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North Carolina student arrested with guns in dorm was planning mass shooting
ABC News ^ | Aug 28, 2019 | Karma Allen

Posted on 08/31/2019 3:33:41 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Police arrested a North Carolina university student who admitted to planning a mass shooting at his school, authorities said Wednesday.

Officers charged Paul Steber, a 19-year-old freshman at High Point University in North Carolina, with two felony counts of having a gun on campus and an additional count for making threats of mass violence on Tuesday after a classmate reported him, police said.

Steber allegedly had ammunition and two firearms -- a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol and a double-barrel, 12-gauge shotgun -- in his dorm room when he was arrested. Authorities said he dose not appear to have any criminal history.

Steber, a Boston native, told authorities that he came to North Carolina because it was easier to gain access to guns, prosecutors said. He said he intended to carry out a shooting by Christmas.

The High Point Police Department praised the student who reported Steber to school administrators in a statement Wednesday.

PHOTO: Paul Steber in a police booking photo.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: massmurder; northcarolina; schoolshootings; shooter
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Antifa is big on college campuses.


21 posted on 08/31/2019 4:00:09 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: romanesq

H P U is not inexpensive, loans only pay a part of costs. I suppose his family picked up the rest. This is now an excellent and pretty conservative school. This person must have been mulling over this idea back in high school.


22 posted on 08/31/2019 4:02:26 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Something about the Constitution, and “peaceful assembly” comes to mind, so I say classify Antifa as the enemy of State they are. Classify them as a Terrorist Organization, and start tossing their butts in jail where they belong, and make them pay for the destruction, and pain they have cost America, and Americans. They have no right to destroy our property, our people, our nation.


23 posted on 08/31/2019 4:02:56 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Veto!

I think he went off his MKUltra script and got stopped before he could do anything.


24 posted on 08/31/2019 4:03:36 PM PDT by No_Doll_i
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To: struggle

“Sloppy job, Mossad”

Go crawl back to stormfront.


25 posted on 08/31/2019 4:04:09 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Kid sounds very suggestible.

"You were planning a mass shooting with these here guns, weren't ya boy?"

"Yes, sir."

26 posted on 08/31/2019 4:10:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
In every one of the mass shootings that I can recall, someone had warned the FBI, local police, or whoever the authority at the site of the shooting was when it was a school or similar setting.

Maybe the guy who shot up a movie theater was an exception, but some of my links to that incident are dead and gone now so I'm not sure whether anyone knew he was off his rocker and wanted to shoot people.

When you study the shootings and realize that nearly half of the shooters were Jewish, tough, you can count on this whole red flag business getting the democrat scum riled up if police start actually pursuing all the warnings they get rather than putting some red flag warnings in the circular file because of the individual they'd have to investigate being a non-Pc target.

Of course, building failure into the red flag stuff is also something they may have thought of in advance, too. That way they knock the whole stupid Red Flag thing out of the argument as a failure by never investigating warnings against some categories of potential shooters. After all, if the ones they don't look into shoot up a Republican softball game or a Trump rally, all the better from their POV.

JMHo

27 posted on 08/31/2019 4:13:11 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Common themes:
Gun free zone
Left wing nut job
Was a known nut job
EXPOSURE TO TOXIC LIBERALISM


28 posted on 08/31/2019 4:13:44 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: 2CAVTrooper
"Go crawl back to stormfront."

Amen.
29 posted on 08/31/2019 4:14:53 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Loser.

When I was in college, I and my friends had our firearms close at hand. Especially during hunting season. Nobody every got shot. It's not the guns-- it's the soulless killer kids these days. No religion, no morals, no soul.

30 posted on 08/31/2019 4:23:01 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
IF the media and especially Fox News as they are about the only ones to report 24/7 on the shooters etc. would not give those needy people any air time, certainly by name or what their neighbors say or their family's opinion if any. DON'T GIVE THE CRAZES ANY NOTORIETY AT ALL. It would help the police not to have to give those time consuming statements and the reporters asking questions that have nothing to do with the public.
31 posted on 08/31/2019 4:23:44 PM PDT by yoe
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To: myerson

Kind a neat looking shotgun at that.


32 posted on 08/31/2019 4:25:07 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

A guy at the end of the hall on our 7th floor dorm emptied his .357 hog leg out the window, and, the next morning, the RA told him not to do that anymore.


33 posted on 08/31/2019 4:29:38 PM PDT by VanShuyten (Er"...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: myerson
He had a muzzle loading percussion shotgun and an old Star 9mm. Whoopie. Reports say he told authorities that he was going to kill himself and his roomie if he wasn’t accepted into a frat.

Whoopie is right, what a waste of time by the LEO's, this guy was just a kidder........../S

34 posted on 08/31/2019 4:36:46 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Innovative

They’re working on it.


35 posted on 08/31/2019 4:40:11 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: 2111USMC

Not bad for t’ree fitty.


36 posted on 08/31/2019 4:42:30 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

My daughter’s best friend goes to High Point University. This must be very frightening for her and her parents.

(I’m sure my daughter, who is in the Marine Corps, will tell her friend to buck up!)


37 posted on 08/31/2019 4:47:20 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." Walt Whitman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He should have pledged Delta House like everyone else...


38 posted on 08/31/2019 4:49:00 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

He looks like he has down syndrome. I am not saying that to be snarky just an observation.


39 posted on 08/31/2019 4:49:57 PM PDT by funfan
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To: AppyPappy

“My alma mater”

It’s changed so much it’s unrecognizable from back in the day.


40 posted on 08/31/2019 5:03:46 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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