Here's an update on last weeks mall shooting

[jobu07]

I saw this on the AP wire, again, this morning at work. Interesting. I wonder if it was intended to be a suicide rampage and he just forgot to save one for himself?

AP-NY--Mall Shooting

Police say Mall shooting suspect left notes in car and house

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) - Police say the 25-year-old accused of firing about 60 rounds at a crowded mall earlier this week left notes in his car and house that were intended to be read after the shooting.
Robert Bonelli is accused of spraying assault weapon fire through the Hudson Valley Mall on Sunday afternoon, injuring two people before surrendering. Prosecutors say Bonelli was fascinated by the fatal Columbine school shootings and kept memorabilia about the 1999 killings.
Ulster Police Chief Paul Watzka would not divulge the contents of the notes Bonelli left.
Watzka says Bonelli bought the ammunition he used in the shootings about an hour before using it at a Wal-Mart store next to the mall.
The chief says the semi-automatic rifle used in the shooting was not altered to fire automatically and was legally purchased at a gun show in Ulster County in October.
The case against Bonelli will go to a grand jury within the next few weeks and a decision is expected within 45 days. He is currently in custody at the Ulster County Jail.

(Linda Rosner, WKNY, Kingston)

(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

AP-NY-02-19-05 0300EST

 

[c_yeager]

Oh goody, a gunshow AND walmart. Remind me to stock up.

 

[esheato]

Robert Bonelli is accused of spraying assault weapon fire through the

What's assault weapon fire?

 

[yesterdaysyouth]

What's assault weapon fire?

a little denatured alcohol and a torch??

this reminds me, it's time to buy another saiga...

 

[Andrew Rothman]

I think he expected to go down in a blaze of glory (suicide by cop). I hope he takes the next 70 years to sit in a very small, locked room to reconsider his foolishness.

 

[Obiwan]

I wish the police had shown up while he was still shooting and aided him in his plan

I predict a waitng period for ammo sales

 

[boofus]

Doesn't New Dork have their own assault weapon ban?

 

[Wedge]

Obwian don't even joke about that! Unfortunately I could see that as something New York would do.

 

[Wedge]

Yes, we have an AWB. But it is just like the old federal AWB so there is a grandfather clause and it has to have the right number of evil features.

 

[Mr. Mysterious]

Naw, he won't be getting 75 years in prison...maybe 10 years tops since he really needed some firearms instructions (thankfully).

 

[ckyllo]

60 shots and wasnt it only 2 hits one in a persons hand and the other in a leg? just think if the idiot took aimed shots it could of been ugly. the remarkable part was that it was a hesse and he got through 2 mags and it didnt break.

 

[armoredman]

Ahem ....altered a semi auto to fire full auto, that's 30 years and $30,000, all Federal, discounting any other charges. The Feds are good at patiently waiting for inmates to finish state time, then pick them up right when they get released....breaks thier widdle hearts, it does....

 

[kikilee]

The chief says the semi-automatic rifle used in the shooting was not altered to fire automatically and was legally purchased at a gun show in Ulster County in October.

Doesn't look like the gun was altered.

 

[George S.]

boofus

Doesn't New Dork have their own assault weapon ban?

wedge

Yes, we have an AWB. But it is just like the old federal AWB so there is a grandfather clause and it has to have the right number of evil features.

Have you guys been following the new AWB bills in your Legislature?? See this thread: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=126122 There is text of both the House and Senate bills and links to them on the NY Assembly website.

Hopefully these will die in committee but if they go forward and get signed into law, it could be the beginning of a whole raft of similar bills across the country.

 

[Sergeant Sabre]

Robert Bonelli is accused of spraying assault weapon fire...

Odd. That's a very strange penal code. I would have expected him to be accused of attempted homocide. Wierd.

 

[Standing Wolf]

The chief says the semi-automatic rifle used in the shooting was not altered to fire automatically and was legally purchased at a gun show in Ulster County in October.

See? That proves gun shows cause crime.

 

[The Real Hawkeye]

Odd. That's a very strange penal code. I would have expected him to be accused of attempted homocide. Wierd.

Yes, but attempted homicide is not as sensationalistic as "spraying assault weapons fire." You see, this way they target the real villain, i.e., the weapon. The man was just the weapon's dupe, you see.

 

[carebear]

By that reasoning, Oswald was a patsy.

Maybe not of the mafia, but definitely of an Italian........

 

[DigMe]

Oh goody, a gunshow AND walmart. Remind me to stock up.

+1

Thanks a LOT, jackhole. :banghead: He may not have killed anyone but those two facts could be almost as strong for the propagandists.

brad cook

 

[Old NFO]

If he gets REAL lucky, Bubba will turn him into something Art's Grammaw wouldn't like...

 

[SUE ROVR]

Well given how poorly he did he would have been better off buying a bolt action 700 at wal-mart and aimed his shots.

 

[isp2605]

"Well given how poorly he did he would have been better off buying a bolt action 700 at wal-mart and aimed his shots."

If he had used a bolt action 700, instead of the media reporting "man with automatic assault rifle" they would have reported "man with high power sniper rifle capable of killing elephants at 1000 yards..."

 

[Bear Gulch]

Futher proof that it is the shooter and not the firearm. I wonder how the news pukes would have covered it if a legal CCW put a stop to the nutbars demonstration? That would drive them nuts. A legal gun being used to save lives!

 

[The Real Hawkeye]

Futher proof that it is the shooter and not the firearm. I wonder how the news pukes would have covered it if a legal CCW put a stop to the nutbars demonstration? That would drive them nuts. A legal gun being used to save lives!

They would simply burry the story, and you'd never hear it.

 

[HI express]

Suicide?

Every once in a while in soCal we have individuals who can't pull the trigger on themselves, but they shoot up people or places or both to try to get the LEOs to help them along so that they can commit "suicide by cop...". That's a term the newsies made up.