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Dec 16, 12:20 PM EST
Ind. man with 47 guns arrested after school threat
CEDAR LAKE, Ind. (AP) -- 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.
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L0oniX
(31,493 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)certain personality types will imitate after major events.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 16, 2012, 03:58 PM - Edit history (1)
. . . that there are people out there on the edge of emulating all of that senseless killing. It's unfathomable for the majority of us. Something far, far from our reasoning, I'm afraid.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)it might stir up nut cases across the country. I hope the police are vigilant and keep people they know might get worked up under surveillance.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)always try to emulate and surpass the last attempt.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)They will never know they are being surveilled.
Don
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Until he isn't. I expect far more of this, no less.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)SHoudln't it be legal to threaten to shoot up a school?!!! Because freedom? Why is he in jail at all?
sarc/off
ProSense
(116,464 posts)This has reached the level of legally sanctioned lunacy.
PCIntern
(25,575 posts)Horrifying...
aandegoons
(473 posts)Let's face it as human beings we just don't value life that much. And I cannot think of a shame that is worse than that for a species.
2naSalit
(86,760 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)spanone
(135,858 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)spanone
(135,858 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)One has to wonder how/why she did not suspect future "problems" as he amassed an arsenal and squandered so much of the family resources for ammunition.
Hoarding is hoarding.. but that said, stacks of old magazines are not as potentially deadly as living with a gun-hoarder who may flip out and start shooting people.
Guns are made to kill..
Many gun-people say they use them for target practice only, but "practice" also implies that the "real thing" is just around the corner, once they have "practiced" enough
and yes I know that occasionally a body is discovered after a stack for something hoarded falls on a person & there's no one around to help them
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Thank God he wasn't crazy and didn't have any access to guns or ammo