Posted on 11/24/2010 9:48:36 AM PST by DCBryan1
NOVEMBER 24--A 77-year-old South Carolina man whose home was stocked with an arsenal of guns told Secret Service agents that he wanted to shoot Barack Obama “for what he has done to this country,” according to a criminal complaint charging him with threatening the president’s life.
Michael Bowden allegedly first spoke of killing Obama last week during a “routine check-up” at a Veterans Administration clinic in Spartanburg. Bowden, pictured in the mug shot at right, told a nurse that he “was thinking of traveling to Washington, DC, to shoot the President (Obama) because he is not doing enough to help African Americans,” according to an affidavit sworn by Agent Mark Booth.
In an interview last Wednesday with three federal investigators, Bowden acknowledged threatening Obama’s life at the VA facility.
In a sworn, written statement he noted that, “if I had the opportunity to put Obama against the wall and shoot him, I would.” Bowden added that if he could kill anyone, “I would kill, if possible, the President (Obama), for what he has done to this country.”
During a search of Bowden’s home, agents located three semi-automatic handguns and a semi-automatic rifle--all of which were “fully loaded, with rounds in the firing chamber--near his bed. In Bowden’s son’s bedroom, agents found 12 other guns, while a “loaded, short-barrel shotgun” was found near the home’s front door.
The jailed Bowden, who turns 78 on Friday, may soon be freed pending the completion of a psychiatric evaluation. One condition of his release will require Bowden to refrain from possessing a firearm.
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I for one DO NOT want a thing to happen to the resident.He has done more for the conservative movement in this country since Ronald Reagan.Palin in 12.
So a man approaching 80 years of age constitutes a clear and present danger to the president? Really?
My grandfather lived until 92. Until he hit 90 he could have held his own with anyone. He is legend.
My Mama is 76. She would be more than capable of getting in a car & driving over 500 miles & go ‘target’ shooting if she had a mind to. [SHE DOESN’T. Only using her for an example]
Age in & of itself means nothing, even if a few brain cells have died.
I think it was in 06.
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