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Gunman outside Empire State Building

by Jonn Lilyea••141

ROS sends us this link from Fox News in which they report that the seemingly impossible has happened. In a city where guns are banned, one pistolero started blasting away.

Apparently it was a white man in his twenties who was fired from his job in the building the previous day. 10 are injured and the gunman was killed by police or in custody, depending on what you want to believe from early reports. Police won’t confirm that there are two deceased victims.

Regardless, the story of the day remains that Nanny Bloomberg’s city isn’t any safer because of his constant nagging about guns, Big Soda and breast feeding. Bend over, NYers, here it comes.

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141 thoughts on “Gunman outside Empire State Building”

  2. Bingo OWB! You win the kewpie doll. Of course, the mayor’s guard detail will retain theirs.

  3. I have integrity and a moral compass, something that they were lacking down there, but, it’s sad the way American local law enforcement is heading, attempting to militarize and telling their recruits that they should never be nice to people. How are you supposed to gain the support of the populace if you are, by departmental edict, assholes to literally everyone? What kind of man Dow that make your outside of that uniform?

  4. @95 about a dozen or so comments in gallagher fan stopped posting opinions and started a childish flame war one usually sees on 4chan. Or recess in kindergarten. Only reason he posts now is to piss people off so I’m no longer acknowledging his posts. He’s proven he’s willing to twist words and outright lie (look at my first post and what he said in regards to it) to make his point. Anyway I’m nearing my tolerance for this thread so I may see how it plays out from here but chances are not much longer.

  7. Lucky sounds like a disgruntled recruit who got dumped for being a non hacker. Tough shit shitbag. I met plenty of former police recruits and when I was in the Army plenty of former Ranger school attendees and you know what they’ve all got in common? A bunch of bullshit stories about why theu arent cops or Rangers.

  8. Accept that I have former instructors from my academy that can back my stuff up. Eat cock and die

  9. The chief made a lot of disparaging remarks and at one point actually equated us to terrorists

  11. As I stated, they left for the same reasons I did, one is actually a GMU Cop now. But, thanks for being a Cock gobbling dickheaded Troll from the start! Way to be a shining example of Law Enforcement there!!

  13. OK, according to Fox News, the guy was 56 years old (not 20-something like they initially reported) and he lived in Manhattan. So, he didn’t bring a gun from somewhere else (like Corkins in DC brought his gun from Virginia). This guy had his .45 in his house contrary to the laws of his community. No amount of gun control laws would have prevented him from owning his gun, unless they want to search everyone’s homes, which probably what’s next.

  19. They probably do want to search everyone’s houses.

    But this would just be a garden-variety murder if it weren’t for the NYPD failing to shoot accurately.

  20. So, it seems there were about three useful posts in this entire exchange. What a waste.

  21. PavePusher: that tends to happen on threads where GallagherFan shows up. He’s a troll who tends show up periodically and act in a particularly juvenile manner. He seems to enjoy acting like a foul-mouthed middle-school kid who’s just discovered he can say nasty things on the Internet and get away with it.

    He’s fun to bat around for a while – think a cat playing with a mouse he’s caught – because it’s so easy. But he quickly proves himself to be nothing more than an ignorant, foulmouthed bore.

  22. Hondo,

    I’ll have to disagree with you, he’s not really all that funto bat around anymore….

  23. Yesterday’s shooter, it is now reported, killed his target–his former boss. Shooter then made his exit, pointed his handgun at responding police and was killed. The nine wounded bystanders were all shot by officers. Yipes.

  24. @123: Wow. I just watched the top of the hour news and they mention nothing about any of that. They just focus on the former boss that was killed. It seems they don’t want to give the NYPD a black eye in all of this. However, I’m sure they would be right in the thick of it with “experts” to tell us that it would be too dangerous for us to carry, because we aren’t as trained as the po-po and would end up shooting innocent bystanders. I have read responses on this site and other sites where former and current LEOs used that exact argument after the Aurora shooting.

  25. Old Tanker: well, I think it’s fun. But he makes it so easy I have to admit I lose interest fairly quickly. Not enough of a challenge, I guess.

  26. It was a stone-cold solitary murder that wouldn’t have made national news but for all of the wounded. Now that the facts are out (the NY papers are carrying the story), the word “terror” has been dropped and the hyped-up initial reports have been dropped. It’s an ‘oops’ moment for both police and the media.

  28. The Dude: the fact you can read is commendable. The fact that you are unable to perceive reality accurately is unfortunate. Perhaps you should cut back on your use of intoxicants, legal or otherwise.

  29. Looks like someone’s trying to tie this in with the military:

    “Claimed to be sharpshooter

    “He attended Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla., from 1978 to 1980, leaving a year shy of the three years required for a certificate, the school said Friday.

    “Sometimes he spoke cryptically of past military service. ‘He was in the Marines, or Special Forces,’ the co-worker said. ‘He was in Vietnam. There’d be things he’d say — ‘Oh, that’s not the way it’s done,’ or ‘I can’t talk about that.”

    “Mr. Johnson told a former landlord, Kathleen Walsh, that he was a sharpshooter. Several branches of the military, including the Army, the Navy and the Marines, said Friday there was no record of his service, but a law enforcement official said he may have served in the Coast Guard.” — New York Times, “Look of death’: Co-workers tell of office feud that lead to NYC killings

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48787526/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times?

  30. Ringling College of Art and Design–why yes, those guys were badasses when it came to pen throwing. Small arms proficiency, not so much.

    And what does it say when so-called “professionals” who supposedly know how to handle firearms are within (almost literally) arm’s length of a perp yet only hit the target 7 out of 16 times?

    Come to New Yawk–the muggers won’t kill ya, but the cops will!

  31. Hmmm. Let’s see – the shooter was 56. Let’s assume he would have turned 57 tomorrow.

    57 – 17 = 40
    2012 – 40 = 1972

    Army/Navy/USMC apparently say he didn’t serve with them (see comment 129). So he’d have to have been USAF.

    It’s possible he entered the USAF before Vietnam ended, but I really doubt he’d have been able to have finished his training and gotten to the Vietnam AOR with the USAF prior to 28 Mar 1973. I’d have to see documentation of that before I’d believe it.

  33. Fashion designer, lives with cats, no girlfriend, fastidious in attire and habits, doesn’t like his more macho salesman coworker.

  34. #63 is a good one but…I’m sure Rosie O’Pumpkinhead used more than one spoon on her way to blimpdom.

  38. Handled well? Oh no he di-int!

    Memo to self: if committing a crime, do it in NYC. Chances are better than 50-50 if they shoot you they can’t hit you and you sure as fuck can outrun their asses.

    Seriously, NYPD just became the Keystone Kops.

  41. @140- How is the permit process coming along? Have you decided what gun you’re going to buy?

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