Bryce Williams fatally shoots self after killing journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward on air
Today has been a particularly bad day in this nation; senseless gun violence has taken more lives and has robbed our nation of lives that mattered!
(CNN)—After he shot two journalists on live TV and before he shot himself, Bryce Williams sent a message: “I’ve been a human powder keg for a while….just waiting to go BOOM.”
Those were the words the gunman wrote in a chilling fax to ABC News, according to the network. The document purportedly from the Virginia shooter came after he gunned down WDBJ-TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward, spurring a manhunt that ended when he turned a gun on himself as troopers closed in. SOURCE
Every time there is an act of terrorism committed in the name of Islam we are told we’re not supposed to judge all Muslims by the acts of a few Muslim crazies, but the acts of a few American crazies are enough for damned near the entire Liberal Left to condemn ALL Americans who own guns.
Can anyone besides me see the hypocrisy of that statement?
Liberal journalists and broadcasters immediately jumped all over these shootings with cries for more gun control. Today the Liberal outrage on the Dallas Morning News and the Houston Chronicle was pathetic.
Regarding the shooting today Hillary Clinton said, We Cannot Wait Any Longer to End Gun Violence. Well, OK Miss Know it All, just what do YOU have in YOUR little bag of tricks that will end gun violence? And let’s talk REAL solutions, not the typical Libtard screeds of, *If no one had guns* or the ever popular, *We need to register ALL guns*, OR, *We need to make America a gun free nation… *
Yeah, I really like that last one, *gun free zone*, but I have never understood how you get that *gun free zone* thing over to the criminals.
We, the legal gun owners of America, are supposedly responsible for the actions of these sick SOBs today and any other day that an act of heinous gun violence occurs, but it’s NOT people like you and me, the readers of this blog, or SANE American gun owners that are going out and committing gun crimes.
We are NOT committing armed robberies, we’re not killing our fellow Americans and no one I know wakes up in the morning thinking *Ya know,today is the day that I’m gonna go out there and commit a few murders…*
That is NOT the mindset of ANY sane person.
Liberals always blame Conservative Christians and *redneck* gun owners by saying that we perpetuate the violence, that we cling to our guns and bibles, well, this guy today was the antithesis of everything the Left hates in American gun owners; he was Black, Liberal, a race baiter and, according to the paragraphs below, he was a homosexual. That’s not the type of person the ant-gun Left is used to condemning, and somehow, I doubt they will do a condemnation of him.
In a 23-page fax to ABC News and a follow-up call, both after the attack, the man identified himself as Vester Flanagan and as Bryce Williams. He said he suffered racial discrimination and bullying at work and was attacked for being black and gay.
“The church shooting was the tipping point,” he wrote, according to ABC News, “but my anger has been building steadily … I’ve been a human powder keg for a while … just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”
Well, on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 he went boom, murdered 2 innocent victims, shot and wounded another person and ruined many lives with his insanity before he killed himself, bringing grief to his own family.
It’s way past time for this to happen but the Left and ALL anti-gun people in America need to realize; the gun didn’t do it, the gun is an inanimate object, the person pulling the trigger is responsible for the actions committed with the gun.
Gun control, in the sense the Left uses it, is NOT the answer and frankly, I have no idea how to stop the insanity of senseless violence, but I know this; more restrictions, banning guns and ammo and more laws is not the way to get guns out of the hands of CRAZY people.
Rest in Peace Alison and Adam. I’m sorry we couldn’t help you in your time of need. At least your killer is dead and on his way to hell, and for that I am grateful.
Imagine if you can, had the news team been black and the shooter white….
The riots would be horrendous…
Just enforce the laws on the books.
There are more than enough laws on the books already..
That’s not how it works for the Dems and anti-gun Libtards, there are never enough laws so they want to write MORE laws that won’t work or are unenforceable..
Anyone, who at this point in our history as a nation, who advocates for control of anything, for whatever reason, is not a freedom loving patriot who believes in our Bill of Rights and the Constitution of The United States of America. Violence belongs solely to the perp. No matter what the law says about the many things that laws are written for, there will be law breakers. Ever hear the phrases “laws were meant to be broken” or “locks are meant to keep honest people out”? There you have it, plain and simple. Only the COMMUNIST elements that riddle our legislative branch want laws to control our everyday activities.We are doomed if we get a president who won’t undo what this president has done to our nation.
I wonder if Hillary realizes that if Vince Foster didn’t have a gun, he wouldn’t have been able to commit suicide and fall uphill after he shot himself. He might have had to wait and catch a plane ride with Ron Brown.
You know what failed this black gay man…? The black mentality of victimhood. He could not cope with being less than perfect in what he was trying to do. He blamed his poor performance of racism, on white people picking on him, on the church shooting a while back, and on and on and on. He took his “victiim” status and played it to its final completion here.
This is what you get when you are denied the lessons of winning and losing in life. This is what you get when you are told that everything that is bad that happens to you is the fault of everything and everyone but your own self. This scumbag was taught that his failure was the result of racism, of homophobia. This man was angry all the time, and blamed all the wrong things in his life.
Guns didn’t kill those two reporters…liberal progressive coddling and the constant repetition of liberals telling him “you are a victim”, “it’s racism is why you can not get ahead”, “it’s the white man keeping you down”, “society hates gays”, and on and on and on. People like louis faraCON telling black men like him that they need to attack white people and creating an “us versus them” attitude. Creating false enemies, when the real enemy is themselves.
That is what killed those reporters.
You have a good grasp of the situation.
TF,
The real problem here is the decision that violence is the answer to a remediation of a grievance. In the last 20 or so years, this sort of stuff, across the board, not just firearm homicides, have been cut in half (according to FBI data).
Is violence with firearms a problem? Yes.
It is more of a problem than all other violence? We can talk about that if you want but my answer is no because it’s violence that is the problem.
Why do people respond in violence? That’s the real question here, not the tool they use to execute their violence and THAT is a really hard question to answer.
What has changed in the last 20 years for violence to go down so drastically? It wasn’t a govt policy, I’m sure.
P.S. The live traffic feed says I’m in CA. Ugh, no… not any more 🙂
I have to agree with you… I have carried a gun damned near every day of my life for the last 45 years now and I have NEVER fired a shot in *anger*… Violence is NOT the answer, no matter what the *social* issue may be, but how do we solve the violence? The unprovoked violence by shitheads like this guy and so many others? Damned if I know…
Totally agree, Fred. I don’t know the answer, either. But, somehow, as a society, we are figuring it out (or the violence rate would never have dropped).
I know what it’s not: gun control. It doesn’t make the violence go away any more than it does the criminals.
You got out of California? Good for you. I can’t yet; my wife still has another 5 years to retirement and doesn’t want to leave her job.
You lucky bastard.
BZ
Just another negro who felt he was unjustly treated by the white race.
That’s all.
There will be more killings like this, so be armed and aware of where you are and who is around you.