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Alleged Oregon Shooter Discharged From Army After Suicide Attempt
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 7, 2015 8:46 p.m. | Dan Frosch and Ben Kesling

Posted on 10/08/2015 3:38:08 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa

The alleged gunman who killed nine people and wounded nine others at a rural community college in Oregon last Thursday had been discharged from the Army after attempting to commit suicide, according to law-enforcement officials familiar with the case.

Christopher Harper-Mercer, who was 26 years old at the time of the shooting, was discharged from basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., after just one month in 2008.

The Army said it couldn’t confirm details of his discharge due to privacy regulations. But law-enforcement officials familiar with the investigation into last week’s mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg said the discharge occurred after Mr. Harper-Mercer tried to take his own life.

The details of the suicide attempt haven’t been made public. But it is the latest indication that Mr. Harper-Mercer—described by former friends and neighbors as a disaffected loner who loved firearms and disliked religion—had been deeply troubled long before opening fire on fellow students and a teacher in Oregon.

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1 posted on 10/08/2015 3:38:08 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa
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To: ConorMacNessa

Remember the warnings about Prozac when it became wide spread in use with a side effect of “suicidal thoughts and behavior”

Psych meds, evil and a tool of The Gov to placate and create zombies...


2 posted on 10/08/2015 3:40:15 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Oh, so Obama’s commanders KNEW the guy was psycho and did nothing? Is that it?


3 posted on 10/08/2015 3:42:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 100American

“Psych meds, evil and a tool of The Gov to placate and create zombies...”

I’ll bet that 50% of Senators and Reps are meds that mess with their mind. Not outright psych meds but medications that also have side effects that are bad for your mind. Bad for clear thinking.


4 posted on 10/08/2015 3:45:40 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: ConorMacNessa

I really wish he’d been successful back in 2008.


5 posted on 10/08/2015 3:48:33 PM PDT by umgud
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To: ConorMacNessa
alleged gunman

What is required to make the transition to murder, not alleged?

At a Wyoming school the murder used a bow and arrow.
Never saw him called an archer???

Stabbing in the news, be on the look out for an alleged knifemen!

6 posted on 10/08/2015 3:50:35 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: 100American
Psych meds, evil and a tool of The Gov to placate and create zombies...

ALL liberals are on psych meds, usually antidepressants.

All of them. Go check up on me.

There is no liberalism without antidepressants.

7 posted on 10/08/2015 3:51:50 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I think you hit the nail on the head. They were too busy supporting LGBT and saving Bergdahl to worry about one Section 8 who could be separated without veteran status.

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces guarding our country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

8 posted on 10/08/2015 3:56:17 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in batle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Liberals protect these loonies, even when common sense discover that they are a threat to ordinary citizens. The Army did what they are allowed to do under the law and got rid of this bad apple. But in the Liberal Fantasy World that is where the rest of us are forced to live, this guy was given a license to kill. And kill he did. Liberalism works. Isn’t it wonderful? The plan from Liberalism: confiscate all of the guns from those who stands in opposition to our political plan, cower in a corner in the fetal position and die so that we can impose our tyrannical scheme across the land.


9 posted on 10/08/2015 3:57:18 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: ConorMacNessa

In “gun free zones” only maniacs have guns. That sobering disclosure should be required to accompany any “This is a gun free zone” sign.


10 posted on 10/08/2015 3:57:32 PM PDT by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: immadashell
Indeed! Our schools are designated as "gun free zones" and "drug free zones." Then why are so many of our children being led into lives of drug dependence and violence in our elementary and middle schools?

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces guarding our country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

11 posted on 10/08/2015 4:02:42 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in batle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

It’s a good thing the Army threw him out. There is no place in today’s military for a sexually confused homosexual/tranny loser with a chip on his shoulder or a race/gender card stuffed in his pocket! Oh,... wait a minute. Never mind.


12 posted on 10/08/2015 4:02:44 PM PDT by Gritty (The question is not will Muslim migrants kill Americans but how many will they kill?-D.Greenfield)
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To: ConorMacNessa

2008! Booosh was still in office! Therefore he gets the blame!


13 posted on 10/08/2015 4:05:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: Gritty
Ask Susan Rice - she'll tell you he served with honor and distinction - for 30 odd days.

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces guarding our country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

14 posted on 10/08/2015 4:06:13 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in batle!)
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To: dennisw

Blood pressure meds and other mixes are a real bomb waiting to go off

Psych meds usually mess with Serotonin, amounts present, production, etc.

Mess with it and the mind follows, no choice...

And once your body gets used to it in many cases increased dosages are “warranted”

So is a need to create a crisis, whoops the pharmacist gave him a stronger does by “accident” or he flat went off of them and was free floating reality at that point, no logic base left upstairs..

Insane in the Membrane
Insane in the Brain!

This is Mental Illness treatment at that level in this country, if you dope them up enough what harm can they do, better that than just let them run around...

Like Politicians??


15 posted on 10/08/2015 4:07:06 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
There you go! This kind of thing would never have happened under Hussein!

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces guarding our country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

16 posted on 10/08/2015 4:07:51 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in batle!)
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To: 100American

“Alleged gunman”??? The murdering idiot did it. Great “journalism”.


17 posted on 10/08/2015 4:08:35 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ConorMacNessa

The most despicable thing of all is PEOPLE KNEW SOMETHING AND SAID AND DID NOTHING! So the media and the liberal a##es blame guns


18 posted on 10/08/2015 4:14:41 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.)
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To: hal ogen

Was it really him (u know, he meant to) killing

Or a poor man in need of deep care and assistance, to be studied to ascertain how society especially White people deprived him of his true identity...


19 posted on 10/08/2015 4:14:47 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Alleged? The WSJ is as bad as Huffpost.


20 posted on 10/08/2015 4:16:26 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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