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SWAT-clad man uses assault rifle in chaotic Santa Monica shooting spree
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/0608/SWAT-clad-man-uses-assault-rifle-in-chaotic-Santa-Monica-shooting-spree?nav=89-csm_category-topStories ^ | June 8, 2013 | Patrik Jonsson

Posted on 06/08/2013 8:48:34 AM PDT by Innovative

A semi-automatic assault rifle is again being tied to a US mass shooting, this one a chaotic series of events led by a body-armor-clad man who killed four and wounded five people before being shot and killed by police in a college library in the iconic beachside city of Santa Monica, Calif.

The attack marked the first major mass shooting since a bipartisan gun control bill failed in the US Senate in April. The shooting may help efforts to revive the debate about gun control, as well as put focus on ongoing legislative action in some states around allowing students and faculty to carry weapons on campuses to help thwart active shooters who target what are usually so-called "gun free" zones.

AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles are used in far fewer homicides than hand guns, but have become symbolic of America’s struggle to contain violent and public mass shootings. They’re immensely popular because of their ease-of-use, accuracy and customizability. Critics argue that the rifles are designed to be militaristic and offensive. Fans of the guns say they have no more lethality than a standard hunting rifle.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: assaultrifle; banglist; califshooting; guncontrol; gunfreezone; santamonica; shooting; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Obvious conclusion. Ban SWAT type clothing. Makes bad guys feel badder. So, I read somewhere he had on body armor. Head shot? That’s what I was taught anyway. Double tap to the noggin if you’re good/accurate enough. Only one if your caliber of choice is big enough.


21 posted on 06/08/2013 9:04:42 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: Innovative

Uh OH,,guess all that spying on citizens has again failed to ward off another mass shooting,,


22 posted on 06/08/2013 9:05:12 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Innovative

The Socialist Republic of Santa Monica couldn’t be a better place to focus hysteria and launch round two of the Great Gun Grab of 2013.


23 posted on 06/08/2013 9:05:19 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

FBI, police probe gunman in Santa Monica shooting spree

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fbi-police-gunman-in-santa-monica-shooting-spree-20130608,0,4640970.story

“The gunman, who was also fatally shot by police to end Friday’s harrowing incident, has not been identified. But law enforcement sources said his first victims were his father and brother, whose bodies were found in a burning home.”

If they know who his father and brother were, how come they couldn’t identify the shooter?!


24 posted on 06/08/2013 9:05:31 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
in the article, the only description was from a witness who said “mid 20’s with corn rows in his hair” but that could be anyone...

Want to bet? I vote for Amish ROP convert.

25 posted on 06/08/2013 9:06:32 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I heard the shemale police chief call it an automatic weapon on TV.


26 posted on 06/08/2013 9:06:53 AM PDT by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: Innovative
". . . a witness described a man in his 20s with corn rows in his hair taking aim and firing at random people and vehicles, before engaging in a gun battle with police . . . ."

corn rows?

27 posted on 06/08/2013 9:07:05 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: All
"Firefighters later found the bodies of two men inside the house. Police sources, who requested anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, said the men were Samir Zawahri, 55, the owner of the house, and one of his adult sons. A second son is suspected of being the shooter, the sources said."

See link in my post 24 to the article.

28 posted on 06/08/2013 9:08:46 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Izzy Dunne

We need an ArmaLite Rifle ban.


29 posted on 06/08/2013 9:11:01 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Innovative

All the deranged killers are deranged.

And derangement in America is part of the strategy of those people I rail about all the time. When one wants gun control laws to be passed, provide some terror attacks to make the population feel that submitting to gun control is in their best interest.

Indoctrination schools, deranged psycho-pills industry, entertainment media that glorifies immorality. All have ties to the foundation system.

A CIA that has admitted the MKUltra progam in Senate testimony. And it has ties to the foundation system.

Would those running our government use what’s at their disposal to attack American citizens ?

The IRS thingie gives us proof of that plain as day.

Hints:

Damning evidence and information is spirited away into the private sector; Sandy Berger’s theft gives us recent hard evidence of that.

The Foundations are run outside of ANY oversight whatsoever and no scrutiny and are free to serve any needs of the financial oligarchy, whose forefathers’ capital placed in these tax-exempt organizations is now worth many many billions. They can carry on missions that span generations and they are self-perpetuating and self-funded.


30 posted on 06/08/2013 9:20:16 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Apparently they’ve ID’d the two victims in the home that was burned as the murderers father and brother.


31 posted on 06/08/2013 9:20:32 AM PDT by jamndad5 ("I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.")
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To: Innovative

The CSM is owned by the NYSlimes.


32 posted on 06/08/2013 9:26:49 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Is this.... profiling?

Come on, this was not a rogue Amish lad on Rumspringa. Almost certainly, a former convict, and as such, very likely a convert to Islam.

Which would go far to explain a lot.


33 posted on 06/08/2013 9:35:07 AM PDT by alloysteel (If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

“What does A-R stand for?”

AMERICA’S RIFLE.


34 posted on 06/08/2013 9:35:13 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: rktman
I read somewhere he had on body armor. Head shot? That’s what I was taught anyway.

A round from a.45 on body armor is going to hit the person wearing the body armor with the force of a lead pipe or a tree trunk. If you're a decent shot armed with a .45, the guy wearing body armor will be on his ass, head shot or not.

35 posted on 06/08/2013 9:35:36 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Yaelle
I know some Christian Scientists and they are all very conservative and do not like or vote for Obama.

That's odd; all the ones I know are new-age peaceniks.

36 posted on 06/08/2013 9:40:47 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU...)
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To: Izzy Dunne
From Wiki...

The "AR" in all AR pattern rifles stands for Armalite.

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37 posted on 06/08/2013 9:41:00 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Finny

Gotta love them 45’s. Not sure if the LEOs there carry that. Maybe .40 but I’m thinking 9mm. And of course that ever popular (with criminals that is) AR variant in that exceedingly high powered .223. Kind of doubt that bad guy can run at 3000+/- fps.


38 posted on 06/08/2013 9:41:02 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST mr. president(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: alloysteel

The shooter was an AR-15 assault rifle machine gun. That’s all we need to know.

There is no need to know the name of the poor victim who was forced by the AR-15 to carry it around, point it at other victims, and pull its trigger over and over and over. AR-15s are evil, I tell ya.


39 posted on 06/08/2013 9:41:25 AM PDT by RugerMini14
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To: Innovative
A semi-automatic assault rifle...

What the hell is that?

Never mind...I guess it wasn't pink.

FMCDH(BITS)

40 posted on 06/08/2013 9:41:25 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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