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CreativeDominant -> RE: Three Muslims shot (2/15/2015 9:19:05 AM)
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
True again sanity(you're biorhythms must be off the charts today)and yet the capriciousness of the decision to shoot,the easy accessibility to weapons(he had a few more in his house) the fact that prior to this he was just another responsible gun owner must give you a moment of pause,perhaps a split second wherein you reflect of the insanity of the gun culture in this country.
How do you separate the culture that spawned this armed idiot from the resulting tragedy ?
None of that resonates with you ?
Just kidding I know none of those thoughts ever permeates into your skull [8|]
Your snide comment about Hicks being just another responsible gun owner sent me searching. Tell me, in what area of the following, do you find a responsible person? In the fact that he voted for the Democratic ticket? In the fact that he is an anti-theist?
"Craig Stephen Hicks was studying to become a paralegal at Durham Technical Community College at the time of the shooting.[26][27][18] Neighbors describe Hicks as threatening. He complained about the noise of one resident playing a card game and playing music when she pulled into the lot.[17] Hicks wrote on Facebook about reporting a couple having sex in a car in the parking lot to the police. In 2013, Hicks reported a dispute between a tow truck driver and a car's owner to police, and walked to the parking lot with a gun.[28][17]
Hicks had moved to Chapel Hill in 2005 from Bethalto, Illinois.[29] He has been divorced twice.[17] His first marriage, which lasted just five months, ended in 2005 when Hicks left his first wife and their two-month-old daughter before divorce proceedings could be completed. Martha Landson, his former mother-in-law from his first marriage, said "He was an unhappy, angry person. The first time I met him, there was something in his eyes." Landson said the family had stayed quiet on her daughter's brief marriage to Hicks to protect their now 10-year-old daughter, who has no idea her father has been jailed in connection to the shooting. Though Hicks had been allowed to visit his daughter on alternate Saturdays, he had not done so in the preceding decade, according to Landson. Court documents have shown Hicks' first wife had financially supported the couple during their marriage, and that Hicks has been perpetually unemployed. At the time of the shootings, he had no income or cash at hand. His assets were listed as his 2000 Nissan Sentra (worth $2,000), and his Finley Forest condo (worth $105,000).[29]
A friend of Yusor stated that Hicks was "holding a rifle" while complaining about extra cars in the neighborhood and noise from their game of Risk.[17] Another resident and a friend of Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha told the Associated Press that "Hicks complained about once a month that the two men were parking in a visitor's space as well as their assigned spot. 'He would come over to the door. Knock on the door and then have a gun on his hip saying 'you guys need to not park here.' [...] Both Hicks and his neighbors complained to the property managers" who warned them to call the police if they were harassed again."[30][31]
Hicks had a publicly viewable Facebook page where he had uploaded an image of his .38 caliber revolver[32] and set his profile image to one stating "Atheists for Equality".[33] On his Facebook page, he described himself as an anti-theist, and posted numerous images which condemned all religions and religious violence. Hicks was critical of Christian opponents of the Park51 project, stating, "Seems an overwhelming majority of Christians in this country feel that the Muslims are using the Ground Zero mosque plans to 'mark their conquest [...] bunch of hypocrites, everywhere I've been in this country there are churches marking the Christian conquest of this country from the Native Americans."[34][35] CNN religion editor Daniel Burke interprets Hicks' response to conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama's religion as "It's OK if we have a Muslim president."[35] Hicks had set a banner image on his page to one stating, "I don't deny you your right to believe whatever you'd like; but I have the right to point out it's ignorant and dangerous for as long as your baseless superstitions keep killing people."[36] In another Facebook post, Hicks stated, "I give your religion as much respect as your religion gives me [...] there's nothing complicated about it, and I have every right to insult a religion that goes out of its way to insult, to judge and to condemn me as an inadequate human being -- which your religion does with self-righteous gusto."[37]
Hicks is a gun rights advocate with a concealed weapons permit[30] who had 13 firearms in his house.[34] Hicks complained about Christians and Muslims on his facebook page.[30] Hicks wrote, "Some call me a gun toting liberal, others call me an open-minded conservative."[30] Hicks voted in two recent elections, as a Democrat and once on a nonpartisan ballot"
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Chapel_Hill_shooting
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