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Louisville bank shooter who killed five wanted to make ‘impact’ to highlight gun laws: Police report
The Hill ^ | 11/22/2023 | SARAH FORTINSKY

Posted on 11/22/2023 8:32:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A man who killed five people at a bank in Louisville earlier this year wrote in his journal that he wanted to demonstrate the consequences of gun laws that he viewed as too lenient, according to police.

The Louisville Police Department released a report Tuesday with quotes they said were taken from Connor Sturgeon’s journal entries in the days leading up to the shooting on April 10, 2023.

“I have decided to make an impact. These people did not deserve to die, but because I was depressed and able to buy ___ (guns?), they are gone,” Sturgeon reportedly wrote on April 4, the day he bought a rifle he’d use in the shooting six days later.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bank; gunlaws; louisville; shooter
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Alrighty then... big lefty I am guessing?
1 posted on 11/22/2023 8:32:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ah yes… we can learn the manifesto of shooters when it’s politically convenient…


2 posted on 11/22/2023 8:35:23 AM PST by Skywise
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The police report also included several pages in his journal from the day before Sturgeon opened fire at the bank. In a section titled “other thoughts,” he stated, “I am definitely very sick”


3 posted on 11/22/2023 8:35:46 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sure he says that was his reason. He may not be a leftist, but he knows the courts are in big cities. Catering to them as a fellow traveler?


4 posted on 11/22/2023 8:36:21 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“I am definitely very sick” and described struggles with mental health. He also wrote that “those in power care only about money and more power.”

Well well we’ll. Psych drugs again. But by all means argue amongst yourselves trying to find another cause.


5 posted on 11/22/2023 8:36:30 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes I posted a pic here somewhere, him and his parents made a video for YouTube. It was pro-COVID jab. They were big Dems and prominent in this area.

The funny thing is no one, I mean NO ONE talks about them now. I have a feeling if he would have been a MAGA it wouldn’t be like that.

He lived about 10 miles away as the crow flys…I’m guessing.


6 posted on 11/22/2023 8:38:39 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And I recall reading about how Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were both opposed to Colorado making it easier for law abiding persons to obtain concealed handgun carry permits and that they changed the date of their horrible act in Littleton to the day that the state legislature was to debate and likely pass the aforementioned legislation.


7 posted on 11/22/2023 8:39:03 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“I know our politicians are solely focused on lining their own pockets, but maybe this will knock some sense into them. If not, good luck.”


So why didn’t he shoot a politician?


8 posted on 11/22/2023 8:39:09 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The Louisville Police Department released a report Tuesday with quotes they said were taken from Connor Sturgeon’s journal entries in the days leading up to the shooting on April 10, 2023.

So this manifesto they release.

9 posted on 11/22/2023 8:39:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Sturgeon was shot and killed by police.

He was stopped by guns. Imagine that. Too bad an armed citizen wasn't able to stop him sooner.

10 posted on 11/22/2023 8:39:35 AM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our n ation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rape laws are too lenient.

Carjacking laws are too lenient.

Child abuse laws are too lenient.

Drunk driving laws are too lenient.

Every criminal is making a political statement.


11 posted on 11/22/2023 8:48:10 AM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Proving once again that the most dangerous thing in this country isn’t guns or even synthetic street opioids, but liberals.


12 posted on 11/22/2023 8:49:36 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Seems to a theme from the Left... If the Right doesn’t step up to provide them with examples of how bad we are... then the either fake it or do it themselves.

Racism? How many hoaxes have there been perpetrated by the Left to demonize the Right?

Tyranny? Biden and his crew have literally done everything the Left was saying Trump would do in a Second Term.

Now Murder...

These people cannot be reasoned with. They are either consciously evil or outright insane. There is no peaceful solution to this.

Take steps, NOW... TODAY... to protect yourself and those around you. Be ready to respond to these Leftists when they pop-off like this.


13 posted on 11/22/2023 8:53:25 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My first rule when it comes to gun control:

People who believe in gun control should NOT own guns.


14 posted on 11/22/2023 8:54:39 AM PST by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: Seruzawa

When someone is so sick that they have to kill 5 people so he can pimp for the Nazi gun grabbers, there is only one cure. He really needs to be “put down”.


15 posted on 11/22/2023 8:56:20 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: SpaceBar

“a gun is only dangerous when the wrong nut is connected to the trigger” L.Star. apparently his gun had a defective nut attached to it.


16 posted on 11/22/2023 8:58:39 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’m not justifying his act. But without the shrinks pushing these drugs we wouldn’t be seeing these incidents. Time to ban the drugs and lock up the doctors and people who make the drugs.


17 posted on 11/22/2023 9:01:10 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

I agree.


18 posted on 11/22/2023 9:06:14 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: heartwood

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Official Lyric Video)

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints

As heads is tails just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint

So if you meet me

Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste

Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste.


19 posted on 11/22/2023 9:11:37 AM PST by Bratch
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To: ChicagoConservative27

willing to kill innocent people to make a point that guns are too easy to get? That is some messed up logic. All he proved is liberals have mental issues and should be locked up.


20 posted on 11/22/2023 9:12:13 AM PST by Jonny7797
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