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Hero security guard shot thwarting attack at Family Research Council HQ
New York Post ^ | 8/1/5/2012 | no byline given

Posted on 08/15/2012 11:15:41 AM PDT by wideawake

security guard at the Family Research Council's headquarters in Washington, D.C. is being hailed as a hero after he stopped a gunman posing as an intern, taking a bullet in the arm before wrestling the suspect to the ground.

The gunman entered the lobby of the organization's Chinatown headquarters around 10:45 and expressed disagreement with the conservative group's policy positions, Fox News has learned. When the guard, who was not identified, asked him where he was going, he opened fire, according to police.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
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To: wideawake

D.C. has a Chinatown?


21 posted on 08/15/2012 11:37:31 AM PDT by donna (Republicans wont change their ways until conservatives draw the line.)
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To: nevergore
Fox news coverage of the shooting:
The suspect "made statements regarding their policies, and then opened fire with a gun striking a security guard," a source told Fox News. WJLA-TV7 reported the suspect was also shot. Sources also said the gunman may have been carrying a bag from Chick-fil-A, the embattled fast-food restaurant whose president came under fire from gay activists after he said he did not agree with same-sex marriage.

Sources told Fox New that after guard took away his gun, the suspect said, "Don't shoot me, it was not about you, it was what this place stands for."

Authorities were treating the attack as a case of domestic terrorism, although James McJunkin, the head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said authorities do not yet know the gunman's motive.

I think it's pretty clear, from the suspect's own statement, that he was there in opposition to the group's politics, that he was there to terrorize conservatives because of their stands, and therefore is an unambiguous case of domestic terrorism.
22 posted on 08/15/2012 11:38:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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To: Tax-chick

This guy takes a bullet then wrestles the armed gunman to the ground.....

And you say, “What is heroic about that?”

Really?????


23 posted on 08/15/2012 11:38:59 AM PDT by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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To: DoughtyOne
My only sorrow is that he didn’t take steps to end this guy’s career permanently.

Amen to that!

24 posted on 08/15/2012 11:39:32 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: LRoggy

This is just another in a line of MSNBC-inspired, Hate-Induced violence.

The MSNBC Klux Klan will get even more violent, the closer we get to the election.

I pray for the innocents they will harm.


25 posted on 08/15/2012 11:40:21 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: wideawake
I hope it is a coincidence that this happened on the Feast of the Assumption. And plaudits to the guard. Lord only knows how many lives he saved.

Mary, mother of Jesus, please help us.

Rosary for Peace
26 posted on 08/15/2012 11:41:06 AM PDT by mlizzy (And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell others not to kill? --MT)
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To: wideawake; a fool in paradise

I hope that the Reichstag is well protected this time.


27 posted on 08/15/2012 11:42:06 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: wideawake
The gunman entered the lobby of the organization's Chinatown headquarters around 10:45 and expressed disagreement with the conservative group's policy positions, Fox News has learned.

So understated I thought it a British news outlet.

28 posted on 08/15/2012 11:42:50 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: wideawake; xzins

I have a feeling that this kind of thing is going to be happening all over the country against conservative groups and candidates. The level of hatred and the agitation of these maniacs by the highest levels within the administration combined with the complete lack of enforcement against lefties for such violations by the Eric Holder Justice Department will assure that there will be blood running in the streets both before and after this election.

If I were Romney or Ryan, I’d be very careful. The administration is trying to portray these guys as murderers and worse and this has to have an effect on the crazies in the occupy movement.


29 posted on 08/15/2012 11:43:42 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: donna
D.C. has a Chinatown?

Yeah, it's about 1 square block in the area around the Verizon Center (about one Metro stop each from the USSC and Metro Center).

30 posted on 08/15/2012 11:44:56 AM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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To: wideawake

Another thread on this shooting had outrageous comments from The Advocate site. Here some of them:

Jan Baekgaard Pedersen: Unless of course we can swoop in and kill all the hatemongers in one big swoop and simply eradicate them....sometimes it takes a little sacrifice for the common good;-)


31 posted on 08/15/2012 11:45:10 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: Tax-chick

First of all, anyone who takes on the job of security guard, has to expect that they are the first line of defense against a would be miscreant... doing the job to begin with raises that person above the norm, and to take a bullet while performing his duties, makes him a hero at least to the people he was serving... you take a bullet for performing your duties to protect, I’ll call you a hero whether you think you deserve it not...


32 posted on 08/15/2012 11:45:15 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: donna
D.C. has a Chinatown?

Yes it does. When I was in DC growing up in the fifties and early sixties Chinatown was maybe three tiny restaurants and two laundries. Took the DC Transit bus through there every day during my school years. Different now I hear. They got rid of the laundries.

33 posted on 08/15/2012 11:47:39 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: jazusamo

:^.


34 posted on 08/15/2012 11:47:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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To: P-Marlowe; All

A bit off topic but, speaking of Romney or Ryan, does anyone know if there is Secret Service protection for them?


35 posted on 08/15/2012 11:48:28 AM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: RedMDer
A bit off topic but, speaking of Romney or Ryan, does anyone know if there is Secret Service protection for them?

A couple of lunatics managed to charge the stage when Ryan was speaking and they are still alive.

Does that answer your question?

36 posted on 08/15/2012 11:51:36 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: Candor7
Now we are seeing glimpses of the left wing fascists who are willing to die for their cause.

It was reported that after being disarmed, the perp asked the injured guard not to shoot him. Apparently, he was willing to kill for the cause. Die? Not so much...
37 posted on 08/15/2012 11:51:55 AM PDT by Antoninus (Sorry, gone rogue.)
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To: PapaBear3625
I think it's pretty clear, from the suspect's own statement, that he was there in opposition to the group's politics, that he was there to terrorize conservatives because of their stands, and therefore is an unambiguous case of domestic terrorism.

I am delighted to observe that it is also pretty clear that this conservative organization is well-defended. I hope the Left learns that this is how all such ventures end.

38 posted on 08/15/2012 11:55:07 AM PDT by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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To: wideawake

They need some time to figure out how to pin him on the Right Wing Lunatic Fringe, a Republicanteaparty organization whose chairman's name is Ryan.

39 posted on 08/15/2012 11:56:05 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson)
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To: tcrlaf
This is just another in a line of MSNBC-inspired, Hate-Induced violence.

Well, it does indeed (@ the earliest look) appear to be a "hate" crime -- as the Left defines it -- and there's been NO shortage of "inducers."

40 posted on 08/15/2012 11:58:48 AM PDT by Colofornian
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