{"id":30194,"date":"2012-05-31T16:16:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30194"},"modified":"2012-05-31T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:23:22","slug":"army-reject-kills-five-self-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30194","title":{"rendered":"Army reject kills five, self, in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ian Stawicki, a 40-year-old former soldier, shot five people in Seattle yesterday before killing himself as the Seattle Police Department closed in on him. He started his shooting spree in a cafe in the University District by shooting five people, one of whom survived, before heading downtown and killing a seemingly random woman in a car jacking. His family didn’t express any surprise and described him as having mental problems and “a lot of anger”. According to the local ABC News affiliate, KOMO, Stawicki did a brief stint in the Army in the early 90’s and was based at Fort Drum before being discharged as “unsuitable” for the military.<\/p>\n

When his identity first broke and before any history of his time in the Army came out KOMO ran the picture of him above, wearing a gray Army PT shirt. KOMO also went out of their way to mention<\/a> that he suffered hearing loss from a grenade going off near his head during training, presumably to set up the narrative of Stawicki suffering from some sort of service induced PTSD. This narrative is already being diligently picked up on by some commentators. We’ll see if there’s any further attempt to beat this meme to death.<\/p>\n

And, in the tradition of never letting a good tragedy go to waste, Jonathan Golob and the always petulantly fussy David Goldstein, both of alt weekly Seattle paper The Stranger, used the “opportunity” to attack “right-wing propagandists”<\/a> and the Second Amendment<\/a>, quite literally while the bodies were still warm. Their solutions are, of course, right down the center of The Stranger’s extremist, left-wing Progressive statism, calling for a larger welfare apparatus (but not “inhumanly” institutionalizing crazy people) and restricting law abiding people’s access to guns. Stay classy, guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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