Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Suspect Posted About Far-Right Book Moments Before Shooting
Source: Daily Beast
The gunman who murdered three people at a food festival in Northern California on Sunday posted about a far-right book on Instagram moments before the attack.
Law enforcement have reportedly identified Santino William Legan, 19, as the shooter who opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday evening. Police said Legan dodged security at the festivals entrance by cutting through a fence to gain entry. Once inside, witnesses said he sprayed gunfire on the crowd with a rifle before police killed him.
Shortly before the shooting around 6 p.m., Legan posted a picture from the festival on his now-deleted Instagram account reviewed by The Daily Beast. Ayyy garlic festival time, he wrote. Come get wasted on overpriced shit.
Soon after, he posted a picture with a caption that told followers to read a 19th-century, proto-fascist book. The book, which is repeatedly recommended alongside works by Hitler and other fasicsts on forums like 8chan, is full of anti-Semitic, sexist and white supremacist ideology. The book glorifies Aryan men, condemns inter-marriage between races and defends violence based on bogus eugenicist tropes.
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Botany
(70,521 posts)Stupid, mentally ill, soaking up right wing hate talk and writings, and then you add in assault weapons
and you get this nightmare.
When do we find the picture of him in a MAGA hate?
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)Botany
(70,521 posts)thanx
watoos
(7,142 posts)call him a murderer.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)RussBLib
(9,020 posts)I'm not shocked or surprised. Let me guess, he's covered in tatoos.
How convenient for Trump. He doesn't have to pull one trigger, but he's got all these idiot fascists to do it for him.
Juneboarder
(1,732 posts)What in the heck does having tattoos or not have anything to do with this. Please do not generalize based on appearance.
melm00se
(4,993 posts)is Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard one of those scintillating Victorian ear social darwanism screeds
jpak
(41,758 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)IronLionZion
(45,462 posts)whether they choose to focus on his Iranian ancestry. Since he's light skinned, the media will give him a benefit of a doubt and DUers will claim he doesn't have a political agenda as if they would know his agenda.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)This is my generic response to gun threads where people are shot and killed by the dumb or criminal possession of guns. For the record, I grew up in the South and on military bases. I was taught about firearms as a child, and I grew up hunting, was a member of the NRA, and I still own guns. In the 70s, I dropped out of the NRA because they become more radical and less interested in safety and training. Some personal experiences where people I know were involved in shootings caused me to realize that anyone could obtain and posses a gun no matter how illogical it was for them to have a gun. Also, easy access to more powerful guns, guns in the hands of children, and guns that werent secured are out of control in our society. As such, heres what I now think ought to be the requirements to possess a gun. Im not debating the legal language, I just think its the reasonable way to stop the shootings. Notice, none of this restricts the type of guns sold. This is aimed at the people who shoot others, because its clear that they should never have had a gun.
1.) Anyone in possession of a gun (whether they own it or not) should have a regularly renewed license. If you want to call it a permit, certificate, or something else that's fine.
2.) To get a license, you should have a background check, and be examined by a professional for emotional and mental stability appropriate for gun possession. It might be appropriate to require that examination to be accompanied by references from family, friends, employers, etc. This check is not to subject you to a mental health diagnosis, just check on your superficial and apparent gun-worthyness.
3.) To get the license, you should be required to take a safety course and pass a test appropriate to the type of gun you want to use.
4.) To get a license, you should be over 21. Under 21, you could only use a gun under direct supervision of a licensed person and after obtaining a learners license. Your license might be restricted if you have children or criminals or other unsafe people living in your home. (If you want to argue 18 or 25 or some other age, fine. 21 makes sense to me.)
5.) If you possess a gun, you would have to carry a liability insurance policy specifically for gun ownership - and likely you would have to provide proof of appropriate storage, security, and whatever statistical reasons that emerge that would drive the costs and ability to get insurance.
6.) You could not purchase a gun or ammunition without a license, and purchases would have a waiting period.
7.) If you possess a gun without a license, you go to jail, the gun is impounded, and a judge will have to let you go (just like a DUI).
8.) No one should carry an unsecured gun (except in a locked case, unloaded) when outside of home. Guns should be secure when transporting to a shooting event without demonstrating a special need. Their license should indicate training and special carry circumstances beyond recreational shooting (security guard, etc.). If you are carrying your gun while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, you lose your gun and license.
9.) If you buy, sell, give away, or inherit a gun, your license information should be recorded.
10.) If you accidentally discharge your gun, commit a crime, get referred by a mental health professional, are served a restraining order, etc., you should lose your license and guns until reinstated by a serious relicensing process.
Most of you know that a license is no big deal. Besides a drivers license you need a license to fish, operate a boat, or many other activities. I realize these differ by state, but that is not a reason to let anyone without a bit of sense pack a semiautomatic weapon in public, on the roads, and in schools. I think we need to make it much harder for some people to have guns.
DaDeacon
(984 posts)A agree to 99% of the list!
dustyscamp
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killaphill
(212 posts)This is what we get as a result.
former9thward
(32,028 posts)The shooter posted anti land developer posts and hated "Silicon Valley whites". He was all over the place.