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From my former home state of Wyoming.
The School Shooting You Haven’t Heard About
C.J. Box · January 12, 2013 at 10:50am
Very few people heard about the school shooting in gun-filled Wyoming that left three people dead late last year. Stick around, and you’ll find out why.
Here’s what happened:
Chris Krumm, a troubled 25-year-old, traveled from Connecticut to Casper, Wyoming, to settle a score with his father, Jim Krumm, a popular junior college instructor. The motivation for his actions are unclear, but Chris Krumm appeared to be suffering from a mental illness.
On a Friday morning, November 30, Chris Krumm murdered his father’s female companion Heidi Arnold– also an instructor at the college — and left her body in the street. He then drove to Casper College where his father Jim taught computer science in Room 325. Chris Krumm entered the room and — in front of students — shot his father in the head. Jim Krumm heroically wrestled his son to the floor before he died so the students could escape. Chris Krumm, like most of these cowards, committed suicide before police arrived.
It was a horrific incident, and it shook my hometown of Casper and the rest of our sparsely populated state to its core. Although Wyoming has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the U.S., it also has one of the lowest murder rates. The incident was unusual and shocking and heavily covered locally but not nationally. Where were Michael Bloomberg and Bob Costas and Piers Morgan and Barack Obama?
So why, in the tragic shadow of Sandy Hook, haven’t you heard of this school shooting?
Because Chris Krumm killed Heidi Arnold with a knife. He shot his father through the head with a compound bow and arrow at a range of four feet. And he used a knife to end his own miserable existence.
Now you know why you haven’t heard about it.
It’s far past time for the press to shut the hell up about not having an agenda.
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This story would feed their meme unfortunately. Only 3 dead as opposed to twenty something.
Notice though that it was another kid from upper middle class family (my assumption but bet I’m right) rather than the pick up drivin’ gun rack ‘red neck’ the msm loves to focus on.
statistically, he is highly likely to be a liberal democrat
Now that is a hero.
@ Iron Fist:
The revalation was when you get the point that the First Amendment is to protect speech you do not agree with. It took a while for that to sink in.
I got the feeling Randy Weaver and David Koresh were folks I would not agree with but that did not necessarily mean the government had an obligation to kill them.
unclassifiable wrote:
There are a lot of people I don’t agree with. That doesn’t make it the government’s business to kill them. The Branch Davidian mess was worse than most people know. Before Fast and Furious, it was the bloodiest debacle in US Law Enforcement history, and the people that perpetrated it never lost their jobs. Some of them were promoted. So someone in th eJustice Departent didn’t think of it as a debacle at all. That is a scary thing. My bet is that that same mindset was in operation throughout Fast and Furious, and is still in operation today whn Obama is pushing for yet more gun control.
@ 4_Sticks:
They can’t possibly think of their own offspring as nuts
@ Iron Fist:
Doesn’t sound all that different from Benghazi, actually. Notice that despite the claims to the contrary, nobody’s actually been fired over that. They just got different jobs.
And Hillary herself told the Senate committee that while she “takes full responsibility,” it wasn’t her fault.
@ Iron Fist:
Oh, and BTW, one of the people involved in the creation of Fast & Furious has been nominated to become the permanent ATF director. He’ll undoubtedly be confirmed without significant questions, because he has the main qualification Obama looks for: he’s a minority.
@ lobo91:
It’s a lovely thing, isn’t it? Like Martin Luther King dreamed, a world where they judge you not by the content of your character, but by the color of your skin…
@ Iron Fist:
Obama’s executive orders on guns if carried out could instigate a whole bunch of Wacos
Iron Fist wrote:
I’ve come to the conclusion that I woke up one morning in that mirror universe where Spock has a beard.
waldensianspirit wrote:
If that doesn’t do it, Feinstein’s bill would, if passed.
If she seriously believes that the owners of millions of semi-automatic rifles are going to register them with the ATF as though they’re machine guns, she needs medical intervention.
@ lobo91:
I don’t think that will pass the Senate, let alone the House, but it is refreshing to see a little truth out of a legislator. Of course, they’ll be taking up guns from anyone that they deem unfit to have them. If it did pass, though, I think you’d see most gun owners ignore the law to register their guns. Everyone knows that is just a prelude to confiscation, anyway.
lobo91 wrote:
Back in the day, a friend of mine had a habit of saying “the longer it goes on, the weirder it gets”. Methinks he was a prophet.
@ Iron Fist:
Of course it is.
None of their schemes will work without registration. This “universal background check” they keep talking about can’t work unless they know what guns people have in the first place.
lobo91 wrote:
Used to be that “taking responsibility” meant you resigned and/or went to jail. Now, “I take responsibility” means “yell at me for a while, then shut up, and I’ll go on as I have been.”
