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Ala. man kills at least 9, including 4 relatives
Associated Press ^ | Mar 11, 2009 | JESSICA GRESKO and DESIREE HUNTER

Posted on 03/11/2009 6:02:43 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW

SAMSON, Ala. (AP) - A gunman who left nine bodies scattered across two counties burned down his mother's home with her still inside, killed four relatives on a porch and then targeted strangers before killing himself, authorities said.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: crime; gun; michaelmclendon; obamasfault; shooting
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He even shot a child. This speaks to society and being self-centered. Although they said they don't have a motive, the motive is someone feels cheated by life so they kill innocents.
1 posted on 03/11/2009 6:02:43 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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To: DJ MacWoW

No, the motive is the perp being a nut.


2 posted on 03/11/2009 6:06:30 AM PDT by fortunate sun (Undermine Obama with every thought, word and deed.)
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To: fortunate sun

Watch for Holder to use this as an excuse to take away the 2nd.


3 posted on 03/11/2009 6:07:46 AM PDT by mylife ( The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: fortunate sun

A gutless nut, at that. Throwing an adult temper tantrum doesn’t exactly define you as making rational judgements against society, particularly when you don’t even have the stones to face the consequences.

That guy’s gonna burn.


4 posted on 03/11/2009 6:10:09 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A GUTLESS SOCIALIST LOSER WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: fortunate sun

Evil nut motive: I suffer; you suffer. I’m done with the world; you die. Ultimate self-centered evil.


5 posted on 03/11/2009 6:10:15 AM PDT by heartwood (Tarheel in exile)
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To: fortunate sun

So he was thinking that he should kill his family because he loved them and was concerned for them? Or because he was angry and thinking he was a victim?


6 posted on 03/11/2009 6:10:24 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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Watch for Holder to use this as an excuse to take away the 2nd.

Yeah. I thought that too.

7 posted on 03/11/2009 6:11:04 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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From the article:Police pursued McLendon to Geneva's Reliable Metal Products, where he got out of his car and fired at police with his automatic weapon,

Wonder if AP is up to their lies again?

8 posted on 03/11/2009 6:12:39 AM PDT by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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Police pursued McLendon to Geneva's Reliable Metal Products, where he got out of his car and fired at police with his automatic weapon, wounding Geneva Police Chief Frankie Lindsey. He then walked inside and killed himself.

It didn't take long for the weapon to become a "machine gun".

9 posted on 03/11/2009 6:13:01 AM PDT by mylife ( The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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It's looking to be the fault of the liberals, who have destroyed marriage in this country.

In bygone times, this young man would have married and moved out of the house away from his relatives.

His new wife would most likely have straightened him out and got him to fly right.

Sadly, the Left prefers these sorts of mass murders to a stable society.

"The shootings ... were believed to be the work of Michael McLendon, who lived with his mother and once worked at a local metal plant."

I'm almost thinking that it's Obama's fault, and the fault of society-killers like him.

10 posted on 03/11/2009 6:13:21 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Obama: The Kenyan Anthony Fremont)
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Wonder if AP is up to their lies again?

Anything that fires a bullet is automatic to them. Maybe we'll find out as the story unfolds.

11 posted on 03/11/2009 6:17:33 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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It was just an automatic weapon? I thought maybe it was one of those automatic 5000-round-per-sec 180mm minigun Assault Antitank Cannons, able to destroy entire US aircraft carrier groups with a single burst, from a range of 40 nautical miles.

At night, under heavy cloud cover. ;-)

12 posted on 03/11/2009 6:18:00 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Obama: The Kenyan Anthony Fremont)
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Everyone has a breaking point. The thing is, most of us just slam a couple beers then take a baseball bat to the neighbor’s mailbox.

Oops. Did I say the quiet part outloud again?


13 posted on 03/11/2009 6:19:11 AM PDT by FreedomFerret
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I agree. The left has dismantled society. People no longer have moorings to keep them stable.


14 posted on 03/11/2009 6:19:24 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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Watch for Holder to use this as an excuse to take away the 2nd.

Why does Holder, or anybody on the left, need a single act of violence to push their gun control agenda?

They don't. They never have. They use the same old tired arguments about making the streets safer, inner city gang violence, etc. They may occasionally cite a random act such as this recent one but for their ultimate goal they stick with generalized rhetoric.

Bottom line is, they don't care about street violence. What they care about is total control and they can't get that until they have our guns.

Μολὼν λαβέ

15 posted on 03/11/2009 6:21:26 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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then take a baseball bat to the neighbor’s mailbox.

You said it out loud but someone used a garbage can on mine and I got to keep the can, with the lid, and no damage to the mailbox. Must have been the beer. ;-)

16 posted on 03/11/2009 6:21:33 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: FreedomFerret

I’m pretty sure no one heard you... ;-)


17 posted on 03/11/2009 6:21:51 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Obama: The Kenyan Anthony Fremont)
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To: cowboyway

Yes but they will use current national emotion over this story(and the german shootings) to push that agenda.


18 posted on 03/11/2009 6:24:01 AM PDT by mylife ( The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Shooting galore........

Germany, 15 killed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Gonazales, Tx: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Gonzales_Shootings.html


19 posted on 03/11/2009 6:27:12 AM PDT by deport
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Btw, you noticed that it was two women that wrote the article? I don’t know much about weapons either but to lib writers if you pull the trigger it shoots automatically. Wonder what they were really told.


20 posted on 03/11/2009 6:28:50 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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