Another mass murder by gun. What a surprise lulz

Cracker Barrel Shooting: Gunman Opens Fire At Ohio Restaurant; 3 Dead

04/13/12 12:33 AM ET

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- Police shot and killed an armed man Thursday at a restaurant where two other people were killed and one was wounded, authorities said.

The shooting happened after a woman called 911 from a Cracker Barrel restaurant, saying her husband was upset because she told him she was leaving him, police said in a news release. She said he was circling the parking lot in his car.

Officers arrived, heard gunshots and saw an armed man leaving the restaurant in Brooklyn, Ohio, near Cleveland. Police Chief Scott Mielke said officers shot him when he refused to surrender.

A woman and a girl also were killed. One person was taken to a hospital.

Police couldn't immediately say whether the other victims were shot or describe any relationship among the victims. The suspect and the victims were not identified.

----just think how many he would have killed with a baseball bat
what are they going to outlaw those too?

the DGUs he provided more than make up for any death and carnage.
the fbi said so

New Hampshire Shooting: Police Chief Killed, 4 Officers Injured In Shootout With Armed Suspect (VIDEO)

By HOLLY RAMER 04/13/12 01:40 AM ET

Michael P. Maloney, chief of police in Greenland, N.H. (Greenland Police Department - Greenlandpd.us)

GREENLAND, N.H. — A man opened fire on police during a drug bust Thursday night, killing a New Hampshire police chief just days from retirement and injuring four officers from other departments. Early Friday, the shooter remained holed up in the home with a woman, police said.
The shooting devastated Greenland, a town of 3,500 near the seacoast that had just seven police officers including Chief Michael Maloney, 48, who was due to retire in less than two weeks.
"In those final days, he sacrificed his life in public service as a law enforcement officer in New Hampshire," Attorney General Michael Delaney said early Friday.
Maloney had 26 years of experience in law enforcement, the last 12 as chief of the Greenland department. Two officers were shot in the chest and were in intensive care early Friday. Two others were treated and released, one with a gunshot wound to the arm and the other with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. The four injured officers were from other area departments and were working as part of a drug task force.
John Penacho, chairman of the town's Board of Selectman, said Maloney was married with children.
"It's a blow to all of us. You're stunned. It's New Hampshire, it's a small town," he said. "We're stunned. I mean all of us. It's an unbelievable situation."
Jacqueline DeFreze, who lives a half-mile down the road from the house where the shooting happened, said she was devastated by reports that the chief had been shot. She'd planned to attend a surprise party for his retirement.
"I'm a wreck. He was just the greatest guy," said DeFreze, a fourth-grade teacher in nearby Rye. "He's kind-hearted, always visible in the community."
Early Friday, streets around the home were blocked off and officers stood at roadblocks in the pouring rain.
State police and officers from many departments responded after the initial call around 6 p.m. Delaney said he couldn't provide much other information about the shooting.
"We do have an active armed standoff at a home and we're simply not going to provide any information right now that may jeopardize that situation," he said. "We are working with federal state and local law enforcement to try to obtain a peaceful resolution."
Gov. John Lynch was at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, where the officers were taken. He asked residents to pray for the injured officers and Maloney's family.
"My thoughts and prayers and those of my wife, Susan, are with the family of Chief Michael Maloney. Chief Maloney's unwavering courage and commitment to protecting others serves as an example to us all," he said.
The tree-lined street, closed off by police, features single-family homes and duplexes. The shootings took place at 517 Post Road, a 2-bedroom, 1 1/2 -story structure that's listed as owned by the Beverly Mutrie Revocable Trust, according to tax assessor records.
The Portsmouth Herald reported in February 2011 that Cullen Mutrie, 29, was a resident of the home on 517 Post Road and had been arrested and charged with possession of anabolic steroids.
The newspaper reported that the steroids were found in the home when officers went to confiscate guns after Mutrie was arrested on domestic assault charges. According to a police affidavit, the steroids were found in Mutrie's living room on July 24, 2010, but were not verified by the state crime lab until Jan. 18.
The town's schools will be closed Friday, because law enforcement officers are using the elementary school as a staging area.
Asked what the town will do to help residents cope with the tragedy, Penacho said "We'll do whatever we need to do."
Now split by I-95, the town is one of the oldest settlements in the state.
The other officers shot were: Detective Gregory Turner, 32, a six-year veteran of the Dover police department, who was treated for a gunshot wound to the shoulder and released; Detective Eric Kulberg, 31, a seven-year veteran of the University of New Hampshire police department, who was treated for a gunshot wound to the arm and released; Detective Scott Kukesh, 33, a 10-year veteran of the Newmarket police department, who was in intensive care awaiting surgery for a gunshot wound to the chest; and Detective Jeremiah Murphy, 34, a seven-year veteran of the Rochester police department, who was in intensive care after surgery for a gunshot wound to the chest.
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Associated Press Writers Norma Love in Concord and David Sharp in Portland, Maine, contributed to this report.

Zero tolerance gun laws don't change shit, look at DC. I guess people think criminals are getting their firearms legally and laws will prevent gun violence. DC disagrees.

Jamaica disagrees as well. Guns are banned completely and you even do prison time for possession of mere ammunition but firearm violence still tops the charts.

Oopsie...


