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Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Suspect Santino William Legan, 19
abc nightly news ^ | Jul 29, 2019 | alex stone, morgan winsor

Posted on 07/29/2019 5:15:18 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Authorities are investigating the social media posts made by the suspected gunman in a California festival shooting that killed three people and injured more than a dozen others in an effort to determine a motive in the attack.

Gunshots rang out Sunday just before 6 p.m. local time at the popular Gilroy Garlic Festival in the city of Gilroy, some 80 miles southeast of San Francisco.

Santino William Legan, 19, was identified as the alleged shooter on Monday, law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; abcdisneynews; antichristian; dsj02; gaybcnews; gilroygarlic; iranian; militantatheism; santinolegan; sks
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To: peggybac

Don’t worry...you aren’t in their target demographic. Just go about your business until they come for you.


21 posted on 07/29/2019 5:39:44 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Why do we care about any of the details of the 1 mass shooting in the last 2 weeks out of 36 that was not committed by a gentleman...


22 posted on 07/29/2019 5:40:49 PM PDT by northislander
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To: El Cid

his alleged “white supremacist text” was an atheist screed. Anton LaVey apparently wrote an intro to an edition and incorporated passages in his own atheist screed “The Satanic Bible”.

How about those Satanic churches feel some heat about one of their own going full tilt extremist?


23 posted on 07/29/2019 5:40:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Neanderthal

Muslim isn’t a race. But he may have muslim heritage through his family. Georgie Soros has Jewish heritage but is doesn’t seem to believe in religion either.


24 posted on 07/29/2019 5:42:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: yesthatjallen

legan

Urban Dictionary
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=legan

a person who partakes heavily in the consumption of marijuana.
derived from the terms vegan and lean
“Mate, I smoke so much green I’m basically a legan”


25 posted on 07/29/2019 5:43:00 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: yesthatjallen
In almost every one of these tragedies, we learn the shooter was a white supremacist only to learn later he was entirely something else. The retraction is always weeks later on section D, page 88 or some ridiculous nonsense
26 posted on 07/29/2019 5:44:21 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote, while it is still legal!)
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To: yesthatjallen

He indicated “Italian” and “Iranian” heritage and flags on his Instagram page.

https://lauraloomer.us/2019/07/29/breaking-gilroy-shooter-identified-as-iranian-america-with-islamic-imagery-on-instagram/#.XT9Ch42otQA


27 posted on 07/29/2019 5:48:16 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Cecily

Not yet. Most of what we know about him comes from social media accounts. His grandfather, a West Point grad, was in an abuse case years back. His brother is a boxer.


28 posted on 07/29/2019 5:49:35 PM PDT by x
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To: nuke_road_warrior
As quoted and paraphrased by CNN, the Police Chief said that the SKS is an "AK-47 type" rifle. The same CNN piece is posted on quite a few news sites.

"Festival shooter Santino Legan legally purchased his rifle in Nevada. Here's what else we know about the 19-year-old"
CNN by way of Houston Style Magazine
Susan Scutti
July 29, 2019
http://stylemagazine.com/news/2019/jul/29/festival-shooter-santino-legan-legally-purchased-h/
"Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee...said...The shooter had an assault-style rifle and appeared to shoot at random, Smithee said. The SKS, an 'AK-47 type' rifle, was purchased legally in Nevada on July 9, he said..."

29 posted on 07/29/2019 5:54:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: a fool in paradise
How about those Satanic churches feel some heat about one of their own going full tilt extremist?

His acts certainly were Satanic, and perhaps he stumbled into their clutches. Satan will prey on anyone to multiply misery into this world - and the psychiatric infirmed are some of his 'special' targets.

30 posted on 07/29/2019 5:57:41 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: yesthatjallen

He was obviously against Garlic. Maybe he thought he was a Vampire.


31 posted on 07/29/2019 6:02:18 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: yesthatjallen
In other news...

At least 48 people were shot — eight fatally — in incidents of gun violence within Chicago city limits over the weekend...

32 posted on 07/29/2019 6:05:27 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: a fool in paradise

It sounds anti-Jew and anti-Christian


33 posted on 07/29/2019 6:09:40 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Raw evil, straight from the pit of hell.


34 posted on 07/29/2019 6:13:13 PM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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To: yesthatjallen
ABC is manufacturing a narrative that doesn't exist.

FWIW. Ties in with a massive media coverage in Canada. Two youths, 18 years and 19 years of age were leaving British Columbia to seek work in Yellow Knife,Yukon Territory. Along the way an Australian citizen and his American girlfriend were murdered. This in remote Manitoba. Then a business man from Vancouver was found dead on the highway.

The police have issued warrants for the two youths. The biggest manhunt in Canadian history. Been on the loose for nearly two weeks. The media did their digging. One of the youths seemed to admire Nazis. He had a large swastika in his belongings at his house.

The media had an orgasm. Strangely enough the average Canadian did not seem to buy their implication. They have a rifle. Hundreds of armed Mounties and even troops have been deployed at Gillam and then York Landing, Manitoba. Tiny communities. Perhaps the press have cried "wolf" one time too many.

35 posted on 07/29/2019 6:22:19 PM PDT by Peter Libra (f)
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To: nuke_road_warrior
The weapon was “legally purchased in Nevada...”
No one said HE purchased the gun in Nevada. Unless he is was a resident of Nevada.
Therefore it is against Federal law to buy the rifle out of state and bring it back to Cali.
Thanks to that law and California law there are no illegal guns crossing into California.< /sarcasm >
37 posted on 07/29/2019 6:41:40 PM PDT by lewislynn (The Democrat (not democatic) Congress #1 job is to find judges to stop the President)
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To: yesthatjallen
This is what is on Facebook:

"Santino William Legan, 19, has been identified by CBS News as the suspect in the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. The shooting Sunday night on the final day of the annual event at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy left three dead, 15 injured and the suspected shooter, Legan, killed by police. Legan has an Instagram page with just three posts. The one most disturbing appears to have been posted shortly before the shooting. “Ayyy garlic festival time. Come get wasted on overpriced shit.” Legan also shared his views that include fringe white supremacist book written in 1890. Called “…one of the most incendiary works ever to be published anywhere,” by a noted anarchist, Legan quoted from the book in a post accompanied by a Smokey the Bear sign about fire danger. He wrote: “Read Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?” According to the book Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Subculture, the book was authored under a pseudonym. It is purported to expand on Friedrich Nietzsche’s “theories of master–slave morality and herd mentality …” The book is described as being akin to Social Darwinism and includes misogynistic and racist principles “claiming that the woman and the family as a whole is the property of the man and proclaiming the innate superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. The book also contains many strong anti-Semitic statements.”

38 posted on 07/29/2019 7:04:28 PM PDT by Hildy (Don't get bitter, get better.)
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To: yesthatjallen

It appears likely that Legan was doing a drug of some kind.


39 posted on 07/29/2019 7:22:12 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: yesthatjallen

They meant White Supremacist Massaging.

You know, rub the white parts (the ones without tan).

And rub them a lot.


40 posted on 07/29/2019 7:31:26 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (/S liberally (oops) applied to all posts.)
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