{"id":37651,"date":"2013-09-19T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37651"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T19:46:26","slug":"corkins-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37651","title":{"rendered":"Corkins sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floyd Lee Corkins was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Richard W. Roberts to 25 years in prison for wounding two people at the Family Research Council headquarters about 13 months ago according to the Washington Post<\/a>. Corkins was foiled by a security guard, Leo Johnson, who took three rounds while he wrestled the gun from the nut;<\/p>\n

In the most dramatic moment of the hearing, Johnson addressed Corkins directly from the courtroom lectern as more than a dozen of his colleagues from the Family Research Council watched.<\/p>\n

Johnson, 47, told Corkins: \u201cAlthough I forgive you, I will never forget. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever be the same again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Corkins, you may remember, chose the Family Research Council for his intended murderous rampage because the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled it a “Hate Group” on it’s Hate Map. Police say that Corkins had two other addresses of conservative organizations in his pocket which he intended to attack when he was done at the FRC;<\/p>\n

In a multimedia presentation in the courtroom, federal prosecutors described Corkins\u2019s planning of the shooting as \u201cdeliberate and clear-headed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day before, Corkins had purchased 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches that he carried in his backpack along with the 9mm SIG Sauer pistol he had bought earlier in the week. He planned to \u201csmear\u201d the sandwiches in the faces of his victims to make a political statement, according to court documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice. The Post goes on to say that Corkins was being treated for mental problems;<\/p>\n

Six months before the shooting at the Family Research Council, Corkins was civilly committed to a mental hospital in San Francisco because he was having hallucinations and \u201cthoughts of killing his parents and conservative right-wing Christians,\u201d according to a memo his attorney prepared for sentencing.<\/p>\n

Corkins was diagnosed with a major depressive disorder with psychotic features and was taking medication to treat his illness. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet he was still able to purchase a firearm legally. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? The prosecutor had asked for 11 1\/2 years and the judge saw fit to double it plus more for good measure – just Corkins’ luck that his trial was scheduled for this week, I suppose. You’d think there’s be a law in DC that would prevent someone from bringing an unregistered gun into the District. Maybe they should make it a gun-free zone or something…oh, wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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