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Veteran used vest, military-style rifle in sniper slayings
Associated Press ^ | Jul 9, 2016 9:41 AM EDT | Will Weissert and Nomaan Merchant

Posted on 07/09/2016 7:27:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: ealgeone

“There will be no linkage to BLM or the NBP or any other such organization.”

No one asked me, but . . . it seems the BLM movement has been taken over by, and become the symbol of, radical racism. Violent radical racism.

My remaining liberal neurons feel that POTUS should: condemn today’s radical BLM racism and call for any decent Americans within the BLM movement to come out of the organization and to denounce what the movement has become.

Further, POTUS should take down any BLM flags or symbolism that shows up on federal property. Maybe put them in a museum somewhere within the context of the Chicago War casualties and the depraved heart murders of so many innocent law enforcement officers.


41 posted on 07/09/2016 8:20:27 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Olog-hai

Reminds me of an old Bill Mauldin cartoon of Willie and Joe BACK HOME.
Willie is reading the paper whose headlines screams SOLDIER SLAPS AUNT!!!
He says to his wife...”Here is an article about a triple axe murder on page six. No GIs involved.”

On another web page it says the shooter in Dallas used an SKS, not an evil “A-s-s-sault Rifle”. I can’t find an “Official” statement for that though.


42 posted on 07/09/2016 8:22:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: skimbell

Oh, yeah? So there right back atya... Nyaaah! :^)
Lol!

Amazing how their “experts” just seem to pop out of the woodwork, ain’t it? And somehow, they always seem to come from anti-Rights groups.

As for what it actually was or wasn’t, I was just responding to the SKS comment. I haven’t heard whether it was an AR or a WWI Lebel-Berthier bolt action...

And you indeed correct, my friend... it doesn’t matter at all.


43 posted on 07/09/2016 8:23:58 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Azeem

The SKS is a legit military rifle. The SKS is better at accuracy than the standard AK-47 due usually to barrel-bolt design. I’d take one for sniping work over and ak47 but the AR would be better. You can’t set optics to the SKS without complicating reloads. Detachable magazines are possible but are hit and miss.


44 posted on 07/09/2016 8:26:37 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: NFHale

I remember going into pawn shops back in the early 1970s and seeing SKS rifles everywhere, brought back by returning troops. There was NO AMMO to be had anywhere so they had no use for them.


45 posted on 07/09/2016 8:27:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Olog-hai

It is part of the description of someone. Just as a lead is often mother of 3, or father. The press likes to lead like that instead of black male shoots, or white male shoots.


46 posted on 07/09/2016 8:29:31 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: pabianice

E-3? Hell, don’t they give you E-2 right after basic? Only one more promotion in the remaining 5 1/2 years? Not particularly ambitious.

CC


47 posted on 07/09/2016 8:29:45 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Oh, to go back in time with a fistful o’ cash, huh? :^)


48 posted on 07/09/2016 8:29:50 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Eagles6
I've been saying for a good while that hussein wants blood in the streets and cities in flames before the election.

...before canceling the election. Just clarifying your post.
49 posted on 07/09/2016 8:32:06 AM PDT by Deo volente (The islamists want to eradicate us, and will never stop. We need to eradicate them first.)
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To: NFHale

“The SKS round performs well within the enevelop it was designed for, like anything else”

When my urban friends ask me about a weapon, I always tell them get a pistol first for EDC and then an AKM or SKS for those special days of rioting. When your distance is limited by the jungles of Vietnam, the swamps of Missouri, or the buildings in large cities, the 7.62x39mm is my first choice. Plus you don’t have to clean it as often. It’s also a club or spear, if needed.


50 posted on 07/09/2016 8:34:34 AM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: Azeem

It always goes bang, no matter what ammo you run through it.

One of my favorite pea-shooters, for sure.


51 posted on 07/09/2016 8:36:05 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah.
Races are only mentioned in headlines as it fits the narrative.

Oh, and race determines whether the media says “don’t jump to conclusions” or “jump to conclusions”.


52 posted on 07/09/2016 8:38:17 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

With a mother who names her son Mica X who knows what drug his mother was on during her pregnancy


53 posted on 07/09/2016 8:42:03 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“I remember going into pawn shops back in the early 1970s and seeing SKS rifles everywhere, brought back by returning troops.”

Back in the early 90’s, up until the first Clinton/Brady Bunch gun ban, out here in the Rocky Mountain states it was common to go into a local hardware store that also sold sporting goods and find package deals of an SKS with a sardine can of +/- 1000 rounds for about $70.


54 posted on 07/09/2016 8:42:19 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: jeffersondem
No one asked me, but . . . it seems the BLM movement has been taken over by, and become the symbol of, radical racism. Violent radical racism.

And you would be correct!

55 posted on 07/09/2016 8:43:29 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: rhoda_penmark; pabianice

He was in the Army Reserve, deployed to Afghanistan, and was discharged after 6 years. thus he is a veteran.


56 posted on 07/09/2016 8:48:36 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: ealgeone

Baboons Love Mayhem?


57 posted on 07/09/2016 8:50:03 AM PDT by GOYAKLA ( Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty!)
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To: Olog-hai

“an attack that layered new anxiety onto a nation already divided about guns and how police treat African-Americans.”

The Associated Pimps never disappoint.


58 posted on 07/09/2016 8:50:55 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Olog-hai

The next move will be to put all veterans on the No Fly List.


59 posted on 07/09/2016 8:54:30 AM PDT by anoldafvet (they're not immigrants, they're criminal aliens)
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To: glorgau

“6 years in and he was still an E-3?

Sure sign of a loser.”

So that means he could walk and chew bubblegum, but not simultaneously?

Just want to make sure I have the correct mental picture.


60 posted on 07/09/2016 8:55:42 AM PDT by oldvirginian (Live free or die!)
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