XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.guns, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2025-07-31, c186282 wrote:
> On 7/29/25 5:51 PM, pothead wrote:
>> On 2025-07-29, Dark Brandon wrote:
>>> On 7/28/2025 8:07 PM, c186282 wrote:
>>>> On 7/28/25 9:49 PM, Dark Brandon wrote:
>>>>> On 7/28/2025 7:20 PM, c186282 wrote:
>>>>>> The pic shows a well-dressed man ... MAYbe arabic, MAYbe
>>>>>> 'black', MAYbe 'Mex' ... carrying some kind of military-
>>>>>> looking long-gun.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reportedly he shot some cops, and some others in a
>>>>>> big-biz office building then went up in another
>>>>>> building and allegedly shot himself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 27 year old perp from Vegas - no known link to NYC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The photo of the perp, looked to be 'walking with
>>>>>> purpose'. Rifle right out in the open.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hints this was 'targeted' - went to a specific floor
>>>>>> in the office building. Photos show people in some
>>>>>> offices putting up huge barricades at the doors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't THINK it's an Iran/Hamas thing - they would
>>>>>> be unlikely to kill themselves after the fact, more
>>>>>> likely to explode and take 50 others with them.
>>>>>> Don't expect suicide from a cartel member either,
>>>>>> blaze-of-glory is the macho thing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In any case, a good segment of Midtown was evacuated
>>>>>> except for tons of cops and FBI.
>>>>>
>>>>> The gunman is described as a former NFL football player and the
>>>>> headquarters of the NFL is in the building on the 33rs floor where the
>>>>> gunman is reported to have killed himself by gunshot to the head.
>>>>
>>>> Shane Tamura ... that's the name.
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't look big enough to be NFL however.
>>>>
>>>> Update is that the three civvies also died. There
>>>> may be one or two more, but no reports of death.
>>>
>>> You gotta wonder why a man who allegedly shot himself would first put on
>>> a bullet proof vest.
>>>
>> The guy is obviously an unstable nutcase.
>> This kind of crap is going to increase in incidents.
>> And it doesn't always have to be some terrorist from the middle east.
>> The world has gone crazy.
>> Every time I travel to NYC I am very nervous and have my head on
>> a swivel.
>> I also carry my Byrna in my clutch.
>
> His "manifesto" sez he was SURE the NFL was
> somehow indirectly responsible for his mental
> problems. MIGHT have had something to do with
> youth football, or maybe he went nuts on his own.
>
> He shot himself in the heart, asking some docs
> to study his brain.
That's what seems to be coming out from this mess.
I do not support tackle football for minors.
> Oh, a Bren-10 will work better than a little
> stun gun :-)
Yea, but too permenant.
If I had to use it and actually killed an attacker,
NYC would build a statue of the attacker and toss me
in jail despite being licensed.
In NYC criminals have more rights than the victims.
--
pothead
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Then our choices make us."
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