Iron Fist wrote:
I believe that is incorrect. Larry Potts did (he reported directly to Freeh). But he wasn’t booted until after the Ruby Ridge debacle (which is when I started to wake up)
waldensianspirit wrote:
That’s a feature, not a bug.
Baby Doc’s Storm Troopers are looking for a fight.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Her husband wanted to debate the meaning of “is.” Now, she wants to redefine “responsibility.”
lobo91 wrote:
The last firearm I bought from a retail store (Kmart) was about 30 years ago. I really doubt the Gov. could figure out what I have without me telling them and I ain’t that stupid…
@ eaglesoars:
You might be right about that, but nobody of any significance lost their job for Waco, and Lon Horiuchi was promoted after shooting Vickie Weaver.
Dem consultant Sally Kohn was just on FNC talking about “common sense gun safety” proposals (their new term, which is supposed to replace “gun control”). Right at the end of the segment, she slipped in one of the things I mentioned immediately after Obama’s little show the other day, which is adding the TSA and NCTC watch lists to the NICS database.
She said, “If you can’t fly on a plane, you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun.”
I predict that this is going to be their way of implementing their schemes. It’s something they could probably get passed, for one thing. After all, who could be opposed to letting “terrorists” buy guns?
The problem is that the lists are secret, and there’s no appeals process. They can literally put anyone on there they like (well, actually, anyone they don’t like), and there’s not a thing you can do about it.
Iron Fist wrote:
Now THAT I did not know.
@ lobo91:
My problem with this under the Bush Administration was the fear of what the next President would do with it. I think we are seeing the tip of the iceberg here. Obama has already set the precedent that if you are on a list as a terrorist and in a foreign country he can kill you without a trial.
@ Iron Fist:
He’s avoiding sending any more to Gitmo. Because that’d blow his cover with the MSM
Iron Fist wrote:
It really is amazing how the people who were so upset over Bush’s supposed “shredding” of the Constitution don’t have the slightest problem with Obama doing things that are ten times worse.
Okay…maybe it’s not that amazing.
@ eaglesoars:
Horiuchi was at Waco in some position. I don’t recall what it was. Shoot an unarmed woman holding a baby (I guess it was an assault baby), get promoted. That says something about the culture of the FBI that is most unsettling.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I’m surprised that he hasn’t attacked Gitmo using drones.
@ lobo91:
Before the 2008 election or maybe slightly after that one conservative pundit (I don’t recall who) said it’d be good to get a Democrat President because that’d get the Democrat Party on the side of the USA in the War on Terror. That isn’t *exactly* how it worked out, but it is amusing to watch them twist themselves into knots to excuse in Obama actions that they called “War Crimes” under Bush.
@ Iron Fist:
I personally don’t have a particular problem with someone like Anwar al Alawki being taken out by a drone (or a bullet in the head, for that matter), because they guy clearly was never a “real” American citizen. Both of his parents were Saudis, they were only here on student visas when he was born, and he lived most of his life outside the US anyway. The whole citizenship thing was just a convenient way for him to get into the US freely. If I had my way, he (and the kids of millions of illegal aliens) wouldn’t be US citizens anyway.
But it does set a bad precedent.
Obama the Drone President
Oh, on Lon Horiuchi. It’s Wiki, but they say they can’t definitively link Horiuchi to shots fired at Waco because they rebarreled his rifle after the Waco Massacre:
Rebarrelling shouldn’t make much difference to tool marks on spent shell casings, I wouldn’t think…
“Reason Not the Need”: “Fair Share,” the Second Amendment, Dependency, and King Lear“
Now up at PJM: comments welcomed.
Iron Fist wrote:
The drone strikes are the only facet of the Obama presidency that is acceptable, and I’m still trying to determine his motivation. I suspect it’s to provide him with an appearance of credibility in that area.
@ Iron Fist:
With a bolt action rifle, it wouldn’t make any difference at all.
lobo91 wrote:
And there’s the problem with it. I’m not going to shed any teas for al Awaki or Adam Gedhan, either, but who it the next person to turn up on Obama’s personal hit list? That’s the problem. It isn’t even the existance of the list that is the problem. It is that I don’t trust Obama to be making these calls. But it is interesting how the Peace Movement faded away when the guy calling (and making?) the drone hits suddenlt hada “D” after his name. It is almost as though the whole thing was a sham political operation or something…
@ lobo91:
too bad they don’t allow questions from the public…anyway, at the end of the day. the GOP will be accused of witch hunting and brow beating poor Hilary…just hope that someone comes before them and trashes her story
@ MacDuff:
Yup. It’s not like there’s any way for anyone to check into their claims, after all. Fire some missiles into a mud hut in the wilds of Pakistan or Yemen, claim to have killed some top terrorist, and pat yourself on the back.
heysoos wrote:
She’s testifying before the House committee this afternoon.
