{"id":31766,"date":"2012-08-27T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31766"},"modified":"2012-08-27T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:16:10","slug":"finally-a-vet-connection-to-the-empire-state-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31766","title":{"rendered":"Finally a vet connection to the Empire State shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biermann sends us a link to CNN<\/a> who finally was able to connect the gunman outside of the Empire State Building to the military. Yup, he was in the Coast Guard in the 1970s. I know there were Coast Guard in Vietnam, but Jeffrey Johnson, 58 turned 18 in 1972 after all US combat troops were withdrawn, so it’s not likely that Johnson served in combat, so it may be difficult for them to blame his actions on PTSD or other war-time trauma.<\/p>\n

The shooting might dissuade the New York police Department from continuing their use of the 9mm, though;<\/p>\n

Johnson died from nine gunshot wounds in his chest, the medical examiner’s office said. Three bullets were recovered from his body, while another four bullets exited his body, the medical examiner said. No explanation was given for two apparently unaccounted for bullets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When it takes nine hits to kill someone who is shooting at you, time to change guns. However, if they’re going to be such poor marksmen, maybe the public is safer with the cops using 9mm;<\/p>\n

Nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds in the hail of gunfire, all from shots fired by police, Kelly said. Three passers-by sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, Kelly said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I erroneously, in my original post, linking to Fox, said Johnson had been fired the day before from his job where the shooting took place. I seems he’d been stewing in his apartment over the firing for a year. And, oh, yeah the CNN article mentioned that the victim, Steven Ercolino, 41, had filed a complaint with the local courts about Johnson in which he said he anticipated his fate. So, not only did government fail to protect bystanders in the incident, by training their officers to look beyond the target when firing in a crowd, they also failed to protect the intended victim by disregarding his complaint.<\/p>\n

So let’s write some more gun laws, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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