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Louisville Shooter Killed Five To Get Firearms Banned — And Democrats Are Happy To Oblige
The Federalist ^ | APRIL 21, 2023 | JORDAN BOYD

Posted on 04/21/2023 1:50:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The U.S. is apparently at such a stage of degeneracy that anti-gun radicals are buying guns to shoot people and make the case for banning firearms. The man responsible for the deaths of five at Old National Bank in Lousiville, Kentucky, on April 10 reportedly admitted that the motivation for his killing spree was to further the left’s gun-control agenda.

A 13-page manifesto uncovered by the Daily Mail allegedly disclosed that the 25-year-old shot and killed multiple colleagues in part to prove his belief that guns are too easy to obtain in Kentucky. The shooter also reportedly wanted to draw attention to mental illness, something his parents later disclosed he suffered from and took medicine for, and explicitly expressed a desire to kill himself.

The shooter died after police officers shot him. Ironically, the shooter’s death illustrates that the best way to counter a trigger-happy madman is for good guys with guns to employ that great equalizer, but that’s not the message gun-control activists took away from the tragedy.

Gun-control backers latched onto the shooter’s crimes to embolden Democrats to move forward with unconstitutional red-flag laws and gun grabs.


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FACT: 98% of mass-shootings occur in gun-free zones

SOURCE: https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-percentage-mass-shootings-happen-gun-free-amanda-prestigiacomo


1 posted on 04/21/2023 1:50:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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So essentially the new message from the Left: "we will continue to shoot people until you take away the guns".
2 posted on 04/21/2023 1:54:55 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Apparently that was what the perp of the Christchurch New Zealand mosque shooting wanted as well. He wanted to kill all of those people so that New Zealand would adopt the same laws that Australia did after the Port Arthur, Tasmania mass tragedy. When John Lott pointed that out, he got banned on Twitter’s New Zealand feed.


3 posted on 04/21/2023 1:57:26 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Tench_Coxe

Gun grabbers need victims, bodies to trot out for the cameras, and the useful idiots in their ranks know it.


4 posted on 04/21/2023 1:58:40 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Tench_Coxe

not unlike all the libs that fake racist crimes, in order to prove their is so much racism....lib-logic on full display.


5 posted on 04/21/2023 2:03:29 PM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: Tench_Coxe

So essentially the new message from the Left: “we will continue to shoot people until you take away the guns”.

That’s the message from the mentally ill trans-X people, as well.


6 posted on 04/21/2023 2:06:40 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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So essentially the new message from the Left: "we will continue to shoot people until you take away the guns".

It doesn't get much more twisted than this. And this mental case was simply parroting the Democrat Communist gun control narrative.

7 posted on 04/21/2023 2:10:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How evil can you get? Pretty damn evil.


8 posted on 04/21/2023 2:17:08 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: dragnet2

It worked with 9/11 for sure. islam was propped up by both Bush and the left as the greatest thing ever.

So if he pushes gun bans, a LOT will go ‘hmm, well maybe he has a point there’ when someone does insane atrocities with it. Very effective. That’s why you always so pro-gun people sad at this shit and anti-gun people in jubilation for their agenda.


9 posted on 04/21/2023 2:23:22 PM PDT by Ledgerfreedom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Was the shooter a hetero?


10 posted on 04/21/2023 2:31:12 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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Libtards shouldn’t be allowed firearms or sharp objects


11 posted on 04/21/2023 3:04:25 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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The collateral damage from their “suicides” is staggering.


12 posted on 04/21/2023 3:24:49 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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So essentially the new message from the Left: "we will continue to shoot people until you take away the guns".

The shootings are a classic form of terrorism by gun control fanatics. The immediate, pre-prepared action by gun grabbing Democratic politicians suggests their complicity in the deaths. The shooters know that their actions will spur further attempts to take away the 2nd Amendment rights of law abiding Americans. And the Democrat politicians appreciate the support they get for their political goals every time a mentally disturbed anti-gun fanatic kills innocent people to advance their agenda.

13 posted on 04/21/2023 3:27:03 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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I am always reminded of 1989 and how California tried to ban A-s-sault Rifles but the bill failed and was shelved.

So they released Pat Purdy from a mental institution, allowed him to buy guns in violation of Federal laws, and passing the waiting period.

He then went and shot up the Stockton school yard killing several students and himself.

The shelved bill was pulled out and passed so fast before opposition could be mounted against it.

I expect the same thing will happen in Colorado in the next few months since such a ban bill has failed.

Liberals and democrats have such ways to get things done.


14 posted on 04/21/2023 3:32:26 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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Louisville shooter joins the gang of narcissists who want to be remembered as heroes. The “Progressives” will erect a shrine to him and the Nashville scum.


15 posted on 04/21/2023 3:39:59 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I saw this coming ten years ago. I absolutely knew this was behind this fad. They are as radical and extreme as the eco terrorists. And the CIA and FBI are all in to help create and support their insanity. They want to be Martyrs for the cause. And there have been more manifestos displaying this but they have shoved them under the rug because it works to their advantage.


16 posted on 04/21/2023 3:53:09 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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I wish people with this mindset would take their issue up with known gang bangers or drug cartel members. They could leave the same manifesto and at the same time remove some bad apples from the barrel.

Going to a gun free zone and killing innocents is not the way to sell this cause.


17 posted on 04/21/2023 4:26:37 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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btt


18 posted on 04/21/2023 5:01:21 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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Stupidity on parade.


19 posted on 04/21/2023 5:02:26 PM PDT by bgill
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So, basically,he was a terrorist.🤔


20 posted on 04/21/2023 5:34:17 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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