Posted on 08/05/2013 6:42:53 PM PDT by Zakeet
Two people were killed and four were wounded in a shooting at a town supervisor's meeting in eastern Pennsylvania, a county official reported Monday.
The shooting broke out shortly after 7:30 p.m. ET at the Ross Township building in Saylorsburg, about 75 miles north of Philadelphia, Monroe County Emergency Management Director Guy Miller told CNN. A suspected gunman was in custody, and the wounded were being taken to various hospitals nearby, he said.
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... and the clamor from the Libtard Left turns up to fever pitch again in three ... two ... one ... NOW!
Society is coming unglued.
Unglued waiting for 0bama to be gone.
We’ll put this place back together.
"Ronald Gayman > Scott 23 minutes ago − There really is a simple solution to the gun violence. A complete, universal, nationwide ban on all guns, a massive rounding up of all existing guns on the municipal level, and harsh, mandatory sentences for anyone possessing a firearm. Only then will America be truly free."
Le Falonius, is that you?
Mohammed, is that you?
Bubba, is that you?
I Think that's what Hitler said when he took all the guns as well, AND they all lived happily ever after.
PA ping.
The Pocono Record said one of its reporters was in the township building and a gunman armed with a pistol with a scope shot through a wall into the meeting. An account from the reporter, Chris Reber, said a township official attacked the shooter and shot him with his own weapon.
The 2012 election results for Monroe County:
Obama 33,431
Romney 25,100
The results were even more lopsided in 2008.
Lots of New York and New Jersey folks spilling over, also the influence of East Stroudsburg University and its concentrated liberal vote.
Don’t know if there is a “political connection” to tonight’s tragedy, but this is the political lay of the land.
He’s probably one of Vallerie Jarrett’s OFA flying monkeys. Only a sociopath could seriously propose such a thing with such conviction. A normal person would consider what the consequences would be if they were wrong, and not want that on their conscience.
3 Monroe county commissioners total
2 Republican
1 democrat
The Second Amendment appears to have been in action tonight which means this story will probably go away pretty quickly and not be a big national story.
"He continued, I was the only person who crawled out. Everyone got behind a table. Some of the supervisors were over on the side throwing up," according to the website."
It takes time for a national office trend to work its way downwards into state and local offices.
Reagan won big in the South in the 1980’s and only now has that solidified into GOP control of almost all state legislatures.
Not sure if “his own weapon” means defender brought his own or he took the shooter’s weapon. Either way, the defender did a good thing.
You’re right...
County commissioners[edit source]
John Moyer, Chairman, Republican
Charles Garris, Republican
Suzanne McCool, Democratic
Other county offices[edit source]
Controller, Marlo Merhige, Republican
Coroner, Robert Allen
Jury Commissioner, Pam Bisbing, Republican
District Attorney, E. David Christine, Jr., Republican
Prothonotary, George Warden, Republican
Recorder of Deeds/Register of Wills, Helen Diecidue, Republican
Sheriff, Todd Martin, Republican
Treasurer, Claudette Seager, Democratic
The initial reports I heard were that he fired .223s into the bldg from outside.
Have you heard any updates on wounded or shooter?
Just found this:
Like Barry and the ‘RATS would say, “Just a little workplace violence”. Kind of like Fort Hood.
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