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proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts) Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:17 PM Dec 2012

Ind. man with 47 guns arrested after school threat

CEDAR LAKE, IND. -- 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.

Prosecutors filed felony intimidation charges against Meyer on Saturday, one day after the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. He is being held without bond.

Cedar Lake is about 45 miles southeast of Chicago.

Posted on Sun, Dec. 16, 2012 10:54 AM

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/16/3968555/ind-man-with-47-guns-arrested.html#storylink=cpy

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Ind. man with 47 guns arrested after school threat (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan Dec 2012 OP

WTF etherealtruth Dec 2012 #1

Now if we could just get the other crazies to fess up. frank380 Dec 2012 #2

They were terrified of being shot by one of his 47 guns! Walk away Dec 2012 #3

Clearly, this man is nothing but a gun collector strung up on false charges! ellisonz Dec 2012 #4

Seize all his guns and destroy them; lock him up for 15 years and then kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #5

. Starry Messenger Dec 2012 #6

47 guns? RetroLounge Dec 2012 #7

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)

1. WTF

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:19 PM

Dec 2012

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

Yet we have no gun problem in the USA

frank380

(27 posts)

2. Now if we could just get the other crazies to fess up.

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:22 PM

Dec 2012

He stopped himself, luckily. I wouldn't be surprised to find people around him have been scared for years but nobody wanted to say anything.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)

3. They were terrified of being shot by one of his 47 guns!

Reply to frank380 (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 02:26 PM

Dec 2012

Who would take the chance of pissing off someone with an arsenal. If I was around him I would move to another state.

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)

4. Clearly, this man is nothing but a gun collector strung up on false charges!

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:19 PM

Dec 2012

He could have been any one of our gun trolls!

Fuck the NRA

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

5. Seize all his guns and destroy them; lock him up for 15 years and then

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:27 PM

Dec 2012

keep him on probation with a ban on touching, let alone owning, guns for the rest of his life.

Irresponsible or violent gun owners need to suffer consequences. And it needs to HURT.

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)

6. .

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:28 PM

Dec 2012

RetroLounge

(37,250 posts)

7. 47 guns?

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:28 PM

Dec 2012

Is he a gungeon host?

Sounds like he'd fit in there.

RL

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