Mass Shooting In Mass.

I've got some more questions about this myself.

1. According to the stories, he already had the AK-47 and shotgun in some sort of leather case under his desk. How do you carry something that large into an office without anyone saying a word about it? That sounds suspciously similar to the Columbine killers who apparently managed to sneak a 20 pound propane tank bomb into a cafeteria without anyone noticing it.

2. After he killed his victims, he just put his guns down and waited for the police to come get him. Did he not know that they would be coming for him. With an arsenal that large, why didn't he just keep his guns and try to escape or just fire away when the police came.

Otherwise, the other TFL'ers here pretty much summed it up about the ineffective gun control laws. Whoever has guns controls; whoever does not is controlled.
 
Could have chickened out in killing himself. Rampage killers sometimes want to die also but he might not have been able to do it in end.

So he sat there for the police. Or maybe, he wants to make a statement when the time comes. Thinks the killings will give him a podium.
 
WOW...

Well, now i have seen it all...

Mucko's going to be out in 5-7...

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/reddi01032001.htm

McDermott's attorney called `one of the best'
by Dave Wedge
Wednesday, January 3, 2001


Noted Brockton attorney Kevin Reddington has helped cops beat burglary raps and sports stars skirt drunken driving charges, and has defended some of the worst rapists and killers in state history.




Edgewater Technology employees return to the office yesterday, the scene of last week's fatal shooting. (Staff photo by Nancy Lane) But his biggest challenge may lie ahead, as he tries to cull a defense for Michael ``Mucko'' McDermott - the burly software techie accused of gunning down seven co-workers in Wakefield last week.

``He's certainly one of the best defense counsels in the state,'' Taunton criminal attorney Frank O'Boy said of Reddington. ``He's a credit to his profession. Certainly, if I had a family member in trouble, I couldn't do any better than Kevin Reddington.''

In fact, it was Reddington's reputation as an aggressive and savvy attorney that landed the McDermott case in his lap. After their son's arrest, McDermott's parents, retired Marshfield teachers Rosemary and Richard Martinez, hired Reddington on the advice of a state trooper.

A 25-year lawyer who has consistently taken on the South Shore's most heinous cases, he is no stranger to pressure or the media.

He's specialized in defending cops, winning acquittals and getting convictions overturned for officers in Brockton, Holbrook and Plymouth.

He was the defense counsel in the 1995 so-called ``Natural Born Killers'' murder in Avon, and won a highly publicized drunken driving acquittal for former Red Sox slugger Mo Vaughn in 1998. He also defended Mattapoisett rapist John Shockro and Richard Shuman, a Sharon printing company owner who gunned down two business associates in Stoughton in 1997.

Reddington has apparently decided that softening the media glow - as opposed to basking in it - is the smart move in a case the magnitude of the Wakefield massacre. ``Out of respect for the judicial process, this case has to be presented in court, not tried in the press,'' Reddington said last week.

He has turned down repeated interview requests from virtually every American media outlet, in addition to scores of European offers. One French TV station offered to fly Reddington and a guest to Paris for an interview.

The normally flashy and media-friendly attorney has kept a low-profile and said little of how he plans to defend McDermott, other than hinting in court at an insanity defense by mentioning his client's mental illness. Sources have told the Herald McDermott suffers from depression, paranoia and schizophrenia and was on several antidepressants, including Prozac, Paxil and trazedone.

In the Shuman case, Reddington argued that side effects from the prescription drug Zoloft may have triggered the deadly rampage. Shuman was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without chance for parole.
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What I've been telling folks...

"Hey, that couldn't have happened in Massachusetts! They've got the most restrictive gun laws in the country, except for Washington, DC! There's no way that someone could commit violent criminal acts there... Hey... Wait a minute... Do you think that could maybe have something to do with things? What if he'd done this down in Texas, where folks can legally defend themselves? Hmmm..."
 
re: Cellucci endorses gun sale limits

The lead paragraph says it all In an emotional reaction . . .

I was going to leave it at that, but, as usual, second thoughts reveal that the "emotional reaction" is b/s.

This POS Cellucci is using the emotion of the moment as an excuse to ram through this one gun a month bill. You have to wonder what this idiot will endorse when all firearms are banned and there's STILL a tragedy.

These tactics, evidently endorsed by their media whores at the Globe, are particularly infuriating because everybody up there gives each other the "nudge nudge, wink wink" routine and we can't do a damn thing about it.
 
Question for Longshot...

So, do I need to give my firearms away since I take a SSRI (Selective Seretonin Re-uptake Inhibitor) like Zoloft? Am I only a skosh away from going nuts and shooting my coworkers?

Any drug can have adverse affects on people. There will always be people that can't take a medication because of adverse side affects, but I doubt that the meds made Butthead kill those people. Certainly the vast majority of people on these meds DON'T kill their coworkers.
 
Scaramanga,

Kinda like in that old ATT commercial, "Have you had to give up your guns because you take a particular medicine.... You will."
 
the IRS has been mentioned

Re the Wakefield Ma. office shooting of a few days ago, there has been much mention of The IRS and how their actions might have driven the shooter "over the edge". There has also been mention, as I recall, of shooting IRS agents and that sort of thing. Several members have also enlightened readers concerning their "interaction" with IRS.

In another location, I came upon the following links:

www.getawarrant.com and www.informamerica.com, which address various aspects of these matters. Informamerica includes a 30 minute explainatory voiceover. Also the following link was presented, (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=245&invol=151 which seems to have a bearing on the above mentioned also.

I believe that at least one "member" of this board is an attorney. Possibly he might be able to offer something of interest.
 
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