Re: Seven die in Chicago warehouse shooting

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On 8/28/03, Shmuel Goldstein wrote:
> A post from today's CNN (edited)
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> Thursday, August 28, 2003 Posted: 4:10 AM EDT (0810 GMT)
>
> CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Salvador Tapia returned to the
> Windy City Core Supply warehouse where he had been fired
> six months ago and killed six of his former co-workers,
> police said Wednesday.
> Tapia, 36, was then shot and killed in the last of three
> gunbattles with police, said acting police superintendent
> Phil Cline.
> Police tried to enter the building, but Tapia came out and
> fired three shots at the officers, Cline said. Fire was
> returned. One minute later, Tapia came back outside the
> building and shot at police again.
> Finally, after considering the injured victims inside, the
> Hostage Barricade and Terrorist team was "ordered to make
> an assault on the building."
> Inside, authorities maneuvered through a maze of 55-gallon
> drums, crates and steel containers filled with engine
> parts. They found Tapia hiding behind the stored parts.
> "He got up. He had the gun. They ordered him to drop the
> gun. He refused to drop the gun, and that's when the
> officer shot him," Cline said.
> Tapia was found with a Walther PP .380-caliber
> semiautomatic pistol and at least one extra clip of
> ammunition.
> Four of the victims died at the scene. The other three,
> including the gunman, were taken to hospitals, police
> spokesman David Bayless said.
> According to the AP, the victims were identified as
> business co-owner Alan Weiner, 50; his brother, Howard
> Weiner, 59, the other co-owner; Howard Weiner's son,
Daniel
> Weiner, 30; Calvin Ramsey, 44; Robert Taylor, 53; and Juan
> Valles, 34.
> Tapia has been arrested 12 times, Cline said. He has an
> arrest record dating back to 1989, including counts of
> domestic battery, gun violations, aggravated assault and
> driving while intoxicated.
> "The problem here is easy access to a firearm," Cline told
> reporters. "Here is someone who never should have had a
gun
> that had a gun."
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>
> I do not have to make up scenarios dealing with baseball
> bats, knives, spoons, and tofu.
>
> We don't have to look at Nazi Germany, the USSR, or any
> other either former, or hypothetical countries.
>
> The above story is real, it is from today, and it happened
> in the good 'ole United States of America, alas.
>
> Salvador Tapia excercised his 2nd amendment right to bear
> arms, and so he was able to purchase his gun, in spite of
> the fact that he was arrested 12 times (!), with a record
> going back 14 years.
>
> The rights of the victims to live were sacrificed on the
> altar of the 2nd Amendment god.
>
> Repeal of the 2nd amendment would not have prevented the
> police from having their weapons, but we must ask
ourselves
> if it would have prevent Salvador Tapia from having his?
>
> The US Constitution is not an absolute, divinely ordained
> set of morals. It is a document made by man, and as such
is
> fallible. Fortunately, man can recognize a mistake, and
fix
> it.
>
> Let's fix the mistake.
>
> Repeal the 2nd Amendment now, before more people die.
>

Re: Seven die in Chicago warehouse shooting, 10/17/05, by Dale.

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