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Oregon Shooting: Umpqua Gunman Chris Harper Mercer — What We Know [He left a note.]
NBC, AP ^ | Oct 2, 2015 | Cassandra Vinograd, Pete Williams, Andrew Blankstein, Tom Winter, Alastair Jamieson, Courtney Kube

Posted on 10/02/2015 4:20:49 PM PDT by familyop

The heavily armed gunman who slaughtered nine people at an Oregon college left a hate-filled note at the scene of his rampage and "felt the world was against him," law enforcement officials confirmed Friday.

Two officials familiar with the contents of the note say 26-year-old Christopher Harper Mercer, who was killed in a firefight Thursday with police at Umpqua Community College, wrote that he would be "welcomed in Hell and embraced by the devil."

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: devil; evil; hell; murder; note; oregon; umpqua
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1 posted on 10/02/2015 4:20:49 PM PDT by familyop
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To: familyop

Your link goes to a different article.


2 posted on 10/02/2015 4:22:48 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: familyop

Quick find his liberal facebook page before they scrub it.


3 posted on 10/02/2015 4:22:53 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Publius

Thanks. Try this one.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/oregon-college-shooting/oregon-shooting-umpqua-gunman-chris-harper-mercer-what-we-know-n437351


4 posted on 10/02/2015 4:24:23 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

Yeah, sounds like a conservative Republican...

It would be real interesting to know just who made that change and when.


5 posted on 10/02/2015 4:24:48 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: gnarledmaw

Psch meds all the way, nothing he posted will lead anywhere and that is deliberate...

Called a Rat Hole...

Watch and See...

The rhetoric is amping up, they need a diversion badly

Like Rats in a trap of their own making

Watch and See...


6 posted on 10/02/2015 4:25:21 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: familyop

Well that’s sorta standard for Bible thumping christian conservatives isn’t it?

Oh wait. It isn’t.


7 posted on 10/02/2015 4:25:58 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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8 posted on 10/02/2015 4:26:48 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: familyop

Did I miss the part where one of his only two connections had an affection for Jihadists?


9 posted on 10/02/2015 4:26:57 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Admin Moderator

This URL should work.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/oregon-college-shooting/oregon-shooting-umpqua-gunman-chris-harper-mercer-what-we-know-n437351


10 posted on 10/02/2015 4:29:50 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Travis McGee

Damn good picture. Thanks.


11 posted on 10/02/2015 4:29:53 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (With the things that are about to come to light. People might just need a little old-fashioned.)
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To: RummyChick

Amazing how the Jihadist connection is not mentioned by the Washington post, ABCBSNBC, and all their friends.


12 posted on 10/02/2015 4:30:25 PM PDT by research99
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...wrote that he would be "welcomed in Hell and embraced by the devil."

Oh, so he WAS a Muslim...

13 posted on 10/02/2015 4:30:47 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: familyop
felt the world was against him

Well he's right. Most of us would have shot him.

14 posted on 10/02/2015 4:31:13 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republican Freed the Slaves" month.)
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To: Travis McGee

I love your chart! More guns in the hands of law-abiding people will have a chance to stop these criminals before they get started.


15 posted on 10/02/2015 4:32:07 PM PDT by basil ( God bless the USA!)
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To: research99

I liked the part about how some people [from inside the room!] were saying he was targeting Christians, but Bob Smith, in the room right next door said “I never heard him saying anything - just shooting.”


16 posted on 10/02/2015 4:34:38 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: familyop

I don’t care about this dude at all.

If you want to guard against being a victim of a madman, any madman from any quarter, then arm yourself.

Otherwise be helpless.


17 posted on 10/02/2015 4:36:59 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: basil

When I posted just the bare cartoon on FB, it got 183 likes and 136 shares in 6 hours. So I knew it was worth wrapping with the stats and explanation.


18 posted on 10/02/2015 4:37:35 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: familyop

From the article,

“Earlier reports, citing a survivor’s account as told to relatives, said that Harper Mercer asked people whether they were Christian before firing. But J.J. Vicari, who was in the classroom next to the where the attack occurred, said he never heard the gunman ask about religion and never even heard the gunman’s voice.”

Why would he? I assume the walls are not paper thin and that gunfire is loud. But the media instead of taking the word of someone in the same room will go with this guys account of what he did not hear.


19 posted on 10/02/2015 4:37:36 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: familyop

Has anybody seen a report on what specific weapons he used in his attack? Some of the reports seem to describe effects and wounds that suggest his primary weapon was some sort of small bore, like a .22LR rifle or pistol. One report said he had an “AR15” style rifle, but that seems at odds with the other reports and of course most journalists think every rifle is either an AK47 or an AR15, so if it wasn’t an AK it must have been an AR. So... Just wondering if there are any reports that detail what he really used?


20 posted on 10/02/2015 4:38:58 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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