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PA: County Commissioner tackles and shoots attacker
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:16 pm
by seamusTX
In Ross Township*, Monroe County, Pennsylvania (middle of nowhere), a man "allegedly" shot up a government meeting.
One of the commissioners tackled the shooter and shot the attacker with the attacker's handgun.
Three people are dead and three are in critical condition.
No motive is known.
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.d ... /130809868" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
*Rural parts of Pennsylvania (and some other states) are organized into townships for local government.
- Jim
Re: PA: County Commissioner tackes and shoots attacker
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:54 pm
by Jumping Frog
Guy has some courage.
Ross Twp is right next door to New Jersey. south of Delaware Water Gap. Very rural.
Re: PA: County Commissioner tackes and shoots attacker
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:46 am
by seamusTX
Eyewitnesses at the scene and state police identified the gunman as ... a self-proclaimed junk collector who has had a long-simmering feud with the township for keeping a junkyard on his property.
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.d ... /308060316" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Lunatic.
- Jim
Re: PA: County Commissioner tackes and shoots attacker
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:28 am
by philip964
PA is a shall issue concealed carry state and CC is permitted in public meetings.
He emptied his gun and went to the parking lot to get another from his car. (Article did not say if he was a CHL, as you cannot have a gun in your car without a CHL) So most likely he was violating the law before he started shooting.
Re: PA: County Commissioner tackes and shoots attacker
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:13 am
by VMI77
philip964 wrote:PA is a shall issue concealed carry state and CC is permitted in public meetings.
He emptied his gun and went to the parking lot to get another from his car. (Article did not say if he was a CHL, as you cannot have a gun in your car without a CHL) So most likely he was violating the law before he started shooting.
Sure you can. I highly doubt a guy coming to murder people was worried about whether it was legal to have a gun in his car without a CHL.
Re: PA: County Commissioner tackes and shoots attacker
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:50 am
by seamusTX
VMI77 wrote:Sure you can.
You can do anything that's physically possible, that you can get away with. You just take bigger chances when it's illegal. A lot of bizarre stuff goes on for a long time with no one noticing, like that creep who held the women in Cleveland for a dozen years.
- Jim