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Barack_America

(28,876 posts) Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:47 PM Dec 2012

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Ind. Man With 47 Guns Arrested After School Threat

Ind. Man With 47 Guns Arrested After School Threat

CEDAR LAKE, Ind. December 16, 2012 (AP)
Authorities say an Indiana man who had 47 guns and ammunition in his home has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill people at an elementary school near his home.

Cedar Lake police were called to the home of 60-year-old Von I. Meyer early Friday after he allegedly threatened to set his wife on fire. A police statement says Meyer also said he would enter Jane Ball Elementary School and "kill as many people as he could."

Authorities found 47 guns and ammunition worth over $100,000...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ind-man-47-guns-arrested-school-threat-17991470#.UM4Jvhyoo84

And a legitimate purpose for such an arsenal would be???

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Ind. Man With 47 Guns Arrested After School Threat (Original Post) Barack_America Dec 2012 OP

Kicking to highlight...$100,000 worth of ammo! Barack_America Dec 2012 #1

This is the problem with the gun porn advocates, sufrommich Dec 2012 #2

And a legitimate purpose for such an arsenal would be??? to feed a fetish leftyohiolib Dec 2012 #3

The fact that people who would have this much armament randr Dec 2012 #4

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)

1. Kicking to highlight...$100,000 worth of ammo!

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:56 PM

Dec 2012

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)

2. This is the problem with the gun porn advocates,

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Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:58 PM

Dec 2012

law abiding gun owners are only law abiding until they're not, then they have the power to create unimaginable carnage.

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)

3. And a legitimate purpose for such an arsenal would be??? to feed a fetish

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Sun Dec 16, 2012, 01:58 PM

Dec 2012

randr

(12,412 posts)

4. The fact that people who would have this much armament

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:00 PM

Dec 2012

in their possession are not considered mentally deficient is beyond me.
We need new definitions of insanity.

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