Discussion: Oregon Shooting Suspect Is Reportedly Chris Harper Mercer

Discussion for article #241301

“I suspect this is going to start a discussion across the country about how community colleges prepare themselves for events like this,” said the college’s former president, Joe Olson.

Somewhere, Osama bin Laden is laughing his ass off.

4 Likes

When will these gun maniacs finally say enough? Never. It’s up to you and me to do so. Don’t get shouted down again.

2 Likes

Because we certainly can’t discuss people walking around town with multiple guns.

Pro-life, unless you’re in the crosshairs. Then it’s tough luck.

4 Likes
2 Likes

Another guy with mental health issues allowed to buy multiple guns without reservation. And yet, I can find nothing in the constitution that even allows individual gun ownership (Read the second amendment carefully).

Maybe the entire country has a mental issue when it comes to guns.

2 Likes

Before going into spinal surgery, Anastasia Boylan told her father and brother the gunman entered her classroom firing. The professor in the classroom was shot point blank. Others were hit, she told her family.
Everyone in the classroom dropped to the ground.
The gunman, while reloading his handgun, ordered the students to stand up if they were Christians, Boylan told her family.
“And they would stand up and he said, ***‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second,***’” Boylan’s father, Stacy, told CNN, relaying her account.
“And then he shot and killed them.”

The Right is going to run with this, and prominent media outlets like CNN above will trumpet it. It's a "War On Christians!" And we all know the people leading the war on Christians, right? It's liberals, academics and Obama. Fox will pound on this relentlessly, hammering home it was Obama and The Left that got all these kids killed, due to their stoking an anti-Christian climate in the nation. That's what you have to look forward to in the next couple weeks.
2 Likes

Kids and a teacher in a community college beginning writing course. There´s more blood on your hands, NRA-sucking legislators. You knew this would happen, and you did nothing. Fuck you bastards.
Rotten country we live in.

7 Likes

From the link:
¨On the torrent website, his last upload is shown three days ago as a documentary on the Sandy Hook Massacre, where gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school.¨
*

Regarding the recent shooting of the reporter and cameraman in Va.
“On an interesting note, I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are,” Harper-Mercer wrote. “A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more your’re [sic] in the limelight.”

If the shooter´s question about religion is true, I´ll wager that he is copying the (false) claim that the Columbine shooters asked the same question.

7 Likes

Plus when that was written guns were muzzle loaders. One shot then you’ve got to reload. I googled and folks claim they can get off maybe 3-4 shots a minute in idea conditions and no one is trying to stop you.

2 Likes

On his MySpace profile, he lists his political affiliation as ¨conservative republican¨. I´m sure Fox will be all over that tidbit.

ETA: My bad. The actual site is not MySpace, but a dating site: ¨ Under the username Ironcross45, Harper-Mercer also had an active dating profile on the website Spiritual Passions, in which he says he is spiritual but not into organized religion.¨

This comes from the Mashable page that TeenLaQueffa links to above.

Here´s his Spiritual Passions page: http://spiritualpassions.com/seeme/ironcross45.html

11 Likes

Funny. Somehow we’ve got like 300 million guns in this country, but “good guys with guns” are never around to stop these mass murders.

Or is that just a specious argument from the NRA…

3 Likes

That’s because it’s not in there, and we’re not talking about hunting rifles. Maybe we need new justices on Supreme Court who can read “black letter law” (plain English)>

3 Likes

I have a feeling the right-wing is going to pretty much ignore the whole war on Christians because the shooter identified himself as " conservative, republican": http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/umpqua-college-terrorist-identified-as-26-year-old-chris-harper-mercer/ He claimed to be of "mixed race, that won’t be an issue either. I like the New York Daily News cover:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/nothings-changed-new-york-daily-news-indicts-gun-culture-in-powerful-post-umpqua-cover/
Since the Sandy Hook shooting, the NYDT cover says 87,423 have been killed by guns, and nothing’s changed. Incredible. That’s a lot of people.

4 Likes

Josh, I so love the site, but why did you have to make his full name the headline? Is that what these maniacs crave? You missed that memo?

1 Like

I just saw on television the entire “targeting christians” spiel and it sounds suspicious to me. A boy told his sister who told his dad who told the media about the supposed event.

Ever play the game “telephone” when you were a kid?

Eh, I’m sure the truth will come out.

4 Likes

Unsurprisingly, he lists “Conservative Republican” as his ‘political view’ on his online Dating Profile.

I’ll just leave it at that.

8 Likes

Maybe, however I think the temptation to link it to anti-Christian motivations will be too strong to resist. Add in the Kim Davis angle and her claims of persecution for her Christian beliefs. Soon you have The Left being disparaged for a grand unraveling of the nation’s fabric. Shoving homosexuality down our throats, soiling marriage, banning guns, hating Christians. It’s too tempting a menu of affronts to ignore for the likes of Fox. The perfect storm of bereavements. You actually think Hannity, Tantaros, Gutfield, Ingraham, Crowley, O’Reilly, et al can resist going there? I can’t see it.

3 Likes

Geez, and I thought he was the typical loner-loser type guy. After reading this I bet the women swarmed and swooned over him at parties. The “I chase parked cars in my spare time” come hither look probably closed the deal many a night.

1 Like

See “Americans for Responsible Solutions”. Common sense gun regulation. Screw the NRA.