Oregon gunman was Army dropout who studied mass shooters

Yahoo! News / The Associated Press ^ | October 2, 2015 | Jeff Barnard and Martha Mendoza

[Secret Agent Man]

You looking for speedloaders?

[IrishBrigade]

Is he Muslim or not...I’ve heard conflicting reports...

[SandRat]

You don’t Drop Out of Boot Camp you get BOOTED OUT for being a Total Failure.

[WayneS]

Was he a recent muslim convert? I have not previously heard that.

[Sooth2222]

My wife uses speedloaders for her GP100 -- BTW the HKS speedloaders are $8.20 on Amazon right now, which seems a fairly decent price.

[yoe]

a flak jacket and brought at least six guns and five ammunition magazines to the school.

Has anyone asked how he managed to get into that school with all that equipment without anyone seeing him..............

[Hieronymus]

It is English, an old term that is derived from the same root as merchant but refers more to someone operating a retail business. I’ve heard that “grocer” is the best equivalent (I have a friend who had Mercer as a maiden name).

[BlueLancer]

"I actual once saw a guy in a bar with that tattoo, except it was worded (and I swear I am not lying): “Born to Loose”."

That sounds like the tattoo that was worn by the anti-Star Trek dweeb who had changed his name from that of a famous painter ... "Born Too Loose To Trek ..."

(Toulouse Latrec ... get it? Thank you ... I'll be here all week. Try the veal, it's great, and don't forget to tip your waitress.)

[nascarnation]

Most college kids wear/carry backpacks.
That could easily accommodate the guns and clips.
The body armor maybe under a sweatshirt or light jacket?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Nothing wrong with Mercer.

[Scrambler Bob]

He flunked out of Boot Camp, ...

[NorthMountain]

I have speedloaders ... I'm lookin' fer magazines!

That or I'm suggesting a possible reason why that asshole in Oregon had more guns than mags.

Take your pick.

[msrngtp2002]

It would seem to me that if the NSA and these other government agencies have the technology to detect what is said in a phone conversation or text messages that their algorithms should also detect nut job ramblings online.

They are so worried about some lone wolf terrorist that they overlook these online postings that certainly could lead one to believe the writer has lost it and is contemplating going out with a huge headline.

If the government is going to spy on everyone anyway why don’t they put it to some good?

[Renegade]

There was an article in Guns and Ammo.(Magazine)

[marktwain]

“I’m struggling with the math. I’d want at least one magazine per gun.”

One of the guns could have had a non-detachable magazine, or it might have been a revolver.

[MPJackal]

“You have to be a real looser to flunk out of Army Boot Camp”

Hey, it is by far the most difficult of all the services. Well, four out of five anyway. I was at Lackland AFB for a school and would laugh when I watched the baby Airmen running around a parking lot for PT. Or how the would have to stop, post road guards, march across the intersection, stop, recall road guards and march to the next intersection. Took two hours to get to the chow hall. Of course the food was good.

[marktwain]

Glad you corrected yourself.

Marine Corps boot camp is considerably tougher.

[skeeter]

Has his mom been interviewed yet?

Any mention in this worthless article about his hatred of Christians (as opposed to the 'religious')?

[shibumi]

The US Army has a “boot camp?”

Who knew?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Never have had and never will.