The NRA at the SuperBowl
PHOENIX (AP) — A would-be bar owner angry at being denied a liquor license threatened to shoot people at the Super Bowl and drove to within sight of the stadium with a rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition before changing his mind, federal authorities said.
Kurt William Havelock, who ultimately turned himself in, had vowed to “shed the blood of the innocent” in a manifesto mailed Sunday to media outlets, according to court documents. “No one destroys my dream,” he wrote.
The documents say he was armed with an AR-15 assault-style rifle Sunday when he reached a parking lot near University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, where pre-game activities were happening.
Apparently, the ‘dream’ of this gunloon was to open a bar called “Drunkenstein’s.”
Of course, this gunloon’s weapon of choice was a firearm that was previously banned but now quite popular among unstable gunloons seeking to fulfill their fantasies. The comments of an interviewed NRA quisling are quite interesting.
I previously posted: “It’s not impossible that one day an actual NRA member might commit a notorious gun crime. Until then, those like the resident blogger will have to rely upon lies and innuendo.”
Unlike the predictions of the resident blogger, my prediction above has been confirmed.
Comment by JayF — February 9, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
“Of course, this gunloon’s weapon of choice was a firearm that was previously banned but now quite popular among unstable gunloons seeking to fulfill their fantasies.”
If the “firearm that was previously banned” was not available, perhaps the individual might have chosen the “post-ban” version of the AR-15. And that would have been better how?
If
Comment by JayF — February 9, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Uh, no it wasn’t. During the “Assault weapons ban” you could still buy AR15 pattern rifles, you just couldn’t get ones with a flash hider and a bayonet lug.
So, even if the AWB was still in effect, this guy would have still been able to buy a rifle and not kill anyone.
Comment by Ahab — February 11, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
Jade,
Come back and bless everyone with your wit at Bryan’s Anti-gun Weenie Playhouse. Nobody is reading your brilliant and insightful writing here at Leftrudder.
Comment by FeroVeritas — February 12, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
oh yeah? The gun he bought had a bayonet lug and a flash supressor…maybe a telescoping stock?
Comment by Freddy — February 14, 2008 @ 7:12 pm