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At gun shop, no hint of what ‘polite’ customer would do weeks later at Columbia mall
Washington Post ^ | January 27, 2014 | Paul Duggan, Peter Hermann and Matt Zapotosky

Posted on 01/27/2014 7:39:25 PM PST by Second Amendment First

Darion Aguilar, neatly clad in jeans and a dress shirt, strolled into a Rockville gun store Dec. 10 with a wad of cash and lots of questions. He wanted a weapon for home defense, he told the owners, who remember him as upbeat and courteous. He didn’t know much about firearms and asked for their help in picking one out.

“His whole demeanor was, he smiled, he was polite, he wasn’t aggressive,” said Cory Brown, a proprietor of United Gun Shop. Aguilar, then 18, told Brown and co-owner Dan Millen that he had been researching Mossberg shotguns. Could they show him a Mossberg?

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So they got out a basic 500 model — “an entry-level” gun, Brown said — a pump-action 12-gauge that is easy for a novice to fire accurately in close quarters.

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Later, after authorities identified Aguilar as the shooter, police seized the journal. In addition to the references to suicide, it contains notes expressing hatred of certain groups, according to the officials, who did not elaborate in detail.
1 posted on 01/27/2014 7:39:25 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

a 12 gage shot gun? Damn you, Joe Biden.


2 posted on 01/27/2014 7:46:51 PM PST by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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To: Second Amendment First
it contains notes expressing hatred of certain groups, according to the officials, who did not elaborate in detail.

What do we know about the victims.

3 posted on 01/27/2014 7:46:58 PM PST by Stentor (Maybe the Goldman Sachs thing is just a coincidence.)
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“notes expressing hatred of certain groups,”

I’m guessing he hated blacks and Latinos/sarcasm


4 posted on 01/27/2014 7:47:13 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: griswold3
Yup!...”Shotgun” Joe Biden might as well have pulled the trigger!!

Want to save people??...OUTLAW JOE!!

5 posted on 01/27/2014 7:53:24 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Frank_2001

Looks like he may be a member of one of those groups himself.


6 posted on 01/27/2014 7:55:40 PM PST by batterycommander (a little more rubble, a lot less trouble)
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To: Stentor

As noted by a commenter to the article:

In a story on the gunshop that sold the shotgun, they quote the gunshop owner saying:
“ he didn’t ask about [assault] rifles; he didn’t ask about handguns. He said he had a limited budget and didn’t need any of that tactical stuff.” — Rockville Gunshop Owner

Notice the modifying term “assault” was added by the Post even though the gun shop owner said only “rifles.”


7 posted on 01/27/2014 7:57:16 PM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Frank_2001

Note the insertion of the word “assault” by the authors...

“His whole context was home defense,” Brown said. “He was new to this. He wanted something not too crazy — he didn’t ask about [assault] rifles


8 posted on 01/27/2014 8:02:47 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Second Amendment First

I’ve sold a lot of guns over the years. I see no way they should have knows or could have knows that this kid was a nut case. On the other side of the coin his mother did know and apparently did nothing. Way to go Mom.


9 posted on 01/27/2014 8:07:09 PM PST by oldenuff2no
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

ping!


10 posted on 01/27/2014 8:31:47 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Second Amendment First; NFHale

What happened to Martin O Malley’s mandated gun safety course ?

And that mandated gun lock?


11 posted on 01/27/2014 8:38:26 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: sickoflibs

Gun lock? I’m pretty sure most new firearms come with an included lock either in the box or, on some pistols, as part of the pistol. Training is mostly confined to CCW applicants in some states, not long gun sales.


12 posted on 01/27/2014 8:56:56 PM PST by RicocheT (Where neither their property nor their honor is touched, most men live content, Niccolo Machiavelli)
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To: Second Amendment First
Was it an AR-15 shotgun, like CNN said the guy at the Washington Naval Yard used?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

13 posted on 01/27/2014 9:27:13 PM PST by wku man (We are the 53%! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXN0GDuLN4)
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“His whole demeanor was, he smiled, he was polite, he wasn’t aggressive,”

Like most psychos trying to manipulate people, in my unfortunately vast experience with them. The "charm offensive."

14 posted on 01/27/2014 9:37:03 PM PST by KJC1
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To: M-cubed

Get a shotgun!

15 posted on 01/27/2014 10:04:53 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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As Howard County police continue to investigate the shootings, they said the reason for the attack remains a mystery. They said they have found no connection between Aguilar and his victims, Brianna Benlolo, 21, and Tyler Johnson, 25, who worked in Zumiez, a store for skateboarders, snowboarders and surfers on the Maryland mall’s second level.

Two law enforcement officials, speaking on the condition of ­anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said “...Aguilar kept a journal in which he described suicidal thoughts. When the young man’s mother reported him missing Saturday, they said, a police detective was sent to the home. He began reading the journal, but Aguilar’s mother demanded he stop.

Later, after authorities identified Aguilar as the shooter, police seized the journal. In addition to the references to suicide, it contains notes expressing hatred of certain groups, according to the officials, who did not elaborate in detail....”

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So, “Howard County police...said the reason for the attack remains a mystery.”

And “...Aguilar kept a journal...in which...contains notes expressing hatred of certain groups, according to the officials, who did not elaborate in detail....”

Since Howard County Maryland is supremely “politically correct” and its police force follows that PC bent, it may be a long time OR NEVER before officials CONNECT THOSE DOTS. And they may never release the contents of that journal since it could well paint a picture they do not wish to have seen.

My opinion is that there is a strong possibility that this may well be another instance of the next step up from the “knock out game”.


16 posted on 01/27/2014 10:49:08 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

We can be sure he wasn’t a conservative-Republican-rightwing-TEA Party type or every page of that journal would be up on the Howard County PD’s Facebook page and ABCCBSMSNBCCNN would be talking about it all day every day for a week.


17 posted on 01/27/2014 10:56:13 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Frank_2001

The media censors again!

Let’s see if the dude is HispBlack and he “hates certain groups.” It’s probably Whites.

But the media will never say “expressing hatred of Whites.”

NEVER!

Our media propagandists are truly pathetic.


18 posted on 01/27/2014 11:17:09 PM PST by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: Second Amendment First

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGBw8jS3sMw


19 posted on 01/27/2014 11:17:14 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: AlanGreenSpam

Yeah - he is Hispanic and definitely black. The girl and her boyfriend were white and that’s why there is no mention of them or pictures.

The girl was stupid to go out with him and then when she left his crazy ass behind that was too much for him. When a white girl goes out with a non white guy the chances something bad and violent happen to her or her close friends and family go up dramatically I hate to say.


20 posted on 01/28/2014 12:09:34 AM PST by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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