Texas A&M Shooter "Crazy as Hell"

[Kirk Freeman]

Here's a shocker, the Texas A&M shooter's family was terrified of him and thought he was "crazy as hell".

A "ticking time bomb", really, do tell.

http://www.pagunblog.com/2012/08/14/texas-am-shooting-suspect-crazy-as-hell/

 

[Leo]

That is a switch, you usually hear that some one who committed a horrible crime was "One of the nicest people you would ever meet" or that they were a "fine, upstanding person". It is about time someone was honest enough to admit their criminal act commiting relative was a real crack pot.

 

[griffin]

Stop calling him the Texas A&M Shooter! It did not happen on the Texas A&M campus and has nothing at all to do with Texas A&M! He was just some dirtbag who was getting his house foreclosed on who happened to live in Texas.

You are just as bad as the left wing, anti-gun media. (Well, maybe not that bad). Stop it.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

So, Kirk - are we to betray family members to the authorities simply for being off-kilter? Should we, as George Orwell satirically denoted, report them to the local spy brigades? At what point should we break down the family unit and integrate as one great big cultist society?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

So, Kirk - are we to betray family members to the authorities simply for being off-kilter?

Are are referencing Misprision of a Felony?

 

[jbombelli]

Misprision of a Felony. That's a term I never heard before, so I had to look it up.

If nothing else I can say I learned something on INGO today.

I'm not posting the definition, so you all can look it up too.

 

[indiucky]

That is a switch, you usually hear that some one who committed a horrible crime was "One of the nicest people you would ever meet" or that they were a "fine, upstanding person". It is about time someone was honest enough to admit their criminal act commiting relative was a real crack pot.

Remember the old SNL skit when Eddie Murphy killed Buckwheat? They went to Eddie's Tailor and asked the question on everyones mind.

Reporter to Tailor.."Did you ever think he was going to kill Buckwheat?"

Tailor.."Why sure..Just the other day he said to me I need you to get my suit cleaned." I asked why and he said, "Because I am going to kill Buckwheat and I need to look good."

His grade school teacher was aksed the same question and she said.."Oh yeah. I remember his first essay. "When I get older I am going to kill Buckwheat. It's all he ever talked about really."


Point being...That type of response was so coomon that an SNL skit was made about it. Satire only works when there is a bit of truth to it.

 

[jgreiner]

So, Kirk - are we to betray family members to the authorities simply for being off-kilter? Should we, as George Orwell satirically denoted, report them to the local spy brigades? At what point should we break down the family unit and integrate as one great big cultist society?

I have one that I would turn in to the cops in a heartbeat if I suspect anything dangerous is going on. He is that off-center.

 

[MTC]

His grade school teacher was aksed ...

Breaking news: grade school teacher aksed - film at eleven. We'll be right back after these important messages.

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"Was it an assault axe? Was it obtained through the axe show loophole?"

"Our crack team of reporters searches for answers."

"Ahah! He said 'ak'. Was it an AKS, or an AKM?"

"Doesn't matter. It was an AK."

"These things have no place in our society. We must take steps to get these weapons of war off the streets", said a spokesperson for the campaign to stop axe violence. "Our streets are awash with akses. Axes of evil. But the National Axe Association has blocked our efforts for common-sense laws and reasonable restrictions. That's all we're aksin'. "

 

[Alamo]

If you are at all seriously interested in why so many nutjobs are running around loose scaring their families and friends...but no one will actually do anything about it... you need to read Clayton Cramer's new book:

My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill

Clayton Cramer is one of the guys who dismantled Bellesiles when he was peddling his ant-gun nonsense as history, and some of Cramer's work was cited by the SCOTUS majority opinion in the Heller decision.

The book is on $1.49 on Kindle, and $10.50 in paperback. Barnes and Noble has a version for their Nook (or whatever they call it) as well.

Go read it. Very worthwhile book.

And for the odd but not really relevant factoid - I passed very close to the scene of that shooting several times the last week in July when I was going to school at Brayton Field.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Are are referencing Misprision of a Felony?

No. I mentioned nothing about felonious activity. I mentioned merely being off-kilter. Odd. Unusual. You mentioned felonious activity.

To wit, the current bit of Code requires that one deliberately conceal it, and not merely fail to report it. U.S. v. Johnson, 1977.

So, to reiterate, at what point should we snitch on our loved ones and family?