If only these dang criminals would obey the law.

nobody said anything about zero tolerance gun laws you stupid fucking cunt
nice try, geek

Report: Virginia Tech Massacre Cost Taxpayers Almost $50 Million

By Ian Millhiser posted from ThinkProgress Justice on Apr 14, 2012 at 9:00 am

On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 fellow members of the Virginia Tech community and wounded 17 others before taking his own life. Cho obtained the weapons he used in this killing spree despite the fact that he had a long history of mental illness, and he was able to kill so many people so quickly because he was able to purchase multiple high-capacity magazines.

Nothing can bring back the many innocent lives that were lost in this tragedy, and they will always be the greatest cost of this terrible day. Unfortunately, lawmakers have generally not responded to this event — or to similar killing sprees such as the 2011 Tucson shooting that killed six people and nearly killed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) — by tightening down laws intended to prevent the mentally ill from obtaining firearms or by banning the kind of high-capacity magazines that helped make both killing sprees so deadly. The goal of preserving human life should be all that is necessary to inspire lawmakers to enact common sense reforms.

Perhaps, however, this lawmakers will be motivated by a different concern — the need to save money in a time of tight state budgets. As a new Center for American Progress report explains, Seung-Hui Cho’s fifteen minute killing spree imposed steep costs on the taxpayers:

stupid lib gun-grabbers...don't they know that the DGUs and reduced crime that this chink provided are more than worth 48 large?

if only every student could one day be armed to the teeth
then gun violence will finally end. or something

If Obama wins a second term and is able to shift the balance of the court guns will go bye-bye, along with a lot of our other freedoms over the next 40 years.

I totally believe your made up talking point

Just throwing some false hope at you like Obama did.

fascinating

ming mad.

He coulda done the same thing with a baseball bat. What are you gonna outlaw baseball bats now, libtards?

JT Ready, Arizona Border Vigilante Blamed for Mass Murder, Had State Republican Party Ties

Posted: 05/ 3/2012 6:34 pm

A border vigilante and avowed white supremacist who police believe killed four people and himself in a suburban Phoenix home on Wednesday was once allied with the Republican Senate majority leader who pushed through Arizona's harsh anti-illegal immigration bill in 2010.

Police in Gilbert, Ariz. said evidence at the scene indicated that Jason Todd Ready, 39, shot and killed his girlfriend, the woman's daughter and her boyfriend, and her 15-month-old granddaughter before turning the gun on himself. Hazardous chemicals and "military grade munitions" were found at the home, police said.

Ready, a former Marine known as "J.T.," founded and led the U.S Border Guard, a vigilante group that conducted heavily armed patrols of the Arizona-Mexico border with the aim of disrupting the flow of illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

Ready served for several years as a Republican precinct committeeman in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb, and Russell Pearce, a Mesa Republican and former Arizona Senate majority leader, endorsed Ready's run for Mesa City Council in 2006, which he lost. The two were linked over their shared opposition to illegal immigration.

"One of the things that I appreciate about J.T. is the fact that I think he's committed, as a true patriot, to the real purpose and the limited purpose of government, kind of like the Republican platform that we have," Pearce said in an interview in 2006.

Pearce then appeared with Ready at an anti-illegal immigration rally in Phoenix in 2007. But he disavowed the relationship in 2008 after his political opponents exposed Ready's extremist views, and he worked to have Ready removed from his position as Republican committeeman.

On Thursday, Pearce issued a lengthy statement denouncing the killings and distancing himself from Ready.

"Regarding whether I knew J.T. Ready, I did, as did many of us who have been involved in Mesa politics for a long time," Pearce said. "When we first met J.T. he was fresh out of the Marine Corp and seemed like a decent person."

"At some point in time darkness took his life over, his heart changed, and he began to associate with the more despicable groups in society. They were intolerant and hateful and like so many who knew him from before, I was upset and disappointed at the choices he was making."

A posting on the Facebook page for Ready's border vigilante group speculated that their leader might have been the victim of a "hit" by Mexican drug cartels.

"Reports are unconfirmed that a cartel assassination squad murdered J.T. Ready and several of his friends and family this afternoon in Gilbert, Arizona," said the post, written by the page's administrator.

But police said that that all of the evidence indicated that Ready killed his girlfriend and the other victims.

"Everything is looking to be domestic-violence related," said Sgt. Bill Balafas, a spokesman for the Gilbert Police Department.

Balafas said police received a 911 call "about Mr. Ready going crazy inside the house," then a report about gunshots. By the time police arrived, Ready and three of the victims were dead. The 15-month-old girl was found severely wounded and died shortly afterward at the hospital.

Police had been called to the house after previous domestic disturbances, Balafas said, but specific details about those incidents were not yet available.

Harry L. Hughes III, the leader of a Phoenix white supremacist group, called Ready a "patriotic American," in a Facebook posting about the killings.

"J.T. Ready was my friend. He was a patriotic American, despite any negative views other people may have," he said. "Mr. Ready risked his life to protect this country from drugs and worked hard to help other people."

Elise Foley contributed reporting.

I am sure these guns weren't legally obtained cause we all know that they are the most law abiding citizens...even though they won't release the statistics.
I believe them anyway

I don't know about this... clearly it looks like this guy voted Obama.

No other western nation has the amount of thug blacks and mexicans as the united states.

I'm pretty damn liberal and I agree. There is alot of money to be made in America and people like to "get" it quick. Who wants to be defenseless when they get rolled up on by a group of 17-19 year old thugs? If guns were illegal the only people that would have them would be criminals. Obvious statement but obviously true.