'Pizzagate' gunman sentenced to four years
Source: BBC News
A US man who opened fired in a Washington DC pizza restaurant because of an online conspiracy theory has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, burst into Comet Ping Pong on 4 December 2016 armed with a rifle and pistol.
He drove from North Carolina to pursue bogus claims that the restaurant was the nexus of a child sex ring linked to Hillary Clinton's inner circle.
No one was injured in what prosecutors described as an "armed invasion".
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40372407?ocid=socialflow_twitter
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)sandensea
(21,664 posts)Plus whomever aided and abetted them (i.e. Cheeto and Kushner).
BumRushDaShow
(129,451 posts)Eugene
(61,946 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)The right wing has a 20 year record of vigilante violence. This is just one incident of many
barbtries
(28,811 posts)will the news of his prosecution and imprisonment make it to the idiots who spread and/or believed the bullshit story?
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)the crazy ones think it must be one of them. Kids like pizza, so it must be true.
Cattledog
(5,919 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)IIRC the guy came from NC (where i happen to live)
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Enjoy prison douchebag!
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R Merm
(408 posts)his mind was filed with this nonsense by others who will not be punished for their lies, but have benefited from them. We need to start holding the Alex Jones' of this world accountable for what they create.
It's reasonable and foreseeable to see that by spreading this type of shit, some poor crazy slob like this guy will act .
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)One is not born with critical thinking faculties; they must be honed and cultivated. If one doesn't use them, they atrophy. And idiocies like that committed by this idiot happen. It was just sheer luck that no one was hurt.
Being away from what we might call the rights and privileges of free people won't do anything for him.
But being away from his precious guns will probably kill him.
Boomerproud
(7,964 posts)and the same should be said to those who walk the walk voluntarily. He just got extremely lucky that he didn't get sentenced for murder/manslaughter.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)In Trump's America walking into someone's business and shooting at them is less of a crime than someone smoking a joint
muntrv
(14,505 posts)madville
(7,412 posts)I'm sure he will make friends with a nice white nationalist gang or some nazis on the inside and come out a better person.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Jose Garcia
(2,605 posts)Trump defends his cabinet of billionaires: I just dont want a poor person running the economy
Doonald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to appoint cabinet members with significant personal wealth, arguing he doesnt want a poor person in charge of the economy.
Trump was speaking about Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs banker the president appointed as his chief economic advisordespite promising to drain the swamp during his presidency.
I love all people, Trump said during a campaign-style rally in Cedar Rapids, IA. Rich or poor. But in those particular positions I just dont want a poor person. Does that make sense?
Trump has received significant criticism for his appointment of Cohn, as well as Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. Although he ran on a populist platform, Trumps cabinet has a combined net worth of $6 billion.
more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/trump-defends-his-cabinet-of-billionaires-i-just-dont-want-a-poor-person-running-the-economy/
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)admin.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Fundamentally, the prosecution should have worked to ruin his life (max sentence) to send a message to the other idiots out there.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)and tries to rescue those poor people on Gilligan's Island. Count on it!1!!1
elmac
(4,642 posts)he should get an additional 10 to 20 years.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)In his case, this is the real sentence:
"Mr. Welch, you will never touch a gun again as long as you live. You will not own a gun. You will not fire a gun. You will not hold a gun. You will not be where guns are. If you so much as breathe on a gun, you'll be charged with Felon in Possession of a Firearm and you'll go to federal prison for ten years. If that's not clear to you, let's make it very simple: You pissed away your Second Amendment right by falling for right-wing bullshit on the Internet, and you will never get it back."
madville
(7,412 posts)That was the actual interior of that restaurant when it was open for business?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Should have got mandatory 10 years at least.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)I'm looking forward to an appeal where maybe he get life/no parole.