraq.
More than three years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Ground Zero remains a top tourist attraction, the site rife with symbolism.
Visitors there yesterday reacted in different ways to news of Veal's suicide. Bobbie Jensen, 54, a Republican from Phoenix, said that while she understood how Bush's victory disturbed those...
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I'm with you.
I've read through all these posts and shuddered. These kinds of responses are not only unChristian, they are also fodder for those on the left who say that Bush supporters are hypocritical.
This man's family deserves our prayers and sympathy. He must have been mentally ill to begin with to commit such an act.
My prayers for him and his family.
That's an accurate description.
I have seen the results of a shot gun blast to the face and unfortunately once you've seen something like that you cant unsee it.
I wouldn't worry about the procreation thing since they're pro-choice. Nothing like setting a course that will eventually decimate your numbers.
"The unprecedented campaign of scare-mongering and HATE by the left drove him to this. He really believed their lies and thought the world was coming to an end. The left should feel this is on their hands."
That has been my feeling too.
Prayers for this man and his family. How sad.
Well, THAT helped his party. NOT! One less dem vote to be counted in the next election.
"Shot gun - close range. What head?"
"So you are saying he is/was an airhead?"
At least he was open minded.
"How did he get a shotgun into NYC when they're illegal?"
You're being sarcastic I hope?
"I wonder if there is any way we can encourage his action to other wacko Libs.
Hopefully before they procreate...."
Hey Guys, I'm with clee1 here....
His vote will continue to be cast for the Dems for many elections to come.
You mean a potential Hillary Supporter in 2008???
Too late. They're getting there on their own. There are a few cooler heads over there, too. But those are not prevailing.
The gun also doesn't have a drivers license.
kristinn and I joked about leaving, purple shrouds, some black Nike shoes and applesauce on the steps of the Washington Post the day after the election. YOu're right, they do have many cult-like attributes to them.
As I recall, one "gauge" is equivalent to the diameter of a one lb. ball of lead, and the higher the "gauge", the lesser the amount of the lead, and accordingly the less the diameter of the ball of lead used to make the "gauge", and therefore the smaller the bore of the weapon. Which is why a 10-gauge shotgun is much more powerful than a 12-gauge, which is much more powerful than a 20-gauge, and so on. So, by that logic, a ".12" gauge shotgun would correspond to a much greater amount of lead in the imaginary ball of lead (8.5 times more massive weapon than even the already-huge hypothetical "one gauge" shotgun--8.5 x .12 = 1.0), and therefor a much larger weapon bore diameter. Vastly larger than exists in the non-military world. Accordingly, the idiot who wrote the article was even more uninformed about guns than it first appeared.
It seemed a lot more humorous before I had to explain it in such detail.....
I saw the humor in it.
Just be glad this guy didn't try to take anybody else down with him. I am concerned that our leaders (and conservatives in general) will face assasination attempts as the looney left disintegrates.
LOL. Reminds me of the old National Lampoon: SUBSCRIBE OR THE PUPPY GETS IT!
He probably stuck it in his mouth. We can assume, I think, that there was a face left. Probably a floppy, bloody one, but a face.
no fund raiser for them,let moneybags soreass soros pay for them, he financed the left's war on Bush, i think he owes it to them.
Yes, he did--he was a liberal.
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