Lockheed shooting

[only1asterisk]

This is how things should have gone.

Report: Disturbed Factory Prevented From Workplace Shooting Spree

Tuesday, July 08, 2003

MERIDIAN, Miss. — Many people were saved a workplace shooting in Mississippi Tuesday.

Lauderdale County authorities said a gunman opened fire at a Lockheed Martin plant outside Meridian. Sheriff Billy Sollie told reporters that the gunman had been shot, prevented him from killing anyone.

Meridian Mayor John Robert Smith confirmed to Fox News that there had been "one death, no injuries," and that the shooter was "no longer a threat," but that he had no further information.

A sheriff's dispatcher said she could not confirm reports of the shooter’s death, or the identity of the Lockheed Martin employee that used his legally carried handgun to stop the violence before any innocent victims were killed.
"All we can say at this point is that there was a shooting out at Lockheed and people were injured," the dispatcher said. "The sheriff is on the scene."

A local radio reporter told Fox News that the gunman, whom he described as a current employee, was armed with a shotgun and rifle.

Officials at the plant declined to comment and a Lockheed Martin national spokeswoman was unavailable to immediately provide details.

"We're just trying to gather information and are working with state and local authorities to determine the details of the incident," said spokeswoman Meaghan Mariman from the company's Bethesda, Md., headquarters.

The plant builds structural subassemblies for the C-130J Hercules transport plane and the F-22 Raptor fighter-bomber.

Lockheed Martin is the largest defense contractor in the United States. The corporation had sales of $24 billion in 2001. It employs about 125,000 people.

Subsidiary Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. is based in Fort Worth, Texas.

The Associated Press contributed to this

 

[Quintin Likely]

I'm kinda curious myself...

The plant builds structural subassemblies for the C-130J Hercules transport plane and the F-22 Raptor fighter-bomber.

Lockheed Martin is the largest defense contractor in the United States. The corporation had sales of $24 billion in 2001. It employs about 125,000 people.

Manufacturing subassemblies for the our latest generation fighting plane and being the largest defense contractor in the US, where *are* the armed security guards?

And the Brady Campaign can go themselves. Spineless lowlifes, using this incident to further their cause.

 

[BudS]

News update

There was an update on one of the radio stations here in Mobile that Williams had just exited "sensitivity training". See what forced liberalism and feminization/emasculation of men accomplish? Nothing but liberal slop. Needless to say, he was dangerous & should have been taken out of the mainstream workforce at Lockheed Martin.

I just left an ultra-liberal company located in a bad part of town, who disarmed us- before the buy-out, no problem, afterward, even a conversation about guns, etc. would get you fired! The one I work for now has a no weapon policy in their handbook, but it's still in the same part of town, and "they" look the other way- especially if we have to come in afterhours.

Watch out- the Boxers, Lautenbergs, Clintons, etc. will be pushing S1034 and HR2038 harder than ever now!

 

[RAY WOODROW 3RD]

It was "Ethics Training" BudS and it is not a bad thing to go through. I said it before and I will say it again, Lockheed is a great company to work for minus the fact that you cannot carry in work. I live in NJ and cannot carry at all anyway!

How many other people here are allowed to carry at work? I thought so.

This in not a Lockheed problem but a perception problem with the way company policy and people in general view guns and gun ownership. They do not understand that if a person wants to carry they will do it regardless of the laws on the books. That only leaves the law abiding defenseless. We have a lot of work to do in changing the perception of gunners. 9/11 made some of the sheeple stop their grazing and lift their heads to see what is really going on, the others we will be unable to save. They will not see the light until they or someone they love is attacked. Even that might only push them further into denial and the mantra of "We need MORE gun control!".

 

[BudS]

Thanks, Ray!

Yup, you're right, Ray...the newspaper's around here somewhere, but this guy had a problem with EVERYBODY, didn't he?

Even though the company I last worked for and the company I presently work for have similar "Workplace Violence" standards, one of the top, top men told one of my fellow workers personally that IF the company had a problem with his CCW, he'd be the first to go, and they KNOW he carries everywhere! In conversation with others, management doesn't seem to have a problem if you're a law-abiding CCW licensee coming in after-hours in the various 'hoods we work in, for self-protection- what they have the language in the employee handbooks for is legal reasons, so that no one can threaten another if they have a tiff, etc.

I wish that the politically-correct language could be stricken from all comapnies and instead be replaced with common-sense language referring to CCW, etc. Not that I would carry during normal work hours, but since there are only a couple of us closing in the evening, it would be more reassuring if one or both of us could carry as we walked out the door.

And, Ray, it sure would be nice if we could hit the politicos & lawyers between the eyes & get it legal in NJ for you to carry! I'll tell Santa I want that for Christmas for you!