I suspect that they’re going to be a bit tougher on her.
Iron Fist wrote:
They(family) pays ransom and they get to live?
waldensianspirit wrote:
That’s how it works in other great liberal democracies like Pakistan and Mexico…
//
Another school shooting averted by quick-thinking staff:
@ waldensianspirit:
Obama’s doing his part to pay off the national debt. I don’t reckon that that Pakistani doctor that fingered bin Laden for us ever got his $25 million, either. We not only dick him out of the money, we let him rot in a Paki jail. How’s that for watching your peoples’ backs?
Good news! Union membership falls to 70-year low.
Wisconsin’s new Right to Work Law will start in March of this year. That should knock a few more tens of thousands off the union rolls.
lobo91 wrote:
Interesting isn’t it. I said right after Newtown that the new term was going to be “common sense” gun laws.
Notice that the jackass in this article was from Connecticut, so was Newtown, and I seem to recall a couple other incidents in CT a few years back. So I call for “common sense” registration of CT residents.
@ Mars:
And the other part is that they’ve replaced “gun control” with “gun safety.”
Because who could be against “gun safety,” right?
@ lobo91:
It’s all about teaching the young ones how to live in a police state.
@ Iron Fist:
I say it’s all part of Obama’s plan to make the US as untrustworthy as possible.
@ Mars:
You can really get yourself in trouble with the Politically Correct Police if you notice that half of the homicides in America are comitted by black youth (almost exclusively urban youth). Talk about trying to do anything to change that, and you’d think you were burning a cross in someone’s yard.
@ Iron Fist:
@ huckfunn:
@ lobo91:
…et. al.; check out my link in #36; I think you’ll like it.
lobo91 wrote:
They’ve been doing this crap in schools for years. Especially with their “no tolerance” drug policies. A kid has an aspirin or Midol and gets strip searched.
The schools have started becoming the totalitarian wet dream of the libs.
Anyone been reading about the Sheriffs revolt? At least one in my state has now signed on.
http://www.redstate.com/kfobbs/2013/01/17/will-you-support-your-state-and-sheriff-that-defy-obama-gun-control-orders/
@ lobo91:
Just like Schumer saying he “believes in the Second Amedndment” the other day. He doesn’t believe that it really means anything, but he supports it so long as the Justices will let him have any gun control measures he or any other Democrats want.
Here we go…the top Democrat on the House committee is blaming House Republicans for what happened in Benghazi, since they “cut funding” for State Department security.
Never mind the fact that the budget passed by the House was never acted on by the Senate. Or that the State Department has already said that lack of funding had no effect on their decisions in Benghazi.
@ Mars:
@ lobo91:
I like how when the press does something stupid like the Olympic bomber and they guy they accused of it or some crazy religion commits mass suicide like Jonestown or Heaven’s Gate, no one says lets have comnmon sense restrictions on the press or religion (nor should they) but for guns its like the 2nd Amend means something completely different.
@ Mars:
waiting for something to come out NM….Gov Martinez is a gunner and we have some pretty wide open laws here, but I’d like to see this spread
@ Mars:
I’m pretty sure that our sheriff will agree.
New Thread.
@ MikeA:
We need common sense regulation of Kool Aid!
Nobody needs 50 packages of Kool Aid!
@ lobo91:
Propaganda works.
The Mushrooms will eat this shit up and ask for more.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Excellent synopsis. They likewise try to say that having a right to a rifle is akin to having a right to a nuclear weapon, and that if you subscribe that the latter might justly be regulated, thnen surely the former must be as well. These are all rather base attempts at propaganda, but as we saw in the last election, propaganda works. At least on a surprisingly large segment of the voting populace.
@ Iron Fist:
Thanks! Please leave a comment there, if you can.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I left a comment, but it seems to have gone to the comment gulag…
Iron Fist wrote:
I just saw it come up—thanks!
Sometimes it takes the comments a little while to show up.
@ lobo91:
Mean like this little gal ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264933/Girl-5-suspended-kindergarten-days-threatening-shoot-friend-pink-Hello-Kitty-bubble-gun.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
She will not be able to purchase a gun when she grows up having been marked a ‘terrorist’ before her 7th birthday.
@ lobo91:
See West Point (USMA) ‘think tank’ conclusions:
Conservatives.