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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTX Shooter Devin Kelly Reportedly LOVED his gun
Devin P. Kelley, who was court martialed from the U.S. Air Force, was identified as the gunman who walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday morning and murdered at least 26 people, wounding many more in the tiny, rural community near San Antonio.
The shooters name was reported through sources by The New York Times and CBS News; the latter gave his name as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, of New Braunfels, Texas, and said the Air Force court martial occurred only three years ago. Although the motive was not yet clear, the gunmans background includes religious school work, but he also liked pages devoted to atheism. The shooter, who is dead, left behind disturbing social media posts, including a Facebook page that showed off a rifle, calling it a bad b*tch.
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https://heavy.com/news/2017/11/devin-kelley-p-sutherland-springs-church-shooter-patrick-kelly/
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Body Armor Megastore and the local Truck and Firearms store.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)antifa liberal communist atheist anti-Christian activism.
sandensea
(21,635 posts)These people are delusional - except this delusion kills.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Comatose Sphagetti
(836 posts)nt
JDC
(10,127 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,592 posts)If the shooter had been a woman then I would have been surprised.
pamela
(3,469 posts)if the list of mass shooters looked like this?
Amy Lanza
Charlotte Whitman
Erica Harris and Diane Klebold
Stephanie Paddock
Omarosa Mateen
Roberta Lewis Dear
Dianne Roof
Ellie Rodger
Congress would be passing laws requiring all females to be given massive tranquilizers at puberty and prohibiting women from purchasing guns. At the very least.
BigmanPigman
(51,592 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)guns, some even carry them at racist and Nazi rallies or to intimidate groups like Moms Demand Action, yet we do nothing, absolutely nothing.
The friggin gun profiteers have probably already submitted an order tonight for as many of the make rifle used today as they can get, and gunners will make sure they have one just like it. Here's gun-lovers standing in line for a Bushmaster weekend after Sandy Hook --
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mn9driver
(4,425 posts)And that he had been dishonorably discharged from the Air Force three years ago.
brewens
(13,586 posts)family almost in that shooting. His first cousin, a woman, is still alive at last report. Her husband, kids and in-laws are among the dead. We were roommates, played softball and partied together back in the 80's. Politics never came up much back then.
I won't say anything but words of condolence to him. I have to wonder if it will change him? How could it not?
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)It didn't change Scalise One Bit. Guns are their right, lives are left to fate.
brewens
(13,586 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)And i'm not sure about Texas law, but many states bar dishonorably discharged individuals from owning firearms.
There's also a lot of spiffy, "i put it there for the looks" poser attachments on that rifle. I can see the Magpul barrel shroud, an adjustable buttstock, a flashlight / laser attachment, a red dot sight, and a forward vertical grip. That's more than a thousand dollars in add ons, more than the value of the rifle itself. He's even got the original fold down iron sight on it. The rifle is definitely owned by someone who wants to look the part.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)And Federal law supersedes state law in this case.
walkingman
(7,616 posts)Takket
(21,568 posts)The GOP has their out............ they will portray this as the result of a godless America and use it to promote religion and actually GAIN in support as a result of this.